Sanden Gocka

🚀Introducing the Earmark desktop app for Mac & PC! Earmark runs quietly in the background while you talk. You can assign AI agents to capture decisions, generate follow-up comms, and draft deliverables all in real time. Try it 👉 tryearmark.com

The worst part of meetings is choosing between listening and taking notes. So we built Pins 📌 One click during the call captures the moment and saves the context for later. Try it yourself at tryearmark.com

Most work conversations are now being recorded by default. You should probably assume that everything you say at work is getting recorded from here on out. What’s emerging is a new category of enterprise software, organized around voice instead of text. The system of record today is structured data: CRM entries, tickets, docs. But the highest-value context lives in conversation: the nuance on a customer call, the real argument in a product review, the offhand comment in a leadership meeting that quietly changes the roadmap. LLMs are uniquely good at taking that unstructured voice data and making it structured, searchable, and queryable. That’s a large enterprise opportunity, and we’re still early in understanding what the software layer looks like and who owns it. a16z GP David Haber on what AI recording means for the future of work: a16z.news/p/everything-i…

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a MONSTER We've been testing for about a week @every and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check: - Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works. HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results. - Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context. HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high. - Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark. - Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic. THE BAD: These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude. Anthropic is back baby! Read the rest on @every: every.to/vibe-check/opu…

Seven PMs at @ServiceTitan started using @earmark_ai in November. There was no formal rollout plan, no leadership mandate. Seven people tried it, and we watched to see what would happen. By February, Design joined. Then Engineering, then other teams from corners of the company we hadn't spoken to. Seven users became 60+ over six months, entirely through word of mouth and amazing internal champions. That's the growth signal we care about most. When we surveyed the team twice, 67% said they'd be very disappointed to lose Earmark. Every single respondent said at least somewhat disappointed. But the number I keep coming back to isn't the satisfaction score. It's what they said about time. Every respondent reported getting 5+ hours back per person, per week. We asked where those hours went – not "do you feel more productive," but where did they actually go. The answers were consistent: customer interviews, vision casting, deeper analytical work. One person wrote "thinking time – the part that gets cut first." Earmark gave it back. But the number that shaped the product most isn't in any of that. It's the requests. "Pipe Earmark into Claude." Shipped. "Don't store my sensitive meetings." Shipped. "Stop rebuilding the same task." Shipped. The ServiceTitan team didn't just Earmark for six months. They built it with us. That's the partnership worth talking about.

long time Sourcetree user here. The icon bug has been sitting as low priority for a while now and stated that it won't be fixed for the next several releases. It honestly makes it hard to want to keep the product in the dock and I'm not the only one @Atlassian @TYehoshua