wow - this is huge!
anthropic is officially walking back their decision about banning programmatic use of claude code subscription quota
why is this a big deal?
this is a signal that anthropic is revisiting their ecosystem strategy which many of us have been criticizing
by allowing invoking claude code programmatically, anthropic will basically extend their subsidized subscription to power a much wider range of applications, not just their own, which effectively means they are leaning more into being an infrastructure provider rather than the super app that eats everything else
they still have more to do to gain back my trust as a developer but this is a very positive change and i'm happy to see anthropic revisiting their strategy
How difficult is it to build vertical tabs in a Chromium browser? @comet still doesn’t have it after a year! I have rarely come across a non-Chrome user who doesn’t use vertical tabs.
still looking for both roles.
immediate joining only.
reach out with proof of work. if your DM starts with "i'm interested" and no work attached, it doesn't help either of us.
updated a couple pages on https://t.co/jE2G5vhyqq today.
somewhere in there is an offer for early teams:
up to $1,000 in Luffy credits.
no cap on how many teams can qualify.
go find it :)
Today we’re launching Prava Pay- Cards for your AI agent.
Coffee, sneakers or subscriptions - your AI agent can now buy anything online by itself, all within the limits you set for it.
Works with OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code out of the box.
Everyone is arguing about whether agents should get more tools. I think that is backwards. The default should be a sandbox where the agent can break things freely, then show a diff of what it wanted to do...
Introducing Cosmos 3: Our latest frontier model for Physical AI
Cosmos 3 is the world’s first fully open omnimodel with native vision reasoning, world and action generation.
Today we’re releasing Super (32B) and Nano (8B) variants.
The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.
And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.
Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.
This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.
I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.
Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.
With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.
My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.
There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.
Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.
I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.
I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.
Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.
in mumbai for tech week?
me, @_nishankj & @sahanTweets are throwing the mtw afterparty this saturday night.
you survived 2 days of panels. come unwind with us.
movie screening, karaoke, or just a fun party with food & drinks.
20ish people. founders, builders, investors, & whoever’s still in town.
you just show up. we’ll cover the rest.
luma in comments 👇