Robin Willis

ice is civilization

[Robin Willis @robincwillis]

@lorenzo_pravata Ai

[Xor @XorDev]

Sadly, it looks like @ShaderToy is slowly dying. No updates since Jan 2022, videos and SoundCloud support are breaking, and the servers are shaky.
I hope not, but it's not looking great

[Robin Willis @robincwillis]

@petergyang https://t.co/jTbZeB0e13

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

Anthropic is in a tough spot. OpenAI has 50x the brand and consumer distribution. XAI has this platform captured. Google has an infinite money glitch going for them.

How can they win? Good old fashioned marketing. They need to counter-position—make everything less creepy than the OpenAI's robot God energy.

This recent launch is a perfect example of their "more human" strategy:

1) handheld shot versus the creepy steady cam that makes everything feel like a webinar
2) a nice warm, yellow/orange color correction on the vids
3) its videos will go with fun jazz or low-fi beats that fills out the demos (no thinking about how the tools will take your job lol)
4) intros that humanizes presenters with no C-suite trumpeting accomplishments. just normal sounding team members.
5) most importantly, the models feel more soulful. they are trained to have a softer, more human like response to user queries. i know multiple people who fired their therapist and just use Claude instead.

really, really big fan of what they are doing (even if they could use some help on the naming front). everyone should be cheering for them to fight against the bigger guys.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

At an investor conference this week one of the biggest topics that came up in every conversation was about AI Agents in the enterprise. The speed at which Wall Street is now paying attention to this topic is pretty amazing.

It’s increasingly understood that this is probably going to be the single largest change in the enterprise software model that we’ve seen, even bigger than the cloud was.

AI Agents have the ability to dramatically change the business model of software. Today most software is constrained by the number, and actions of the end-users of the software. 500 software developers? 500 units of value. 50 lawyers? 50 units of value. And so on. AI Agents bust through this barrier, decoupling the value the software can provide by the volume of work the end user does.

AI Agents provide unlimited capabilities to the end-customer, in way that completely changes the TAM of software. Now you’re buying work from the software, not just buying it to do work yourself. 500 software developers? Maybe 5,000 units of value. And so on.

It’s clear that in many software categories, existing SaaS players have a natural advantage with AI Agents for their specific domain. They often have the workflow, data, and customer context to deliver these AI Agents.

At the same time, there are equally going to be a new category of AI Agent startups in spaces where the existing software is too slow moving or not a natural fit for agents. There will be plenty of vertical or cross-platform agent opportunities where no existing incumbent is a natural fit. And there’s plenty of new agent infrastructure and dev tools necessary to make this all a reality. This will create significant new startup opportunities.

Incredible times AI software going forward, and we’re just getting started.

[elvis @omarsar0]

NEW: OpenAI announces new tools for building agents.

Here is everything you need to know:

[tldraw @tldraw]

We just launched tldraw computer

[Ben South @bnj]

Keyboard I've been waiting over a year for just dropped—straight out of Bladerunner

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Generative AI is super cool… BUT I’m continually blown away with the work happening in ‘procedural’ 3D modelling.

Especially given these plugins are for a free (!) 3D tool like Blender. We needed a fancy Houdini license to do this just a few years ago 🤯

[Ilya · イリア @ilyamiskov]

Directional highlights matter.
Also let them absorb some of that color.

[♡s♡ @sun_girlxo]

I cannot recommend the AppleTV docuseries HOME enough. Each episode walks us through an incredible space designed to reimagine the concept of a home altogether.

And I shouldn’t be surprised about this, but I’m struck by how many of these owners — they tend to be architects themselves or artists — were motivated primarily by their children to imagine and build such beautiful and practical homes. Half their vision and dedication was for their children. I think that alone is one of my favorite things about being human: how important it is for us to bring beauty into children’s lives if we can help it.

[Robin Willis @robincwillis]

@rogie 👍🏻

[Robin Willis @robincwillis]

@aluu_rsa https://t.co/MPEeG22r1S

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This one weird trick will change your life

[WWOZ 90.7 FM @wwoz_neworleans]

New Orleans R&B singer Clarence "Frogman" Henry has died at the age of 87. His famous voice of a croaking "lonely frog" propelled him to fame with the 1956 hit single 'Ain't Got No Home.'

In Memoriam: https://t.co/5We0htyA0B

📷 at Jazz Fest 2010 by Hunter King

[Jake Cole @ThatJakePC]

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the matte work on Marvin the Martian cartoons. It’s like Kandinsky for kids

[MLB @MLB]

The Dodgers have a Korean Fried Chicken Bucket at home games this year 🤤

[Robin Willis @robincwillis]

@ridd_design This was a design interview question at Palantir

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The anti-smartphone movement will be one of the biggest movements of our time. It's just getting started...

[Mytho Africa @MythoAfrique]

Yoruba egúngún by Stephan Gladieu