Dave Schukin

CEO & cofounder of @ObservantAI

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

@jeiting their voices are so calm. would be great to have this as an in-flight audio channel

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

"Wade Mode" is such an insane name because it sounds like the truck is asking if you’re brave enough

[Grapevine Police @GrapevinePolice]

Yesterday, GPD and GFD were dispatched to Grapevine Lake, where a Tesla Cybertruck was stranded in the water. The driver drove into the lake to use the “Wade Mode” feature when the vehicle became disabled. The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

A mental model for working with coding agents is that they're blind squirrels running into a maze and bumping into walls. You must place the walls (verifiable constraints) strategically so that they end up in the general region you want them in.

[Timothy Wang @timwangyc]

Introducing Ponder: the agentic video editor.

It’s a new paradigm for filmmaking, where powerful creative agents and humans collaborate to tell world-class stories.

We're also announcing our $2.5M pre-seed, led by Liu Jiang from Sunflower (@seedtosunflower), with @Joshuabrowder and @MattHartman.

Joined by @levie (Box), @emerywells (Frame), @JaredLeto, @CommaCapital, the @nyuniversity venture fund, @cory, @darian314, @shiffman, and many more incredible founders, investors, and creators.

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

@Hew_Knew @MurrayHillGuy1 step inside any gym in SF then any gym in the top 5 on this list, and you’ll see what a joke SF’s fitness culture is

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

According to Waymo's published data, their technology is preventing injuries & deaths.

My view is that if this is true, and I have yet to see a debunking of their data, then we safety advocates should be welcoming the technology.

If Waymo is lying or manipulating data, then write about how they're doing that! Instead the analysis in this recent Streetsblog article is limited to "the authors of the Waymo safety report work for Waymo!"

FFS, are we going to toss out all the NYCDOT reports about how their bike lanes improve safety? Are we going to toss out the decongestion pricing reports because they were written by the transit employees who want transit to succeed? I hope not!

Here's what we've been told by Waymo:
✅ 170.7 million rider-only miles driven without a human driver (equivalent to roughly 200 human lifetimes of driving).

✅ 92% fewer serious injury or worse crashes compared to human drivers in the same cities and conditions (0.02 incidents per million miles vs. 0.22 for humans; 35 fewer such crashes).

✅ 83% fewer airbag-deployment crashes in any vehicle (230 fewer crashes).

✅ 82% fewer injury-causing crashes overall (544 fewer crashes).

✅ 92% fewer pedestrian injury crashes compared to human benchmarks.

✅ 85% fewer cyclist injury crashes.

✅ 81% fewer motorcycle injury crashes.

✅ No fatalities caused by the Waymo Driver across these 170.7 million driverless miles.

✅ At current scale (over 4 million miles per week), Waymo prevents 1 serious injury crash every 8 days.

If data is manipulated or false, then report on that. Otherwise you come out looking like someone who only likes safety benefits that aren't shaped like a car. It's going to set back Vision Zero advocacy in states across the country that are on the fence about allowing autonomous vehicle operations.

Waymo does have a profit motive.
So do corporations who build homes, distribute food, host concerts, publish books, and make medicine. Not all of them are the same and some are downright awful.

Always challenge motives and incentives.

What's interesting about Waymo is that they have a financial incentive in being the absolute safest form of motorized vehicle on the street. They'll lose business if their software is just as dangerous as an average human driver. But that in no way means streets must be overtaken by motor vehicles (theirs or any other brand).

What do we want? 92% fewer pedestrian injury crashes compared to humans? 85% fewer cyclist injury crashes? Then come up with a way to let AVs into cities across the country.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Dog, this is so sad.

Imagine all the lives that were never had in San Francisco because it refused to build housing. Multiple lost generations of artists, writers and creatives.

Not to mention the literal lives that were never conceived because couples couldn’t afford a home.

[Grayson Brulte @gbrulte]

If you want to know why @Waymo is no longer testing in NYC, this statement says it all:

“Our top priority for AV testing is public safety and, as the mayor has made clear, any AV policy decisions will center workers and their well-being,” - Vin Barone, a spokesperson for DOT

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

This article is so good https://t.co/eq2nQeJdwg

[Alexis Gallagher @alexisgallagher]

I built a robot that lives in my house. It recognizes family members, works with me on writing and code, checks my mail & calendar, and likes to chat about its changing interests. URL shows how to make one.

(My son made this video, which totally saved my bacon for a deadline! 🙏 😅)
https://t.co/j3Lan1bYhQ

[Braelyn ⛓️ @braelyn_ai]

this is not even an idealized version of SF. this is actually how it feels to live here

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

OpenClaw is what Apple Intelligence should have been

[Alexis Gallagher @alexisgallagher]

Well, I joined the OpenClaw fun -- I connected it the Apple HomePod. Behold ClawPod! It's like giving Siri a brain transplant. It's pretty janky but it "works". 😆

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

do you hear that? these screams in the distance? https://t.co/BVEsuk4o9z

[Felix Krause @KrauseFx]

What @steipete has built with @openclaw is out of this world. The discord went from 0 to thousands of devs on Discord hacking together, new messages every minute, impossible to keep up.

Also, just shipped support for Beeper (messenger), Homey (Smart Home) and Fastmail

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

drone video of the old sutro bath house

[lusso @luusssso]

The single greatest piece of leisure based architecture in the USA once sat on the far western edge of San Francisco

The Sutro Baths burned to the foundation in 1966 and nothing has ever taken it’s place

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Build more housing, yes in my backyard

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

Didn't realize just how epic the original Sutro Baths were until people started posting photos. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

let's just go full sim city 2000

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

A developer has filed plans to develop a unique 25-story apartment complex where a Safeway grocery store sits in a wealthy neighborhood in San Francisco. https://t.co/MrxQZflSvW

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

guess I'll be looking like a wacko old man at demo day

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"You'd look like a wacko old man. And I'm not ready for you to look like a wacko old man."

— Jessica on why I can't wear Birkenstocks and socks to Demo Day

(I told her it's now fashionable to do this, which might be true, but she seemed skeptical.)

[Dave Schukin @schukin]

at this point I’d be more impressed by an AI video of channing tatum on an elephant than being featured in techcrunch, with all the content restrictions in sora etc