i wrote a blog post about my take on using AI in the creative practice: baothiento.com/writings/creat…↗

If by "Software Factory" you mean another grandiose name for a collection of scripts, loops, and workflows, invented by people who need something new to put in their pitch decks, a phrase designed to get developers excited and VCs to open their wallets, a bandwagon for people who…↗

Some news: I’m joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products! I have a lot of respect for OpenAI for showing the world that scaling works, for bringing AI to over a billion people, and for believing great products are core to the mission. I’m excited to work with …↗

The Next Era of Notion I love David Bowie. “Sound and Vision” was our wedding song. But what I love most is his courage to keep reinventing himself. He had four or five distinct chapters. So did Miles Davis, Pablo Picasso, and Georgia O’Keeffe. They’re my heroes. I think of Not…↗

how i prompt my agents now↗

It’s easy to get absorbed in your Claude or Codex terminal right now. It feels like you can build anything, but it’s also easy to lose track. What’s the direction or purpose? Are we just reacting to things, or do we know where we want to take the company? “Agents and people are…↗

Own your intelligence. Anyone that opposes this has something to sell you (perhaps your own intelligence back to you.) Local models need to continue proliferating. The “absolute unit” massive models may be out of reach for now locally, so your best option is to, indeed, keep yo…↗

struggle together i learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. when i hit a wall, i figured out how to climb it. read something i barely understood. took things apart. asked someone for help. started over. when i began my career, i kept doing things i…↗

One of the biggest challenges I’ve grappled with lately is how to create determinism where it otherwise doesn’t exist. How do I get an agent to behave like I would, without me telling it to? cra.mr/a-little-deter…↗

Agents rebuilt Slack as video (using code) by looking at the real thing 0:00 Why 0:25 @cursor_ai agents & computer use 1:03 Video as code 1:56 Slack 2:54 A chat, an agent, a computer 3:53 Inner loop and outer loop 5:04 The ladder 7:47 Skills 8:14 Feedback loops 10:02 Recap↗

very weird thing happening rn technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better↗

here's where I think the world is going. this is a summary of views I've formed over the last few years: - software is either entertainment or claude to claude coordination - the end state is no saas, no apps, no harnesses, no banks - all software will be rewritten by and for ag…↗

today, we're launching Resend Inboxes. an inbox for people and their agents. ∙ connect the agents you already use through MCP or skills ∙ agents and humans reply from the same thread get started with Inboxes now: resend.com/products/inbox…↗

Prediction: you’re all going to be using @AsideAI with your agents in a year or so↗

For 30 years, technology has moved in one direction: turning information into intuitive interfaces Somehow, the smartest software we’ve ever built took us back to a textbox We’ve spent the last 2 years at @openuidev trying to fix that. 6 months ago we open-sourced it: 10K+ GitH…↗

Yes, I have so much time now I honestly feel like we're entering a new time of leisure where people are just talking to their agents to steer the direction of our work, while they work in the background 24/7 Like @felixrieseberg did while building his new homepage literally on…↗

i love writing. i never let agents write for me. whether it's docs, or tweets, or shitposts, or even prompts (okay maybe that one's harder as agents manage other agents) there's a simple reason for that: i still strongly believe that writing is thinking. it's a skill i hope to…↗

codebases have always contained slop. we have always been okay with this because code rarely needs to be perfect, outside of mission critical "hard" (eg embedded) software. swe is a unique form of engineering because you're often building something that constantly evolves and i…↗

my hypothesis is that maintainability is not as important as it used to be. the whole point of “making code easy to change” was because it took a lot of human effort to change code. well, agents make it trivial! thought experiment: if the code is correct, bug free, fast and eff…↗

Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come i…↗

Your side projects should be compounding very fast with AI. Every problem solved can be re-used or extracted into a generic module. Every design decision should make the next thing beautiful by default. Your agents should be constantly stealing from your past decisions.↗

Assorted things I've been mulling over regarding agents in the economy: • Companies are in some sense the original superintelligence. It's often the case that they can use their amortized cognitive surplus to advance their interests against those of certain consumers: relative t…↗

Welcome to our Monday Meditations! 🌞 Today @badlogicgames and @mitsuhiko are talking why we built Pi Durable, a harness build around a small task-based workflow engine so long-running, multiplayer agents can suspend and resume anywhere. Also: why not Temporal or Effect.ts.↗

My hot take from chatting to @poteto is that we should use MORE abstractions in the AI age You can use them (combined with harsh lint rules) to reduce the design space available to the agent and constrain them only to good decisions. Combined with the fact that high-leverage ab…↗

Introducing Robinhood Agents. 🔥 With Agents, anyone can now build their own agent directly inside Robinhood and get started with agentic trading. You can: - Create an agent in just a few taps, no technical setup required - Analyze, strategize, and execute through your agent -…↗

I gave Opus one night and one ask "Build my own Bot / Dot and it should use ChatGPT sign in and Claude subscriptions. Every agent get it's own VM" 12 hours later, TOT exists↗

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @WeAreDevs World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs and agents in 2026 so far …↗

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…↗

Jev scoring 3000 kid snacks with multiple criteria on nosugarforkids.com in 28 seconds for $0.11 🤯↗

Slack Code — Agentic coding is now a team sport. With Slack Code, your team and agents can plan, write, and review builds together. New agents in Slack: - Cedar - @coderabbitai - @datadoghq - @FactoryAI - @Lovable - @MistralAI - @NanoClaw_AI - @Replit - Rhythms - …↗