Nate Sanders

non-designers who have never designed anything: "designers are cooked!" people who have worked in code, want to work in code, always will work in code: "future of design is code!" companies selling tokens: "move that button 4px with a prompt!" designers:

@_renatov Couldn’t even add the w in their name.

It's wild how lazy Wispr Flo has made me.

@WillManidis We're focused on RLHF as our strategy.

i don’t understand why there aren’t mormon missionaries camped outside anthropic offices right now converting a lab lead is a trillion dollar roi for any major faith

@_renatov The answer is in your question.

Can someone explain why cursor would be trying to build their own model? It feels like anything built in their product only makes the foundation models better?

@SecWar @DavidSacks You’re an idiot

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

Couple thoughts… if you’re trying to create a survey then using an existing survey tool is an obvious choice. If you’re trying to build a product, for control or commercial reasons, then any added time is worth it. I think it’s helpful to consider and investigate what things it’s missing or not doing well in those one shot attempts. Then think about how you can specify those areas more directly earlier on. Those tend to smooth out more and more as models improve. I spend a lot of time articulating what I want, and how I want it executed.

@nlsanders Teach me

One mistake I make that I want to improve is knowing what tasks to give AI a chance at. Building a simple survey sounds simple, but turns out it’s not. So then I decided to have Cowork try it in Tally. Took 45 mins only for it to look like ass, and then just has to ditch and build manually and it only took 10 mins.

This headline from Perplexity this morning killed me.

Can’t wait for all these MBAs who were convinced they can “just raise a search fund” start building their side SaaS businesses.

@far33d It would be a neat eval for future models / agentic systems

So many of the replies to this miss the point. This isn't about building the output compiler. It's about process. About long-running tasks. About parallel agents working on a single output. It's a window into the future.

Product management is the art of the writing the least amount of code for the greatest benefit to your users.

@TrentMano Oh, that’s nice. Going to manifest this.

Woke up from a dream and only can remember on detail: @nlsanders became very well known has Halluci-Nate

This is the last health post I’ll be reading for a few years

Mormons paying tithing on gross rn:

Jiovan Melendez and Walker Ward crushing it here.

@Jowanza Almost have enough for Taco Bell soft taco there

Few people understand how to make passive income like this. I just do my day to day work and get notifications like this.

@_renatov What the hell is a non-technical dev manager

I can’t think of a worse time to be a non-technical dev manager.

These are the same images right?

@kwharrison13 Would love to read it!

Geez louise. I just read the most comprehensive OpenAI deep dive I've ever seen in one place. 33K+ words on the entire company. Dropping next week. Who wants a sneak peak? HMU.

*smoochy noises* _And they’re both agents_