Charlie Simpson

Husband + dad of three. Co-founder @0xProofOfWork

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

@yonajune Hey Albert, this is what we do at Proof of Work - a brand in two weeks then the marketing site in four, with scope and price fixed before we start. Dropped you a DM

[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

A financial system that works.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

@alex_krasikau @paper @agusegui @uuuuuulala Congratulations @alex_krasikau and @stephenhaney 💪

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

😂

[Alex Robinson @Robinson_IP]

@granddesigns Bryony is a part-time freelance almond milker. Matt is a copywriter for a not-for-profit ukulele collective. Their budget is £24million

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

@MurdoinkGS Scandal!

https://t.co/xGP7xwIYGO

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Apple really opened the iPhone Duo launch with our showreel and nobody's talking about it?? 😤

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Apple really opened the iPhone Duo launch with our showreel and nobody's talking about it?? 😤

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

🤦‍♂️

[Tommy Geoco 🇺🇸 @designertom]

New Instagram logo

[Tommy Geoco 🇺🇸 @designertom]

New Instagram logo

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

Nope. Doesn’t feel like this has come together. A load of good ideas but not cohesive

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

The new Instagram brand system

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

Working from home is walking downstairs to get another Diet Coke while my wife battles my unruly children.

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

This is cool but have you seen our new No10 North?

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

@stephenhaney @Accel @ICONIQCapital Huge congratulations @stephenhaney !

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

watching Anthropic extend Fable for 5 more days when you have already OBLITERATED your usage limits.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

New work just dropped

https://t.co/YgvgsAg1eM

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

@SensiblePGH Umm…https://t.co/AcKWr1MuEK

[a16z @a16z]

Against all odds.

Congrats @elonmusk and @SpaceX.

[Charlie Simpson @CharlieeSimpson]

In other words we’ve dropped enough bombshells recently - let’s delay the next one

[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.