Merci Grace

Forever startup kid.✌️ Former founder @panobihq, Head of Growth @slackhq, and VC @lightspeedvp.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

I’m not saying Graham Platner should or shouldn’t be a candidate for a Senate seat, but I am saying that the media’s treatment of Platner as compared to its treatment of Ken Paxton is the same as the media’s treatment of Joe Biden as compared to its treatment of Donald Trump. The media bolsters the MAGA narrative that there’s never a decent Democrat nor an indecent MAGA Republican.

[Tasklet @TaskletAI]

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[Reed Schwartz @reedschwartzsf]

The map for Scott Wiener last night doesn't really track prog vs. mod, it tracks YIMBY vs. NIMBY. The bulk of precincts that went for Chan were conservative, high-homeownership, low-density areas on the West Side.

[Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich @yanda]

The best AI workflows do not remove judgment.

They put more of your judgment on the screen where you can inspect it.

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

me: how was school today

6yo niece: i already told everyone. i'm tired of these conversations. how was school how was school

[Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler]

Guess who fixed the loophole?

[Merci Grace @merci]

The irreplaceable prairies of Texas. When something doesn’t seem like a one-time consumable, but is.

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

The golden years of AirBNB were a temporary arbitrage on depreciation.

There was a universe of beautiful well-maintained properties and hosts that had not been worn down by short term guests.

And the AirBNB hosts didn’t properly estimate the cost of depreciation to maintain that standard, so costs were irrationally low

That era fundamentally cant return, it was a temporary arbitrage opportunity

There was once a supply of fairly pristine unused space and now there’s not

If a space does manage to hit the 2014 standard, it must charge a lot more to fight depreciation

And at that point a hotel is generally better

[Merci Grace @merci]

@esthercrawford Yesss back in your element. 🥰

[Merci Grace @merci]

Why is the tone that both ChatGPT and Claude use sooo annoying? It’s like having a punchable face.

[Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich @yanda]

Some inward-focused awareness content for y'all: https://t.co/epjzEwVCeb 🥰

[Merci Grace @merci]

@seanbonner Remember when the internet was weird and fun? ☹️

[Merci Grace @merci]

Sat down at Bluebottle, immediately heard “… our thought partners drive engagement with the ecosystem…”

[Merci Grace @merci]

Damn the Claude product is so good. I just got the prompt to allow Memory and the simple delivery of the editable summary is just, very good. Good job folks.

[Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich @yanda]

In 2021 I promised @l2k I'd work on whatever kept him up at night at @wandb.

A few months later he said that thing was "sales."

I'd never carried a quota in my life. Here's what happened next 🧵

[Merci Grace @merci]

@nabeel @kevintwohy Here's what I eventually got that I'm quite happy with. I did broad exploration with Midjourney and then shaped it with ChatGPT into both Default and Dark Mode. It's not pixel perfect but w/e. It'll be the first of my vibe apps to make it to the App Store, it's in review now.

[Merci Grace @merci]

I've spent hours and probably $50 trying to coax three different image generators to make a simple but specific app icon. I'm about to hire a human being, this this ridiculous. Here's an example from Midjourney. 🙃

[Merci Grace @merci]

@kevintwohy @nabeel Yeah, it's totally magical if you have a general wish for an image; it's still clumsy if you know what you want at a high degree of granularity/taste. It'll get there, no doubt.

[Merci Grace @merci]

@awwstn @nabeel @garrytan This chart and its underlying data raise more questions than are answered by the editorial here, though that ChatGPT is stickier than the others is probably correct. Whether these are faithful J curves and for which defs of users across 4 diff apps, less than clear.

[Merci Grace @merci]

@nabeel Also, good luck getting it to remove the rounded corners and white border. This is why you can't tell any of the models that it's an app icon; the platform requires an edge bleed 1024x1024 image and if you have a border/rounded corners already it looks bad.

[Merci Grace @merci]

@nabeel A lot better! It sort of conforms to the form, but it’s not actually ✨good✨ enough to use. In my experience once I get something that adheres to the form, any further requests about style then obliterate the form.

[Merci Grace @merci]

@faraz_r_khan Wild how hard it is to get a specific perspective and item set.