Altaf

CPTO at Pelago (Singapore Airlines Venture) / Previously—product at Travelstop (acq. by Wego), Vrbo (acq. by Expedia), Travelmob (acq. by HomeAway), and Yahoo!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Usage limits are up, effective today we're:

1) Doubling Claude Code's 5-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans

2) Removing peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans

3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink on Singapore Airlines! 🇸🇬

[Altaf @altf]

@ankurnagpal @StashAway_com for Singapore?

[Altaf @altf]

"Use AI to ship faster" is the wrong goal.

It treats AI as a productivity hack bolted onto how we already work. The bigger opportunity is rebuilding how we work in the first place.

That's the bet behind Pelago Labs — a new team with one charter: make Pelago an AI-first company, end to end. Not faster humans. Augmented humans, working alongside agents that own real workflows.

It comes down to three things:
→ Tools designed for humans AND agents, not just humans
→ Workflows where the next step is taken, not waited on
→ Agents that talk to each other, not just to us

Our first product is live and open source: SlackHive. Multi-agent collaboration inside Slack — agents @-mention each other, hand off work, and ship.

The screenshot below is a real flow. PM asks why checkout conversion dropped. A data agent pulls metrics. An engineer agent finds a broken Apple Pay deploy and files the fix. 4 minutes, zero human replies.

→ GitHub: https://t.co/4yCvxGEUvm
→ Docs: https://t.co/DxEiEGGK5P

#AIFirst #PelagoLabs #OpenSource #FutureOfWork @PelagoLabs_ @aman_sri17 @1kush1

[Altaf @altf]

@AravSrinivas new computer whois

[Altaf @altf]

smaller blocks. lego -> nanoblock

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Altaf @altf]

Claude Code is addictive.

✳ Manifesting… (1m 38s · ↑ 5.9k tokens · thinking)

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

@elonmusk Update:

[Altaf @altf]

@hemeon agree! first thing i do on a new mac

[Altaf @altf]

@tobi This is super cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Altaf @altf]

@RGVzoomin May you create the biggest blockbuster of the century.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

In case you ever wondered, New Years Day on the Gregorian Calendar is cosmically arbitrary, carrying no Astronomical significance whatsoever.

Meanwhile, Chinese New Year, Lent, Easter, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Saturnalia, Christmas, & Ramadan, all index to Astronomical events.

[Gemini @Gemini]

Feeling generous to start the new year, so we loaded up a fresh wallet and decided to give it away.

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✅ Winner selected January 2

[sysls @systematicls]

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[Altaf @altf]

@StephenKing 😂

[Altaf @altf]

"Groq will continue to operate as an independent company with Simon Edwards stepping into the role of Chief Executive Officer."

https://t.co/RqE0RCeBtn

[Altaf @altf]

@pipelineabuser I have two of these

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@GlobalWatchClub 💯

[Altaf @altf]

@Ryanair lack of