Shyam Pillai

This 1 hour MIT lecture by Jim Simons (Quant King) will teach you more about quantitative trading than most people learn in their entire career at Wall Street. Bookmark this & watch, no matter what. It’s the most productive start you can give your week. Then read article below.

sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents

the most dangerous thing about claude: it's the world's most convincing YES-MAN so i built a "board of advisors" skill that makes 5 agents attack your idea from 5 different angles: • one assumes your idea will fail and tries to prove it • one strips away your assumptions and rebuilds the problem from scratch • one hunts for the bigger opportunity you're too close to see • one has zero context about you and responds like a complete stranger • one only cares about what you actually do next then... 1. all 5 responses get anonymized and peer-reviewed blind 2. a chairman agent reads everything and synthesizes the final verdict after a few minutes, you get one recommendation you can *actually* trust. free skill + full breakdown:

Jensen is right. There will be more software engineers in the future. Not less. The people trying to convince you otherwise fall into three categories: 1. Influencers attention harvesting 2. Academics making a living 3. Politicians looking for votes Common thread is that these people are trying to control you through fear because it benefits them personally. You are complicit if you let them scare you. Don't let them. You should not trust anyone who acts like they have certainty about the future, esp when it comes to complex systems like the global economy. It's simply not possible to have certainty like that.

I just published The AI Singularity You’ve Heard Of Is the Wrong One to Worry About medium.com/p/the-ai-singu…

@tthomson @jack @blocks 💯

@jack @blocks The future is small, bespoke companies. Not these huge ones that see both their employees and customers as numbers on a spreadsheet. Start your own companies everyone. You can do this. This can be a beautiful era of democratised entrepreneurship.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@Shpigford @frankgoertzen @openclaw @Vapi_AI Interesting. If I may ask - what percentage of people actually had a conversation?

@frankgoertzen @openclaw did the calls through @Vapi_AI with OpenAI GPT Realtime! mix of responses from people. some hung up, some cautiously conversed, others seemed unfazed. but otherwise, yes. very much a normal conversation.

another 🦞 use case: one of our cars got sideswiped and now needs some repair work done. there are dozens of places within a few miles of us, but figuring out which one to go to for an estimate required some effort. effort that i just offloaded entirely to hank (my @openclaw instance). things hank did: * google searched for the top rated repair shops closest to our house * called all of them to get lead times on repair work and find out if an appointment is required for an estimate * ranked them by lead times + distance + ratings * saved all the info in a notion doc (location, contact info, ratings, lead time, appointment requirements) all i did was give it about 3 sentences of instructions and then i went and did other things while it chewed through the job over the course of about 10 minutes. the calls alone were a massive time-save as it did them in parallel. so. freaking. cool.

@Shpigford @hnshah @openclaw How do you get openclaw to call? What skill is it

things that my @openclaw does for me: - timeblocks tasks in my calendar based on importance - scores tasks importance and urgency based on an algorithm that we are developing together as we go - leads me through a weekly review based on all the transcriptions from meetings & notes I jotted down in my notion - gives a morning daily brief that includes: weather, weekly objectives, health stats, meetings agenda, key reminders, key trends on X & linkedin, stuff I should read from my RSS reader based on my current objectives, a quote from one of my books that's relevant to today - notifies my wife and I about our son's upcoming school tests - researches big projects and breaks them down to tasks - researches people before meetings and creates briefing docs - tracks trending topics on X to spot content opportunities - spawns background sub-agents to research business ideas when i say "idea:" - manages the calendar for any conflicts autonomously - creates invoices and summarizes work beautifully skills we are going to work on soon: - optimize investment portfolio - track expenses - call service providers and handle bureaucracy over the phone

@siddharthvij_ flash

I’ve been keeping a secret... It helps us design 10x faster than the average designer. Our timelines reduced from weeks to days Today, I’m revealing our AI Prompt Vault - an internal library of our best prompts Want it? RT & comment “Flash” - I’ll DM it. (must be following)

@felixhhaas UI library

Ultimate Prompt Library for UI 🔥 I’ve been quietly building something I wish existed when I started designing with AI. A complete UI design prompt library that helps you master different visual styles: expressive, cinematic, minimal, premium, nostalgic, warm, technical (20+ design styles in total). Each style includes: 👉 When to use it 👉 Key vocabulary that trigger the style 👉 Copy-paste prompts for real UI work 👉 Pro tips for next-level results Comment "UI Library" + repost and I'll share the link with you

forgot to link folks mentioned that have helped me (whether they know it or not!) @steipete @badlogicgames @kieranklaassen @karpathy

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.