Andres

I love a great story and still working on mine. I help teams use data & design to start products in healthcare. I 🏃 & eat 🌱

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Using social media in middle school predicts lower standardized test scores in high school.

10th graders who started social media before 9th grade are ~6 months behind their peers on math & reading. They're more distracted by their phones.

No child should have access to social media.

[Andres @ACinSD]

@HamelHusain @vercel Fetch fresh guidelines before each review:

https://t.co/LlpemsnqyZ
Use WebFetch to retrieve the latest rules. The fetched content contains all the rules and output format instructions.

Usage

When a user provides a file or pattern argument:

Fetch guidelines from the source URL

[Andres @ACinSD]

@HamelHusain This @vercel skill, points to a URL to get fresh instructions... you can try this pattern... requires a lot of trust.

https://t.co/70V2YsJhMy

[Andres @ACinSD]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

Here is the problem with loops wrt product management: there are not infinitely commercializable product problems in a domain, even though there are infinite things to change in a codebase.

Even as I surround myself w lots of (fairly autonomous!) agents, I still run a ROI positive compute budget—meaning we don’t really build for build’s sake, because we haven’t seen the upside from brrring tokens 24/7.

I do run lots of loops where I think we’re under leveraging raw intelligence or diligence (sales, marketing, bugs) but unless your product loop is highly coupled with a distribution + monetization loop (in a market where there is budget) you’re just shipping green diffs into the void.

[Andres @ACinSD]

@trq212 @Sagar_Trivedi @ClaudeDevs @sidbid I had the same challenge earlier, seemed to be fixed by Sunday!

[Andres @ACinSD]

@blennon_ I’d love to try it!

[Andres @ACinSD]

@suekhim Perfect timing and it looks amazing! We’re signing up!

[Andres @ACinSD]

@clairevo @trq212 Great pod @clairevo and love seeing how @trq212 uses claude... I smiled as I heard him say he doesn't always read these long plans then laughed when I saw "usly-skip-permissions" in one of the tabs!

[Andres @ACinSD]

@clairevo This is the golden era for products, you’ve been gifted months of heads down shipping AI products instead of sitting in meetings and appeasing a corporate machine. You can just make things now! Make anything!

[Andres @ACinSD]

Hey @ClaudeDevs, @claudeai, @_catwu I keep getting an error while voice dictating to Claude Code on the Mac app where it loses everything I've dictated. This looks similar to https://t.co/Ci8uhifAik
running Claude 1.5354.0 (9a9e3d) 2026-04-29T01:14:34.000Z

[Andres @ACinSD]

@jess__yan Awesome job!

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw.

You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

[Andres @ACinSD]

@michelleefang That’s me!

[Andres @ACinSD]

@nikitabier The line “you cannot overpay for talent” heard so often across founders on @FoundersPodcast comes to mind!

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Oil prices are currently on track for their largest 2-day loss since April 2020 as markets price-in a recession.

[Andres @ACinSD]

@KobeissiLetter Why?

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Dean Phillips Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

If you do anything today, watch this three-minute clip of @deanbphillips on All-In from SEVEN MONTHS AGO.

Rep. Dean Phillips announced he would challenge President Biden for the Democratic nominee last October.

He joined All-In in November and explained why he was running.

***Again, this is from seven months ago***

Rep. Phillips on President Biden:

"He's a human being. He's now in his eighties. He is clearly on the decline. He's not incompetent. I believe he's surrounded himself by competent, able, principled people."

"But do I think that he will be in a position to continue leading this country in the future? I do not. I think I'm joined by about 75% of the country in saying that."

"People are saying that I'm causing his problems, that I could risk his reelection."

"I'm not the guy that has him losing to Trump nationally, down in five of six battleground states, the lowest approval ratings in presidential history, almost."

"And I'm certainly not the guy that has shown his decline. That's on video, that's on audio, you see it. He's a human being, for goodness sakes."

"All I'm doing is saying the quiet part out loud. The only one!"

"You ask the question, 'Do others talk about this?' The question is, 'Is anybody not talking about this?' Of course they are, you guys."

@DavidSacks asked: "What has been the blowback in the Democratic Party from your declaring?"

"What do you think? I'm not being thrown flowers and parties, let me tell you that."

"I think they're disappointed because this is not what you do when you're a member of a party."

"You fall in line, you shush up, you sit down, you get in line, and you do nothing to upset the applecart of others who've been waiting in line perhaps a little longer than you."

"(President Biden) implicitly, if not explicitly, said he would be a transitional president. Kind of the bridge."

"Most members of Congress thought he was going to stand down."

"That's why Newsom and Pritzker and Whitmer and so many others were kind of making their plans."

"I started seeing the polls change dramatically. The tenor and tone of constituent discussions with me and every single one of my colleagues was changing graphically."

"And I was really frustrated. I called @GovWhitmer. I called @GovPritzker. I made public calls to the candidates whose names are better known than me to jump in. The water's warm, you guys. It's a Democratic Primary. That's what we do."

"Not only did those two not take my calls, which they would have any other day. They had their political operatives take those calls, and they told me, 'Please, don't use their names.' That's the culture that we're dealing with."

"You will be blackballed, you will be disenfranchised, you will be let out the door, if you so much as even issue a word that you might challenge a sitting President of the United States."

"This is the United States of America. It's appalling."

"I think I'm the only one that's willing to torpedo a career so that the country isn't torpedoed by this nonsense and dysfunction."

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool.

Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right.

And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero.

But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it.

We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.

[Andres @ACinSD]

@jonfavs Finally