Nabeel Hyatt

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

I love this so much.

[shre @theshre]

Every so often something on the internet makes me think 1) I wish there was more of this and 2) how can I help in any small way?

GO EAST spoke to me straight away. Writers on a train from SF, thinking about what tech progress should be in service of. The kind of creative format I don’t come across as much as I’d like... even better when @JoBarrow felt the same!

Grateful to @majamediaco and team for turning an X post into reality and letting @meetgranola play a small part. Can’t wait to see what the fellows write on the way to Chicago! 🚂

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@jtaby Yeah exactly.

And ideally it's not just spread labor. Ideally I just trust Darkroom to come up with a better solution than the next guy. (which i do!)

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

I like the framing that vibe coding an app is about as cheap as getting a free puppy.

I don't want to build my own coding harness because maintaining it at the edge of capability is more than a full time job. I want to "hire" great people to do that.

This is what software is going to feel like ironically. You still pay monthly, but for the great updates. And for stuff that doesn't change much static (a personal todo app, etc) no reason not to build your own and very little value in paying others.

In the end it feels a lot more like sports than locked in network effects. You go with the software team at the top of their game - and "hire" another one if they slip.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@rebeccakaden @usv Congrats. Soft reboot for a new era with some of the best to do it.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@alexia Omfest was really overwhelming to me, obviously because of Om's passing, but it felt like something else as well that was the echos of something larger. I think you captured that feeling, thanks Alexia.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

one line of thinking:
first order implication is that it's harder for a startups to gain traction as the CEO/CTO of the adopting companies increasingly go to an LLM to get advice.

second order is that fellow founders who ignore the LLMs advice have an edge in adopting new things to get ahead. knowing when to ignore advice is perennially valuable.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

I've found Claude and Chatgpt are knee-jerk skeptical of new products, I've done this hundreds of times now as I love trying new things.

"Hey should I use this new startup doing this cool thing that seems perfect for us"

Almost always comes back with "well, xyz incumbent handles most of that anyway, and we can just build the rest even more specific to you, and you haven't thought about x and y" or some version.

The secondary effects on the startup industry as people outsource their brainstorming to AIs is interesting.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

That's likely true, to a point.

For example even comparing databases where I happen to know a startup offers a key feature that supabase doesn't, which is important for our project, both llms will make the case that supabase is standard and here's some specific other thing I probably didn't take into account.

It does feel more kneejerk or conservative tendancy for software adoption than just lack of information on the startup.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@gaganbiyani east bay ftw. it helps when your neighbors just dont care what you do during the day job.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@zmwang @kimmaicutler @andrewmason @johnboiles @sarahrich Come on by. You would likely enjoy the silly amount of joyful little details. Thursday trick-taking might also be a nice entry, where a bunch of folks play a variety of card games from the stuff you know to the esoteric.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@kimmaicutler @andrewmason @johnboiles @sarahrich Indeed, be inspired and join us. You should start something too!

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@clairevo @BerkeleyTTL @andrewmason @tabletopgrl you clocked it early :)

https://t.co/dHhPjtvnIs

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

Episode 16 of How I AI is all about AI IRL.

@andrewmason and @nabeel teamed up to open a physical board-game social club in Berkeley, with AI as their business partner.

In this ep, they show us:

💼 how @claudeai wrote their business plan, financial model, and did interior design.
🗂️ the AI “Dewey Decimal” system they built to categorize hundreds of games
💁🏻‍♀️ the @n8n_io concierge that matches players and coordinates game nights via text

If you’re like me and love an AI powered side hustle, this ep is for you.

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[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

Hey, so this Saturday you can come to the Grand Opening party for Tabletop Library in Berkeley all day and night. It'll be worth the drive over, you know, if you want.

@BerkeleyTTL is a side quest I've been on with @andrewmason, @tabletopgrl & david c to make a whimsical place that gets us off our phones, playing with each other, and holds board gaming up for the awesomeness that it has become recently. It's been a labor of love where we've also built a dewey decimal system for games, a board game recommender service, used a card catalog from UC Berkeley as the front desk, and a dozen other little details I'd love to show you.

https://t.co/LrVWzic42M

And after the visit you can go less than a block to the comic shop (escapist) and sci-fi bookstore (dark carnival) in what must now be the nerdiest single block anywhere.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@preetnation @BerkeleyTTL @andrewmason @tabletopgrl thats exactly where it is. swing on by.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@startingfromnix found this searching for other stuff - how did this go?

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@sachinag @BerkeleyTTL @andrewmason @tabletopgrl Sounds like a good side quest Sachin. I've learned a little along the way.

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@harris thx for the profile shot from when it was under construction

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@joewadcan @BerkeleyTTL @andrewmason @tabletopgrl it really is

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@BerkeleyTTL @andrewmason @tabletopgrl also. three cheers for side quests.

here's another: i wrote on why we made a dewey decimal system for board games so we could optimize for in person browsing

https://t.co/Sgtb48XeFb

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

@chrismichel @om Well said. He noticed people, and he noticed when the people put themselves into their work.