Walid Behlock

Software Creative @nothing, ex. @arrival

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

The community knows how to do things.

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@antoine_os Link?

[VWFNDR™ Camera @VWFNDRcamera]

REAL PHOTOGRAPHY MUST REMAIN IN PEOPLE'S HANDS

Today, we are launching VWFNDR™ + MBL, a compact camera for everyone.

A camera you always carry should work like a camera, not as a computational filter, not as an AI image generator, but as a tool for intentional photography.

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

glyphs + sounds + haptics

voice + tone + pacing

we're going for a point of view, an aesthetic, coherent across every surface

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@LewLew94 @limebike killing it

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@signulll good enough design, maybe

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

Drop in Berlin!

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@nothing Everyone will be able to enjoy your great work! @zock_jad

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

Spotify is so bad… might finally pull the plug

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

The MCP backlash today has been interesting to witness... turns out models are capable enough to read the messy web as is and figure it out

The Semantic Web tried to impose standards to make data machine readable 25 years ago, never hit critical mass. Same thing will happen with most of our tools, agents will learn to use them from docs and playing around, without the need for a universal spec

This is especially true on mobile, where agents that can navigate messy UIs and fragmented data will beat ones waiting for every niche app developer to implement a spec. Samsung is already betting on this with their S26, where Gemini navigates real app UIs in the background instead of asking developers for APIs. Right direction, but fragile

The real solve will be an OS level agent that understands you deeply enough that it doesn't need to pretend to be a user. Apps just need to expose a handful of core actions (order food, book ride, play playlist) as structured intents and let a lightweight on-device agent figure it out. Android is well positioned here, the foundation already exists

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@antoine_os I want to see this happen but always end up missing my mac shortcuts so bad…

Any tips?

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@dankuntz aligned @nothing

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

The blind box model (Labubu, gashapon) is centred around the transaction, that's when the dopamine hit happens. You either love it, trade it, or buy another box chasing rarity. The cultural power is also external, it's signalling, belonging, social currency.

STARBOY is interesting as it inverts both mechanics. The randomness doesn't happen at purchase, it evolves over the lifetime of the object, creating some kind of relationship model. You can't grind for a better outcome, can't optimise it. That's a different reward loop to anything in consumer tech right now.

Pretty sick release

[Daniel Kuntz @dankuntz]

Each STARBOY ships with a unique set of eyes. You don't know what color you'll get, and you can't alter it. There are over 5000 different looks, each with associated rarity.

[Nuevo.Tokyo™ @nuevo_tokyo]

The new Nothing 4a Pro is here!
This keeps proving that Android has a wider advantage in uniqueness, personalisation and style.
And better cameras for less!

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@thomaspaulmann Good stuff, congrats!

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@tedchildish Amen

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

Stunning work from the team, as always.

https://t.co/vprLOEbiy7

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

This isn’t the first time a shift like this happens and it won’t be the last.

I feel like what’s happening right now is what happened to photography — when everyone has an amazing camera and a publishing outlet to the entire world, we just get more of everything. Diversity and new ideas, class differences erased. But also a huge noise increase.

The people who would wade through the mud of challenges to master photography pre iPhones were on a path of commitment to being the best they could be. Nowadays the vast ocean of noise has weirdly dampened photography as an art. I for sure thought the opposite would happen, that people without the means to pursue photography in the pre-iPhone times would now have a stage, but they too drowned in the noise.

The same thing happened to sign making and many other fields of craft. It’s happening to software now. Average actual quality will go down and consumer expectations on quality will fall. Maybe the next 10-15 years is simply the cost of progress and we’ll build Star Trek-grade computers in a few generations from now.

Perhaps this is “good”, perhaps not. Regardless, it feels like desperate times of gold rush, not like a renaissance of software.

In some ways, software around 2010 felt like peak avg of quality. What did we culturally do back then that we changed or stopped doing, I wonder…

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@dvdsgl CLI as the universal interface

[Walid Behlock @walidbehlock]

@0xDevShah Why not just use Opus 4.5 through Claude Code?