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Building. Ex Zoox, DoorDash Labs, YC W26. Honest takes on AI tools from someone using them all day. Try out https://teapaw.org/t.co/mGOWmvuZOd

Joined August 2020
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If you call MetLife, they now start every call asking if you are an AI assistant. If you say "No," you are routed the normal route and then need to use an automated system for 5 minutes to get to a human. If you say "Yes," you are told to have a human call back. If they can have a shitty system, then I should be able to as well. Also, I don't like a future where every automated call has one extra step.
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New grocery store right after a new Fitness SF 📈 tntsupermarket.us/eng/aboutu…
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If I had a product that almost the entire world used I think I would choose different companies to feature on my landing page
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Claude: "We should do a custom implementation." Me: "I really don't think we should. See if there is anything open source we can use." Claude: "Trust me, bro. You don't want to import a third-party package. It will increase bundle size." Me: "This is really complicated. We don't wanna do this ourselves. Go research." Claude: "Oh, you're right. There's a package that does just this and solves some bugs we didn't know of."
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Related: claude code now lets subagents run at their own effort instead of copying your session's CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_EFFORT=medium
Julius convinced me to move from extra high to high on Opus 5.5 a week or two ago. He was right. This is better almost all of the time.
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Crazy way to announce a usage reduction
Replying to @DogecoinNorway
The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue
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Starting today, eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can claim up to $500 per month in API credits to build apps and agents.
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Imagine waking up from your surgery and first thing you see is a drone squirting you
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x.ai/news/grok-voice-3 grok voice is crazy good. Can use via cursor with voice chat and it's 20x better than any existing voice assistants for coding
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Eric Wiener retweeted
Coming to a city near you
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Gotta love "We're reducing investments to help keep customer costs down"
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Seems like a big miss that Claude Code doesn't have voice chat but regular Claude chats do
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Can speed up worktree init with something like: git config --local checkout.workers 4 Nice when launching worktrees from mobile off a local machine so you're not waiting for so long
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Appreciate it Claude
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Starting a petition to convert all imperial measurements to metric in training datasets so LLMs converge to metric and force learning metric on the youth
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Kinda wild how quickly an MCP went from being a niche feature to being as expected as a contact page
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I sense a codex reset coming tonight
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Everyone's talking about Jev to speed up LLM calls but no one's talking about using scissors to slice romaine
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