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Actively monitoring the situation.

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The world was short on AI commentary, so here are some thoughts, field notes, and a personal update: I'm taking a short sabbatical to get closer to the building, the teams, and how companies are adapting.

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https://t.co/1GdRcvsjcV

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@MrWillRichards the bird is cool but i’d also have accepted East India Company tea in the Yarra

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When one input gets cheap, value migrates to whatever scarce thing sits next to it. In this case, it's something that doesn't (yet) scale: judgement.

[Lachlan Hughes @LachlanHughes17]

What the Figma bears are missing is the paradox in their thinking. Design isn’t dead, it’s that the cost of initial ideation has collapsed.

And when this happens, the bottleneck shifts from brainstorming to judgement.

The more crowded the sand box (Claude, Stitch etc) becomes, the greater the need for a co-ordination layer for intent.

If there were only two ways to design a software feature, you wouldn’t need a coordinator.

But when product managers, engineers and marketers can spin up thousands of variations each day, processing the noise levels up.

Judgement is the new scarcity.

@zoink @figma

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Only properly tried Claude's slide-deck generation tonight. Disappointing tbh. Design especially, but content strategy too. The trick was telling it to just use whatever format suited it and I'd port it into a deck myself. Night and day.

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@__paleologo A lil shocked by this take. What early piece would you recommend that doesn’t get enough attention?

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@kevinyien @homsiT @deadly_onion take my money

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@dannolan @disco___cat It's so damn good. He can't do wrong.

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@nathanbaugh27 Start short. Anything by Claire Keegan may suit.

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Bullish on the Midjourney zaibatsu arc.

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Bullish on the Midjourney zaibatsu arc.

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Okay, I was expecting Midjourney’s hardware announcement to be a digital art frame. Maybe a camera. But this is incredible.

"Less than a dozen of these machines operating together at full speed can do more full body scans than every MRI machine together on Earth. Our goal is to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable together of doing a billion scans a month—enough to bring full body imaging to everyone on Earth."

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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@10footinvestor the flywheel effect is real

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obsessed with Thomas Bangalter's recent Lot set and the molten fisheye aesthetic they put over it

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Jaya's piece. "The question is whether the next trillion-dollar platforms are built by adding AI to existing data, or by capturing the decision traces that make data actionable." https://t.co/RFnd3CL3hx

[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

https://t.co/uPXcTUEsnc

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Great read. Nadella's 'token capital' lands on same idea a few others (incl @JayaGup10) have circled this quarter from very different chairs: the model isn't the moat. Broad agreement on the mechanism, but interesting where each thinks the value actually sits.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

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https://t.co/G91J06vIx4

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New substack out: A self-taught broccoli farmer, my university’s resident oracle, AI, Renaissance roleplay, company-building, and a few other things that caught my attention this week. (link below)

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Wild new reality: As of $SPCX, Jeff Bezos is now closer in net worth to the median US household than he is to Elon Musk.

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What are we all using in place of Loom these days?

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@julianjhutton hmu

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@gbrl_dick @bryan_johnson @_katetolo How is every other American over there actually an Australian expat?

Like I get it, I was one. But still. Everywhere.