Nate Levin

+ Bassist + Multi-Instrumentalist + Livetronica Looping Artist

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

12 years of product leadership (Auto-Tune, IMVU, Presto). Now I build AI agent systems daily: agentic dev loops, a RAG app in the App Store, automations that run themselves. Taking a few consulting slots: I make companies AI-native. Working systems, not decks. DMs open.

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

I’m also building an agentic DAW for live loopers... designed to get you from zero to flow.state in the same amount of time it takes to make your Canva flyer for your next show. Comment if you want to join the alpha.

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

I made a free plugin you can download here: https://t.co/MQ0bAwkm5E

Tidepool. A granular texture engine. The feel of a boutique granular micro-looper pedal, rebuilt native for the stage. Drop it on a return, hold a chord, and let the tide roll in.

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

@karpathy My focus has been on capture, embeddings, lifecycle, cross-AI tracking

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

@karpathy I’m working on something similar. Capture layer is super fast with iOS shortcut to MCP. https://t.co/xcYWOJkAbm

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Jensen Huang just called out every CEO who’s been firing people “because of AI.”

Jim Cramer asked him why companies are laying people off if AI is supposed to make everyone MORE productive.

Jensen's answer:

"For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. They have no reason to imagine greater than they are. When they have more capability, they don't do more."

Read that again.

The man who built the most important tech company on Earth just told you that if your CEO is using AI to cut headcount, it means one thing:

They have no imagination.

They have no vision for what comes next.

They got handed the most powerful tool in human history and their FIRST instinct was to fire people.

This is the CEO of NVIDIA. The company whose chips power every AI system on the planet.

If anyone on Earth has the right to say "AI replaces workers," it's Jensen Huang.

And he said the OPPOSITE.

He said every carpenter could become an architect. Every plumber could become an architect. AI elevates capability. It doesn't eliminate it.

But here's where it gets really interesting...

During the same interview, Jensen revealed something nobody's talking about:

He said AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic are seeing their revenues increase by one to two billion dollars a WEEK. And he wishes these companies were public so the world could see what he sees.

One to two billion per week.

That's a $50 to $100 BILLION annualized run rate.

For companies that most people think are burning cash and making nothing.

The entire Wall Street narrative that "AI companies aren't profitable" might be completely wrong.

Jensen sees their numbers. He sees their compute orders. He sees their growth. And he's saying the revenue is real.

So if the money IS real, why are other companies firing people?

Because they're not building AI products. They're not creating new revenue streams. They're not using AI to expand into new markets.

They're using AI as an EXCUSE to cut costs because they ran out of ideas 3 years ago and need something to tell the board.

Jensen's company added $500 billion in new orders in 5 months. He expects $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2027 from just two product lines.

That number doesn't include the new chips, systems, or partnerships announced this week.

And he's not cutting people. He's hiring.

Because when you have imagination, more capability means MORE opportunity. Not less headcount.

Meanwhile Salesforce cut thousands. Meta cut thousands. Amazon cut thousands. All blaming "AI efficiency."

Jensen's response: You're out of imagination.

He also said something that stuck with me.

Cramer asked if he ever thought he'd build a $10 to $20 trillion company while waiting tables at Denny's.

His answer: "I was just trying to make it through the shift."

Biggest tip he ever got? Two, three dollars.

Now he's building tech that increased computing demand by one million times in two years.

He announced OpenClaw, which he says is as big as ChatGPT.

And he's got 21 months of new business that isn't even counted in the trillion dollar figure yet.

When asked how long he plans to keep working?

"I'm hoping to die on the job. And I'm not hoping to die anytime soon."

This is a man who believes every single thing he's building.

And his message to every CEO using AI to justify layoffs is simple...

You're not innovating. You're surrendering.

The technology wasn't built to shrink companies.

It was built to make them limitless.

If your leadership can't see that, the problem isn't AI.

It's THEM.

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

I kept doing all this prep for important calls and forgetting half of it by the time I sat down. So I built WalkThru. Paste your notes, pick the conversation type, get an audio briefing you can absorb on a walk.

Looking for testers. Reply or DM for a link.

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

using claude sonnet 4.6 to fix a typo

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

Pokemon In Real Life | NatGeo: The First Rivalry | Charizard vs. Blastoi... https://t.co/6XV1NQFDIT via @YouTube

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

On stage, you don’t force it. You read the room.
In product, the metrics are the room.

You’re not there to show how good you are.
You’re there to make something that works for the moment

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

Great musicians often make great product managers.

Improvisation loop:
• Establish motif
• Introduce variation
• Listen to the room
• Adjust in real time
• Resolve tension

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

Product loop:
• Define core value
• Ship MVP
• Watch behavior
• Iterate on signal
• Reinforce what resonates

Both require:
• Pattern recognition
• Timing
• Taste
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Knowing when not to play

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

I’ve been to 20 of these cities

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of cities photographed from above

1. Venice, Italy 🇮🇹

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

@sheherenow_ It’s pretty great here

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

@nlevin Our mother still won 😉😉

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

@sheherenow_ lol that already happened with the wax cylinder and the radio

[Nate Levin @NateLevinMusic]

@nlevin Bali!

[Mark Suster @msuster]

I wish there was more of this. It needs to be said