Sam J

eng @wayframe

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@levelsio @cursor_ai Isn't replicate your first exit ?

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@SebAaltonen what are the differences between using an oss engine vs your custom one ? did u designed it to be agents friendly ?

[Sam J @sam_jb]

Leasen learned, Every startup should finetune their models

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

If this doesn’t radicalize you into founding your own open source AI lab, I don’t know what will.

[Sam J @sam_jb]

it's inevitable
https://t.co/GIMeOWPjv1

[Sam J @sam_jb]

if fable is too dangerous what about AGI !!

[Sam J @sam_jb]

funniest timeline ever

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@alvinsng Does it work like claude workflows?

[Chouaieb Nemri @c_nemri]

Claude Fable 5 is an amazing model. I one shotted a 3D navigatable Sidi Bousaid (iconic city in Tunisia) using ThreeJS and running straight from the browser. Prompt in comments

[Sam J @sam_jb]

Cloudflare is becaming THE JAVASCRIPT COMPANY

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone. https://t.co/DJTpX4Q9Xt

[Sam J @sam_jb]

👇👇👇

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

"Engineering, product, and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"

Yeah... I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.

Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles, someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main Thing™

That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad, but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.

AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet... you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.

The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair, sometimes this is true! Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.

However, it is going to be incredibly hard to disrupt the extremely human parts of corporate jobs. You really think there's going to be a PM who also does some engineering and design on the side at JPMorgan Chase?

This is true for the simple parts of most jobs, like people wanting to have ownership over something and do good work, move up a career ladder, support their family, get paid well, make an honest living...

And also the hard parts: internal politics, some critical business system that has a bus factor of 1 which has been running for 15 years and isn't documented anywhere because it's that guy's job security. The real world has a lot of this stuff.

It's easy to pontificate about all roles collapsing but it's actually really nice to have a specific person or team who is an expert in one thing that you can work with. I don't expect that to change. Further, I think AI disruption to knowledge work will take decades to play out because it is more fundamental to the human condition (e.g. sociological/organizational) than pure intelligence.

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@jeff_behnke_ @thdxr how u got access ?

[Sam J @sam_jb]

"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"

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

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.

[Sam J @sam_jb]

wtf how they are thinking this is good to get customers !!

[ari ramdial @ariramdial]

i signed up for Corgi out of curiosity after seeing their fundraise announcement.

tell me why i got bombarded with 6 calls and 5 text messages all from different people within a 1 minute time span.

yikes

[Sam J @sam_jb]

Sama is jealous

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.

This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@jyangballin @KLieret Great eval just missing 5.5

[Wayframe @Wayframe]

OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 is now live on wayframe.

Here’s some brand assets it was able to generate in the canvas

Go give it a try!

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@emanueledpt @sama android version please

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@ajambrosino Codex allow me to change model reasoning after accepting a plan also allow me to adjust speed during a running task

[Sam J @sam_jb]

@threepointone this should be an official DO feature tho

[David Hill @iamdavidhill]

ai makes design tools, thinking, and process more important, not less.