David Gasca

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here for the AI
Product @ Whatnot - ex @google, @twitter, etc.

[David Gasca @gasca]

@thechelleshock great use case

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

"Engineering, product, and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"

Yeah... I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.

Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles, someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main Thing™

That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad, but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.

AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet... you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.

The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair, sometimes this is true! Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.

However, it is going to be incredibly hard to disrupt the extremely human parts of corporate jobs. You really think there's going to be a PM who also does some engineering and design on the side at JPMorgan Chase?

This is true for the simple parts of most jobs, like people wanting to have ownership over something and do good work, move up a career ladder, support their family, get paid well, make an honest living...

And also the hard parts: internal politics, some critical business system that has a bus factor of 1 which has been running for 15 years and isn't documented anywhere because it's that guy's job security. The real world has a lot of this stuff.

It's easy to pontificate about all roles collapsing but it's actually really nice to have a specific person or team who is an expert in one thing that you can work with. I don't expect that to change. Further, I think AI disruption to knowledge work will take decades to play out because it is more fundamental to the human condition (e.g. sociological/organizational) than pure intelligence.

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/R6exTuF7P8

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Alexander Chen @alexanderchen]

Gemini Omni 🐦 prompt in 🧵

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

New in Claude Code (research preview): dynamic workflows.

Claude writes an orchestration script on the fly, then spins up a large fleet of coordinated subagents in parallel to take on your most complex tasks.

Use the word "workflow" in a prompt to get started.

[David Gasca @gasca]

excellent episode - @danshipper is living the frontier so worth listening to him call bullshit on the hype while also showing the edge

I really liked the middle section describing why the model benchmarks don't actually capture reality (i.e., automation requires human babysitters; models don't paint outside the box)

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Automation is a lie. CLIs are over. The SaaSpocalypse is dumb.

A year ago @danshipper came on the podcast to predict where AI was heading. He was remarkably right—including the call that everyone was sleeping on Claude Code.

Dan has a unique lens into where things are going because his team at @every is possibly the most AI-pilled group of people in tech. I always learn a ton talking to Dan.

So I brought him back for round two. We'll score these in exactly a year:
🔸 Every company will have one “super-agent” in Slack.
🔸 Codex and Claude Code will become the new operating system for knowledge work.
🔸 The AI job apocalypse is not happening.
🔸 PMs and designers will thrive.
🔸 We will read way more AI-generated writing and we will like it.
🔸 "I would buy SaaS stocks right now."

Listen now 👇
https://t.co/wzxQ5bz49h

[David Gasca @gasca]

@deanwball perhaps negative mood affiliation re: all things "tech"

[David Gasca @gasca]

Insightful post by Kasey on post-spec driven dev

"The team is left with the same problem, an ongoing struggle to align on and preserve the “theory of the program” they are driving towards. Code is an insufficient surface for shared understanding, and every tool that operates at the level of code inherits that limitation."

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

https://t.co/gedgKqKSbI

[David Gasca @gasca]

moving from it's a prompt-skill issue to a "you didn't even ask" issue

[David Gasca @gasca]

The prompt for the Erdos problem was basically just stating the problem. yikes
https://t.co/irrlnbIfuG

[David Gasca @gasca]

The prompt for the Erdos problem was basically just stating the problem. yikes
https://t.co/irrlnbIfuG

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

Today, we’re sharing that a general-purpose internal @openai model achieved a breakthrough on one of the best-known combinatorial geometry problems. Less than 1 year ago frontier AI models were at IMO gold-level performance. I expect this pace of progress to continue.

[David Gasca @gasca]

@alexanderchen @AnezkaMin93 love your tests! the best

[Alexander Chen @alexanderchen]

One of my favorite Omni tests was turning my fern into a musical instrument with @AnezkaMin93 🎵🌱 Sound on 🔊

[Google Flow @FlowbyGoogle]

Image editors, video resizers, custom shaders… if you can think of it, you can now build it. Introducing Tools in Google Flow.

Starting today, you can describe the tools you wish you had, and Google Flow will help build them for your workflows. Explore our Tools gallery for inspiration, including some from fellow creatives, share your own, or even remix existing Tools to fit your needs.

Learn how to get started in the thread below #GoogleIO

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Omni brings together an improved understanding of physics with Gemini's knowledge of history, biology, and culture, bridging the gap from photorealism to meaningful storytelling.

Actions have consequences, environments respond to events, and narratives evolve logically.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The bitter lesson in 26 words:

Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

[David Gasca @gasca]

Really enjoying the Spotify prompt-generated playlists... great feature