Trevin Chow

(Human) Product leader and Builder. @ppressdev @illo_skill and Compound Engineering (25k ⭐).

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

I wrote about a question we’ll have to ask our AI agents: who are you actually working for?

Knowing what I want doesn’t help much if someone else paid to narrow my options.

My piece for Every’s Thesis about the world "After automation": https://t.co/xHg8XJbtFB

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@ghstparticle unfortunately no... Just trying to get the latest version of SYNC installed which ford by default prevents me from doing.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

Reverse engineer anything, right?? Trying to upgrade my old Ford’s SYNC system to the latest 3.4. Let’s see if this works 🤞 😬

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@RustyOnLife @typesafeai Cloudflare's Clef models are multimodal too, i haven't compared it. But they really need a text based model to bring the price down.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

I ran some quick tests for this new Gemini Decision 1 model in a project I'm working on where I'm already using @typesafeai Jev and Microsoft Decision 1.

Gemini Decision 1 was accurate but it was never cheaper. It was also worse in my "request matching" tests.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing Gemini Decision 1, our new frontier decision model in the Gemini API.

It is $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no additional cost. With support for image, audio, video, and PDF natively, 256K context window, & 1K questions.

You can try it for free in the API!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

I love this nice little detail in @Yahoo's new Scout search: it highlights the source in the right rail when you hover over a link so it gives you context of the link w/o clicking, hover+squint, or right click gynmastics.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

1. Who would’ve guessed that @yahoo would be the one delivering an innovative (and useful!) search product in 2026?!

2. We got Yahoo Scoot before GTA6 🙈

https://t.co/KJMxqrNKAg

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@anaisbetts @ow yes, it's horrible to manage across repos.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@ssbrouhard @ebloch yes!!!! thank you!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@JackWoth98 @typesafeai 👍

You need a cheaper model when we don’t need multimodal in order to be price competive

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

Looks @muse gets an Apple Watch companion all in the latest update!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

https://t.co/PV4PTZwbyx

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

Uhhh. I did not expect this (the affairs and an ousting)

@Polymarket is at 81% that he’s outed by EOY!

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. https://t.co/Pjsu5j87CF

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@seriouspeopleai @kieranklaassen @every He's got the look of a man who's eaten too many Compound Sandwiches.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@AlexFinn Grok browser use was “already best in class”?!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@petergyang People keep saying this and they keep getting outpaced by everyone else. I still have hope for Google though, bc more competition is better for us

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@lennysan @GergelyOrosz 💯

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@GergelyOrosz reads this as a reason to "get more general" but I'm not sure that's the only takeaway.

front-end and mobile eng work is easier bc agents can check it's own work easily in most cases.

The roles that are growing, like FDEs and security engineering, cross into a customer's messy systems or a org, where their impact and nature of work is different.

An agent can't close that loop by itself in these situations, so until they can, this type of messy line-crossing work will continue to grow.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Engineering is changing: FDE is ascendant while mobile and front-end roles are disappearing.

Open mobile and front-end engineers jobs have been nearly halved in the past year!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@GergelyOrosz's post: https://t.co/ASSNjwrdp0

@lennysan report: https://t.co/v0ZLtlHtH7

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Fresh data confirms what I shared back in April: native mobile and frontend roles are dying. This trend sped up.

Safe to assume the only devs getting such jobs are very experienced ones. You need to become a more general software engineer with AI, to have career stability.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@imjustnewatai this is surreal... i love seeing stuff like this, thanks for experimenting (and sharing!)

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@naveennaidu_m Never be surprised with @kieranklaassen. he's the GOAT.