Smile Sikand

🇨🇦 Product @ Stripe. Ex-Square. Veritas Vos Liberabit

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is - Infinite !

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

What is a decision model?

Jev by @typesafeai answers yes/no and multiple-choice questions, with a confidence score. Much of software development are a sequence of decisions, and Jev is 10x cheaper and faster than an LLM.

Let’s understand this through practical examples:

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

why do they drop new models on friday! here goes another weekend :) #jev @typesafeai

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform.

Learn more:
• https://t.co/kGsKMULe3m
• https://t.co/Fn5U2QRaaz
• Email jweinstein@ / @jeff_weinstein

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

📣 Announcing: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform. (This going to unlock many new money muse cases!)

Learn more:
- https://t.co/7DLG4WHlj9
- https://t.co/QcQyq0NQBj
- or email jweinstein@

[Cult MTL @cultmtl]

Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history https://t.co/TqMTznbE2O

[jack @jack]

incredible how programmed we all are, and how sharp the turns have become.

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

intéressante !

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year due to safety concerns around AI.

"I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that," Altman said.

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

@kevinyien wonderful! all we need now is tesla optimus to grab everything on its own - feels like the last missing piece :)

[Emily Sands @emilygsands]

At the speed with which AI can change the economy, quarterly reports are too laggy. The @stripe SaaS Index is weekly, same-business pay-in volume across ~72k SaaS companies--so it moves right alongside demand.

And here's what it's telling us: SaaS growth accelerated straight through the SaaSpocalypse selloff. Yes, accelerated. So more like a RenaiSaaS.

[Ted Hsu @tedhsu]

$48 million to destroy bike lanes in Toronto that could have been spent on healthcare, housing and public transit instead. Why are taxpayers across Ontario paying for this? #onpoli

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Met Boyan Slat today. The Ocean Cleanup is already catching about 5% of the total amount of plastic flowing into the sea from all the rivers in the world, and within a few years they hope to catch a third. Impressive that a single organization could have such impact.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

When you vote in a leader, you hope they have the character to act in the best interests of the country, especially when the decisions are hard and the path ahead is unclear. To think and act with principle, rather than emotion or fear.

Canadians are very well served in this moment.

Thank you, Prime Minister Carney.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

OpenRouter is joining Stripe: https://t.co/JY7bledeQD.

As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers.

OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important role: in the future, every business will have to manage both revenue flows and token flows. OpenRouter is the world's leading token marketplace, helping businesses effectively allocate the new currency of intelligence capital. We think that there's a lot to build together.

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

This is awesome !!

[cam worboys @camworboys]

Meet Berd

We just dropped the best way to run your favorite models + agents in one interface.

Open source.
Super clean UI.
Gloopies.

Like Codex, but more vibey. Give it a try. I love it.

https://t.co/wsgs7j393F

[jack @jack]

what's the word, https://t.co/iTe4OIcV71

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I love agentic coding harnesses, but they shouldn't be primarily terminal-based. The terminal is great for quick and precise commands, but information density is extremely low and UI affordances are minimal. Maybe provision of TUIs is worthwhile for occasional use (when establishing a tunnel is too annoying, or something), but it feels very strange for this to be the default modality. It took a long time for dynamic language REPLs to break out of the terminal (Jupyter notebooks and similar); I hope we don't have to wait as long for the harnesses.

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

This is why you should NOT vote for this guy. Toronto deserves more bike lanes.

#topoli

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

Today the Court of Appeal confirmed what I said on Bloor Street W., in Etobicoke on Tuesday: where bike lanes go is a decision for elected governments, not for courtrooms.

For almost two years, the future of Toronto’s streets sat in legal limbo. Drivers sat in gridlock. Businesses on Bloor West watched their sales fall.  The Mayor spent those two years cheering on a courtroom fight instead of fixing the street. That’s two years this city doesn’t get back.

Here’s what today’s decision doesn’t change: the best people to decide what happens on Toronto’s streets are still Torontonians. My message to Queen’s Park is simple. You’ve made your point. Now let the city do this job, with the communities who live on these streets, and work with Toronto’s next mayor instead of around him.

My commitment from Tuesday stands, and today removed the last excuse for delay. As Mayor, I’ll take the bike lanes on Bloor Street West, from South Kingsway to Resurrection Road, out in my first year and restore the vehicle lanes. And I’ll build cyclists something better than a painted line on an arterial road: a real network of trails in our ravines and hydro corridors, plowed in winter, and routes on quieter streets. That promise doesn’t depend on any courtroom, and it never did.

Mayor Chow should accept today’s decision, end the legal chapter for good, and sit down with the province on an orderly plan. If she won’t, voters can choose a mayor in October who will.

[Smile Sikand @smilesikand]

This is pretty cool !

[Supabase @supabase]

Introducing Supabase Evals.

Our benchmark for how well AI coding agents build with Supabase. We run agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Open Code against real tasks and score what they do.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Calling the 87,000 people who participated in the Billy Bishop Airport consultation a “fringe group” because you disagree with them is lazy, but it is also antithetical to democracy. We shouldn’t tolerate this behaviour from an elected official.

The consultation process is only legitimate when it produces the outcome you want?

This is the same rhetorical tactic Donald Trump has repeatedly used: dismissing critics and opponents as illegitimate rather than engaging with the substance of their arguments. Undermine those whose views you don’t like by making things up about ‘who’ they are. Nice. Very nice.

We shouldn’t normalize this kind of politics in Canada.

We’ve seen where it leads.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

This article is flawed.

It provides no credible evidence that Toronto’s business community broadly supports expanding Billy Bishop Airport. Instead, it relies on commentary from Giles Gherson, a former Ontario deputy minister under the Ford government who now leads the Toronto Region Board of Trade (a connection that deserves greater scrutiny and context).

As a Toronto business owner deeply invested in this city’s long-term success, I do not recognize the supposed consensus presented here. Many Toronto business owners understand that a green, liveable downtown is fundamental to the city’s economic performance.

Expanding the island airport and introducing the additional noise, congestion and disruption it would bring would undermine the very qualities that make downtown Toronto attractive and competitive.

Businesses that depend on proximity to a major airport already have Pearson and its surrounding employment district, one of the largest in the country. Downtown Toronto serves a different purpose.

Pearson is also less than 30 minutes from Union Station on the UP Express and is itself undertaking a multibillion-dollar expansion.

This reads like airport-expansion advocacy presented as the position of Toronto’s business community.

Yesterday I wrote that the golden goose was safe, for now, and that those who wanted a piece of it would be back.

This article proves the point.

https://t.co/yjgl55pwsZ via @torontostar