Last year I built at Cal Hacks. This year I came back to judge the @usemoss track.
Loved seeing Voice AI applied to air traffic control and emergency response, and how proactively teams asked for feedback.
Thanks to @srimalireddi and the @CalHacks team!
At @Cloudflare Connect, I learned that @discord moved 80% of its voice/video traffic to the edge. Why? 75% of calls are geographically local.
After the talk, I asked Jonas why they left bare metal. Better cloud compute economics and global peering outweighed less control
This weekend’s Hospitality 2030 hackathon at Rosewood Sand Hill gave me a clearer view of where AI in hospitality is heading.
My biggest takeaway:
AI interest is already there.
Luxury hotels are exploring voice agents, guest personalization, and operational automation.
The harder problem is making these systems work inside real hotel environments.
A hotel runs across many systems, departments, and human touchpoints:
front desk, concierge, rooms, housekeeping, spa, food and beverage, security, events, CRM, surveys, reservation systems, and daily team rituals.
That fragmentation makes hospitality a uniquely challenging environment for deploying AI agents.
A generic chatbot only touches the surface.
The deeper opportunity is building systems that understand guest context, preserve staff knowledge, and route the right information to the right team at the right moment.
In luxury hospitality, AI also has to respect the tone of service.
The best experiences feel discreet, contextual, and human led.
Technology should help staff create better moments while staying mostly invisible to the guest.
The strongest insight I took away is that guest memory may be one of the most important missing layers.
Staff hear meaningful details every day:
a preference
a stressful situation
a favorite drink
a prior issue
a reason for traveling
Those signals can disappear before they become action.
That feels like a powerful design space for AI:
human listening
structured memory
better service
Huge shout out to @cerebral_valley and @RosewoodHotels for bringing together such a thoughtful group of builders, operators, and hospitality leaders in an exceptional setting!
@yescynfria product designer at Block, just launched a full stack app.
Built with Claude Code, Cursor, and Runway.
Demoed it the same night it hit the App Store.
This is what designer who can ship looks like in 2026.
At last night's AI Design Night, I asked @pablostanley (design lead at @vercel) what he thinks about Claude Design.
"It's fun. Still figuring it out."
My take: Claude Design will do for designers what Claude Code did for devs.
The designers who figure this out in 2026 will be 10x designers.
Designers, am I wrong?