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Building products without leveraging ML is the new building products without talking to your customers.


.@sama @OpenAI's botched age guardrails rollout is about to to make me cancel. A month or so back the system decided I'm a teen and now is incessant nanny mode with no way to escape it. The age-verification flow in Settings that the help article describes does not exist for me.

dsweet's tweet image. .@sama @OpenAI's botched age guardrails rollout is about to to make me cancel. A month or so back the system decided I'm a teen and now is incessant nanny mode with no way to escape it. The age-verification flow in Settings that the help article describes does not exist for me.
dsweet's tweet image. .@sama @OpenAI's botched age guardrails rollout is about to to make me cancel. A month or so back the system decided I'm a teen and now is incessant nanny mode with no way to escape it. The age-verification flow in Settings that the help article describes does not exist for me.

Chatting with 5.1 and it slipped in a couple characters mid-answer: "Great catch — I slipped a Japanese/Chinese word in there 😅 具体 basically means “concrete” or “specific”, as opposed to vague or abstract."


Overheard from my 16 year old: “You’ve heard of Golden Gate Claude, but have you heard of That Changes Everything Claude? (Which is just normal Claude.)”


Great post from @simonw! I especially like the five bullets toward the end that get concrete about how it all works. Making that fourth bullet accessible is going to be the big unlock here. “A skill defined by an experienced data reporter talking about how best to find the…

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/cl…



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School teaches you what others want you to learn. Only you can teach yourself what YOU want to learn. Don’t wait for others to do it. Took me a few decades to understand this.


Favorite LLM prompting anecdote so far is an overly helpful agent that proposed a reorg as a potential path forward to helping a team hit a metric goal that was off track.


My *very offline* barber told me today he has gone from 1-2 new customers a week to 1-2 new customers a day with "ChatGPT" being their most common response to "how did you hear about me?".


Can confirm

The premium on just being someone that stays insanely current on what’s going on in AI is so high right now. The space is changing so fast that you will stand out by being more AI-native and caught up than everyone else. Huge opportunity for the next generation workforce.



Many great points I found myself agreeing strongly with in this talk Andrew Ng recently gave re: how AI fundamentally changes things for teams of builders. Recommend watching the whole thing (but these were a few of my favorite points): 1 - Speed trumps everything else. The…

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Last call to delete your DNA data before it is auctioned off.

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today was one of the most fun days i’ve had on this app since joining in 2023—comedy, art, technology—bringing us together in the coolest, most meta way, i love it

never deleting this app

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Lovely day on the streets of NE Seattle, taking my daughter to a drivers ed lesson and a random dude on the street is carrying a cane and a butcher knife and says “I’ll cut your balls off” as he passes me. (Yes I reported it.)


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