I'm so pleased to present a new book with @stripepress: "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025."
Over the last few years, I interviewed the key people thinking about AI: scientists, CEOs, economists, philosophers. This book curates and organizes the highlights across all these conversations.
You get to see thinkers across many, many fields address the same gnarly questions: “What is the true nature of intelligence? What will change from the millions of machine intelligences running around? What exactly will it take to get there?”
Settled answers are unavailable; we’re all running unsupervised. But between these discussions lie, I hope, some insights on the most interesting and important questions of our era.
Link below. Enjoy!
You left engineering because you were tired of:
- PMs who don't understand system dependencies
- "Product people" who can't think in flows
- Leaders who demand random features
- Roadmaps built on hope
But what if product management was actually about systems?
"Thinking in Systems" blew my mind:
Today we’re excited to launch the Windsurf Editor - the first agentic IDE, and then some 🏄
In Windsurf, we have given the AI a previously unseen combination of deep codebase understanding, powerful set of tools, and real time awareness of your in-editor actions. The result? A magical experience we call Cascade, the evolution of chat that keeps you truly in the flow state.
We essentially took the best of both copilots and agents - the collaborative nature of copilots and the ability to be independently powerful like an agent - to create the world’s first collaborative agent, which we are dubbing a “flow.”
One important note - everyone can use this today. No waitlists, no invite only, no crazy rate limits. General access, as it should be.
Check out what Cascade is able to do in the thread below.
#windsurf #cascade
whoever wins will be my president.
i’m not moving,
i’m not saying it’s rigged,
i’m not even complaining about it.
i’ve cast my balllot,
you cast yours,
and then we get back to work.