Evan Armstrong

Beauty, truth, and tech.

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

In light of some recent headlines, resurfacing this. Jensen was one of the names frequently mentioned!

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

I've been looking for an example of this for a year and I'm pretty sure they don't exist:

- Worth 1B+
- Married to original spouse
- Outstanding moral virtue
- Kids are all relatively successful
- Kids have a good relationship with parents

Any idea? cc @FoundersPodcast

[nil @dhvanil]

i went to bed and asked claude to paint an autumn tree overnight.

at around 4am, it realised that it didn't have some shades -- so it stopped and titrated its own paint: diluting red, sienna and madder step by step on a second palette, then measuring each pocket from a photo.

woke up to this beautiful watercolor painting. 303 brush marks, took about 4.5 hours 🍂 (still working on the speed)

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Likely the best buyer out of the bidders, but I think I could make this a billion dollar company. @ThriveCapital call me.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

scoop: the new york times co is in advanced talks to purchase Letterboxd for ~$330 million. w/ @LaurenSHirsch
https://t.co/gpwTGMW9K1

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

@jgreze https://t.co/tmhOqyj48K

First essay I ever published when I went independent was on this exact topic!

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

@danshipper Annie dillard gang rise up

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Exactly correct take from Ashley. Lab leadership’s (cough, greg, cough) short sighted, full-throated backing of the right wing apparatus means the field is wide open to founders who embrace the cause of progress& abundance through technology. Bring back 2010 tech hopecore!!

[Ashley Mayer @ashleymayer]

I published this in March and think it’s even more true today: the most visible leaders in tech are poorly positioned to reset tech’s reputation beyond our industry. This is a *huge* opportunity for emerging talent without all that baggage. I can’t wait to see who rises to the occasion (and would love to help).

[Hurley @Johnsjawn]

https://t.co/dl4qDrglAd

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

This paper is nutty—if it holds up the world looks very weird very fast

[Rikiya Takehi @rikiyatakehi]

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.

We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: https://t.co/bOWCcFhCVq

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

@liangsays @being_on_line @MTSlive very pumped for this! go @being_on_line

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Boston fall is unbeatable.

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Scale is all you need—big acquisition going on!

[The Dashboard | DoorDash @TheDashboard]

Today we’re announcing @DoorDash’s intent to acquire @Instacart.

Both DoorDash and Instacart share a mission to help local businesses succeed. Together, we could give grocers and retailers of every size the best of both in one service: DoorDash's delivery network and Instacart’s grocery and fulfillment technology, along with the advertising and AI tools each company has built.

Until closing, DoorDash and Instacart will keep operating as separate, independent companies.

Find out on how we’re helping Main Street compete and keeping more dollars local: https://t.co/hjCDE6fLCC

For important additional information, read more here: https://t.co/OhGX576XtD

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Asking Claude the forbidden questions

[Padam @Padamn__]

the moat is that i got the dawg in me

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

This is nutty to see my article just made into a video in a one shot

[Champ 🤟🏻 @doyouknowchamp]

@danshipper a video for every article. (zero-shot w/ @MadeWithCapsule)

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

as writer, you should occasionally publish with an old flame. Fun to be back in @every for an analysis of the Anthropic S1!

[Every 📧 @every]

Over 80% of @AnthropicAI’s Q3 revenue came from models released in the previous six months.

A $2 trillion valuation means betting it can keep making the next hit. And be worth about the GDP of Spain at the same time.

@itsurboyevan breaks down the business behind the eye-popping numbers:
https://t.co/oa05dePbdO

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

@katienotopoulos It was fascinating what sections they used it for! https://t.co/HYIHLFNQ3X

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

you'll never believe what section Anthropic used AI to write (checked via @pangram)

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

First day back from pat leave and I'm still the fastest take gun in the west. Like riding a bike baby. New post on the blog!

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Two key charts to think about Anthropic:

they have a CRAZY power law for their customers. Potentially over 30 that are paying 100M plus.

they have the best NRR in the history of public tech companies at 900%

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

you'll never believe what section Anthropic used AI to write (checked via @pangram)

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

@matt_slotnick Correct! The smarter the model is, the dumber the prompter can be, and still get a good result