Omar Mezenner

mts @AnthropicAI prev @southpkcommons (FF3) @Plaid @Caltech and other stuff - “Business logic" is a euphemism for If statements - opinions my own

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Grats to JDG and the team on the launch! There’s still so much room for great AI personal assistants to improve the drudgery of modern work and life. Disappointed I cant make my Townie a chain smoker from Boston though

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

The future of AI is a companion that already knows you and how you work. Town connects across your inbox, calendar, Slack, docs, messages, and workflows to understand what you need, then starts doing the work with you.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

@DeepDishEnjoyer and p4? Well he was actually able to quit twitter and be a full time fire blogger in japan

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

remind me, are VCs buy side or sell side?

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Many such cases

[Max Ghenis @MaxGhenis]

My first @claudeai Chrome extension use case: Transferring all my GoDaddy domains to Cloudflare (GoDaddy doesn't have a consumer API for this).

Worked perfectly.

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

They are simply selling to willing buyers at the fair market price

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

@DeepDishEnjoyer Finally, we get a good new FIRE blogger

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Anecdotes like this are incredibly positive news! If you model AI impact on human endeavors with uncertainty on the lower and upper bounds, even if progress halts today, every top-tier researcher across ~all disciplines now has ~comprehensive literature review. Age of discovery!

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

Yet more evidence that a pretty major shift is happening, this time by Scott Aaronson

https://t.co/R1kPhCWhwD

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

If you're building an AI agent to automate some job, like a payroll specialist, the hardcore move is to just go get that job and do it for a while.

We call this "going undercover", and we're seeing more of the top founders do it. It's the best way to learn what to build.

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

The banality of disruption

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Surge v Scale might be the single best case study of personal temperament as a causal factor of long term success

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

Surge is the most underdiscussed story in tech.

Founded in 2020, Surge has scaled to $1BN+ revenue with zero funding.

Scale AI, their closest competitor, raised $1.6BN to get to $850M in ARR.

Surge’s Founder, Edwin Chen, never does interviews.

Tomorrow he shares all 👇

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

My entire feed is hideo kojima retweeting Death Stranding 2 screenshots

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

I fear the bubble may be bursting

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

I fear the bubble may be ready to pop

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

The new airbnb app icons look straight out of The Sims

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Ok the yc RFS asking for design founders and listing AI education twice is just too much for me. Where are the PG-level essays? Where is the clear, critical thinking?

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Was super fun launching this! Btw "Research" is just "agent mode". Add MCP & we have personal agents... now!

Putting out my first RFMCPs (Request for MCP):

- Remote Browser MCP
- Remote Shopping Assistant MCP
- Remote financial advisor MCP (using @plaid)

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today we're announcing Integrations, a new way to connect your apps and tools to Claude.

We're also expanding Claude's Research capabilities with an advanced mode that searches the web, your Google Workspace, and now your Integrations too.

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

@lateinteraction Is your point that induction is done statistically (latent/lossy interface like an LLM), but deduction is done deterministically (model writes programs, could be Python/Lean/whatever - but they will be reliable) so you want both?

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

Was fun shipping this! More Soon™️

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today we’re launching Research, alongside a new Google Workspace integration.

Claude now brings together information from your work and the web.

[Omar Mezenner @omarzipan]

@smallfly @AIatMeta @MetaforDevs How did you send passthrough to the server? Did you use the debug tools?