Chris Lesinski

I tweet about streaming entertainment, tech and AI. Ex @Twitch @sony @warnerbros exec; #magician, #lifehacker and #coffee snob

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Very old man on the sidewalk tells me, "it's a nice day!"

It is!

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@vikpai The best is when I pause a side-project for 6 months then come back to it and realize I was dumb. It's like you get to skip the 6 months of dumbness.

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@mvanhorn When I've been guilty of skimming the plan in the past, Claude sometimes starts building something totally wrong. Do you try to steer it during ce-work? Then I get worried we're our planning documentation drifts. Or let it ship and then make a new ce-plan to handle fixes?

[Chris Lesinski @lesinski]

Introducing...

AgentBot, the AI assistant for your life.

Just connect your: email, messages, photos, bank statements, medical records, home calendar, work calendar, calendar's calendar, therapist's notes, Roomba floor plan, performance reviews and a signed power of attorney.

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@ankurnagpal What you're looking for is a human travel advisor.

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@OsheaJacksonJr Put this boy on America's Got Talent

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It's like... would anyone authentically knowledgeable about a subject even call their page "Best...."?

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I find it hilarious that pages with the title "Best" draw >40% of ChatGPT's attention when it searches.

[Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo]

In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization:

1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically.

2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts.

3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer.

4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things.

5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode (+2.4%) and ChatGPT (+2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero.

6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products.

7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating.

8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time.

9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap).

10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.

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@ianmiles @Jason @StartupArchive_ @twistartups @grok explain why "clipping news clips and putting commentary over it" is not fair use

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Apple TV just announced that (for the first time ever) this weekend's LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo match will be shot entirely on an iPhone 17 Pro.

Here's what the setup looked like last year when they began testing it during MLB games.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

This was an amazing and incredibly damning experiment using Microsoft Copilot, by @adamjkucharski https://t.co/r3WvNMF9jD

[Chris Lesinski @lesinski]

“I watched a freshman I knew sign the declaration that he’d done his homework without A.I. as ChatGPT was still open in the next window — while on the deck of a yacht party financed by venture capitalists.”

https://t.co/IyM2TDJ82y

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Apparently I say "strategy" enough at home that my 6-year old now has one for her misbehaving imaginary kittens. She used the word perfectly. Kittens don't stand a chance.

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@Lucas_Shaw What are the 3 fastest-growing companies in entertainment that no one is talking about?

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Day 1 experience :

- 3 giant full-screen walls of gibberish error text
- Transcription randomly stops when I talk for several minutes, with no audio feedback, so I keep talking and lose part of the session
- Dictation misses that even Siri gets right
- Randomly turns text into bullet points
- Editing notes is frustrating because the keyboard overlaps the note area and hides the cursor; won’t let me scroll down to reveal cursor
- Have to switch out of the active app into the Whisper app just to use dictation
- Homepage is useless, I would expect a transcript app to have a “transcribe now” button

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I’ve been using Whisper Flow for a day and I have no idea what the hype is about. Someone please tell me what I’m missing.

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@JoannaStern Well played hahaha

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@daleer161 @bcherny Agree this seems like a no brainer

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This is crazy

https://t.co/JxZ6biG2cY

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@TVGrimReaper You’re technically right and make a good distinction… but don’t you think buyers absorb signals like “#3 in streaming” or % of TV from decks and sales chatter? Doesn’t set pricing but broader narrative.