Dan Becker

Building @GoogleLabs
Past lives @Instagram @Airbnb @Square
Investing @ligaturevc

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@vinvan @mainframe +

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@khalilcader {sticker sfx}

[Google Antigravity @antigravity]

Today, we are launching a new Knowledge Work interface layout tuned for research, writing, and artifacts: same agent harness, plugins, and MCP tools, without the terminal and git clutter. Select your layout in the General tab of Settings.

Our goal with Antigravity is to help the world deliver value through products and research. Doing that always starts with building the logic, which is why software development is at the core of the product. But turning that work into real outcomes takes every role working together with a shared language and understanding.

[Brian Lovin @brian_lovin]

@benjitaylor AI reply spam

[Soleio @soleio]

Tomorrow we release @firstofkind E03

“HOW WE WIN” is the story of how @karrisaarinen charted his own course in the venture ecosystem and built a design-led juggernaut in @linear

Follow along here on 𝕏, YouTube, Instagram or wherever you enjoy premium podcasts

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@lennysan When’s the house warming

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@wwayneee @noahrshinn @instinct @nickhiotis congratssss!

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@joellewenstein congrats on both the jokes the launches

[Soleio @soleio]

I’m not a recruiter. I don’t get paid to place talent. So I try to find breakout roles for breakout designers in my portcos according to where they might thrive. This is how our collective interests align—to the benefit of all.

Ready for a career move or a design angel? HMU

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

A long time ago I spent about 4 hours using an LLM to research startup ideas and managed to come out with a pretty terrible product thesis.

I was looking at different spaces I was curious about and potential ideas for startups in each. I asked AI to research customers, what they might want, whether an idea made sense, and then I started changing things. What about this angle? What if the ICP was different? What if we changed the product?

And a lot of times it came back with very plausible explanations like:

"Absolutely! That's a much stronger direction. This ICP has a clear pain point, and your product could be uniquely positioned to solve it."

You do this for four hours and you start feeling like you've done some serious research. You've got a whole product thesis that sounds pretty convincing.

Except when I looked at what I'd come up with, it was nonsense. It wasn't a good startup idea, and it wasn't even good analysis of the space.

I think you can over-AI yourself into a bad place pretty easily. Eventually the AI is trying to please you, or its confidence just gets in the way of reality, and you're in this weird world where everything sounds reasonable, but you're getting further and further away from what's true or useful.

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@justinrgraham 10k waves spa in Santa Fe is straight outta Japan 💯

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

You can give ChatGPT a photo of an empty bookshelf and ask it to fill the shelves with real books based on what it knows about you.

Kinda fun that image gen is so good now!

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@msuster @petergyang

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@ridd_design Coaching

[Frank Bach @zendadddy]

gotta bring more dad jokes to the timeline

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@joshpuckett @kelin_online So fun!

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@lennysan Is this bait for the paid newsletter bc that’s worth it too

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@kurissuuu Can’t escape genetics

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@jgreze Please do this

[Dan Becker @becker513]

@justinrgraham Wood thumb is solid if you haven’t been!