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@lifemaxxjourney move to Australia

@gearside @dannolan you should run for supreme leader

this is actually crazy

I believe AI will deliver enormous gains to the global consumer: better products, better services, better healthcare, and tools that make ordinary people more capable, even superhuman. The upside is so large, and the geopolitical stakes so real, that we should move decisively toward it, not choke it off. But people do not experience technological change as an aggregate statistic. They experience it through their bills, their communities, and their jobs. So the issue is not whether AI will create value. It will. The issue is whether the path to those gains asks particular communities and workers to absorb too much of the cost upfront. The institutions building AI cannot externalize the local costs of scaling and call future abundance the answer. If datacenters place major new demands on power and land, they should invest enough to strengthen the grid, ease pressure on bills, expand the tax base, and create durable jobs. And if AI compresses some of the entry-level work people used to learn on, firms should help build new on-ramps and training pathways into the new work that growth is creating. This is not an argument for slowing the buildout down. It is an argument that rapid technological progress has to be socially durable.

@is_OwenLewis @ctjlewis It’s Star Wars

I rather like this Greko-futurism style.

@andrewqu not you anyway

who's going to tell him

@orenmeetsworld what u mean by this

My friends in tech/media who live in the old world, Australia and Asia today got a true “oh we’re just not in the convo at all if it happens past 12PT” moment

Is it too late to contribute 🫣 Made the unlimited doodle space I wish I had in high school 🌷🎨

@bandiaditya @noondesign get noooooooon

I’m thrilled to announce we’ve raised $44M to build a new home for product design. Meet @noondesign. No workflow is more broken and fragmented in 2026 than the product designers’. The very same people who care most about building software don’t have software purpose built for them. @kushagrasinha7 and I have lived this problem first hand as designers ourselves. That’s why we built Noon. The first product design tool that works entirely on your product code, so you can design not only how a product looks, but also how it works. With AI at its core that works in seconds, not minutes. For the first time, you can create, iterate, build, test and ship. All in one canvas. No translations or roundtrips to the codebase and back. Comment “Get Noon” and we’ll get you on the list for early access.

Codex app will replace ChatGPT app over the next year (they will merge)

@jamiequint @NotionHQ @IndexVentures Lol what are you talking about? Investors invest in competitors all the time. No conflict no interest

If I were @NotionHQ I would be absolutely livid with @IndexVentures for leading such a clearly competitive deal Index were some of the earliest @NotionHQ supporters post-inflection and won a very competitive process to lead the B Perhaps this is the new world, still feels rude

a UI primitive for generative interfaces is born

@hthieblot Huh

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@cjpedregal @meetgranola Congrats Chris!

Today we're announcing our Series C alongside some big updates that make @meetgranola better for your team and your tools. Excited to partner with Danny at Index and Mamoon at KP. Big things to come. Back to work!

@benspringwater so you’re a rectangle guy huh x.com/deckickham/sta…

There is no successor to the smartphone. It's the terminal form factor. Much like the car is the terminal form factor for human transportation. Tesla has improved 1000x over the Model T but you still have the same cab riding on four wheels, because it's the optimal solution given the jobs to be done and constraints of reality. The smartphone has the most intense product market fit of any product ever for a reason: a computer you carry in your pocket and hold in your hand, with a screen you manipulate with your fingers, cannot be meaningfully improved upon for the jobs people want done. This doesn't mean there's not room for awesome new devices, especially with AI opening up new vistas. We have motorcycles, mopeds, scooters, e-bikes, and those funny one-wheeled vehicles you see whizzing through Golden Gate Park. We will have smart glasses, pendants, pucks, and whatever device Hark has in store. Hark seems like an S-tier team with an amazing vision, and I will probably buy their product. Moreover, I wouldn't want to live in a world where crazy ambitious visions aren't pursued with convert's zeal. Nevertheless, I'm writing this because every time I see a venture that explicitly or implicitly promises to supersede the smartphone, I think the same thing: It wouldn't matter if Jony Ive teamed up with the ghost of Steve Jobs and raised an army of the greatest HCI designers that ever walked the earth. It's structural. The smartphone is terminal.

@benhylak @jonathan_ravasz nice, vibes well with x.com/deckickham/sta…

my friend @jonathan_ravasz is working on this. one of the most talented interaction designers/prototypers i've ever met.

@united Now we just need to put stairs on the food/drink carts so you can climb over the top of them to get to the bathroom instead of holding it.

@larsencc x.com/deckickham/sta… we’re configuring

The OpenClaw vs Hermes debate is interesting but I haven't met a single person using either at scale. Not in production and barely even for personal use. Everyone's still tinkering. The agent becomes the project instead of doing the project. Is anyone actually shipping with these or are we all just configuring?

@SinaHartung @paper @figma x.com/cuchullainnn/s…

i’m calling it now @paper will be acquired by @figma

@_AllieHarris @andrewchen all the “Wall Street bankers” use python, and ML

@andrewchen I’ve worked on this problem for several years. There’s some misconceptions here - the idea that finance doesn’t use python because coding was too hard for them is wrong. If the Wall Street bankers could have won more deals with python models - they would have.

prediction re the end of spreadsheets AI code gen means that anything that is currently modeled as a spreadsheet is better modeled in code. You get all the advantages of software - libraries, open source, AI, all the complexity and expressiveness. think about what spreadsheets actually are: they're business logic that's trapped in a grid. Pricing models, financial forecasts, inventory trackers, marketing attribution - these are all fundamentally *programs* that we've been writing in the worst possible IDE. No version control, no testing, no modularity. Just a fragile web of cell references that breaks when someone inserts a row. The only reason spreadsheets won is that the barrier to writing real software was too high. A finance analyst could learn =VLOOKUP in an afternoon but couldn't learn Python in a month. AI code gen flips that equation completely. Now the same analyst describes what they want in plain English, and gets a real application - with a database, a UI, error handling, the works. The marginal effort to go from "spreadsheet" to "software" just collapsed to near zero. this is a massive unlock. There are ~1 billion spreadsheet users worldwide. Most of them are building janky software without realizing it. When even 10% of those use cases migrate to actual code, you get an explosion of new micro-applications that look nothing like traditional software. Internal tools that used to live in a shared Google Sheet now become real products. The "shadow IT" spreadsheet that runs half the company's operations finally gets proper infrastructure. The interesting second-order effect: the spreadsheet was the great equalizer that let non-technical people build things. AI code gen is the *next* great equalizer, but the ceiling is 100x higher. We're about to see what happens when a billion knowledge workers can build real software.