Allie Harris

Founder @ stealth | Rebuilding the office suite | prev. IB, S&T, Princeton

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

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[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

I still don’t find it substantially better than codex… it just finally caught up a bit. Anthropic is clearly way better at fear mongering than OpenAI.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

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[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@larsencc This really depends on how much cash you are getting / what you want to do in the future and how useful the experience is to get where you want to go. If it’s good cash, excellent experience and you love the mission/product - the risk/reward is solid.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@andrewqu It’s that final pre-IPO revenue push. They asked that guy who ran up the $500m bill what he was up to and they made it the standard recommendation

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

Agree with this. I never understood why teams hand over their entire API to the foundation models to reason about. There goes your moat. Apps should want to own and optimize the AI interface to their app. Anthropic and OpenAI have zero incentive to optimize for token efficiency and output quality for your specific app.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

You should want to control and host your own memory

It’s the one thing that you should be able to take to any platform

Watch for this to be a defining battle in the new browser war: the AI harness wars of 2027

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

I’m all for working a lot in Startup land. But I don’t think people can exercise good judgement on 3-4 hours of sleep. In a world where the low level tasks are gone and judgement and creativity is the real edge - my team promotes taking better care of your mind and body than this.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

Increasingly, when I realize the writing is AI, I just stop.

If they didn’t their time to write it, why am I using mine to read it?

I would rather read your prompts in note form. I already know AI is good - I am interested in what people are actually contributing beyond it.

[David Wells @DavidWells]

The AI ponzi scheme goes like this:

Everyone is generating all these long ass docs and then passing them off for others to read

Then the person receiving is like, wtf this is way too long, and hands that into an AI to read and summarize

Then they are generating a long ass response back

and this cycle goes like that forever. and we call this work now 😅

The token lords watch this from their towers nodding and grinning.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@doodlestein Their tools need to be proprietary. If everyone is using the same models and harnesses there’s no competitive differentiation for their services.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@scottastevenson @tobi Yes - and the idea of putting the entire pension in something as volatile as equities just doesn’t fly.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@petergyang Is no one going to say that maybe this is correlated to the volume of slop code shipped?

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

The dynamics in today’s inference market will look bizarre in hindsight.

It’s as if oil producers decided to be the only car manufacturers and consumers are left wondering why the fuel efficiency sucks.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@ivanburazin We all need to start talking in revenue net of inference - VCs need to lead in enforcing this so the market corrects sooner rather than later. It’s the only logical way to value the app layer.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@pxue Not sure I love this “you’re optimizing for American outcomes” narrative. Whats an “American outcome”… a successful tech company that exits? Why is that an American outcome - look at Loveable, ElevenLabs, Revolut. This isn’t bullish, this sounds like lowering the bar for Canada.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@hypersoren Couldn’t agree more. Go build to empower people to do awesome things. It’s a shame that the messaging has gotten so warped in order for the labs to collect LP $$. I think the market for tokens is massive. I think we will all have jobs. I don’t think those things conflict at all.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

The belief that good designers are going to lean on AI generation for creative work continues to confuse me.

We all understand that AI output is a kind of average result my definition right? What skilled artist is striving for average?

Im going to buy some more Figma stock

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[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

What we’ve seen in software engineering doesn’t apply the same way in knowledge work - you can write slop code and if it “works” no one using the app will know. You can fix it later. But when you build a slop pitch deck or do slop research, everyone is reading it.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Use of AI in the office is reportedly creating a flood of “workslop” that takes longer to fix than do from scratch.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@RaquelDancho Call me crazy but maybe the government shouldn’t be writing checks to AI startups at all? Not cohere’s fault for taking what’s on the table.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@GergelyOrosz I imagine significant latency improvements can solve some of this. I find there’s a lot of - give a prompt and wait - and that kills the flow state.

[Allie Harris @_AllieHarris]

@ivanburazin I agree. But I still believe that computer use is a 3-5 year bet and native solutions where software is rebuilt around agents is the long term bet. Industry is slow to change and computer use allows you to meet enterprise where they are.