Andy Mac

Game design, product, founder. made AI usable @ $VERI, creators grow @ Studio71, Fullscreen.

Be interesting to each other!

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

current status

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@Rick_Zullo possibly acceptable

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@curious_vii hey bellbotttoms came back (kind of) tho

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@dnlklr get in bestie, we're building CAA but for Nepo Babies

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@lmrankhan the "hollywood" you think of despises these kinds of creators which is why they're building their own scaffolding around them

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

this is a fundamentally broken org structure where DS is a 'service bureau' to "product teams" (whatever that means)

service aspect of the charter should be no more than 40%. maybe even 30

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Not enough people are talking about how much AI is impacting the role of data science.

I was chatting with a DS friend, and he said that most of his team's work now is reviewing half-assed AI data analysis from PMs and engineers. And that 50% of the time, that analysis is wrong.

The role is becoming less fun.

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@eoghan I agree, but when it comes to investors I always suggest "change the story" first

if no one is still not biting, probably time to work on the idea

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

it's an amazing role when you have leadership backing

or everything is working so well that nobody is really keeping score

be prepared otherwise

[Justin Gordon @justingordon212]

If I wasn't building my company, I'd probably take a Head of Community role at a startup or VC firm

That role is such a good mix of fun and impact

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@MarcusForPeace you and @3266miles should meet up next time you're both out there!

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

the proscenium will continue until the valuations improve

[Benyam Ephrem @bephrem]

the current state of production design in tech is

laptop, table, books, wall

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

company I am surprised at myself for becoming a fan of in 2026: wework

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

when the Adobe Renewal Rage hits

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

Good lord man i've never been more excited about software and bearish on the people building it in my life

All of the new "AI for this" slop companies come out are hilarious because people will realize it's:

latest frontier model + prompt injection +UI = $30/mo crap SaaS app

SAAS IS DEAD, EVERYONE is going to be using their own agents / custom stuff!!! And I mean everyone!

Go work on real shit and make the world a better place because I guarantee almost none of these "AI for marketing/sales/design" etc., apps are lasting more than 18 months.

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@retttx @Rainmaker1973 crazy levels of terraforming, only aliens could be the answer

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@varunram just one more pitch event and we can escape the permanent underclass

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

@3266miles @dillon_mulroy ➕🫡

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

maybe the real singularity is all the friends we made along the way?

[Andy Mac @andymmmmc]

And congrats to that ops person on their promotion to CSM and now owning a revenue center….

[signüll @signulll]

yo, remember that ops person who manually processed feedback, did inbox triage, summarized responses, updated sheets, nudged people, & moved tickets amount other things? yeah, that person is no longer necessary.

however you feel about it the economic reality is simple.. the long tail of gruntwork that justified whole strata of roles is getting eaten by a tiny llm + triggers + glue. this product decapitates the need for low leverage headcount.

imagine telling a founder even in 2018 that a ~$0 marginal cost intern who never sleeps will handle:

- form submissions
- summarizing daily inputs
- ticket hygiene
- routing
- basic analysis
- drafting
- inbox grooming
- reporting

…all without sucking up management bandwidth. jesus christ.

[Halikaarnian @Halikaarn1an]

Zero-knowledge slop-accelerationist medievalist Palladian garage-fab nuclear-powered Sanskrit-translating surgical-robot autonomous-VC meshnets on a moon-computer.

Starts tomorrow. Apply.

[Human Directed Futures @HumanDirected]

In under 48 hours, we'll gather in SF to start asking questions about the institutions of the Datacenter Age.

https://t.co/nlTcotz4xY

Some recent additions to our slate of speakers from across AI models, energy, compute, economics and society: