Aubrey

Software, AI and Design @viktaenergy.

Co-Founded @newthing_co (Acq’ed ‘24). Prev: @doshapp, @scienceinc, @tribe_ai & @twilio Designed @Authy.

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I do use Claude (Opus 5.5 mostly and some Fable when its time to dig deep) a good bit too esp for my daily driver work stuff which is all react / web app work. I use Fable in the desktop a lot for exploration and research (design and product alike) usually to generated exploratory artifacts and html examples / visualizations of complex stuff.

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@robotaxi I see steering wheel + person versions in my area. How long from that until live usually?

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis:

"One person who really understands AI will outperform an entire startup team

In 5 years, the people who build with AI will run whole companies with a tenth of the headcount"

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@josesaezmerino @JuanArreguin for me (not that you asked) Astra is pretty awesome at iOS dev. Assuming this is the case for Juan too. But today, for some reason my usage saw a spike despite me not doing/building anything out of the ordinary.

[The Weather Channel @weatherchannel]

https://t.co/f3IHjpeyfo

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@Joshua_Ariza Seven brand new stakeholders he’s never met… good god. That one’s too real. Seeing the unfamiliar name on the zoom tile 💀💀💀

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@kerem @saturdaymade Do it for home gyms

[Aaron Levie @levie]

It’s almost incomprehensible how wide the distance is between someone who’s working at the frontier with AI and basically everyone else right now.

The crazy thing is these lines are not converging, but only growing farther apart. If the curve of AI progress had leveled off, it would certainly have given most people and companies time to catch up or implement their workflows in a standardized way. The technology would have neutralized competitive advantage because everyone would be using it the same way.

But what’s happened is the opposite. The curve of AI progress is basically going vertical right now, which means if you had codified your processes 3-6 months ago you’re likely already behind again. Now imagine most companies that kicked into gear a year ago and thought that they were done. Even further behind now.

I’ve never seen a technology in my life and career that improves at this rate, which consequently means you need to upgrade your expectations at a similar rate. Our brains weren’t wired for this, and our organizational change management processes certainly weren’t either.

With any form of recursive self improvement, things just get wilder. It’s a time when you will need to be constantly reevaluating the things that didn’t work just a couple months ago to see if they now can be solved. AI native companies certainly have a strong advantage due to this right now, so now it comes down to can the bigger companies keep up. Wild times.

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@Sethersk82 It’s the opposite. Avoid non av.

Austin reported over 35,000 vehicle crashes in the same period for non-AV. That’s 1425% more crashes. You are safer in the cyber than not.

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@petersellis @X @SpaceX Peter this is awesome! Congrats.

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@thepixelgeek Yesssss. Instant get

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@NotoriousUSB Psdtuts haha hell yeah. Did the same.

Copied tv ads to figure out how to use the motion in interfaces/websites/flash. Got a lot of mileage out of xgames tv spots.

Used to sample dribbble illos for color schemes for brands. I’d scroll super fast and if one popped I’d use it.

[Recent @recentdesign]

Gaussian Splat Portal Jumping by @xrarchitect

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@JuanArreguin John turkey is the boss now. You’ll get January duos and love it.

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@JuanArreguin If they stocked it well and it sat on shelves or had better availability they’d get **destroyed** by the street though. Smarter to make people wait / pseudo-fake demand and look like they still got it.

[gaut @0xgaut]

car insurance companies watching the roadster demo

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@NotoriousUSB @JuanArreguin @forum_tokyo Juan what if I get a conference related tattoo and then you don’t? That’d be…

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@JuanArreguin @NotoriousUSB @forum_tokyo I got a ticket. 🎫
Now you go.

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@PaulSolt It’s an absolute embarrassment.