David Lane

Pushing the automation Kool-Aid | vibe coder by night 👀

[ISAL Artificial Life @alifeofficial]

We are devastated by the unexpected death of Inman Harvey a few days ago. A towering figure in artificial life and evolutionary robotics for 35 years, he was a mentor, inspiration and friend to generations of Artificial Life researchers. A full obituary will follow.

[David Lane @davidmlane]

@b1rdmania @emergenceldn Up for hosting something!

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@benln 🙌🙌

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@spwfeijen SKIN

[David Lane @davidmlane]

Ordered!

[Stripe Press @stripepress]

What is intelligence? What will it take to create AGI? What happens once we succeed?

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by @dwarkesh_sp and @gleech explores the questions animating those at the frontier of AI research.

It’s out today: https://t.co/au8g0XJrdH

[Min Choi @minchoi]

2.5 years of AI progress

Modelscope (left)
Grok Imagine 0.9 (right)

[kache @yacineMTB]

LLMs turn 10x engineers into 1000x engineers, and 1x engineers into 0.1x engineers

[David Lane @davidmlane]

@tomcrawshaw01 NOTION

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@paolo_scales INBOUND

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@bony_ghadiya_ Ecom

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@FynCas Llc

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@HenryDM_ai Perfume

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@aaditsh AI

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

How to set up a remote MCP server and connect it to ChatGPT deep research:

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

ChatGPT can now connect to more internal sources & pull in real-time context—keeping existing user-level permissions.

Connectors available in deep research for Plus & Pro users (excl. EEA, CH, UK) and Team, Enterprise & Edu users:

Outlook
Teams
Google Drive
Gmail
Linear
& more

[Visual Studio Code @code]

Today, we're announcing plans to make VS Code an open source AI editor.

We believe AI development should stay true to VS Code's core principles: open, collaborative, and community-driven. Let's build the future of software development together.

https://t.co/C3ffio6X88

[Clerk @clerk]

Introducing Clerk Billing

The easiest subscription billing for B2B and B2C SaaS.

No webhooks, no UI to build, no payment integration code, no DIY authorization engine.

Just enable Billing and drop a <PricingTable/> on your /pricing page!

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

I buy everything on AI now, even tires. But until now the AI systems haven't linked to places you can transact.

If they get this right, like showing you the best deals, or even, telling you the best seats to buy at a show (Grok and ChatGPT can tell you where to sit at Las Vegas' Sphere, for instance, for best views) then this will be a big deal.

And will provide new ways for OpenAI to monetize.

By the way, takes away the oxygen from Perplexity's early lead in shopping.

The big question is whether it'll change consumer behavior, who usually uses Google or Amazon to buy things?

My experience? Yes it can. Why go to Google Flights, for instance, if you can just talk to ChatGPT?