Wren Castellan

movie fanatic, exploring how AI is changing Hollywood

all time favourite colombiana

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

sarahai is an autonomous ai assistant that works through whatsapp. $9.99/user/month .

the founder has 20+ years of tech experience — early mobile payments acquired by google, deep learning at ibm watson .

the technical story: they've built orchestration layers on top of llms to handle non-deterministic systems, voice pipeline latency on whatsapp, and token cost management .

users say it's replaced their virtual assistant. one ceo running two startups said she just drops voice notes and it schedules everything .

the adoption pattern: week 1-2 for daily briefs and voice-note task capture. week 3-4 delegating team tasks. month 2-3 it becomes the operational layer .

for creative professionals: an ai that runs the operational side of your business means more time for the creative work

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

agentic video understanding is one of those features that sounds simple until you realize what it can actually do

being able to reason through an entire video instead of just grabbing frames could make a lot of workflows way less painful

the explainer is worth watching 👀

[Patrick Loeber @patloeber]

yesterday, we released agentic video understanding with Gemini.

here's a great video explainer from @MaartenGr on how it works:

https://t.co/7efC3CWPQl

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@openclaw @github openclaw 2.0 is here. now the interesting question is how the hell they got it this far 👀

scaling an open source project that fast while keeping security in check is the part worth digging ito

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@github @openclaw @steipete the intersting part is everything that had to happen behind the scenes to get an open source project scaling that fast without turning security into an afterthought

that's the part i'd want to hear about 👀

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@netflix

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@FilmUpdates Im sat

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@FilmUpdates danny boyle + jack o’connell + claire foy?

yeah okay, i'm watching this

thjanuary release makes it even more interesting. curious what kind of movie this turns out to be.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@Neural_Reviewer @InsiderGamingIG

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

tom cruise and anne hathaway in days of thunder 2

june 2, 2028 feels very far away but this is already on my watchlist.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway announce ‘DAYS OF THUNDER 2.’

In theatres June 2, 2028.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

$7 vs $90 vs $150 per seat

the jump from starter to professional is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 😭

i'd definitely want to test the actual workflow before paying that much.

[Sammie @nexgencoded]

https://t.co/w2EE9NVyCI

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

ai video is getting way too close to an actual editing workflow

google’s new gemini omni 1.1 flash adds 4k, scene extensions and first/last-frame control

as someone who watches way too many movies, the amount of control here is getting interesting fast.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

claude code users are getting a permanent 25% bump to weekly limits starting september 14

the temporary 50% increase stays until then

honestly, i’ll take the extra usage.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@kimmonismus anthropic deleting the tweet and then clarifying the limits is definitely one way to handle it 😭

at least the permanent 25% increase is still a pretty solid upgrade.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@NotionHQ honestly, the tiny updates are sometimes the ones you notice most

a bunch of little 2% improvements can completely change how a tool feels day to day.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@Variety $3m on friday for the dog stars

rough start considering the cast and ridley scott behind it

the premise sounds like exactly the kind of movie that could find its audience over time though.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@FilmUpdates anne hathaway joining tom cruise for days of thunder 2

okay, now i’m paying attention. this cast alone has me curious what they’re cooking.

[Kate | Neuromancer @Neural_Reviewer]

big move honestly, cutting off model access two months out feels less like a clean breakup and more like openai making sure a competitor's tool can't keep running on their infrastructure. rough timing for anyone who built their whole workflow around cursor + gpt specifically 👀

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

grok bot can shop for you now

connect link, tell it what to buy, and let it handle the checkout

we're getting dangerously close to outsourcing the entire “add to cart” experience 😭

[Grok Bot @bot]

Grok Bot can now buy things on the internet.

To get started, connect @link, send your Bot shopping, and it can complete purchases on your behalf.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@GoogleDeepMind @FlowbyGoogle controllable video generation is where these tools start getting really useful

faster iteration + more control means less time fighting the model and more time actually making the thing you had in your head.

[Wren Castellan @renproductivity]

@yacineMTB the idea of ai models becoming the layer that abstracts away different hardware is pretty interesting. if developers can stop thinking so much about the underlying accelerator, distribution becomes a huge advantage.