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every major company is arriving at roughly the same offering: persistent memory, email/calendar/messages, browser + computer use, background tasks, proactive notifications, voice, app/tool execution, ambient context, & some notion of a personal agent sitting above everything.…↗

jev class of models have no generative decoder loop, have bounded outputs, utilize parallel inference, & have extreme compression/efficiency incentives. this makes them perfect to run on device (this will happen soon). at that point you can put judgment into basically every exis…↗

all of my imessages & email now run through a single agent interface. i still text, but i deleted every email client from my phone & canceled every email subscription or app i had. gmail is basically just a database to me now. increasingly so are the rest of google’s services.…↗

i recently used an open weight model i’ve customized to find & test promotion codes while shopping. one time it found an employee only code for 60% off everything at a major retailer, & i’ve used it like 5 times already. i know i should probably email them at this point but i wa…↗

one last thing on saas: if you built your saas business before ai, your entire business was designed around one assumption which was that software has ~zero marginal cost. ai blows that up. every ai action costs money. incumbents now have to create more expensive tiers or intr…↗

google right now has almost zero cultural gravity when it comes to frontier ai discussions in any of the conversations i am in, like not even mentioned once. both in consumer + enterprise contexts (i naturally tell ppl to claude it or chatgpt it instead of googling it, i can’t re…↗

·@signulll·Jul 31, 2026·essay·anthropic·chatgpt·claude·gemini

what app do you guys use to create context for ai? e.g. where do you share your links to articles you want to remember, thoughtful/fun images or memes, things you want to read, things you want to watch (youtube vids, tiktok’s, reels), things you want to listen to, interesting twe…↗

google paid $2.7b to acquire him in 24 & couldn’t hold him 18mo later. that’s pretty insane. i don’t even know a good sports analogy that works here. feels like they recruited ai jesus.↗

·@signulll·Jun 18, 2026·news·acquisition·ai·sports

excited to share what we have been up to. your iphone’s home screen hasn’t changed in ~20 years. it’s the same static grid of icons since launch with zero awareness of your actual life. @skye is a new agentic home screen for iphone. no telegram. no mac mini. & no claws require…↗

i’ve been messing around with @duolingo a lot lately—not because i had some grand ambition to become fluent in another language, but because i thought it might impress someone (spoiler: she’s gone now). in my mind the most interesting thing though is what duolingo does for lang…↗

·@signulll·Jan 28, 2025·essay·ai·duolingo·education·learning