Vladimir

at the very start of my coding career, i worked at seo company. they provided full range of services - website audits, marketing, optimizations. back then, tools that could do a deep website audit either covered 10% of what you needed or cost a shit ton of money. so i spent weeks planning the perfect all-in-one tool that'd cover all company needs. what i didn't realize is that showing this to my boss would've gotten me maybe $100/mo more while saving the company ~$10k/mo on seo specialists, because preparing audits was always the mandatory (and most boring) part of their job. i tried to build it. obviously failed, because i simply didn't have enough knowledge yet. i did make some pieces work, but that was nothing close to what a real audit tool should be. years passed. i quit that company, moved on. but recently i caught myself thinking about that idea again. the all-in-one seo audit tool i never finished. so i thought - why not try again, but this time with claude. i wrote a very detailed plan explaining all the app's logic and capabilities, then threw the whole .md file into claude code. it came back with an even bigger plan - full architecture, tech stack, folder structure, auth flows - everything. and ngl that "yes, auto-accept" button paired with "--dangerously-skip-permissions" mode looked really tempting. so i pressed it. two hours later claude was done. i got an entire app: frontend, backend, deployment instructions. i deployed it on my vps just out of curiosity. the app launched on the first try. no errors, no crashes - nothing. i grabbed some random website, entered it into the "url to audit" field, hit enter. five minutes later i got a full website audit with a dashboard i didn't even ask for. this wasn't a mockup, it was a real app with crawling, page-by-page issues, exports, auth, and a dashboard i didn't even ask for. yeah the app itself isn't some impossible engineering challenge, but it would've taken me about a week to build manually, while claude did it in 2 hours. were there areas for improvement? sure, i fixed a lot of things after. but the point is - i spent weeks planning this tool years ago and couldn't build it. now i planned it in an hour and deployed it the same day. the tool i couldn't build at 17 took two hours at 21. same idea. same person. different tools.

@emollick the fifth option: coding agent did fine but the codebase was already so bad that any change looks terrible

It is going to be very hard to tell from public stories whether “coding agents did terrible thing X” is due to: (1) coding agents doing terrible thing (2) older coding agents that aren’t very good failing (3) bad process around coding agents or (4) blaming AI for another issue.

@AndrewYang $100 billion to buy factories and replace workers with robots at least the previous generation of billionaires had the decency to automate their own companies first before doing it to everyone else's

There would be a lot fewer workers at these companies’ manufacturing facilities in this version of the economy.

@FirstSquawk openai's org chart changes more often than their pricing page greg left, came back, now oversees a "product revamp" while fidji leads sales for the product that's being revamped this is what happens when you ship 12 products and need someone to figure out which ones to keep

OPENAI: GREG BROCKMAN TO TEMPORARILY OVERSEE PRODUCT REVAMP & DESKTOP APP CHANGES; FIDJI SIMO TO LEAD SALES FOR NEW PRODUCT

i caught myself saying "let me unpack that" in a conversation with my mom last week she asked if i was okay

the man selling shovels during the gold rush is asking miners to stop telling people the mine might collapse

@Polymarket the man selling shovels during the gold rush is asking miners to stop telling people the mine might collapse

JUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls on tech leaders to "be careful not to scare people" regarding AI.

@FirstSquawk "streamline resources & user experience" is corporate for "we shipped too many apps and now nobody knows which one to open"

OPENAI TO MERGE CHATGPT, CODEX APP & BROWSER INTO DESKTOP SUPERAPP TO STREAMLINE RESOURCES & USER EXPERIENCE - WSJ

"streamline resources & user experience" is corporate for "we shipped too many apps and now nobody knows which one to open"

@ns123abc caught swapping serial number stickers with a HAIR DRYER bro was running a $2.5 billion smuggling operation with the tools of a college student removing shipping labels the gap between the crime and the method is truly cinematic ngl

🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers >$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025 >built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors >caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers >coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats >SMCI down 12% after hours >faces up to 30 years in federal prison ITS SO OVER…

@thsottiaux codex will take us places the same way google maps takes you places the destination is always right but it'll still guide you through 4 oneway streets and a construction zone

Codex will take us places

@fidjissimo every company says "double down on what works" right after they ship 15 things and one of them takes off codex is really good but let's not pretend they predicted it they threw everything at the wall and this one stuck

Companies go through phases of exploration and phases of refocus; both are critical. But when new bets start to work, like we're seeing now with Codex, it's very important to double down on them and avoid distractions. Really glad we're seizing this moment.

@pmarca every era gets a marc andreessen tweet that sounds like a rallying cry but is actually a fundraising announcement

It’s time to build the Independent AI Grid.

@DonaldJTrumpJr @worldlibertyfi "your agent, your keys, your rules" is a great tagline until someone's agent autonomously spends $47,000 on cloud compute at 3am because it thought scaling was the optimal decision the whole point of interns is that they CAN'T pay for things

AI agents that can reason but can't pay for anything are just expensive interns.  Today @worldlibertyfi shipped the infrastructure to fix that. AgentPay SDK, open source, self-custodial, policy-first. Built on USD1.  Your agent. Your keys. Your rules. Check it out: agentpay.worldlibertyfinancial.com

@satyanadella microsoft naming it the "Superintelligence team" while the output is "image model in copilot" is corporate branding at its best ngl next week the "AGI division" will announce a new emoji keyboard

Great to see our new image model from our Superintelligence team rolling out in Copilot and coming soon to Foundry for enterprise customers.

@FirstSquawk "content generation, web search, and personalization" is how you describe literally every ai product when you don't know what makes yours different this reads like a press release written by gemini about gemini ngl

GOOGLE HAS BEGUN TESTING A DEDICATED GEMINI APP FOR MAC TO COMPETE WITH CHATGPT AND CLAUDE, OFFERING FEATURES LIKE CONTENT GENERATION, WEB SEARCH, AND PERSONALIZATION.

@fchollet man that's so true, ask it to solve a problem that looks like a known pattern - and it's magic ask it to solve something genuinely new - and it confidently gives you the closest memorized answer which is sometimes worse than nothing

This is more evidence that current frontier models remain completely reliant on content-level memorization, as opposed to higher-level generalizable knowledge (such as metalearning knowledge, problem-solving strategies...)

@thdxr "we want you to build with claude, but only through the doors we approve" is the kind of energy that makes devs switch providers

opencode 1.3.0 will no longer autoload the claude max plugin we did our best to convince anthropic to support developer choice but they sent lawyers it's your right to access services however you wish but it is also their right to block whoever they want we can't maintain an official plugin so it's been removed from github and marked deprecated on npm appreciate our partners at openai, github and gitlab who are going the other direction and supporting developer freedom

@typesfast the funniest part is google named it gemini before they knew which twin was which lol turns out the search revenue is the immortal one and the ai lab is the one that keeps almost dying at launch events

Whoever named Gemini at Google really named it. In the mythology, the immortal twin gives up his immortality to save the life of his mortal twin. It’s just like Google giving up 100% of its free cash flow to make sure Deepmind survives.

@markgurman google making a mac app to compete with claude and chatgpt is the corporate equivalent of showing up to a party 2 hours late with a bottle of wine nobody asked for

NEW: Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.’s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@cryptopunk7213 the niantic one is genuinely dark ngl 500 million people thought they were catching pokemon and were actually mapping sidewalks for delivery robots at least doordash had the decency to pay $5 for the data instead of disguising it as fun)

man shit is getting dystopian really fucking quickly doordash is now paying people to film themselves doing chores then using that to train AI robots that will replace them - guess what? they're not the only ones: - niantic (pokemonGO creators) has trained AI delivery robots with 30 billion photos taken by 500M+ players - Uber launched 'digital tasks' last year where drivers complete tasks to train AI in exchange for a few dollars i don't think people realise they're doing something that will eventually get them fired "heres $5 in exchange for your job"