Saquib Patla 🔆

Engineer/founder | arena intern

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

Bluesky/fb’s rumoured twitter clone (interoperable with Bluesky) is halfway up I’d say.

It should be easier & cheaper still for people to build custom social apps – not developers, but say avg folks who are super connectors (newsletters/discords) or a company starting out (1/3)

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

Keep coming back to this thought -

Web3 & ownership economy efforts might be focused on the wrong end of the stack.

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

To me, this is beautiful. No excuses, no unassailable mountain.

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

I think their blueprint stays the same & can say they got a warm up against a very similarly athletic, physical team – take care of turnovers, transition defense, boards, try take the ball out of primary scorer’s hands. Just that Okc has everything dialed up, primary scorer is also their pg & can facilitate, everyone else can score, they’re much deeper, as cohesive as teams can get & never let up. Like when LeBron got 50 in the finals & ultimately it still granted only a tiny window to steal one game

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@khole_emily @dirtyverse Art seeps through & percolates though. You could be reading & watching movies while racing through life for a long time but I’d like to think you’d eventually encounter something that snaps the irony of it into place

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@isosteph Running up that hill

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@p_somayajula @erikmbaker The last wave of foot soldiers with no cavalry to follow

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@daisandconfused Can’t try something bold without risking it being unwieldy

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@inquisitrix @DrAllyLouks Could probably just start an Allygram at this point

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

A little surprised we didn’t see this sooner but I’m guessing this will build on a lot of work they must’ve been doing internally already

[Joanne Jang @joannejang]

🧪 i’m starting oai labs: a research-driven group focused on inventing and prototyping new interfaces for how people collaborate with ai.

i’m excited to explore patterns that move us beyond chat or even agents -- toward new paradigms and instruments for thinking, making, playing, learning, connecting, doing.

this builds on the work i’ve had the most fun doing over the past 4 years at openai: taking frontier capabilities and crafting them for the world with brilliant coworkers.

from dall·e 2 and standard voice mode to gpt-4 and the model behavior discipline -- spanning personalities and personalization -- i've learned how much the shape of an interface can invite people to push the edges of what feels possible.

for this effort we'll optimize for exploration over polish, so i'm excited to bring some very bad ideas & prototypes to life!!

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@vibhu @solana Is there something I can read that talks about why every company should be defacto public?

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@levie They don’t have to code up different versions every time if you have a few flexible frameworks for them to work with

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @KSHartnett reports: https://t.co/gTOeUIa9cZ

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

Figma is such a cool success story in so many ways, like the failed acquisition becoming a footnote, but the most striking one is getting there contrary to the make fast/fail fast laws of startupland. Probably among the exceptions proving the rule but an A+ addition to the lore nonetheless

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@cachedeposits The last line goes eat your freaking birthday cake

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@cachedeposits What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

3I/Atlas is a banger name for the oldest interstellar comet we’ve ever seen

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@levie @Yuchenj_UW Solving for absorbing/predicting relevant context & bringing up only the right parts to address it means you’re optimizing for size too

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

@kukukadoo Godzilla minus one, spirited away, my cousin vinny, party girl, instant family. Also I saw an 80s movie recently & wondered if we’d eventually get a new age version of an era of post-turmoil innocence, glam & rebellion. So any of those

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

Fate is a cruel mistress

[Saquib Patla 🔆 @shaqube]

A pacers in 7 series is the fitting end