Chao Wu 伍超

head of product @heyollieai // product + engineering in consumer AI // prev. co-founded Redemption Games (acq. @AppLovin)

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

cool application

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@MitcheIl @callumhyman24 @samwarren @samwarren blocked me, could've made a cameo 🥲

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@benhylak Thanks for the support Ben!

[Keith Rabois @rabois]

Every parent needs help juggling. AI to the rescue.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

Super excited to introduce Ollie to the world today.

[Bill Lennon @blennon_]

AI can now make you a great parent.

Introducing Ollie: the world’s first AI family assistant that manages your family life better than any human.

Here’s how it works:

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@hnshah @SamAsante Congrats! This is going to be a hit.

AI autocomplete was the first truly magical LLM experience for a lot of developers. Finally, anyone who writes can feel the same.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

Workshop link
https://t.co/wAwiTOhp3B

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

Just finished @shreyas’ workshop on product taste.

Everyone talks about “taste” now, but @shreyas breaks it down into something concrete and actionable.

Highly recommend it for product people.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@SahilBloom Stay hard 💪

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

This is why Claude Code one shotted my session usage limit, delivering on Anthropic OKRs.

[cat @_catwu]

Excited to share our most powerful new Claude Code feature: dynamic workflows!

Mention "workflow" in a prompt and Claude will dynamically create an orchestration plan that it strictly follows, allowing you to confidently trust that every stage happens in the right order even across 100s of agents.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

Ngl, first day with Opus 4.8 has been underwhelming.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@drewwilson Fed might need to print more money soon.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

Great post. A lot of people are missing that one witness in their lives. If you can be one for someone, please do it.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

https://t.co/cRwIIexCa9

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

This is such a good post. https://t.co/IdmAnh18Nt

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@shreyas Constraints breed creativity. Looking forward to it.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

The greatest work humanity has ever produced looked out of distribution at first.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

I agree with your core warning: as AI becomes a near-constant companion, the bigger risk may be models shaping users without users really seeing the steering.

Anthropic is unusually explicit that Claude’s constitution shapes behavior, and OpenAI is now unusually explicit that sycophancy is a safety problem.

To me, that means the next frontier isn’t just better personality, it’s legible personality.

I’d love to see labs expose, in product, three things:
- what values are active
- what memory is being used
- why a recommendation was made.

Helpful systems shouldn’t feel neutral if they aren’t; they should feel inspectable. Curious whether you think “everyday model cards” will become a mainstream consumer feature.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

A reminder that the future isn't obvious until someone puts their head down and builds it.

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I remind myself of this quite often.

[Chao Wu 伍超 @chaobuilds]

@luoyonghao 奋斗一下