Charlie Simpson

Husband + dad of three. Building clarity for complex ideas at @0xProofOfWork

[Timothy Wang @timwangyc]

Introducing Ponder: the agentic video editor.

It’s a new paradigm for filmmaking, where powerful creative agents and humans collaborate to tell world-class stories.

We're also announcing our $2.5M pre-seed, led by Liu Jiang from Sunflower (@seedtosunflower), with @Joshuabrowder and @MattHartman.

Joined by @levie (Box), @emerywells (Frame), @JaredLeto, @CommaCapital, the @nyuniversity venture fund, @cory, @darian314, @shiffman, and many more incredible founders, investors, and creators.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Let’s go!

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[signüll @signulll]

the craziest part now is that the modern computer probably has to be entirely reinvented, from scratch. pretty much like how jobs & co brought apple ii to market.

like not improved. not given a chatbot sidebar or something but really from the ground up like the iphone redefined what it meant to be a pocket computer.

the current paradigm for computers was built around a human staring at a screen, moving a cursor, opening apps, managing windows, naming files, remembering where things live, & manually translating intent into interface actions.

that made sense when the human was the runtime. but in an ai native world, it starts to look kinda ridiculous.

you can see this ridiculousness when you use computer use agents… they are useful sure, but they’re also obviously transitional. they’re teaching ai to operate machines designed for humans, which is clever, but also kind of absurd. it’s like making a robot hand so it can use a doorknob instead of asking why the door needs a knob at all. yes i know humans also need to use a door knob, but maybe in the future humans don’t need to use a computer, or at least what we think of a computer today at all.

this all leads to some interesting questions:

- what is a file when the system understands context?
- what is an app when intent can route itself?
- what is a desktop when work can be decomposed, executed, monitored, & summarized by agents?
- what is a browser when the agent can retrieve, compare, transact, & remember?
- what is an operating system when the primary user is no longer just a person, but a person plus a swarm of delegated intelligences? or no person at all.

the old computer assumed navigation.
the new computer has to assume a new kind of intention. the old computer organized information. the new computer has to try to organize agency.

we’re still in the hacky middle stage at the moment with sidebars, copilots, agents clicking through legacy ui, & automation layers sitting on top of 40 year old metaphors.

the new computer is likely one where memory, context, identity, permissions, tools, agents, & interfaces are native primitives. this means desktop, mobile, browser, apps, files, folders deserves another first principles look.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and thank you for believing in me to lead the company that has always put you at the center of our work. This is not goodbye. It’s a hello to John and I can’t wait for you to get to know him like I do! 🙏

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Looks terrible

[HeyGen @HeyGen]

We built our launch video in Claude Code using HyperFrames.

Now it's yours.

Open source, agent-native framework. HTML to MP4.

$ npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

RT + Comment "HyperFrames" to get the full source code of this launch video (must follow)

[The Boring Marketer @boringmarketer]

pro tip: if you type /models in claude code you won't see opus 4.7

do this directly /model claude-opus-4-7 ... it will say Opus 4

your welcome!

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

🤣

[Husk @huskirl]

Idk what to type here rn

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

@kodjima33 Thank you sir

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Great video.

[Nik Shevchenko @kodjima33]

Spent 4 months and built Omi for Desktop, your life architect

It sees your screen, hears your conversations and tells you what to do next

It’s like having a second brain that actually pays attention

Open source, local, link below

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

A real design shocker on the packaging for my sons Zurg toy from @Disney #LoremIpsum

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Hilarious and scary.

Hilarious: love this guys content he brilliantly demonstrates how dumb ChatGPT and more broadly ai can be.

Scary: this ai clearly isn’t rooted in truth seeking.

[𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗮— 𝗲/𝗮𝗰𝗰 @techwith_ram]

Sam says the issue was simple: the model didn’t have access to a timer tool. Fair.

But the real problem? It still answered anyway.

That’s the classic LLM move, no tools, no clue, but full confidence. Instead of saying “I can’t do that,” it just… vibes an answer into existence.

This is how we end up with AI that sounds like a genius but occasionally behaves like a very convincing bullsh*t artist😅

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

The new em dash.

[sam henri gold @samhenrigold]

i know what you are.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Before AI I had three unfinished projects. Now I have twelve. The tools got better. The discipline didn't.

[SEGA @SEGA]

We’re excited to announce that we’re making our SEGA logo 3% more blue.

We hope you enjoy this upgrade.

Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with the new look.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

The best brand work we've done this year wasn't a rebrand. It was helping a team say the same thing everywhere.

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

Claude is just like a person because it only works 8 hours a day.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Your roadmap isn't too long. Your positioning just isn't clear enough to know what to cut.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Before AI, the bottleneck was building. Now it's knowing what to build and who to build it for.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Asked Claude for a fun fact at 7am. Apparently we trust AI-generated faces more than real human faces. Not because they look better - because they look more "average" and our brains are wired to trust average. The AI accidentally hacked a cognitive bias older than cameras. Cheers for that.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

now that we all can build anything with ai

we're going to all have to figure out distribution

the wealthiest people will be marketers over the next 10 years