Justin McCarty

On a roll now. This one was charging us $2,700 a month

@ImNotJK I wanted to make the system of how I work (do it, schedule it, or delegate it) to move seamlessly between my email and the surfaces I work in. Increasingly the "delegate it" bucket is picked up by agents. todoist.com/productivity-m…

@JustinDMcCarty Say more.

Canceling todoist as well

@ImNotJK I need to clean up a bit, but, will do @ImNotJK !

@JustinDMcCarty Open source it! Dying for a superhuman replacement.

I had some time between things today and built the version of Superhuman I always wanted. Subscription cancelled.

Update: this was pretty easy for Claude to knock out

I'll feel the AGI when I don't spent half the day searching for K1s and pdf passwords for my tax guy

@IterIntellectus I thought this video was AI

i know it's a meme, but fuck me, he pressed the button and he actually fixed *everything* i wonder how much beauty is just sitting there hidden behind our fear to punish 1% of criminals

@braveben It’s the saddest thing to me about tech success: There’s limited desire to serve *in that way* in the next chapter I am deeply appreciative that @friedberg spends his time doing this - he doesn’t have to - but I sure wish I could vote for him!

Imagine if we had even 1 politician who could speak this clearly and coherently

Life is amazing: -gyms exist -Christopher Nolan movies exist -hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1 -you and your wife can get drunk at a dimly-lit steakhouse then go home and watch Titanic and smash all night without a condom -you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a Coldplay concert -every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores) -you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country -you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle If anyone ever complains in front of you tell them they’re an idiot :)

@PRcarly Check out @AirOpsHQ if you are looking for the best team to help you put this in motion

PREDICTION: Gartner says that PR and earned media budgets will DOUBLE by 2027... and the reason why should matter to every marketer still pouring money into paid channels. Their latest report lays it out: mass adoption of AI as a replacement for traditional search is going to force a fundamental reallocation of marketing spend away from paid, toward earned. THE EVIDENCE: Between the first half of 2024 and first half of 2025, ChatGPT traffic grew 608%, while Google and Bing both declined. Muck Rack's research shows that more than 95% of links cited in AI-generated answers come from non-paid sources, with half of all AI citations coming from content published in the last 11 months. And per Semrush, AI search visitors convert at 4.4x the rate of traditional organic search. We've been watching this play out with our own clients... one saw 38% of their leads this year come directly from earned media surfacing in ChatGPT queries (we got them in the NYT, WSJ, Wired, Forbes, TechCrunch, and others). WHAT THIS MEANS: Gartner is essentially telling CMOs: the channel your customers use to find you is changing to AI; and earned media is what AI trusts. Brands still treating PR as a "nice to have" line item below paid media and SEO are in store for an awakening (I was going to say “rude awakening” but that would be… rude). For PR teams already doing the work, every placement you secure isn't just building credibility with human readers anymore; it’s informing the AI systems that are increasingly deciding which brands get recommended and which ones don't exist. And for marketers who spent the last decade buying their way into "earned-looking" content... native ads, sponsored posts, advertorials pretending to be editorial... AI is seeing right through it. THE NEW REALITY: We're watching a once-in-a-generation shift in how people discover brands. The companies investing in real earned media (that is, true third-party validation) are the ones building a moat. Every month without it? Good luck catching up.

@antoniogm no one wants to do consumer these days

Why there isn't an LLM version of Kayak I don't understand. All these vibe coding LARPers who claim they're so busy building: WTF are you doing? Travel is a gajillion-dollar market, there are open APIs, and there's even an affiliate market you can use to monetize from day one.

@dwr no YC age kids want to do consumer any more

Surprised there isn't a one shot book me a flight agent yet. Assume it would be popular with business travelers.

This post nails the most important point: the speed between "I know what we should build" and "here it is" is currently unfathomable unless you have seen it in action

Despite the macroeconomic community struggling to forecast 2-month-forward payroll growth with any reliable accuracy, the forward path of labor destruction can apparently be inferred with significant certainty from a hypothetical scenario posted on Substack What a line 😆

One of the most vicious ratios in the history of this app

saas is dead openclaw replaced all my subscriptions went from $480/month on tools to $1,245/month on API costs & 15 hours a week fixing yaml files adapt or be left behind

@antoniogm 🔥

This is self-evidently true. All this progress in generative AI, and not a single serious piece of culture other than slop shorts. All this 10x vibe coding, and not a single new compelling consumer app. Techies do this all the time: confusing being Gutenberg with being Luther, the maker of the technology of culture for the culture itself. Hephaestus forges Achilles’ armor in the Iliad, but he’s not the hero and barely appears otherwise compared to other gods. Technocapitalism might make Hephaestus the rich guy on Olympus, but Homer is going to write him out of the script anyhow.