Steve Hind

Co-Founder at Lorikeet. I deleted 10 years of my bad tweets so I could have a public account for my new bad tweets.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

My predisposition to bitch and moan is at least in part a product of being Australian, because it is culturally impossible for me to express unironic enthusaism for anything, unless it is sport. Goes double for anything I’m directly involved in. These are the rules.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

There's gotta be a better way to say that

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

Good public transit is key for an affordable, walkable city. That's why I'm riding the D on election day. @metrolosangeles

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

@al_hinds @NotionHQ right. literally just storing HTML is a huge improvement, b/c agents can trivially just push new changes.

we do this with @vercel for ext-facing docs, it would be useful to have something evne easier to do internally and for it to be interoperable with notion.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

I think @NotionHQ needs to build a HTML renderer.

Right now the best way output format for agents is HTML. But to share them we copy paste files into Slack, people download them, and view them. If we could just add them to notion and render them there it would be super useful.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

I don’t think this is a very well considered take. Imagine AI enables an AE to turn up to a call with amazing research and a tailored demo, and then to send an amazing follow up note right after. But their competitor can do it too.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

We keep hearing about 10x or 100x productivity gains in engineering and knowledge work.

But outside the model labs, I haven’t seen the corresponding 10-100x revenue growth across the market or increase in quality.

So where is the productivity going?

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

What first for Anthropic: 1tn valuation or 2 9s of API uptime?

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

It’s not profiteering to provide short term accommodation. Our city thrives on tourism, and people have family members who live outside Sydney who need and like to visit.

We need to build more long and short term accommodation.

[Philip Thalis @PhilipThalis]

Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor #JessMiller strong on limiting Airbnb-type rentals.
In inner Sydney, this profiteering closes off 5% of stock, when rental vacancies are in crisis at only about 1% - instant relief.
Need State Govts to step up, instead of sprouting development at any cost

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

Context: https://t.co/4jl6KfC7At

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

Just stumbled on a a**z podcast where m**c andr******n is going off on the SPLC for funding extremist groups. It’s just wild bad faith misinformation presented context free.

The “funding” was payments to individual informants for information. Even the DOJ’s lawsuit says this.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

This is a great idea and the backlash has been dumb.

[Tuyo @itstuyo]

Yesterday we unveiled Buy Now, Pay Maybe and the adoption is wild. Since rolling it out, we have already given out +1,700 purchases for free.

Let us clarify a few things:

1. Buy Now, Pay Maybe is not gambling. There’s no betting, entry, prize or loss. An algorithm decides when to give a purchase for free to maximize customer happiness.

2. There’s no debt in Tuyo. Customers need to have the available cash in their balance to make a purchase (and sometimes we will just cover it!). No credit is provided and overdrafts are not possible.

Financial products and incentives were incredibly boring and stale. Buy Now, Pay Maybe feels novel and that has ignited a spark.

We are creating the next generation of financial services leveraging the best new technology. Innovation like this is needed to deliver it to the mainstream.

We look forward to having you try it out!

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

i think all the hate about @itstuyo is dumb and misplaced.

trading certain small payout (e.g. 1% cashback) for variable payout (e.g. 1% chance of 100% cashback) is rational and fun for some folks.

in theory they could make payout ratios unfair etc but it's a competitive market

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

Variable uncertain rewards are really addictive. We know it’ll be 1-2% in aggregate. Many many people would rationally prefer a 1% chance of a 100% refund over 1% in constant terms.

[Ariel Givner @GivnerAriel]

I take back what I said, this isn’t a gambling credit card. It’s worse.

It’s a debit card where Tuyo has SOLE DISCRETION over the purchases that are “pay maybe” aka free for the user.

Zero odds. Zero stats. Slot machines are more predictable. This one’s going to result in a whole lot of overdraft fees for Tuyo because inevitably people will get addicted and spend more than they should “because this one might be free!”

Def a way to build smart spending habits!

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

@BrendanFalk Our docs are extremely detailed and available to our in app agent, Coach. Watch this space.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

1. pretty sure his secret weapon was crimes
2. why is associating yourself with Jordan Belfort good?

I get the theory that all publicity is good, but like the goal of marketing is to make people trust you and buy from you... how does this advance that goal!?

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

What the ever loving fuck

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

@MarkDiStef I think the analogy is an alcohol industry exec just getting blasted at work events. Like well yeah he definitely uses the product, but in the worst possible way.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

If five years ago you’d said “one way we’ll know AGI has been achieved is that the company that controls it will become the fastest growing company of all time” I think we’d have thought that was a reasonable test.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

@ZacGross @dannolan About 7%

Lots of addictive products have a tonne of their usage consumed by a small portion of users. So it’s reasonable a small portion of most compulsive users cutting usage due to GLP-1s cuts the aggregates.

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

@nkohari It’s potentially the unique magic of the USA!

[Steve Hind @stevehind]

I think this shows 40% of people earning over $500k are delusional.

“After I max out my tax advantaged savings account and pay my mortgage I’m living pay check to pay check!!”

[Frank Chaparro @fintechfrank]

This is pretty wild:

A 2025 Goldman Sachs report found that 40% of people earning $500,000+ per year say they’re living paycheck to paycheck.