Vlad Georgescu

Recovering founder

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

16 years ago I waited in a long line outside the apple store to buy the first ipad. I was so excited to walk home with it!

The very next morning I dropped it on the bathroom floor and cracked the screen. And I don’t mean a tiny crack. It was completely wrecked. There was no apple care back then. I wasn’t earning that much. I was devastated.

I went back to the apple store to see if they can replace the screen and how much it would cost. I was afraid the only solution was to buy a new one.

“Hi how can I help you?”

“I’m a dumbass” and showed him the cracked screen.

“Oh man. Let me see what I can do.”

He took my cracked ipad somewhere in the back. About ten minutes later he came back. He was holding a box.

“Be more careful next time.”

He handed me a brand new ipad. For free. I couldn’t believe it. He didn’t have to do that. He could’ve just said “sorry nothing we can do” but instead he went and persuaded his boss to do a good deed for a complete stranger.

I don’t think stuff like this happens anymore. But 16 years ago, that interaction with an apple store employee left a profound mark on me.

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@benspringwater @krispuckett Weird! But yes I just dmed you. And thanks!

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@benspringwater @krispuckett I’d love one

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

"carslop" lmao yes (via @superbryntendo)

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

I'm in a robotaxi rn and it's driving like fable is talking

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@yescynfria This is super fun

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@jnnnthnn Ha i bought that scale ~12 years ago and it's still going!

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@jnnnthnn I only brewed it twice (gift from a friend who just got back from oslo), and yes it seems a bit finicky. What are you using to brew it? V60? I’ve been pretty happy with this deep&narrow brewer from Cafec lately, believe it’s called Flower Deep 27

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@jnnnthnn 🙈

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@jnnnthnn As someone who spends too much money on coffee beans…………. I agree

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@petekp yep, such a shame

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

I don't know what they did to Fable, but the way it responds is beyond annoying. Super convoluted sentences full of made-up metaphors. I have "use simplified technical english" in claude.md and it works for a bit but then reverts back to its strange language.

I cannot emphasize how much I dislike the way it talks.

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@lucianmarin Not sure

“Watermarking does not impact the quality of Claude’s output. To a reader, a watermarked response is indistinguishable from an unwatermarked one”

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

Bots be workin

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

Good news

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

claude always seems to be x-ing rather than y-ing

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

I think we’ll see large scale adoption of agents in the enterprise before we see large scale adoption with consumers

[Josh Miller @joshm]

Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.

These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.

Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.

Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.

Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).

Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.

Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

The official shoes of SF grind culture

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

Why is fable so enamored with "Let me check rather than guess"

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

@brian_lovin Yea

[Vlad Georgescu @vladgeorgescu]

Both the infrastructure and the workflows are early. Still being built and/or reinvented

[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

Everyone knows I'm super AI-pilled. But one trend I'm noticing as I talk to more and more companies: the personal productivity gains are not translating into organizational growth and efficiency as expected.

It's an odd dichotomy. Individuals are more productive. Engineers are writing an insane amount of code. But the gains aren't showing up in the numbers yet.

Not sure how universal this is.