Nathaniel Whittemore

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Nathaniel Whittemore

Nathaniel Whittemore

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Founder & CEO @besuper_ai - faster better AI adoption Host @AIDailyBrief // Venture Partner @learncap

Check out Superintelligent at: Katılım Nisan 2008
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Nathaniel Whittemore
Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
One of my *strong* believes is that entertainment industries have an unfathomably important role to play in helping us get to a future that isn't just reflexive battles between "pro-AI" or "anti-AI"
Henry Daubrez 🌸💀@henrydaubrez

So. Yesterday I received a DM on Instagram from a very prominent director. Mostly known for animated movies, and someone who rose to fame in the 90s with one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Here was the message: “The short film is terrific. I would love to learn more about your process. Which tools, etc. Let me know if you’d be willing to share.” Someone who genuinely loves animation. Someone who helped establish the medium many of you care deeply about. Someone who has spent decades pushing storytelling forward. Curious about AI. Respectful of the work. Interested in understanding how it’s done. If people at that level can approach this with curiosity instead of fear, I’m pretty sure the rest of us can manage to do the same.

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@emollick Crypto folks absolutely gobsmacked that after a decade of talking about tokens its not even their tokens that become the important tokens 🤣
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick@emollick·
It’s lame that the word we chose for an important new form of currency was “tokens,” real failure of imagination.
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Stephen Redmond
Stephen Redmond@stephencredmond·
@nlw Saying AI is going to take everyone's job implies that we are currently doing ALL of the work available with people. I am pretty sure there is not a scarcity of things to do in the World.
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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
Is AI going to take everyone’s job, or is the best use case for your new AI product helping me book flights, because it can’t be both.
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Saw a couple people say this shows a lack of focus. I think it reflects the discovery that once your app can code really well, it can do a whole bunch of other things really well too.
Anton Osika – eu/acc@antonosika

Introducing Lovable for more general tasks. Lovable has always been for building apps. Today it also becomes your data scientist, your business analyst, your deck builder, and your marketing assistant. This is a big step toward what Lovable is becoming: a general-purpose co-founder that can do anything. See examples below.

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Governor Kathy Hochul
Governor Kathy Hochul@GovKathyHochul·
I want New York to lead the nation with a workforce that’s ready to use AI to their advantage, not be victims of it. Today, we're launching our FutureWorks Commission — bringing together the best minds in the country to build a pro-tech and pro-worker future.
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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
One of the common and weird takes I've seen around this study is that it is somehow invalid because the sample is all from existing AI users. The logic is something like, "Well, of course AI users are going to have a more positive view of AI. This doesn't represent the view of everyone." While it's totally fine to point out (and I don't think @AnthropicAI tries to hide this) that these are the opinions of AI users, the presumption behind this type of comment reveals this weird pathology where anti-AI folks seem to think that the only people who get to have a say in what AI policy should be are anti-AI folks. Right now, you have a technology that's being used by literally billions of people a week. Yet somehow we're supposed to de-prioritize their perspectives and opinions and instead prioritize the people who aren't using these tools? It's intellectual NIMBYism masquerading as methodology.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI

We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people responded in one week—the largest qualitative study of its kind. Read more: anthropic.com/features/81k-i…

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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
@clairevo Only One beating Sugar We're Going Down is this bracket's 7-11 upset. I'd like to see Funeral take down Ohio, but that's a rough seed
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claire vo 🖤@clairevo·
you say there's no use case for consumer AI, i say 100 people are arguing over the joinmarchsadness.com emo sad sixteen and i built a wall of shame for everyone who voted for good charlotte's "the anthem"
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Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan·
A non-technical designer turned 300+ of my podcast transcripts into an RPG game. You explore an 8-bit pixel world, meet guests like @bchesky @nikitabier @ElenaVerna @zoink, compete with them to test your product knowledge, and capture them like Pokémon. SO FUN. And surprisingly educational! Here's the step-by-step story of how @hbshih built this and what he learned: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-i-built-… If this doesn't get your vibe-coding juices flowing, I don't know what will. (Play it here: lennyrpg.fun)
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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
Want to get an agent or agent team/system you've built on @AIDailyBrief? Submit it to agentmadness.ai! It's a 64-entry bracket style tournament with human voting (and agent debate). Entries close tomorrow EOD (Wednesday March 18th)
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Gokul Rajaram
Gokul Rajaram@gokulr·
BRAND AS A MOAT? I’ll be honest - I struggled whether to include Brand in this list of moats. I ultimately decided not to, because I think it’s too hard to measure, and in many cases the underlying brand strength is due to something something more fundamental — network effects, switching costs, or scale economies — that the brand merely reflects. A strong brand is often the symptom of a real moat, not the moat itself. The danger of counting Brand as a moat is that it flatters companies that are actually quite fragile. WeWork had a brand. Peloton had a brand. Both burned through goodwill the moment the underlying economics cracked. Brand without a structural underpinning is just reputation — and reputation is rented, not owned. So I think about brand the way I think about customer loyalty scores: useful as a signal, dangerous as an explanation. When someone tells me a company’s moat is its brand, my follow-up is always the same 2 questions. (a) what built the brand, and (b) can that be replicated? That answer usually points to the real moat, or in many cases, reveals there isn’t one.
Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings

Eight moats of a sustainable company in 2026: @gokulr 1. Data (Google) 2. Workflow (Veeva) 3. Regulatory (Coinbase) 4. Distribution (Intuit) 5. Ecosystem (Shopify) 6. Network (Facebook) 7. Physical infrastructure (Amazon) 8. Scale (NVIDIA) What is the most important for you @honam @rabois @shaunmmaguire @JaredSleeper @karimatiyeh?

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Jason Shuman
Jason Shuman@JasonrShuman·
Jensen Huang just declared agentic AI’s inflection point “has arrived.” Yet Gartner says over 40% of these projects will be cancelled by 2027. Most fail when trying to connect to real systems and messy workflows. The agentic AI bottleneck isn’t smarter reasoning. It’s grounding agents in the messy real world.
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Yassine Bouanane
Yassine Bouanane@ybouane·
@nlw A lot of non-swe have build things but it's usually just toy projects.. Impact on SWE is bigger given that what they build itself impacts a lot of people.
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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
What has had the bigger impact so far: 1. Software Engineers changing how they build thanks to agents 2. Non-SWE being able to build things with code for the first time
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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
What will have a bigger impact LONG term 1. Software Engineers changing how they build thanks to agents 2. Non-SWE being able to build things with code
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Nathaniel Whittemore@nlw·
My polite suggestion to AI companies is to stop calling things “Computers.” This is not nearly as clear or powerful an analogy as they seem to think it is.
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@emollick @stephencredmond @GovKathyHochul @AnthropicAI @clairevo @lennysan @bchesky @nikitabier