Zach Cuskelly

Founder @firemeetings. Past: co-founder @TechLX and @Pogoseat. Tweets are about #startups #tech #edtech and #science

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

Free for individuals, install it and you'll see it on your next Google Meet.

https://t.co/Befs3YESMS

If you run a team and want the org-wide version, DM me for a demo or reach out to [email protected]

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

1/ Most companies know exactly what they spend on software.

Almost none know what they spend on meetings.

We built Fire Meetings to fix that. It puts the live cost of a virtual meeting on screen while it's happening. 🧵

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

To be clear about what this isn't: it's not employee monitoring and nobody gets a score.

It's an operating expense that happens to be invisible. We're making it visible.

[Lejla Johnsen @custo_lejla]

We’re entering a world of infinite output.

AI can generate code, designs, and create even entire product roadmaps in seconds. Building is getting cheaper by the day.

But judgment isn’t.

It’s no longer about who can produce more. It’s about who can decide better.

Taste and discernment isn’t just aesthetics.

It’s:
- Cutting a paragraph that sounds smart but says nothing
- Knowing which slide to delete, not which one to add
- Choosing the one priority that actually moves the needle

And ignoring the flood of “good suggestions” that dilute focus.

The hardest part of most white-collar work isn’t generating options anymore.

It’s choosing well.

And yet most tools optimize for speed and volume, not helping people get better at deciding.

I’d love to see startups building toward products that help individuals train better judgement over time.

What would it look like to create:
- Tools that train people to attach real probabilities to their beliefs - and see, over time, where they tend to overestimate or underestimate
- Systems that can make decision-making visible, trackable, and improvable
- Tools that train you to prioritize ruthlessly, that is to pick the few things that matter - and get comfortable killing the rest

In an age of infinite leverage, leverage without taste creates noise.

I’m especially excited about founders building products that strengthen human discernment.

In a world of abundance, discernment is the scarce asset.

If you’re building here, DM me and let’s talk!

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

CGI is about to get easy

This is simulon, a new iOS app that’s still in invite only mode

The video below was made with a live in-camera preview and auto-exposure matching, no camera solve, no HDRI capture and no manual compositing setup.

🔗 in next tweet

[Shivon Zilis @shivon]

Supposing for a moment that this is a simulation, if you replayed it thousands of times from 5000 BC onward, how standard vs outlier do you think this version is?

Which elements of our reality do you think are the standard bits and which do you think are the outliers?

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

Response format: Instructing ChatGPT to consistently output code updates in a unified format.

Writing style personalization: Applying the same voice and style as provided emails to all future email writing requests.

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

Whoa, this is pretty cool. @OpenAI has introduced Custom Instructions. This lets you give ChatGPT any custom requests or context which you’d like applied to every conversation. Use cases in the thread below.

https://t.co/VT2brOj4hr

#ChatGPT #openai #GPT4

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

Localization: Establishing an ongoing context as a lawyer governed by their specific country's laws.

Novel writing: Using character sheets to help ChatGPT maintain consistent understanding of story characters in ongoing interactions.

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

@TheRundownAI went to signup but why no SSL for site?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you aren't learning AI, you're falling behind.

Luckily, Harvard (4.5% acceptance rate) & Stanford ($78,898 yearly tuition) offer free courses.

No application or fee required.

Here are 10 FREE courses you don't want to miss:

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

On rethinking higher ed w/@minervaproject's Ben Nelson:

“Education will embrace a completely redefined centering around the ability to teach people how to apply broadly what they learn versus demonstrate recall. Without that shift, nothing else happens.”

https://t.co/9WAslPyKw3

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

This is pretty wild. We will soon have AI Agents being used for almost any rote task. I imagine there will be different levels of quality at different price points. It will be a massive business..

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

AutoGPTs are improving at a blazingly fast speed and could soon transform the face of business.

Here's what you need to know:

[Zach Cuskelly @zcuskelly]

this new #doge logo permanent? really missed a golden window to do it (april 1st) ..

seems odd to use a different entity's logo as your own.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Join us at 1 pm PT today for a developer demo livestream showing GPT-4 and its capabilities/limitations: https://t.co/xAg35cWkA5

(comments in Discord: https://t.co/rH899bWeeD)