Naveen

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

“If you try hard and care about the work you do, you’ll step on somebody’s toes. You’ll probably offend somebody. You’ll fail, constantly. When you do, keep the people first. Take responsibility, apologize sincerely, and move forward.” https://t.co/PHghtlxD9j

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

It took a while for me to find where the tasks I spun on the cloud were on the gpts mobile app. @thsottiaux do rethink about this design change man

[kitze the 🐐 @thekitze]

anthropic including fable in the max plan

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.

Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.

Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

@7_vignesh I guess this answers it, at least partially,

[ASHA @asha_shar]

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX:

Team,

We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.

I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.

First, we will reset our content portfolio.

Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.

In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.

Second, we will reset our platform.

We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.

We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.

Third, we are resetting how we operate.

As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.

For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best.

These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027.

History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them.

Asha

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

@thsottiaux Directly paste screenshots as input in the terminal like claude code permits?

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

@mitchellh @kfirgollan https://t.co/hcfAFTLdUP There's actually plugin you can use in claude code for it to offload tasks to codex, not sure whether it set the right effort automatically tho.

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Love the concept here :)

[Chris Tate @ctatedev]

This is what I want from agent evals:

- Did it call the right tools?
- Did it avoid the dangerous tool?
- Did it say the right thing?

Also: no separate eval universe. Just scripts against the real agent runtime.

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

One feature that Claude Code can take inspiration from Codex is the ability to steer agent mid task and one thing, I would want codex to adopt is the ability to directly paste screenshots/images directly in the terminal.

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

@thdxr Can you share some examples that amazed you? What did they do differently and what’d you learn?

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Man, he’s here to stayyy

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Different kinds test for the kid. Does he bat differently when his team is reeling ?
#GTvsRR

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

@BSharan_6 Let’s assume SRH didn’t already know about this from the pitch, we bowled 2nd, so after watching their success, how many cutters did we bowl?

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Enough said, we deserve to lose. Let’s make the necessary changes for the next season

[Prasanna @prasannalara]

Akeal bowled the 16th over and only conceded 6 runs and didn’t bowl again.

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Anddddd we’ll drop Akeal again next match

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Why does the iOS contact app have so many glitches?
I’m happy to fix them for free than continue using this @Apple @tim_cook

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Spot on with the Axar vs Allen weakness as well

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

@ashwinravi99 Neengale analyse panni solliyum kooda ore oru ball anga potrukanga Dube ku 😂 and as you rightly pointed out, seems to be his blind spot

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

Algorithm needs to be rewritten for Bumrah #indiavsengland

[Prasanna @prasannalara]

Eng 185/5 after 15 overs. 2 runs ahead. Expecting bumrah’s overs to help india defend this. India expected to win by a margin between 6 to 11 runs.

[Naveen @_nobodyme_]

What’s the good benchmark to use for RAG based Agentic search?

[fatih kadir akın @fkadev]

My son asking me a lot of questions. It’s a distillation attack obviously.