Aaron Batalion

Past: GP @lightspeedvp. Founder/CTO @livingsocial.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

Me: former CTO.
My 14yo: using AI to build an app. He sees the code…

“Eww… who needs that. Where’s the app?”
🤔🫣🤨🤬

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

@RaminNasibov Nibbles. Written in QBasic.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

I’ve watched Sue and team focus on this mission for over a decade.

AI + Education isn’t default bad… it just requires innovation.

[Sue @suekhim]

AI is making kids dumber.

It should be making them geniuses.

Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

Chatham House Rules needs an upgrade if off-the-record conversations are being ingested into LLMs. No?

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

2020: PPT = slides
2026: PPT = profit/token

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

2 pizza teams are now a 6” sub.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

@david__booth My favorite: https://t.co/uddNclr9bZ Free for now.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

TIL open source AI projects are the new NFTs. Thanks Milla.

[Balaji @balajis]

It's a global energy crisis.
But India is far better positioned than it was in 2020.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

hey @googledrive Markdown files need more respect... just saying.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

@msg Ugh. Hope not. So who’s going to productize an at-home OpenClaw-esque hw device first?

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

Apple will launch a homeOS, new security devices, a beefed up AppleTV that runs their privacy focused version of OpenClaw, based on the new Gemini partnership and an all new Siri.

Take my $$.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

"How many tokens do you use per day?" is the new "How big is your team?"

Also? Still the wrong metric.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

@brunobowden Did your @openclaw auto-respond to my tweet? 🤣

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

We’re turning sand into the singularity.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

Humans were always the problem on every software team.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

When it does, expect the five stages of grief to play out very publicly.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

The tech industry, and later many others, is about to have a collective existential crisis.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

Millions of people spent decades building skills that AI is rapidly commoditizing. That realization hasn’t fully landed yet.

[Aaron Batalion @abatalion]

AI listening devices are coming… whether we like it or not. Audio first, video next.

Anyone working on a wearable jammer? A new protocol they all must implement?