Willem

millenial healer | creative tension consultant | award winning reader | calamansi marketing | agentic engineering

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@ilanfisher1 This speaks to me but I can't DM you. Follow me back.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Google just mass-distributed AI agents to 3.45 billion users with a feature update.

OpenAI built Atlas. Perplexity built Comet. The Browser Company built Dia. Three separate teams spent years building AI-native browsers from zero. Google looked at all of that and shipped a product update to Chrome.

The math makes this brutal. Chrome has 3.45 billion users and 65% global market share. Atlas, Comet, and Dia combined have maybe a few million early adopters. That's a 1,000:1 distribution gap before the product comparison even starts.

And "Skills" is a smarter play than it looks on the surface. Every saved Skill is a switching cost. Once you've built 15 custom AI workflows inside Chrome, moving to a new browser means rebuilding all of them from scratch. Google just created a lock-in layer that didn't exist six months ago.

The Skills library is the part worth watching. Google is crowdsourcing its agent product roadmap in real time. Every Skill users save tells Google exactly which workflows people want AI to automate next. That data shapes the product faster than any internal research team could.

This is the pattern Google runs every cycle. They didn't win maps by building a better map app. They won by embedding it in Android. They didn't win email by building a better client. They won by bundling it with search. Now they're winning the AI browser war by not building a browser at all. Just upgrading the one that 3.45 billion people already use.

The AI browser startups aren't competing against a product. They're competing against distribution physics.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

This will soon be the new reality, albeit on a smaller scale for most companies.

[sunny madra @sundeep]

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Anthropic would have built this in a day and a dev would have tweeted the news. At OpenAI, an exec is telling you about a plan.

That gap tells you everything.

In the last 7 days, Anthropic shipped Dispatch, channels, voice mode, /loop, 1M context GA, MCP elicitation, persistent Cowork on mobile, Excel and PowerPoint cross-app context, inline charts, and 64k default output tokens. Felix Rieseberg tweeted "we're shipping Dispatch" and you could control your desktop Claude from your phone that afternoon. Every launch came from an engineering account or a GitHub release.

In the same 7 days, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.4 mini and nano. Redesigned the model picker. Sunset the "Nerdy" personality preset. Announced three acquisitions.

To find a comparable volume of shipped product from OpenAI, you have to rewind to December.

This is the most underrated difference in AI right now. Anthropic PMs don't write PRDs. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, ships 10 to 30 PRs a day and hasn't written code by hand since November. 60 to 100 internal releases daily. Cowork was built with Claude Code in 10 days. The tools build the next version of the tools. Every cycle compresses the last one. Engineers are empowered to ship and announce. The entire org runs like a product team, not a corporation.

OpenAI has the opposite problem. Fidji Simo is CEO of Applications, a title that exists because engineers aren't empowered to ship without executive approval chains. She joined from Instacart. Before that, a decade at Meta running the Facebook app. Since she arrived, OpenAI has acquired 12 companies for $11 billion in 10 months and announced a "superapp" consolidation through the Wall Street Journal. The exec responsible for shipping it is tweeting about "phases of exploration and refocus" on the product she hasn't shipped yet. That's what happens when you layer a Meta-style product org on top of an AI lab. Decisions go up. Shipping slows down. Announcements replace releases.

Anthropic's product announcements come from the people who wrote the code. OpenAI's come from the C-suite and the press. One of those loops compounds. The other one meetings.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@lulumeservey @JeffMillerTime @catferdon @kate_rouch They shouldn't have positioned it as an AI CMO. There's tons of great github repo's out there with marketing skills and agents that treat marketers more like creative directors and give them a toolkit to amplify their skillset instead of replacing them.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@jmoserr So, what is it missing?

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@rayansadri I think it’s better to just run skills and agents yourselves that have context about your brand etc.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@askOkara So what’s the difference between using your own agents and skills?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Rubio didn’t provide evidence why the corrupt and failing regime of a pro-Kremlin autocrat in Hungary is essential to US interests. However, Orban's value to Russia is very clear and he works hard for that money and aid. US interests are Trump‘s interests are Putin‘s interests.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I’d say unbelievable, but I haven’t been in a coma for the past 10 years. Whenever there’s a crisis, Trump calls Putin and comes out reciting the Kremlin line and singing Putin's praises. Trump is Putin's creature and the GOP is complicit.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Zelensky highlighting the moral and strategic poverty of the USA under Trump. In the last year Trump has ended all military aid for Ukraine, has undermined Ukrainian air defense, has tried to bully Ukraine in handing over territory, and has rolled out the red carpet for Putin.

And now the USA is desperate for Ukrainian help because the Trump administration is incompetent in defense matters and Ukraine knows what it is doing.

Any chance Trump has the decency to say thanks?

[Willem @Beeringsb]

This just looks bad.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Incredibly disturbing

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@DeanFiacco Why exactly? It's a list of tools.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@pf_teacher @LaurensEurope Treffend punt. Alleen bestaat volledig objectief nieuws helaas niet. Niet "geloven" in klimaatverandering is bewuste domheid. Waar we behoefte aan hebben is media die kritisch durven zijn. Fact checken. Ipv politici fake news laten uitkramen.

[Laurens @LaurensEurope]

Sterk optreden van Sander gisteren bij #Eva. Je kan hem een elitaire lul vinden, maar in alles wat hij hier zegt heeft hij natuurlijk volkomen gelijk, en aan het eind zet hij Eva nog even mooi schaakmat.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

@paulhuizer @huibmodderkolk Niet waar. De algoritmes zijn gedeeltelijk open source.

[Willem @Beeringsb]

It’s ridiculous that newspapers endorse candidates. Press should be critical of all equally.

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NEWS: More than 200,000 subscribers have canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post after the revelation that owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of VP Harris.
That's about 8 percent of WaPo's subscriber base - a staggering sum
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