Ari Nazir

now: Loops AI (@speedrun 006)
before: fintech, policy, neuroscience 〽️ #goblue

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

Be so good that the only criticisms against you and your work are ad-hominem.

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@Ike_Saul My guy, I'll take the other side of this bet 🤝

[Robert Parham @kn_owled_ge]

Teaching in the age of LLMs:

I failed 4 students, for the first time ever. I also gave more A+'s than ever before.

In previous years, students realized after the first or second HW that they weren't in Kansas anymore and needed to work hard.

No more. Just solve it with LLMs.

But then the midterm arrives, and they can answer 0 of 40 questions. Do they reform their ways? Nah, they just decide to "give up" on class, assuming they'll get a B, or a C, or whatever, because they submitted HW and got decent grades on those. And never before have they encountered a professor who will dare fail them.

The flip side is that the most "agentic" students now have the world's best tutor at their disposal. They deeply understand the material and aced my (intentionally very difficult) exams. As if we live in "The Diamond Age".

Inequality galore.

From my vantage point, "the permanent underclass" appears to be about agency, not assets.

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

BK embodies everything you want in an investor. Couldn't be more excited to see what he does next 👀

[Bryan Kim @kirbyman01]

PERSONAL UPDATE: After 5+ years, I am leaving @a16z to start a fund! This was the toughest career decision of my life. I learned from the best partners and was privileged to work with incredible founders. So why leave? It is simply time to build. More to come on this.

[raj @internetraj]

As a Michigan sports fan, I feel like I’m stumbling through a surreal fever dream. It’s as if the universe has been transformed into some sort of simulation designed to see how much pleasure one man can tolerate. It wasn’t enough to win two national titles in the two major sports in such short succession. Somehow the championships were won in a manner that exacted maximum rage from rival fanbases. It’s one thing to just win a vanilla championship that fades with time only to be one of many footnotes of a bygone era. It’s another to have your successes cemented in the heads of so many haters, whose anger only serves to reanimate the legacy over and over again. Gore Vidal once said “it’s not enough to win, others must lose” and my petty ass wishes we could turn that into a maize and blue banner to hang in the rafters. Hail hail to Michigan and also to the haters.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home.

They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@bc1pxxx On it 🫡

[Balaji @balajis]

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end.
It does it middle-to-middle.
The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

Using agentic metadata for lending is the next trillion dollar industry. Might take a while, but this is the future of lending.

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@garrytan check out https://t.co/eTqLejvi2U
not my product, just think it's awesome and has potential)

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

We are at the dawn of the age of the "idea guy."

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Beautiful design is now a commodity.

I've spent the last 24 hours with ChatGPT 4o images, and it's clear we've entered a new reality: "Execution is cheap, ideas are everything."

For decades, we were told the opposite. Everyone had ideas. Few could execute them well. The ability to turn a concept into reality separated the winners from the dreamers.

But in an AI world, it's completely flipped.

When anyone can execute at 90% perfection with the right prompts, the limiting factor becomes the quality of your ideas. The creative direction. The strategic insight. The unique perspective.

The most successful companies I'm seeing are shifting resources from production to ideation. Less time pushing pixels, more time exploring concepts.

They're running 20-30 creative directions where they used to do 2-3, because the cost of trying ideas has collapsed.

In a world where anyone can create a beautiful website, logo, or packaging, the winners are focusing on the things AI can't (yet) simulate:

I think it's authentic relationships, innovative products, and unique perspectives.

The real advantage is in knowing when to break the rules of good design in ways that resonate emotionally.

The human touch is becoming less about execution and more about strategic deviation from the optimized norm.

This is creating strange new dynamics in hiring too. When I started our design agency @meetLCA, we hired for world class technical skills - mastery of tools, execution ability.

But now we care more about hiring for conceptual ability and creative direction. People who consistently generate novel ideas rather than perfect executions. Obviously, top tech skills still matter, but way less.

As AI makes "good enough" design accessible to everyone, the market is splitting. At the low end, good enough is actually good enough.

But at the high end, there's a premium on the truly unexpected - the ideas an AI wouldn't generate because they break conventional patterns.

I think we're heading toward a bifurcated creative world: automated beauty for most purposes, with human creativity focused on creating the unexpected, the ideas and approaches an AI wouldn't think to try because they don't follow established patterns of "good design."
The challenge for most of us now isn't "how do we execute this idea?" but "which ideas are actually worth executing?"

Execution is cheap, ideas are everything.

Tremendous alpha in it.

You're an idea person now. We all are?

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@hoomanradfar Gotta disagree for junior engineers (in my domain). I spent the past week automating/replacing the job of junior financial engineers/quants for less than $100/mo, and there's no going back.

[Jay Feely @jayfeely]

It has been 1827 days since Ohio State has beaten Michigan
It’s going to be another 365 days
Oh how I hate Ohio St!!!!

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

If Ohio State doesn’t want Michigan to plant the flag, they should try beating them! @stoolpresidente

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

Sometimes someone does you a solid and you never find out. The process that goes into a major decision is almost never transparent. To everyone who has helped me and never taken any credit - thank you.

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

RIP Jim Simons

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@ameensol Lmao this is so on brand

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

Nigeria is a good case study re what's going to happen with many EM fiat currencies this decade. Citizens clearly want to escape their oppressive fiat regime.

https://t.co/5EbDGmmNSD

[Nemo @thecaptain_nemo]

the nerds finally seized power and the first thing they do is automate themselves

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@AlexShin Dude I was JUST thinking about you earlier this week. We're overdue for a catch-up!

[Ari Nazir @anazir930]

@zacxbt They'll be asking you for all the hot nft collections soon enough