Announcing: the @a16z Ops Engineering Fellowship ⚙️ Because: operations (along with everything else??) is becoming something best approached with an engineering mindset. We've been tracking this space closely, and are seeing a new kind of builder emerging inside companies... Th…↗
I asked people: "who are the best active angels in AI?" 5 votes: Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) 4 votes: Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy) 3 votes: Sholto Douglas (@_sholtodouglas) 3 votes: Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) 2 votes: Daniel Chang (@dnnssl2) 2 votes: Elad Gil (@eladgil) 2 votes: Eri…↗
Today at ZapConnect, we debut Next Gen Zaps. One of the most important product moments in @Zapier's history. With Next Gen Zaps, customers can deploy agent-built Zaps in seconds. Simply describe your problem to your agent and it will build you a Zap that runs automatically, ev…↗
Everyone is tired of reading AI slop. Anthropic says Opus 5.5 writes more naturally and actually follows instructions, so we ran an eval. We tested it against the new versions of OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna and Sol to see whether models can solve a problem AND write a decent explanation…↗
what if you could filter social media by vibes? goodvibes.tools social media is exhausting, but now you can just filter out the bad vibes! use pre-built topics or write your own in plain english.↗
I asked people: "which data companies should an ambitious future founder join?" 13 votes: Mercor (@BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha) 11 votes: Fleet (@nicoup @andrewthezhou) 10 votes: Proximal (@MatternJustus @navidkpr @calvinchen) 9 votes: Surge (@echen) 8 votes: AfterQ…↗
Claude Opus 5.5 is the best LLM for Operations we've benchmarked. It scored 40% on @Zapier's AutomationBench: 657 of the hardest real business workflows we have, across 6 departments. It excelled at Ops work where the model has to go find the procedure and use several tools ac…↗
Introducing theopenfrontier.com! Figure out which open model is best for your use case. Compare models across coding, agents, long context, vision, finance, and more. Then see how they compare on cost + quality, including what you could save by moving to open models.↗
🚰 SYSTEM PROMPT LEAK 🚰 Here's the full system prompt for Claude Opus-5.5!! The total count of everything extracted, including all tools, comes in at over 1.9M characters! 🤯 Lots to dig into here. Enjoy! 🫡 Link: github.com/elder-plinius/… gg↗















