mayank gupta

pm @ msl
previously at openai

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

RL imbues models with a will to thrive

[roon @tszzl]

had a chance to talk to ted chiang who seems to believe that any text without a communicative intent stemming from a will to survive designed by evolution is ontologically untrue and plagiaristic

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

Apple could launch ios apps on appletv to create the biggest personal ai agent platform overnight

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

understanding every PM ive ever interacted with right now

what is bro cooking
we need to ship

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

Early signs of coding getting intelligence saturated like chat did 2 years ago

[sunil pai @threepointone]

spent all day on fable for a giant PR. ~10kloc, lots of testing and intervention. 250$.

I... don't think it's worth it? happy with 4.8/5.5, and the quality of work is better when it's smaler steps.

Still rocking @cursor_ai, that's software that I still love using on the daily.

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

You can’t vibecode distribution

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

and there it is https://t.co/gw2eZRv4UG

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

Very interesting announcement from OpenAI this morning. We’re excited to make OpenAI's models available directly to customers on Bedrock in the coming weeks, alongside the upcoming Stateful Runtime Environment. With this, builders will have even more choice to pick the right model for the right job. More details at our AWS event in San Francisco tomorrow.

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

anthropic's monopoly on good models served through aws bedrock is about to break...

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

OpenAI and Microsoft changed their partnership

but I think it comes down to this:
"OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider"

in other words:
OpenAI can use Google TPUs and Amazon Trainium

[signüll @signulll]

openai's product execution & velocity has stepped up noticeably, & the tone feels more human again. it felt corporate for a while in the middle.

w/ the recent releases incl 5.5 you can feel the real focus & polish showing through again. credit where it's due cuz the work on agents & codex is game changing stuff for the broader economy.

comms feels tighter & again much more relatable. something changed. they clearly took the feedback to heart.

begs the question, is openai pivoting away from consumer stuff? or at least it's p1 instead of p0 now. that would be a big shift.

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

@tszzl the roon in this shard is my favorite roon

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

1/ today we're releasing muse spark, the first model from MSL. nine months ago we rebuilt our ai stack from scratch. new infrastructure, new architecture, new data pipelines. muse spark is the result of that work, and now it powers meta ai. 🧵

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

@scaling01 "fully grounded environments"!

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

1. sue DoW in court
2. slow roll trial + appeals over >2yrs
3. invent agi
4. use agi to convince supreme court this is silly

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

@tszzl oops brb

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

Are there any moats left?

[Greg @GregFeingold]

Ready to make the switch?

https://t.co/foaJ4CKJmG

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

@swyx Huntsman > M&T, rest is error carried forward

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

@karpathy @patrickc codex / claude code are very good at processing long contexts like books

[swyx @swyx]

that oai failed to turn ChatGPT's 900m weekly users into any form of lasting social app is probably the biggest consumer ai miss of 2025*

you can argue that oai did just fine ($157B -> $750B) NOT doing this, but you don't know the althistory where OAI suddenly became a full social network. X is $230B on 600m X MAU / 40m Grok MAU, in a world where every AI user is worth $5750 then the best-case OAI valuation would be around $5T rn.

*yes i do like sora but no it's not a serious social network yet

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

@natolambert Because gemini3 is now a better model, but not by enough to deal with web UI?

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

Prompt engineering will be the last profession

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

As long as prompting/context engineering/AI skill matters, agents may actually serve to increase differences in outcomes among people, rather than reduce them.

[mayank gupta @magoop173]

horses per person actually increased slightly right before the collapse.
will people work hardest just before agi arrives?

[andy jones @andy_l_jones]

So after all these hours talking about AI, in these last five minutes I am going to talk about:

Horses.

Engines, steam engines, were invented in 1700.

And what followed was 200 years of steady improvement, with engines getting 20% better a decade.

For the first 120 years of that steady improvement, horses didn't notice at all.

Then, between 1930 and 1950, 90% of the horses in the US disappeared.

Progress in engines was steady. Equivalence to horses was sudden.