Shogun

Founder of Avant Labs. Interested in the intersection of tech and society

[Ben Lang @benln]

YC on how to get your first 10 customers:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Amazing abundance for all!

[Sakana AI @SakanaAILabs]

Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.

Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.

Try it: https://t.co/hhO6qTawgb 🐡

[Karan @karankendre]

Nobody saw this coming

Japan is now officially in the AI race

and they’ve released a model that performs on par with Claude Mythos

[Ap @apinions_]

Bangkok has 6 years (!) of condo inventory relative to the typical sales rate.

New launch prices are coming down. The majority of new condo launches are now priced below ฿80,000/sqm. Some sanity, finally.

Developers are aware of the two upcoming upzoning reforms. They’re cutting prices to clear inventory in preparation and because they’re financially desperate.

Prices are trending down and IMO we’re close to the bottom, but it’ll be a long while before they return to ~2022 levels.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178

[Tancrede @Tancrededib]

Investing $250k in non-US based builders.

40 spots, 8 weeks, San Francisco.
Flights/housing/food covered + visa support.
This Fall

Looking for:
technical/product builders
pre/early idea cofounder-seeking

Comment your edge and I’ll get back to you!

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Claude Code's creator said something that stopped me cold:

"I don't prompt Claude anymore. I write loops — and the loops do the work. My job is to write loops."

Most developers are still crafting the perfect prompt.

The person who built the tool moved past prompting entirely.

In 30 minutes Boris reveals his actual daily Claude Code setup.

Claude Code + loops + dynamic workflows.

Worth more than any $500 vibe-coding course.

Watch it.

Then read this - everything you need to know about loops to actually apply what he says ↓

Bookmark both. This is your weekend.

[Superior @andreysuperior]

Most people see a street. He sees $300-600 per block.

A 24-year-old from Chengdu figured out that every hotel, every apartment, every commercial space within walking distance is an untapped asset. One nobody has packaged yet.

He straps a rig to his back, walks in, spends twenty minutes scanning the space, and leaves with a file that lets anyone on earth stand inside that room from their couch.

The client pastes a link on their booking page. Guests tour the property before they arrive. Cancellations drop. Reviews go up.

He gets paid $400 for the scan. $99 every month for hosting.

The technology: 3D Gaussian Splatting. Free on GitHub since 2023. The app: Luma AI. Also free. The page he delivers: built by Claude in ten minutes.

Total tool cost: $20/month.

Month one: $3,500. Month six: $18,000.

The streets haven't changed.

He just started charging for them.

[Pichapen @pichapen]

If you are building in Bangkok, this event is for you 🫵

Following our success with "Thailand in the AI Race," we are taking the next step: Physical Infrastructure.

We are proposing that Tobacco Factory 5 (โรงงานยาสูบ 5) - the historic space right behind QSNCC and next to Benjakitti Park be transformed into the city's first AI Builder Hub.

By utilizing vacant BMA assets, we create a high-density zone where policy meets product. The "trust-layer" of AI including capital, talent, and infrastructure, which needs a center of gravity. This is it.

Join us at the site on May 12 for our AI DEMO DAY

📍 Location: Tobacco Factory 5, Benjakitti Park

The Agenda:
14:30 | Doors Open: Check-in via AI Passport
15:10 | Forum 1: Built in Bangkok -Why Builders Choose This City
16:00 | BKK Showcase: part 1
16:40 | Forum 2: Scaling the Engine - Capital, Infra & BKK’s AI Future
17:20 | The Hero Workshop: Live Build
18:20 | BKK Showcase: part 2

Bangkok is not staying on the sideline, Bangkok is the platform.

Registration link below 👇

[Shogun @shogntech]

Does acupuncture work? (from @TheEconomist) https://t.co/0sraf4euGx

[Shogun @shogntech]

Oil or nothing: will Trump’s Venezuela gamble pay off? (from @TheEconomist) https://t.co/IZEp3rNuxp

[Colossal Biosciences® @colossal]

Meet Romulus & Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals brought back from extinction using DNA from 72,000-year-old fossils.

Follow to watch these dire wolves grow and to discover the next species we’re working to bring back.

[Teng Yan @tengyanAI]

For 20+ years, software ate the world. Now, AI Agents are eating software.
A massive signal just came out of China that most people missed:

Bairong (a publicly listed enterprise giant) started selling "AI Workers".
they call it Results-as-a-Service (RaaS). 🧵

instead of buying "seats," enterprises now "hire" agents. each agent comes with a job description, KPIs, and revenue targets.

if performance drops, the bill drops. if the agent improves, it earns more.
Bairong runs this through "Results Cloud". it’s essentially an HR system for machines.

they’ve already deployed agents across: Sales & Customer Service + Recruitment (hiring cycles cut from 30 days to 2) + Legal & Tax (handling 90% of high-frequency work)

this is where the SaaS model starts to crack.

Traditional SaaS: You pay upfront. You carry the risk.
Agentic Era: You pay for outcomes. The vendor carries the risk.

this shift is being accelerated by the collapse of build costs.

I came across this post by @martinald recently that agentic coding has slashed internal build costs by ~90%. when it's this cheap to build exactly what you need, the "Buy" in "Build vs Buy" dies.

IMO, Vendors who are not able to price against results will struggle.

the "Seat" is dead. the "Outcome" is everything. 🤖📈

[Balaji @balajis]

Notably absent: places like Warsaw, Dubai, Riyadh, Shenzhen, Bangalore, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, and Shanghai.

That’s why many Americans aren’t calibrated on the world outside the West. They aren’t flying there, and they aren’t seeing it on their TVs.

So the rise is invisible, despite being all too visible.

[Chris Laub @ChrisLaubAI]

This is insane 🤯

A new system called Paper2Video can read a scientific paper and automatically create a full presentation video slides, narration, subtitles, even a talking head of the author.

It’s called PaperTalker, and it beat human-made videos in comprehension tests.

Hours of academic video editing... gone.

AI now explains your research better than you do.

👉 github. com/showlab/Paper2Video

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

Someone used Elon Musk's actual thinking framework as AI prompts.

It's the closest thing to having a billionaire engineer rip apart your ideas and rebuild them from physics.

Here are the 15 prompts that changed how I solve problems:

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

A wise mentor once told me: “Before you play the game, study the winners. If you don’t want their life, don’t play their game.”

[Lucy Guo @lucy_guo]

There is something deeply magical about the builder culture in SF.

Late night weekend hackathons. Launching on ProductHunt. Going viral.

Having friends left and right raise funding and have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

[Lucy Guo @lucy_guo]

Things I do to prevent myself from getting sick:

🏃🏻‍♀️ 2x Barry's per day
💉 Vitamin C, D, Zinc IV
💊 NAD & Methylene blue pills
🥣 Bone broth and garlic (bread)

Happy to say this has been working against whatever flu my entire office is catching