Alex Gonch

@elonmusk open sourcing the algo is the kind of move that makes builders actually trust a platform

Major update to the 𝕏 AI recommendation algorithm rolling out next week. This will be open sourced at the same time.

@mattshumer_ they've been sitting on robotics training data this whole time and nobody noticed

DoorDash is laying the groundwork for a crazy move here. Agents will be able to 'hire' humans to do tasks for them in the real world. And this will collect insane amounts of training data for robotics. Kind of genius, kind of terrifying.

@waronweakness never had this problem. I always know what I'm trying to build before I open it

I've started using Claude. It's great but I can see how someone can spend 20 hours a day on this thing and feel like they accomplished something when they've done nothing.

@thdxr at a certain point every corporation incorporates lawyer-driven development

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

@GergelyOrosz yeah the layoff list is literally a spreadsheet someone filled out in an afternoon

This is more common than you'd imagine at large layoffs. Happened eg at Uber's 20% layoffs in 2020 as well. It is because layoffs are decided at Director-or-above levels, and quotas need to be hit. Directors (or above) don't have all context, and some key folks are let go. Oops!

@danshipper bold of you to assume my job involves knowledge that can be written down

How to never lose your job to AI: Just surf the models. Frontier models outclass humans at any form of knowledge that can be written down. But people who use frontier models in their field of expertise generate new, tacit, situational expertise that the models don't yet have—because the models can't be trained on how they will be used in the future. Humans can learn to use new models faster than new models can be trained that absorb what they find out, so you can continually "surf" on top of the model's intelligence to generate new expertise. This is a fundamental limitation of LLMs because they don't learn past their training data. Even few-shot learning doesn't account for this because whatever can be codified into a few shot prompt needs to be used in the correct situation—and this will always stay uncodified in the general case. Just surf the models. Reap the benefits of a totally new world.

@TukiFromKL 50 people building something that even competes is wild honestly. benchmarks are benchmarks though. I'll believe it when it doesn't make me want to switch back after a week.

🚨 Cursor just dropped Composer 2.. their own AI model.. not Claude.. not GPT.. their own.. and it beats Claude Opus on coding benchmarks.. at a fraction of the cost.. a code editor with 50 people just outperformed a $30 billion AI lab.. at coding.. which is supposed to be their whole thing.. the vibe coding era just got an upgrade..

@Yuchenj_UW I have a global config that turns this off. didn't want Claude on my commits.

I noticed something interesting: Claude Code auto-adds itself as a co-author on every git commit. Codex doesn’t. That’s why you see Claude everywhere on GitHub, but not Codex. I wonder why OpenAI is not doing that. Feels like an obvious branding strategy OpenAI is skipping.

I checked my commits and haven't written a function from scratch in like 3 weeks. mostly I'm just deleting stuff and moving things around.

@Austen every builder knows gemini. it's not a marketing problem, tool calling just sucks

Honestly Google sucks at marketing its AI products. Gemini and family are dramatically underhyped for how good the models are. Partially because they don’t have a charismatic leader, partially because they’re buried in 18 layers of confusingly named Google enterprise bloatware.

@paulg my friend worked at a place with an 'Innovation Lab' once. they did workshops mostly.

A rule of thumb that has served me well: Beware of anything with "innovation" in the name.

@toddsaunders building was never the moat. nobody cared that your SaaS took 6 months to build if nobody signed up

I heard an incredible analogy from a VC friend that I can’t stop thinking about. “The moat in software was the cost of building software. And Claude Code just mass produced a bridge.” It’s wild when you think about the impact of this. The SaaS boom produced a few dozen billionaires and a bunch of zero sum winners. But the AI SaaS era will mass produce millionaires. There will be fewer ServiceTitans hitting $5B valuations, and instead there will be 50,000 companies doing $500K-$5M each, run by 1-3 people with deep expertise and huge margins. To be clear, I believe that the total value of software goes up, and the number of companies created goes up exponentially. But the number of people who capture the value also goes up 100x. I don’t believe in the “SaaS is dying” headline, I think it’s missing the point. It’s simply that the power of SaaS is changing hands.

@tomfgoodwin I literally run 9. one big agent trying to do everything just starts going off. forgets what it said 4 tasks back, writes code that breaks what it set up an hour ago

I’m surely being stupid. But if AI is rather unconstrained by expertise or capacity or to some extent speed Why do we need to divide tasks or departments to 9 agents ( the marketing agent, the optimization agent etc ) to each do one thing. And then another agent to manage the swarm. Cant one agent just be doing it all you know. It seems very skeuomorphic. Will we have HR agents to make sure the agent agents are being looked after ? A office canteen manager agent to feed the agents ? Seems daft

@thorstenball while llms are the closest thing we have to agi, that's just an easy way for persistent memory

Lately, whenever I open this app and see the latest tricks, and hacks, and notes, and workflows, and spec here and skill there, I can't help but think: All of this will be washed away by the models. Every Markdown file that's precious to you right now will be gone.

@plainionist Like more and less than the junior dev, more cause it geniounly writes well, less cause dafaq you again cant fix this button for the 10th round

How much do you trust AI generated code?

I spent more time on SOUL.md than on most modules I've actually shipped. and there's no compiler to tell you when it's wrong, just vibes and bad output

@rohanpaul_ai chess has 64 squares and one win condition. coding is someone handing you a brief that changes twice before you ship and infrastructure the last dev quit over. not sure the analogy holds

Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone. Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation. "I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody. It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)

@apples_jimmy tough to switch when you're deep into a claude code workflow but if they actually ship something that good I'd at least try it. competition only makes all of this better

Apparently Cursor is going to release a coding model better than opus 4.6 and cheaper as well ( maybe tomorrow ) Can they regularly do this to keep up though ?

@matteocollina the guy I used to hire for 'we need someone who knows this codebase' is the one getting squeezed. not the seniors building new stuff. the people who were just really good at knowing where everything was

AI isn't replacing developers: it's splitting software engineering into 3 tiers with completely different skills. The ladder is breaking. 🧵

@fhinkel just run a 10th agent whose only job is to clean up after the other 9. debt solved

Vibe Coding makes you 10x faster at making 10x more technical debt.