Conor Murphy

Product & startups at pay coffee for PM/data hot takes.

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

thrilled to announce we have built the “trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine” from the classic sci-fi horror novel “don’t build the trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine”

[Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepall]

Really nice report. Follow up: why has the fall in AI prices been so fast?

When you plot the price decline against cumulative R&D investment rather than time, you get the elasticity of price declines to R&D investment. By this margin, AI is not unusual – its price elasticity to R&D investment is squarely in the middle of Epoch's considered technologies.

So the AI price fall is historically unprecedented because we've dumped money into AI R&D at a historically unprecedented rate – and that R&D has paid off at a very average rate.

[Acyn @Acyn]

FOX: You say you're a capitalist, what do you mean?

El-Sayed: Capitalism is the process by which we enable supply and demand to allocate capital so that it's the most productive in an economy. We are not in a situation where we have capitalism, we have corporatism.

[Kevin Bluett @kevinbluett]

I spent years building CRM software and became certain of one thing: the problem with CRM was never the features. It was the foundation. Today we launch Ahoy to fix that.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Anyone who thought creating the largest internal security force in the country, answering only to the president, was for anything else hasn’t been paying attention.

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

Landlords and private equity firms mysteriously decide to be less greedy in the cities where developers can build more homes easily

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

So here would be an amazing data story in housing. It's looking quite possible in the data so far that Dublin will complete more homes than London in 2025. Not per capita. Absolute number of new homes completed. Higher in Dublin than London.

[Bill Badbody @Bill_Badbody]

Just putting it out there.

[Conor Murphy @aguycalledconor]

@SawyerMerritt He has 3 very true outs here.

Deliver means to customers (not 1 hand crafted one)
30k means 30k to a customer
And cybercab means legally self driving 100% of the time.

I'm with Brownlee on this, minus the head shaving.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It's genuinely incredible how sticky the water/data center lie is.

This is a relatively major publication just outright lying. The story itself *does not match the headline*. And yet they go with the lie anyways.

[Michael Pidgeon @Pidge]

Last night in Dublin City Council we started the process of zoning more land for housing.

The crazy thing: bad national policy means that there is an artificial max limit on how much land we can zone for housing.

If we tried to zone much more, we'd be legally prevented. Mad.

[Edmund Heaphy @edmundheaphy]

NEW: The EU is set to consider giving its backing to individual member states who wish to block imports from illegal Israeli settlements at a national level @rtenews

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

The funniest possible outcome is definitely Trump deporting him.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

abundance is about turning the Democratic Party back into the New Deal party that builds, not the Naderite New Left party that sues.

[vas @vasuman]

Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call.

25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files.

It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti.

None of it worked.
But boy was it beautiful.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"They should be ashamed of their silence." This is not a bunch of student protestors. This is the editorial board of the Financial Times.

[Conor Murphy @aguycalledconor]

@FlHeart @UKPolicyButcher @fakechuck @ArmandDoma @olzhu When you dump it all in one area (which most currently do to be clear) it's a problem. You would need to literally drop the level of the ocean significantly for salt concentration to be a problem generally. We need to scatter it.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

desalination, vertical farming, and yes, even sustainable jet fuel are all technologies that literally exist *today*, the constraint is that they are extremely energy intensive, and the premise of the book is that we need to build an abundant supply of clean energy

[Alex Rampell @arampell]

When I spend time with people outside of tech, I am convinced AI is UNDERhyped

Show DeepResearch to a Professor
Show an AI Nurse to an understaffed hospital administrator
An AI reservations agent to an understaffed call center

Most people have NO IDEA…and are blown away

[Seán Keyes @Keyes]

In the rental market, in particular, things can turn quite quickly!