Andrew Irwin ☘️

People person, App Creator, UX Designer, Neurodiversity Advocate (ADHD, Dyspraxia) Fascinated with Ai. from Ireland

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

Come on Mayo! Yes!!! 💚❤️

[Annie West @anniewestdotcom]

Everything's coming up #mayogaa #mayogaa #DubvMayo

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow.

After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. We’ll continue to refine these classifiers over the coming weeks to reduce false positives and better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests.

We’ve also begun drafting a consensus framework—with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners—for assessing the severity of AI jailbreaks and how AI developers should respond to them. We invite other industry partners and model providers to join us in this effort.

Finally, we’re scaling up our collaboration with the US government on model testing and safeguards. This will include pre-release access to models and safeguards for evaluation, information sharing on jailbreaks and misuse, and dedicated resources for joint research.

Thank you to our users for your patience, and to our partners across the government, industry, and the research community who worked alongside us to make Fable 5 available again.

Read our full blog: https://t.co/VHyum831ri

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

@hellodaylio Hi! I think Daylio is great and thoughtfully designed!
Love been able to look back over the weeks and months to reflect on my mood.

Q: what about being able to ask Ai within Daylio about my mood and why it was a certain way in the past.

[Daylio @hellodaylio]

💪 Motivation fades, but habits stay. Challenge yourself to 5 consistent check-ins this week. Track how routine builds confidence. 🌈 #habitbuilding #selfcareroutine #motivation #Daylio #joural #consistency

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

Check out my Lovable Vibes 2025! https://t.co/L90Q7hto9l
@Lovable @lovableshipped

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Peter Thiel: world-class entrepreneurs are typically polymaths

“I think that one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is that they’re not specialists. They’re something closer to polymaths.”

Thiel continues:

“If you have a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, he’d be able to speak with a surprising amount of understanding about a lot of things. He can speak about the details of the Facebook product. He can talk about the way people think about social media — the psychology and the way the culture is shifting. Management of the company, he has ideas on that. He has ideas on how [Facebook] fits into the bigger history of technology.”

Thiel then contrasts this to a more typical academic view:

“The academic view is that you’re sort of a narrow expert on one thing and that’s what you do. But it’s much more this polymath-like intellect that understands all these different things.”

Video source: @RubinReport @RubinReportShow (2018)

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO

“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it, and getting consensus on a common vision.”

Steve continues:

“We wanted people who were insanely great at what they did… and the neatest thing that happens when you get a core group ten great people is that it becomes self-policing as to who they let into that group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting.”

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Peter Thiel on why all trends are overrated

“I’m always skeptical of sectors and trends. People always ask me what some trends are that I see happening in the future, and I have never liked the question because I’m not a prophet and I don’t think the future is fixed in that sort of way… At this point, I think all trends are overrated… if you hear the words ‘big data’ and ‘cloud computing’, you need to run away as fast as you possibly can. Just think ‘fraud’ and run away.”

He continues:

“All these buzzwords are a tell—like in poker—that the company is bluffing and undifferentiated… We’ve heard the buzzwords before, and so if you’re the nth company in a category that’s well established, that’s problematic… Conversely, I think the things that are underrated are the ones where there are no buzzwords and it doesn’t actually fit into any pre-existing categories… Of course, the challenge is that even the people who are running these companies will describe them in terms of existing categories because that’s so much easier to do.”

One example he uses is that Google would’ve been described as a search engine in 1998. There were already 20+ search engines at the time, but the PageRank algorithm was actually the key differentiating thing. If you simply labeled it as a search engine, that would’ve obscured all of the key differences.

“Figuring out the correct way to think about things in categories for which we don’t even have the proper language is really critical.”

Video source: @twistartups @Jason (2015)

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Elon Musk on building his first startup Zip2

In 1995, when he was just 23 years old, Elon dropped out of Stanford’s PhD program in physics to start Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk.

Elon personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages and white pages on the Internet that summer in C with a little C++.

In this CBS interview, a 27 year old Elon describes living in a $200/month office with a leaky roof:

“We found that an office was actually cheaper than apartment in Silicon Valley and we got this dinky little office that had a leaky roof. It was just the nastiest place you could imagine. I lived in it too and showered at the YMCA. This lasted for about three or four months, and the reason we chose this office — in addition to it being really cheap — was that there was an internet service provider on the floor below. So we were able to get really cheap internet access by drilling a hole in the floor and connecting to their server directly.”

In February 1999 — less than a year after this interview — Compaq would purchase Zip2 for $307 million in cash.

The interviewer also asks Elon what he thinks the future of the Internet will be, to which Elon responds:

“I think the internet is the superset of all media. It is the be all and end all of media. One will see print, broadcast, radio — essentially all media — folding into the internet. What the internet amounts to is it’s the first two-way communication medium that is intelligent. It allows consumers to choose what they want to see, when they want to see it.”

[a16z @a16z]

People will tolerate any level of chronic pain to avoid acute pain.

Marc Andreessen says most would rather lose slowly than have the hard conversation to stop the bleeding.

Your job as a leader is to create a culture that surfaces ugly truths to treat problems before they become terminal.

Source: @pmarca on Cheeky Pint with @collision and Charlie Songhurst

[matt palmer @mattyp]

We're live with the community!

Stop by for tips, tricks, & cool Replit apps

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"If you want to do good work, what you need is a great curiosity about a promising question."

- Paul Graham, What You'll Wish You'd Known

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious."

Paul Graham on how to figure out what to work on:

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"Understand your users. That's the key."

Paul Graham, if he could only give startups one piece of advice:

[Aberdeen Inspired @AbdnInspired]

The colourful Umbrella Project is back on Shiprow to brighten Aberdeen’s summer and celebrate neurodiversity ☂️🌈

The canopy is up, and the official launch event happens tomorrow – Tuesday 6 May!

Full story: https://t.co/rg99B6AHQe

@ADHDFoundation

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

@cb_doge So can this be implanted into the road so you can charge while driving, and the kinetic energy from the tires will charger the charger as well as solar power from the sun

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

@andreasklinger Now that is true no-code development!
Thanks very much for sharing! Looks absolutely insane! And I think this will be the future for many types of apps, not all but many! Especially startup ones!

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

@PatricKielty https://t.co/9cQEXrO5Jn

[Andrew Irwin ☘️ @Andrewi16]

Buy Caio Benicio a pint https://t.co/DsO1uGpSOb

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Deliveroo dirver Caio Benicio was on his motorbike this afternoon when he saw a man with a knife attacking a young girl in Parnell Square.
The 43-year-old Brazilian dismounted his bike, took off his helmet, and hit the attacker with it.
Read more here:
https://t.co/L7CRfb61pJ

[Demetriou Neto @NetoDemetriou]

Rubens Barrichello, Ferrari, Monaco, 2004. Via Getty Images.