Kelly Smith

Building companies & investing at Former head of digital, Starbucks, AG1, MGM Resorts.

[Kelly Smith @curiousoffice]

Check this out: https://t.co/eSqgyOSF7I You can try this as an alternative to Wispr Flow and also use it as a voice cloning tool. Just run it locally on your machine.

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@sarahtavel I thought you'd like this one. Clever marketplace concept: https://t.co/sgLfkrVMhr

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@kirillzubovsky From the sounds of it…sounded like a digital agency

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Having dinner with my wife waiting for our kid’s art class to finish. Two guys talking at the table next to us. One of the guys sharing a story about his son. Junior software developer. Hours cut from 40hrs to 10hr to fired. Due to AI. Be a polymath. Basic coding = dead.

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Accidental or not, all of this chatter around Claude Mythos being "so powerful that it can be dangerous" is potent PR. If it was purposeful PR, it's the best campaign I've seen since, say, the launch of the iPod. If accidental, it still helps lock their enterprise dominance.

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@chamath Build your own. Pose the question and let AI work with you to build exactly what you need. That’s the simple thing a lot of people don’t think to do because we first have to unlearn how these things got built under old paradigms.

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@AnshKanyadi This is a great tool. However, some things that Claude Code might do in your codebase cannot be reversed. Examples are many things related to Prisma. Improper schema migrations etc can scar your schema & there just aren't supported Prisma methods to restore to prior states.

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Here is an incredibly simple Claude Code (or any CLI coding tool) hack. How many times did Claude take off and do something that messed up your code? Ask "give me 10 things you might accidentally do in this code that would be really bad?" Put "never do" stuff in key agent files.

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@garymlin @gabriel1 More important than having access to nothing, all of the time ;)

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@awilkinson It’s odd that such a smart man seems never to have read books on, say, Stoicism or Bhuddism. Nothing new about the concepts. His mix of reading, by his own admission, is remarkably limited.

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As with Amazon, Facebook will announce more big layoffs this month. But it's not for the reasons everyone thinks. They need the money for a lot more chips and infra.

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@optionsmaster69 @ValleyFallsRI There is one more aspect to all of this. The big rumors around Facebook laying off 20% Or Amazon's layoffs this year? It is because they are prioritizing that spend on chips over people. It frees up cash to buy more AI infrastructure.

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As an investor in public markets, I can think of fewer obvious bets than shorting outsourcing companies like $UPWK I have used them for years and it is a great service. But if you actually use AI every day, it should be clear to you by now what is going to happen to their value.

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@McGaber Interestingly, Kimi has shown occasional signs of brilliance as well.

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I have so many hours (500+) into a really complex app that I have built up many proof points: GPT‑5.4‑Codex is just better at complex backend & “CTO-level” concerns, while Opus 4.6 is better for front-end work. Hardest cross-cutting questions go to Codex. Claude alone? No.

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@McGaber I can tell you for certain that I do whatever I need to do to figure out what relevance and value the releases might mean to me 😉

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The Claude Code release notes are literally the only release notes that I look forward to reading: https://t.co/a2288g32n1

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May not look like one of the hottest design tools of the week, but I assure you that it is. https://t.co/REeC46ZR6Y Select anything on page and edit via Claude Code. No more having to take screenshots & then dragging them into the terminal to explain what visual change you want.

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I have noticed that Upwork is going nuts with advertising in the last 6 months while stock is in a free-fall. A clear AI casualty I think. Not yet, but soon. Value will be cut in half in 6 months. Models are getting too good.

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@GaryMarcus What’s an example question?