Greg Hochmuth

artist & engineer • @openai • prev @midjourney, very early engineer @instagram. “A dream you dream together is reality.” —Yoko Ono

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

Möglichkeitszuwachsgefühl (n.)

German for the feeling of growing a new limb of possibility, an expansion of capacities, that arrives faster than the self can fully integrate.

Often accompanied by surprise and flashes of euphoria, bordering at times on intermittent psychosis.

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@tylerangert @jnnnthnn … is the pride you take in the outcome.

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@tylerangert not just *a* feature. it's always *the best* feature.

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@tylerangert welcome to the (veterans) club

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@_chenglou something only Cheng could achieve! incredible.

CGI > AGI

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@jtaby if you never bump your version number (only your build number), only your initial review takes time. all future ones will be instantaneous. maybe you knew and/or this may not work for your build pipeline :\

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@jtaby omg infinite! triple phd-level engineering. huge congrats! also: happy (belated) birthday!!

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@jtaby we invented transformers just to deal with javascript, haven’t we? :)

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@ZuiLoong @covacut it's a methaphone! which went strangely viral a few months ago.

you can get your own now too at https://t.co/448fqAseCG :)

https://t.co/vxe0RZMfrf

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

methaphone took on a life of its own! 150M views on TikTok later, this article captures it well.

we also have a website now:
https://t.co/448fqArGN8

❤️ this project with @ericantonow

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@itsjackcohen 🙏. now back in stock! https://t.co/sJ77lRFys2

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@kevintwohy Literally perfect! Plus incredible launch video. Can't wait for mine to arrive. And to build for it!

Congrats to you and the team!

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

Do you have a printer at home? 🖨️

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

"interesting conversations with new mutuals" ❤️. we're much overdue for new communication platforms with different/composable mechanics.

alas, building the plumbing for any communication platform is still literal rocket science today 😔. one of many reasons i'm a big fan of @inline_chat + and its open source!

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

the best software enables new kinds of global collaboration: wikipedia, youtube, github

it is software that brings people *together* so that they can learn from each other, help each other, build together.

it is software designed *for groups of people* ... who don't know yet each other ... and can create so much once they have a shared platform. software that enables massively global collaboration.

this is the kind of software i want to see a lot more of.

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@tylerangert today and *every* day 😑

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@jtaby and yet somehow, i wouldn't trade it! still hopeful that other, better platforms/technologies might emerge. we're currently stuck with a tiny handful of awful ones.

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@holdenmatt for me, it's usually a big letdown when i "finally get to" those tabs. 98% are never worth the ambient mental background noise they produced over those 2y :)

also, not to toot my own horn here, but my TLDR chrome extension really helped with cutting down tab overload too.

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

methaphone took on a life of its own! 150M views on TikTok later, this article captures it well.

we also have a website now:
https://t.co/448fqArGN8

❤️ this project with @ericantonow

[designboom @designboom]

transparent @MethaphoneNotes by @ericantonow and @grex wants users to detox from digital screens https://t.co/kVLO8Ld0pj

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

@gregerativeai @Casey it *is* :) 👀

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

“People don’t want to program computers, people want to use computers.”
—Steve Jobs, 1983

https://t.co/oAY0ghFhWZ

[Greg Hochmuth @grex]

until yesterday, this was the paradigm:

if i want my computer to do a thing
→ i first need to write software
→ so that i can use the software to make my computer do the thing

when you look at it that way, it's obvious that the middle step will just totally disappear.

people won't be writing software or making apps — people will just tell the computer what they want to do.

"vibe coding" isn't the future of software development, it's the future of computer use. dream accordingly.