Britt Smith

researcher | everything theory 🌎 | mom to ⚛️ & Sophia | #AI

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

If you think research is expensive or it takes a long time, just wait til you see what it’s like building products without it.

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

I’m literally just a girl and the hardest part about setting up @Starlink WiFi was picking a name for the router 💫📡👏

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@elonmusk Ok but Grok is also giving LOTS of inaccurate information about the timeline of events. What’s worse? 😔

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@xdNiBoR 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@naval @elonmusk What use is it being a billionaire if it doesn’t buy you the opportunity to stand by your principles?

Americans are so unused to seeing consistent ideology in politics, especially on the topic of national debt, they’d sooner believe this is conspiracy rather than philosophy.

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@rrhoover all the internet OGs know zaps have always slapped 😆 they’ve always been innovative, stable, useful, etc exciting to see this chapter of “zapier makes you happier”

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

I was a total AI optimist until I found a 1k page conversation from a former employee who used to their work email to vent and plot revenge on the biz chatgpt over a 6 month period. It was super concerning from my pov how enabling the dialogue was and now I have serious concerns about this kind of interpersonal support from AI. I also felt like my consumption of the content (as the ceo) was pretty traumatic and like I’m stil stuck in an episode of black mirror. Maybe a good checks and balance flag might be something like “how could you be the problem here?” every couple hundred pages at least. I’m 300 pages into 1,000 and haven’t seen an example of the AI asking for self reflection, just straight up validation and encouragement, which makes me think the algorithm is more aligned for dopamine and engagement, rather than true self help or support, which is most often not the thing people in tough spots want (but need) to hear. It is what makes actual therapy both hard and valuable at the same time. Low quality therapy can be more harmful than no therapy for some people, in certain situations.

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@GaryCardone Especially considering we typically have already paid for the R&D on the frontend (a tax if done w/ public funds). So yes, subsidizing the R&D and then paying more than other countries on top of that is insanity.

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

Cursor is amazing but I also just said the other day one thing I miss about being in an office is that if you got to the point where you were crying about your code not working, there would always be someone around to take pity on you and help. It just feels too cringe to type out “I’m crying right now, seriously help” to AI. 😂

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@teslaownersSV @elonmusk Twinkle twinkle little little stars, help America find its way to Mars. 🚀✨🎶

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@dharmesh https://t.co/uM5jLAjb8a

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@dharmesh https://t.co/6YZAZWTYEi

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@elonmusk @DOGE phase 2, when the E starts standing for Effectiveness and we get all new success metrics for government that aren’t changed or obfuscated on political whim. 🇺🇸

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@paulg Agree, X has felt liminal for a bit now. But that also means more change is still coming…

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@jaltma Definitely see this happening with @notablyai and especially surprised (and excited!) to see how quickly some professors have been to get AI into the classrooms. Love to see it.

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@jasonlk Offering great support is a reliable strategy to gather insights needed to move your software from mediocre to good to great.

[Notably @notablyai]

Our new integration with @MiroHQ is launching next week. We're getting sentimental on the blog about the role Miro has played in our research careers and how it helped to introduce design thinking to the world.
More to come, but til then, a sneak peek. 👀✨

#AI #uxdesign #ux
##AI . .

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

So sweet to include all the babies born through the years and to see how Buffer supports families. Our team has a lot of long working history and relationships and it’s such a super power so I loved to see the data on retention too. Happy birthday, Buffer and congrats to you on this epic run as captain. Can’t wait to see what the next 13 years looks like. 🎂

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@NFT_GOD 🤩 Real-time data analysis is going to be so helpful for current events. I can’t wait to try it!

Can we use an API to include with other sources for analysis in something like @notablyai?

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

Our team @notablyai is helping researchers across b2b, b2c, & healthcare… breaking into fortune 500s. Some customers include gen mills, news corp, Google, Harvard. Currently onboarding two traditional financial institutions. You have to be willing to go the distance with infosec being on the ground floor of new tech, but so far NRR shows it’s worth the effort.

[Britt Smith @bamariesmith]

@GregKamradt @SteveMoraco @OpenAI This kind of coding and the data visualization-ish, maybe even the testing itself (at least for gpt4) could be done with @notablyai 🙇🏻‍♀️