Josh Auget

Helped run Cross-sell for Shopify (acq). Love offline privacy 1st tech, interaction design, HCI, craftsmanship, DIY, storytelling & running.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

We're about to enter a period where not reading or writing becomes as ubiquitous as smoking once was. We can hope people will eventually realize this is bad for them, as they did with smoking. But this is far from certain; the cost may not be as obvious.

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@venturetwins RAD GENIUS.

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@shinjukutheif1 I grew up watching all the Ernest movies! <3 RIP Jim Varney.

[ASHA @asha_shar]

Today we're standing up XBOX LABS (https://t.co/dJSufI1vni). Here is the note that I sent to the team:

Team,
The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we've helped shape the industry in return, from bringing hard drives to consoles and online gaming through Xbox Live to Game Pass and cloud gaming, alongside franchises that have brought millions of people together.
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we've seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.
These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games. While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.
To explore these possibilities, I’ve asked Scott to stand-up XBOX LABS, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience. We'll build in the open, learn from what people do, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating.
I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We've spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have.
Our priorities aren't changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs, to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it. LABS gives us a way to explore new technology that is game design led without abandoning the work already underway.
Asha

[Noah Tye @noahlt]

Lately I’ve been learning math with ChatGPT (Astra) as my tutor, using this document scanning camera and a vibecoded tool that pastes the captured image right into the chat.

This way, I just work problems on paper and ChatGPT gives feedback. It’s really nice.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Seneca hits you with a brick.
Pay attention to your life.

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@paulg Geographic dependent though, right? Not something one could pay the bills with in places like Central America :)

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@davidasinclair @YouTube YT is in dire need of an AI generated content filter.

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@shinjukutheif1 Underrated masterpiece. So f-ing fun! Have you seen The Guest & You're Next?

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@ID_AA_Carmack Are you using any tools to do "smart" model routing to reduce inference costs or token use?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises

The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent

Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@sama (1) Government corruption: https://t.co/aMjVFY5EaV
(2) Poverty & unemployment.
(3) Cancer.
(4) Global warming and human caused pollution.

[Aida Baradari @aidaxbaradari]

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings.

We live in a world of always-on listening devices.

Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations.

With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@useTRMNL Touch screen TRMNL?

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

Hi @shl. Happy holidays. Question: Any chance there will be a Buyback for Gumroad CrowdSAFE investments in 2026?

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@ericmigi Holy Moly! Is there an ETA for the new product announcements? PS: Merry Xmas!

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@Pebble New SDK/APIs? (i.e. Complications API)

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@CliftonSellers Demos > words.

[Josh Auget @thisismyclone]

@arvidkahl Some Thinkpads have included sim slots for a number of years...