Lew.hl

Building at @animocabrands. Ex @okx, @nansen_ai. Co-creating content with AI

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

Anthropic fucking killed it (again). biggest ai product launch of the year so far.

claude can now control your entire computer autonomously. anything you can do on a computer - claude can. your very own digital employee.

- any app, browser, file, spreadsheet, tool claude can intelligently access and operate.

- claude controls your entire screen (like a human), no connectors. this is a huge step-up in intelligence.

- best part: you can text claude to do things from your phone and it'll do work on your computer!

- in the last week anthropic has shipped 9 features that have built up to this: a fully automated digital human.

unreal

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

8/
This isn't financial advice. Don't blindly trust AI with your money. But as a tool to organize, analyze, and plan? An agent that sees your complete financial picture and helps you think through it is genuinely powerful. The future of personal finance isn't another app.

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

I just turned my AI agent into my personal financial planner and it's honestly wild how well it works. Here's how I'm using OpenClaw to get my entire financial life in order

🧵 It started simple...

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

7/
What makes this different from ChatGPT? Persistence. OpenClaw remembers everything across sessions. Google Sheets connected, cron jobs running, context from every conversation. It's not a chatbot I start fresh with. It's an ongoing relationship with my data.

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

6/6 Prediction markets are one of the most exciting things happening in crypto. But until the trust problem is solved, every major market outcome will come with the same question. Did the crowd really predict this, or did someone already know the answer?

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

People just insider-traded on a prediction market that was literally designed to catch insider traders. You can't make this stuff up 🧵

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

5/6 ZachXBT himself said he contacted Axiom for comment before publishing, making a leak "probably inevitable." Multiple people at the company knew the report was coming. Any of them could have placed bets or tipped someone off.

[Balaji @balajis]

This is the first AI cut.
And it will send shockwaves.

Remember: Jack is one of the greatest founders of all time. He created this platform that we’re all on, and has been early to many technological shifts. And Block was doing very well as a business.

So, for him to cut 40% of headcount in this way is a signal to everyone in tech: get good now. Become indispensable. Work nights and weekends. Learn the AI tools and raise your game. Or you might not make the cut, as an employee or as a company.

I know. That sucks. But capitalism is natural selection. The market is unforgiving, because you are the market. After all, it’s not like you’re buying some random gallon of milk from the store; you’re always buying the best product at the best price.

So too for apps: your customers are always installing the best piece of code they can get. And because AI is going to create new winners, if you aren’t the best in your market, someone may become better with AI. Particularly with the new agentic workflows.

To be clear: Block’s severance is generous by any measure. 20 weeks of pay, six months of health insurance and vested equity, all of that goes far beyond any typical package. Jack did his level best to cushion the disruption. The laid off are a temporarily unfortunate class, as opposed to a permanent underclass.

But had he not leaned into the AI transition, he might have had to lay off more people, slowly, and over time, as faster competitors went after his market share.

How would they do that? Sure, AI isn’t a panacea by any means, but the closer you are to software engineering the more aggressively you need to embrace agentic workflows. The AI companies are already doing that, and places like Stripe, Shopify, Coinbase, and now Block are pushing hard on this area.

There will be overcorrection. But the fundamental technical innovation is real. And you need to either disrupt yourself or get disrupted.

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

@MilkRoadAI They will finally have time to catch up with AI

[Lew.hl @theLewGuy]

@jack @blocks This is the first major CEO to openly say AI is the reason they're cutting half their workforce. Not "restructuring" or "efficiency." Just straight up, smaller teams + AI = the new way. Respect the honesty even if the implications are massive.