folding shirts is to world foundation models as fart jokes were to large language models? this talk is a good survey. it feels like we're within 2-3 year range of chatgpt moment for physical ai. 2030 will be lit for robotics youtube.com/watch?v=a8-QsB…

good read for everyone building cyber physical systems. blake writes, i repost. no. 1 fan

It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology. Hot takes are easy, writing good code is not.

less than one year between o1 announced (september 2024) and we have an o3-level model open sourced (august 2025) that’s runnable on consumer hardware. wild progress

apple doesn't need to build a foundation model. all they need to do is pack an m4max+battery into a portable device and embed the gpt-oss into coreml dx such that it can be finetuned

oai cooked. first american oss model to be steps ahead and not just incremental gains

genie3 accelerates robotics/physical-ai timelines by 1-2years if not more. rl env going to get lit. humanoids arriving sooner than 2030. lfg! most underrated release today: deepmind.google/discover/blog/… note to self: buy more google stock

good callout

Mini rant on how we’ve swung the pendulum a bit too far from product-maxxing to views-maxxing.. For years, companies have been told to focus on distribution first. Building a good product is important but it’s also important to focus on sales. There’s a long graveyard of

mech suit for codegen models. curious to try

product mgmt today is where project/program mgmt was ~10–15y ago. as pm/em absorbed project mgmt, design/eng/data/customer success will absorb “product sense + execution.” ai eats coordination → product sense moves to the edges (design, eng, data, customer success). slowly,

wrote an ampcode prompt so long that it consumed 10% claude context window on cmd+enter

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in the ai/dev tools golden age, the segment/twilio operator mafia is quietly everywhere — underrated 💚❤️

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