Briando

Founder | Builder | Maker

[Briando @heybriando]

Awesome to see our new team in place and working well together to build denta bot Smile Sim v2: CTO, Chief Architect, Documentation BA, Lead Engineer, QA Tester. You guys rock! 👏🏾

[Briando @heybriando]

Sounds like the 1-man agent org is here.

@MatthewBerman 😎

https://t.co/4EZH52NTp8

#OpenClaw

[Briando @heybriando]

2026: New year. New opportunities. Same smile?

A confident smile unlocks:

Better opportunities
Stronger first impressions
More meeting confidence
Photos worth framing

Humans are wired to respond to a smile.

2026 starts in 6 days.

Comment "Smile" 😁 for simulator link.

[Briando @heybriando]

Recording videos feels like a chore?

Generate them.

Your avatar delivers with:

zero anxiety,

zero prep,

zero mistakes.

Great for ads, social posts, demos.

👉🏾 Comment “holidays” and I’ll DM the beginner guide.

[Briando @heybriando]

Best Christmas gift?

One for your future self.

Everyone else:✅
You: "Next year"

Next year = 13 days away.

Your smile's been bugging you.

Staining didn't happen overnight.

60 seconds to see what's possible.

Everyone got gifts.

What about you?

Comment "Smile" 😀.

[Briando @heybriando]

You don’t need to be on camera to stay visible.

Let your avatar do it.

No retakes.

No hesitation.

No stress.

You stay behind the scenes.

Your avatar stays consistent.

✅ Comment “avatar” and I’ll DM the quick-start guide.

[Briando @heybriando]

2025 targets demolished.

Promotion ✅
New clients ✅
Skills upgraded ✅

But the one thing you said you'd handle "when things settle down"? The smile.

Every video call.
Every client meeting.
See what's possible in 60 seconds.

Comment "Smile" to get the FREE sim link.

[Briando @heybriando]

Imagine a spokesperson who never gets sick and never forgets lines.

That’s your avatar.

Pick the style.

Give instructions.

Generate.

Perfect for

ads
explainers
intros

😎Comment “avatar” and I’ll send the guide.

[Briando @heybriando]

December party count: 11

Photo count: 52

Your technique:

Angle face
Control smile
Position glass strategically

Your yellowing teeth: Still making their own impression in every shot.

See what could be different.

Comment "Smile" 😁 for link to free simulator.

[Briando @heybriando]

Hate filming videos but still need content?

Use an avatar.

No nerves.

No retakes.

No stress.

You write.

It performs.

➡️ Comment “avatar” and I’ll DM you the guide.

[Briando @heybriando]

Black Friday math:

Earbuds research: 3 hrs

Tooth gap research: 0 hrs

Earbuds usage: Twice

Smile usage: Every day

One ends up in the gadget drawer.

The other shows up @ every client meeting.

See what's possible.

Comment "Smile" 😁 for the link.

[Briando @heybriando]

If being on camera drains you...

meet the version of you that never gets tired:

Your avatar.

No nerves.

No retakes.

No awkward pauses.

Pick the look.

Agree the script.

Hit generate.

Done.

Want the toolkit?

Reply “Avatar” and I’ll DM it to you.

[Briando @heybriando]

DM for the link.

[Briando @heybriando]

Meeting her parents @ Thanksgiving? The teeth. 😬

Everything else: ✅
Your smile: 😬

Too late for next Thursday. Not for the wedding.

See what's possible in 60 seconds.

Comment "Smile" 😁 for link to smile simulator.

[Briando @heybriando]

Imagine your future smile.

[Briando @heybriando]

@henrythe9ths ai guide

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[Briando @heybriando]

🙏🏾🔥💯

[Briando @heybriando]

Hey @sama, free users get GPT‑5. As a paying Plus user, can I at least choose my model… or is this like a weird airline where economy & business all board at once? ✈️🤖

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

The future is here.

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