the upcoming betaworks camp theme is the most exciting one yet—agent systems I’m grateful to be a part of the betaworks community. there is no greater center of gravity for oddball creative founders thinking at frontier of possibility

many of today’s problems with coding agents were foreseen decades ago

relistening to user study sessions > podcasts about startups

the rumors are true, hmu

if you're an engineer in the new york area and the ideas in this post interest you, let's get coffee. i'm hiring. "When to Design for Emergence" t.co/Q7zrQX3vYN

I’d be very curious what the post:reply ratio is here vs twitter

Saying LLMs are worthless/pernicious because they sometimes make mistakes & is causing a general decline in reading skills (true) is like saying Google Maps is worthless/pernicous just because it sometimes gives you bad directions & has caused a general decline in human navigation skills (also true)

startups! how has AI code-gen changed your team’s approach to collaboration? how have you adapted your team workflows? what are the second order effects?

woah, bunch of new followers here all of a sudden, did I miss something? hi 👋

ngl building a company is the hardest thing I’ve ever done

I believe strongly in permissionless innovation and also that I specifically should not be allowed to code

kinda messed up that steve jobs is known for the "bicycle for the mind" metaphor when it was bill atkinson who built hypercard and steve jobs who killed it

I am building end-user programming for AI agents because limiting what gets built to the tiny group of people with technical knowledge limits us as a species.

I love the way this book vaguely feels like it was written for grade school students at the same time that it’s a universal reference point for the most intelligent people I know

the week in pictures (new york, I love you)

bsky wednesday?

how to design for emergence 1. become intimately, brutally familiar with the real world problem space—develop an in situ fingerfeel for it, dunk your whole body in it

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

babe wake up, bret victor dropped a video on public space (?!) youtu.be/PixPSNRDNMU?...

what if "you can just do things" was an app? Whole Earth AI is a project-based learning tool I built it to explore 2 questions: 1. what new ux patterns do LLMs enable? 2. what might the montessori method applied to software for adults look like? here's what I learned youtu.be/4F1QOPbFpzY?...

if you’re a startup founder I have a 10 minute favor to ask you (and you’ll get a peek at what i’m building) please dm 🫶

I like it over here and I don’t blame anyone for wanting to be here but i’m also not totally convinced that all the sane people cordoning themselves off in a separate smaller network is helping the insanity of our overall situation

who is exploring what end-user programming means in the AI era? I want to find the folk thinking beyond vibe coding

dogfood is great but startups that build for startups get to eat cheeseburgers

I thought this was really beautiful www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWlX...

the week in photos

It's too easy to censor scientific data. We should decentralize scientific data somewhat. I'm building a simple tool for censorship-resistant data archiving. It uses the same tech as Bluesky. github.com/gordonbrande...

everyone seems to hate their project management tools. why? is it simply a matter of overhead and friction? what could they deliver that they’re not doing today?

good sunset today

blackpill

little shrine

“the price of coffee” is about to be the new “price of eggs” on steroids we’re about to discover coffee is a political third rail. you really don’t want to fuck with americans coffee.

I am not too proud to take photos of flowers

the kids are hanging on

if 'indie operator' describes you well — perhaps you're a freelancer, independent consultant, solopreneur, early-stage founder, etc — I'd love to interview you about your work. if you're up for it, please respond to my ~4 minute survey. thank you! www.guidedtrack.com/programs/fji...

some news: I'm building an agency machine newsletter.rhizomerd.com/p/an-agency-...

are we seeing it now?

Network society. We're living it now. Time to figure out how to survive in it. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/the-shape-...

I have a favor to ask: if you are in the middle of a challenging project—something you’ve never done before—I’d like to interview you about it this week. the interviews will be private. projects may be personal or professional. my dms are open, thank you!

Why has no US state followed Connecticut's lead in replacing counties with Councils of Governments that match the modern urban geography? I know you are deeply patriotic about YOUR county, but there are many crazy county lines in the US ... 🧵 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council...

everybody is trying to figure out the “why” behind what’s happening right now, but can’t stomach the most explanatory answer

foreign asset, domestic cult

My Neighbor Engelbart

I think a pretty broad spectrum of politically active people sincerely want a better world for everyone, but most have a 2-dimensional model of how the world actually works so their theory of change is completely broken

city people of the week

my product development consultancy rarely conducts user research anymore it's faster, cheaper, & better for me to train teams on how to do their own user research it isn't something you should outsource unless you absolutely have to. it is something you should get very good at

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

it should be way easier to build housing, but i’m uneasy with the wholesale valorization of Texas on this front—endless suburban sprawl is not an answer to the housing crisis this is not a role model

just wrote a test script that uses an LLM to simulate open user input for an api endpoint that triggers a chain of LLM calls & returns the result to an LLM eval for assessing the output… now all I gotta do is hook it up to cursor to update my codebase and let it rip then i’m going on break

how light hits film (a brief review of the properties of silver halide crystals versus photodiodes)