Tony Yang

VP Product @ Mediatonic (Fall Guys). Previously at Space Ape (a Supercell company), Mind Candy/Moshi Monsters, Zynga, ESPN, NFL

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@Wimbledon Serena vs Eala would have been most watched of the tournament. Should have made that happen @Wimbledon !

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

Would totally play a browser based LoL with low queue times

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY HAD OPUS 4.8 BUILD A FULL LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CLONE IN UNDER A DAY AND CALLED IT "LMAO"

temu league of legends, fully playable, multiplayer, and all built by claude

ALL the art is claude too

he had claude generate every character, animation, and background as SVG code

then converted them to procedural canvas for smooth animation. used dedicated sub-agents for each champion

the tech stack: typescript, react, canvas, and partykit for multiplayer

the workflow:

> used /goal to kick off the entire project
> ultracode workflows for big tasks like optimization
> /goal again to queue up lists of bug fixes
> treated claude like a dev team

the original champion names claude came up with:

the original champion names claude came up with: Teehee" instead of Teemo. "CtrlAltDefeat" as a champion name. he had to run through and clean them all up so nothing infringed on riot's IP

claude even built the bots on its own with "chill," "normal," and "sweaty" difficulty levels

the token bill was 2.7 billion total tokens consumed. mostly cache reads. 15.5 million actual output tokens. would have cost roughly $6,600 at list price but he just used his pro max subscriptions

people are already benchmarking claude by how good of a game clone it can build

game developers are watching someone build a multiplayer MOBA in a day with zero art skills and zero game dev experience

2026 is wild (and its going to get even wilder)

[Brian Solis @briansolis]

The state of AI Slop in 4 charts.
Source: @wapo
https://t.co/MaozJS0w3t

[Josh Newton @JoshuaNewton]

WOW!! First time seeing @Dyson strawberries in the supermarket. Fully nerding out and losing my mind

[Matt Harney @SaaSletter]

👀 New "AI Is Eating The World" 79-slide deck from @benedictevans

https://t.co/UD7gYPmEXT

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@danzwku Whats the common thread between the two? Confucianism? Political instability?

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

LeBron is the same age as BOTH the head coaches in the Lakers-Thunder series 🤯

[“paula” @paularambles]

they call them crisps there

[cici @chintya_qu]

This thing automatically unplugs itself when your phone is full. No more overnight overcharging

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

This Russel Brand gif hits the mark on so many memes 😆

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Looking through the wine list knowing full well you're going to order the second cheapest one

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@Polymarket This was based on GDP per capita not income per person. Bottom 50% of the US owns like 5% of the total wealth. If the calculation were based on median wealth/income it jumps to like 30th / 40th. Not great still but UK has free health care and universities wayyy cheaper

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@iealondon The institue of economic affairs should know that median (not average) is the right calculation for this. Bottom 50% of the US owns <5% of total wealth

[blue @bluewmist]

YOU MUST LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING AN AUDIENCE TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LIFE

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@Nike Best Nike ad in a while. Good to bring back some humor

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

• be Morris Chang
• survive WWII in China, escape to America in 1949
• go to MIT, fail the PhD qualifying exam twice
• decide academia is a trap, join Texas Instruments
• spend 25 years climbing the ranks, building their entire semiconductor division into a global powerhouse
• get passed over for the CEO job because of corporate politics
• 1985: you are 54 years old. Most executives are buying golf clubs and preparing to retire.
• the Taiwanese government begs you to move to a tiny island and build their tech sector from scratch
• you look at the global chip industry and see a massive, glaring inefficiency
• the industry rule at the time: "Real men have fabs" (if you want to design chips, you have to spend billions to build the factory to make them)
• Chang realizes: "What if a factory just prints everyone else's designs, and promises never to compete with them?"
• 1987: founds TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) at age 56
• invents the "pure-play foundry" model
• traditional hardware giants like Intel and IBM laugh at him for just doing the "dirty work"
• suddenly, a guy named Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) and companies like Apple realize they can design world-class chips without spending $10 Billion on a factory
• TSMC single-handedly births the entire "fabless" technology industry
• scales the physics down to the atomic level, printing circuits smaller than a biological virus
• becomes an absolute, unbreakable monopoly on advanced human technology
• accidentally builds a "Silicon Shield" around Taiwan
• the US and China both realize that if Morris Chang's factories go offline for a single week, the entire global economy (smartphones, fighter jets, AI, car manufacturing) instantly collapses
• steps down, comes out of retirement at age 78 during the 2008 financial crisis to ruthlessly fire the CEO, doubles R&D spending while everyone else is panicking, and permanently crushes Intel
• 94 years old, smokes a pipe, plays competitive bridge, and controls the single most important bottleneck on planet Earth

"We do not compete with our customers. We are everybody's foundry."

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@aleabitoreddit This isn’t the first time they got in bed with $NVO last time it turned sour. What about this time?

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

Vibe coding is a good path to un-pigeon hole your career. It helps you confront your own limitations in Marketing/Product/Design

Use LLMs to build competencies in these critical areas. Become the generalist that is necessary in this new world. Trade secrets are no longer scarce

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

@TechWithMatteo yes, the validation/feedback tools are the new bottleneck. The dev velocity is now outpacing ideation velocity.

[Tony Yang @yangstax]

Claude/Cursor/Vibe coding has removed much of the rigor required for precise backlog prioritization.

If you are doing it right, you can now build the entire backlog (even the P3s) in one sprint. 70% of the time is now spent on playtesting and recalibrating the vision.