Aza Ali

Building products that make each person feel like ten people.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

I've been working on this essay for a while, and it is mainly about AI and about the future. But given the horror we're seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis on the importance of preserving democratic values and rights at home is particularly relevant.

[Siim Land @siimland]

Pet owners have ~15 years younger predicted brain age than non-pet owners

Pet ownership, especially dogs, is robustly associated with better cognitive and structural brain health, especially in older adults.

Study: PMID: 36337704

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

@cgtwts First wave: devs on Twitter

Second wave: LinkedIn thought leaders

Third wave: your manager asks why you're not using it

We're entering wave 2.

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

@NewsFromGoogle Apple gets Gemini's capabilities.
Google gets distribution to 2B+ devices.

The real story: Apple just admitted they can't win the foundation model race alone.

That's a massive signal.

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

@VadimStrizheus Built an iOS app with Claude. Gamified task management. The 100% AI part is real but "vibe coding" undersells how much debugging is still on you.

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

@aymericzip definitely. i18n prints traffic, a11y moves the world forward 😄 need both

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

First, credit where it is due: I couldn’t have built Retina so quickly without Claude Code. Ditto the website in the demo. 10 clicks. That’s all it took to make this demo with Retina. Not hours in After Effects.

Retina is currently in free beta.

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

$NVDA just open-sourced Alpamayo—what Jensen Huang calls the first reasoning model purpose-built for autonomous vehicles.
After years of work by thousands of engineers, they're betting that giving away the stack accelerates the entire self-driving category.

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

Finally done putting everything under one roof. 😮‍💨

[Aza Ali @AzaAli01]

Spent a little too much time on this transition for Retina's landing page. Took a ton inspo from motion graphics designers.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.5: the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use.

Opus 4.5 is a step forward in what AI systems can do, and a preview of larger changes to how work gets done.