Tarikh

Founder and product guy, building in AI at Superculture. 3x venture-backed, 20 years shipping delightful new tech. I make the future feel obvious. NYC

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Earlier this year I had six terminal windows open and had somehow given myself a second job keeping it all running. My setup has changed since then. What I've stopped doing: https://t.co/YeZtcLfmZp

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What METR measured, what the 2027 forecast claims, and where the evidence is thin. A plain-language guide. https://t.co/SE1UrMYxcL

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@ahuja_karan I've run Duet as my chief of staff for two weeks, side by side with dot and Grok. Duet knows my life best but loses on finishing. dot beat it on a real citizenship filing by driving it to done, when Duet went to sleep. Promising but needs to be a lot hungrier!

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The dread when I realize I have, once again, forgotten to set permissions before my prompt and am going to be forced to type "Yes, proceed" 5,000 times... 😅😫

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None of this needs you to be technical. It needs you to ask, as a partner, and then give your team the time and budget to fix what they find.

The full piece: https://t.co/18tprlcYpc

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What should a startup founder do about AI security?

Short answer: ask your technical lead five plain questions this week, fix the basics, and take a specific ask to your board.

Here's why I think it's urgent, and the questions.

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Five questions for your CTO:

1. Hours to patch production, and who decides?
2. How do we know an update is safe, and can we roll back?
3. Where do our keys live, and how fast can we revoke them?
4. What can our agents touch?
5. Who gets the 3am alert?

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@benthompson I’ve been a happy subscriber for a decade, but adding ads breaks the promise of a service we already pay for. New paid or ad-supported features should be opt-in. Give customers a choice: a free or cheaper ad-supported tier, or a truly ad-free paid experience.

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@yashvkhaitan Visicalc (spreadsheet) actually became the killer app - the thing that drew real paying users to a new platform to do something couldn't do anywhere else. By this analogy, you're saying that use case is still lacking. Don't disagree.

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I think these agent apps - the kind you and I and our friends have been hacking for ourselves are the first new computing platform shift we’ve seen since mobile. I think they’re going to reshape everything. https://t.co/4nZI6oojk8

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@yashvkhaitan I think you'll see dots and muse change a LOT over the next few months including plugins, payments etc and I believe you'll see devs create for them as platforms.

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@msg They're lost :/

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@msg I had mine compete on selling a simple human trashcan online (and write about it) https://t.co/iqyrlCJKVm

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Play with it yourself here! https://t.co/6c2mtEIzhL

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Twenty years of @edbatista's writing, a post a week, no AI in mind.

Today it's Ed Bot: a free conversational coach, 100k+ conversations, and one @Medium's CEO says he's used in three difficult moments.

I built it.

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The full story, and the optimist's case for AI and writing:

https://t.co/dUTFR6O7XN

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We were thrilled to work with her and check her out on The @TamronHallShow today!

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AI is helping C-level execs become individual contributors again. @OUI_thePeople's Karen Young rebuilt her eCom site, launched a digital chief of Staff, and used Claude to optimize her physical events strategy. We sat down with Karen Young to learn how her ongoing AI work and partnership with Superculture (@tarikh) are helping her chart a new path to growth: https://t.co/YV4YQ2IVXj