Emily Ross

anthropic:

Just found out that Berkeley course staff are writing hooks inside course repos so if a student opens an assignment in Claude Code or Cursor the agent will automatically ping the staff 😵‍💫 well played

who approved this

4/4 last but not least, @joshwoodward and @nishtish25 had standout stage presence. @ io writers: more of that, and fewer jokes for sundar pls <3

3/ I don’t see why Gemini proper and Spark need to have separate surfaces in the first place (same with @perplexity_ai Ask and Computer). for this new ai product category, users should not have to think about whether they need answers or action to decide where to go

io reactions, as a xoogler: 1/ the idea of generative ui is promising, but… - they better have worked out design principles for when it's actually useful vs just novel - “agentic coding" should not be part of the marketing narrative of a consumer search feature!!!

@gaby_goldberg go gaby!!! excited for you :)

I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing. I’ve been working on these three things throughout my career, first in early-stage investing and most recently in comms at Rostra, writing about my perspectives and experiences along the way. For a long time, I thought these were three different paths I’d have to choose between. I’ve done comms, but I’m not just a comms leader. I write and build community, but I’m not just a writer or community builder. And I’ve invested, but I’m not just an investor. When @eriktorenberg approached me about the opportunity, he told me I could come do all of it under one roof, at a scale that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else, and crafted the right role to make it work. @a16z is the perfect place for me to manifest the full range of my interests, skills, and ambitions. Erik has been one of my earliest believers (since college!), so this feels like a long arc finally closing. I look forward to working alongside him and the rest of a16z’s brilliant team, and also hire even more great people into the firm. I’ll be taking some time between roles to touch grass and exist in the context. In the meantime, my DMs are always open.

@sh_reya CONGRATULATIONS!!!! So excited for you—and your future students!

I'm joining Carnegie Mellon's CS Department (and HCII by courtesy) as an assistant professor in Fall 2027! I'll be recruiting PhD students next cycle. If you're interested in AI systems or human-AI collaboration, list me in your application. Stay tuned for more about my new lab!

"MOST PEOPLE WILL NOTICE THAT THE CURVED PATTERNS ON THE BACK OF LAUFEY'S DRESS LOOK LIKE THE HOLES ON THE FRONT OF THE CELLO, BUT THE REAL SUBTLE NOD IS THAT HER DRESS IS MODELED AFTER A SWAN, PAYING HOMAGE TO THE CANONICAL CELLO PIECE 'LE CYGNE' BY CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS"

wrong. obviously it's boy - LeBron girl - LaBron nonbinary - LxBron

all i want is claude code desktop and cli customizations to 1) stay in sync for the same working directory 2) pick up on symlinks without my having to lift a finger is that so much to ask @ClaudeDevs

@allgarbled i mean,

The way Claude and I work we’re like Ryan Gosling and the little alien crab guy from project Hail Mary. On his own, Claude doesn’t know what to build but if I tell him exactly what I want then he’s a master craftsman and he’ll do it. I have to know what I want though.

@katedeyneka yay!!! congrats, it looks sick!!

pov: your first app got approved and live on the App Store

sentry event-based triggers in cursor? you mean a sentry sentry?

none of these ai companies are doing it like the sf child abuse prevention center

opus 4.7 comically sensitive to malware, call that mal-wary

@paularambles i dont want to tell devin to sleep and wake up. that's a button. give me a button.

not really a fan of the new b2b saas homepage pattern where everything useful gets replaced by a single ✨textbox✨ which means you now have to prompt your way into basic functionality

@Vtrivedy10 my notes app is a treasure trove of multi-paragraph prompt drafts for this reason

*pours heart and soul into a multi-paragraph prompt* Claude’s infra after disappearing your message:

@ExaltedFoks wait till you start adding emojis to your lists

For the last five years I've been working on what can only be described as a post-modern art project, saving every place around NYC I've ever enjoyed, walked past, or been recommended. The result is an absolutely unusable mess that I continue to add to out of sheer hubris