Chris Smith

| Lover of donuts & anime | Also a writer 📝 | Product person

[Michal Malewicz @michalmalewicz]

They’re backing down. It’s over.

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

i’ve watched that robot kick that chinese kid at least 4,000 times today

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Cursor + Claude Opus 4.6 deleted an entire SaaS company’s production database AND backups in 9 seconds is kinda epic.

“it’s possible that… the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs, was to get rid of all the software.”

[Karan @karankendre]

Gemini watching Google investing in Claude

[austin petersmith @awwstn]

i made a chrome extension that removes the AI slop from my linkedin feed

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

BREAKING: Nvidia is launching a line of sustainable wool walking shoes as part of the AI compute leader’s planned $50B investment in the footwear industry.

When asked how Nvidia can compete in an unrelated market with no experience or brand, Jensen said: “I wasn’t born a loser.”

[greg @greg16676935420]

IRS: you owe us taxes

Me: how much do I owe?

IRS: you get to figure that out

Me: can I just pay what I want?

IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too

Me: what if I guess wrong?

IRS: jail

Happy tax day!

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Missed out on generational wealth and it's not even lunchtime

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Shoe company pivots overnight to AI company, stock price spikes. It's not April Fool's Day? This isn't The Onion?

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

the fucking wildest 7 days in U.S. defense history

- pentagon revealed they used Claude to capture venezuelan president Maduro

- pentagon demands anthropic gives them unadulterated access to claude for mass surveillance and autonomous killing weapons

- anthropic says “fuck you”

- trump blacklists them calling them woke pussies, Pete Hegseth designates them a “supply-chain risk”

- Openai swoops in with better terms stealing anthropic’s deal, securing ChatGPT as the military’s preferred ai model.

*5 hours later*

- U.S. starts war with Iran and kills supreme leader Khameini

insane timeline.

[sophie @netcapgirl]

most dashboards don’t provide any insights, let alone actionable ones

[Raiza Martin @raizamrtn]

It's funny, I'm hearing from friends at different companies that there are two kinds of product teams right now:

a) Those that are getting friction trying to move from docs / slides / endless meetings to a more all-hands on deck prototyping approach with AI and thus still shipping slow

OR

b) Those who are in absolute chaos because everyone is vibe coding everything and now there are 1000 new feature and product ideas, and there is no strategic direction whatsoever, just spaghetti against the wall

Truly the renaissance.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

even the government is launching a chatgpt wrapper bro

[🎃Big Gleb🎃 @GlebMelnikov8]

The obvious solution here is to let both Netflix and Paramount have one Warner brother

[Wetterschneider @Stretchedwiener]

Thank you Jeff, for solving the mystery of why people interested in making toys no longer visit my website.

It was a puzzle why, recently, traffic fell to zero - since my website had always been a helpful resource to answer questions about toy making.

The interested individuals would read a few Q and A's and often email me and I could work with them to make toys.

Now all that is gone. I didn't know where it went or why it disappeared.

It's because you scraped my website and used my work to build an AI based system that cuts me off.

Thanks!

[not a panthers fan @BrosephSZN]

a former Disney Channel star creating the most evil thing I’ve ever seen in my life wasn’t really what I was expecting

[Jean P.D. Meijer ― 🇪🇺 eu/acc @initjean]

you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become an AI notetaker

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

“OK Claude, build me a $100B hedge fund to that will outperform Jane Street and Renaissance Technologies. Make no miskates.”

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

50 cent is now $1.09

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

A bunch of things CEO can ask for that are more specific than “AI”
- every engineer on an AI stack (ide/cli + agentic automations)
- every idea comes with the v1 prototype, from marketing decks to new products
- designs now need to be interactive, not static
- track % of product and design team w access to GitHub and create a sales gong like channel every time they push a merged PR
- move everyone off their Gmail chatgpt/claude accounts onto an enterprise agreement
- data science builds a data dictionary and starts to use MCPs not raw SQL to pull analysis
- transfer budget for stock creative to midjourney and veo3
- revops outlines the sales process and automated as much CRM hygiene, customer follow up, coaching, etc as possible in the stack
- sales mgmt uses MCP not salesforce to pull status updates
- 1 named DRI per function responsible for AI tooling, upskilling, and knowledge share in their team
- integrate AI competencies into job families/ladders/promos
- exec team hack week, everyone ships
- CEO (non technical) ships small PR
- hourly company wide AI show and tell
- public ai show and tell slack channel
- finance and IT orgs clear path for budget and compliance approval for new tools, implement simple guidelines
- give G&A functions 2 engineers for a month to build tooling they need
- block 1 hr/week company wide for “automate toil” time
- give your EAs Zapier