A filmmaker about to become a father sat down with AI leaders and asked one question: What kind of world is my child going to grow up in?
My response was: What if that world could ACTUALLY be extraordinary?
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is now playing in theaters nationwide.
Everyone should watch this documentary over the coming weeks, grateful to be a part of this experience.
The computational power in your iPhone is >100 million times more powerful than the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. And yet, most people use it primarily to argue with strangers on the internet.
The future's already here—we just need to deploy it better.
Vibe Coding Is the New Product Management
“There’s been a shift—a marked pronouncement in the last year and especially in the last few months—most pronounced by Claude Code, which is a specific model that has a coding engine in it, which is so good that I think now you have vibe coders, which are people who didn’t really code much or hadn’t coded in a long time, who are using essentially English as a programming language—as an input into this code bot—which can do end-to-end coding.
Instead of just helping you debug things in the middle, you can describe an application that you want. You can have it lay out a plan, you can have it interview you for the plan. You can give it feedback along the way, and then it’ll chunk it up and will build all the scaffolding.
It’ll download all the libraries and all the connectors and all the hooks, and it’ll start building your app and building test harnesses and testing it. And you can keep giving it feedback and debugging it by voice, saying, “This doesn’t work. That works. Change this. Change that,” and have it build you an entire working application without your having written a single line of code.
For a large group of people who either don’t code anymore or never did, this is mind-blowing.
This is taking them from idea space, and opinion space, and from taste directly into product. So that’s what I mean—product management has taken over coding. Vibe coding is the new product management.
Instead of trying to manage a product or a bunch of engineers by telling them what to do, you’re now telling a computer what to do. And the computer is tireless. The computer is egoless, and it’ll just keep working. It’ll take feedback without getting offended.
You can spin up multiple instances. It’ll work 24/7 and you can have it produce working output.
What does that mean? Just like now anybody can make a video or anyone can make a podcast, anyone can now make an application. So we should expect to see a tsunami of applications. Not that we don’t have one already in the App Store, but it doesn’t even begin to compare to what we’re going to see.
However, when you start drowning in these applications, does that necessarily mean that these are all going to get used or they’re competitive? No. I think it’s going to break into two kinds of things.
First, the best application for a given use case still tends to win the entire category. When you have such a multiplicity of content, whether in videos or audio or music or applications, there’s no demand for average.
Nobody wants the average thing. People want the best thing that does the job. So first of all, you just have more shots on goal. So there will be more of the best. There will be a lot more niches getting filled.
You might have wanted an application for a very specific thing, like tracking lunar phases in a certain context, or a certain kind of personality test, or a very specific kind of video game that made you nostalgic for something. Before, the market just wasn’t large enough to justify the cost of an engineer coding away for a year or two. But now the best vibe coding app might be enough to scratch that itch or fill that slot. So a lot more niches will get filled, and as that happens, the tide will rise.
The best applications—those engineers themselves are going to be much more leveraged. They’ll be able to add more features, fix more bugs, smooth out more of the edges. So the best applications will continue to get better. A lot more niches will get filled.
And even individual niches—such as you want an app that’s just for your own very specific health tracking needs, or for your own very specific architectural layout or design—that app that could have never existed will now exist.”
We live in such a hyperconnected world that solving problems locally can solve them globally.
Do not be afraid to fail. You could change a billion lives.
A private school in Austin replaced the 6-hour teaching day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-guided lessons.
Alpha School plans to open more classrooms in 12 cities. Its proprietary platform sequences mastery-based exercises in math, science, reading, and language skills. The pedagogy avoids chatbots, tracks engagement via camera, targets 70–95 percent performance, and integrates education content from apps like IXL, Khan Academy, and Trilogy Software.
Learn more in The Batch: https://t.co/hzVOrsNN3J
The human brain (10^15 synaptic ops/sec) uses only 20 Watts. A GPT-4 class model (10^12 parameters) uses ~10^5 to 10^6 more energy per "unit of cognition".
Engineering new chips has A LOT of room for improvement wrt energy efficiency. This breakthrough will come, and when it does, it will unleash another 10^5 level improvement in AI.
Esta es la realidad sobre los programadores en la era de IA.
Uno de los mensajes más claros y potentes que he escuchado:
1️⃣ El peor consejo profesional: Aconsejar a la gente que no aprenda a programar porque la IA lo automatizará es uno de los peores consejos profesionales que se pueden dar.
2️⃣ La tecnología facilita, no elimina: Históricamente, cuando la programación se ha vuelto más fácil (del lenguaje ensamblador a COBOL, de tarjetas perforadas a teclados), el número de programadores ha aumentado, no disminuido. La IA es una herramienta que hará la programación más accesible.
3️⃣ Demanda de software casi infinita: La necesidad de software personalizado no tiene límites. Al reducirse el coste de la ingeniería de software gracias a la IA, se creará más y mejor software, no menos.
4️⃣ La experiencia sigue siendo clave: Los mejores ingenieros no son los recién graduados, sino los que tienen una gran experiencia y entienden profundamente la arquitectura de software y los marcos conceptuales.
🚀 La combinación ganadora: Un desarrollador con experiencia que además domina las nuevas herramientas de IA será inmensamente valioso y superior a ambos extremos: el ingeniero experimentado que no se adapta y el recién graduado que solo domina la IA sin tener una base conceptual sólida.
Boom!
150 minutes of exercise a week cuts your risk of death by 28%. If a pill did that, it would be the biggest blockbuster drug in history... and you can get it for free.
Big moves in AI-powered cybersecurity: Google’s Big Sleep AI just blocked a real exploit before it hit its target. For the first time, an AI agent shut down a zero-day before it could be used.
Remember: Apple didn’t start with the iPhone. OpenAI and Jony Ive’s collaboration marks a titanic shift, AND they already have the software that’s reshaping the world.
If they can pull off the perfect AI device, smartphones as we know them will become the Nokias to our iPhones.
The @FDA announced it will roll out Gen-AI tools across all its centers by June 30th after the completion of its first AI-assisted scientific review pilot.
Government efficiency.
Cancer soon enough will STOP being a death sentence. An AI model identified endometrial cancer with 99.26% accuracy (compared to humans diagnosis of 78-81%). We’re about to start saving millions of lives.
Aquí está, amigos. Lucho Quequezana y Juan Diego Flórez junto al genial Zhou Shen y el músico Niu Jiandang.
No puedo enfatizar lo suficiente lo importante que ha sido esto.
Antes de empezar, los presentadores hablaron del puerto de Chancay, que a los descendientes de chinos los tratan como paisanos (creo que aún no conocen bien la historia de la migración china) y que había un vínculo entre ambos países.
Llevo viendo las galas desde el 2017 y jamás pensé que vería una representación de Perú en el programa más importante de la televisión china.
Esto lo han visto más de mil millones de personas.
Netflix ate Blockbuster.
Amazon crushed retail.
Uber reinvented transport.
And now... a tiny open-source AI team called DeepSeek is shaking OpenAI, NVIDIA, and the entire AI world to its core.
But this isn’t just about AI. This is the beginning of a revolution across industries.
Let’s talk about DeepSeek- a thread: