Tough data from Circana: the share of the U.S. population that plays video games is still declining - and is now below pre-COVID levels. Avg weekly playtime among gamers is up from 2022, nearly back to 2020, and is well above pre-COVID... but probably because fewer are playing

This is wild Replit Agent built an entire app from just an X post in 2 minutes and 38 seconds. It would take you more time just to open the editor and create files, let alone write any code.

I can't tell you the last time I was so excited to see a new AI capability in action. We plugged in Claude computer use in Replit ⠕ Agent as a human feedback replacement. And… it just works! I feel it won't take long until our agent will become fully autonomous.

What would you do if your kid fell in love with an AI

Short all the structured CRM companies... a personal example with NotebookLM.

AI is out here saving families

"what i wish someone told me" by sam altman

Roblox at nearly at 7B hours of monthly engagement. In H1 2024, Netflix averaged 15.6B and Disney+ is estimated at ±3.1B. Growth has *quickened* since the pandemic ended, not slowed, let alone reversed.

Simple Ideas, Big Impacts 🧵 1. Mesh drains in Australia prevent water bodies pollution. Should be a worldwide standard.

2/ Plan Prism - 🥉3rd place AI agents that take PRDs and automatically improve them via multi-agent collaborative debate m AI agents to replace PMs ankit tandon Sunanda Saxena

4/ Yap to App Controlling a computer only using voice and claude tools Combining Apple scripting with speech to text models to pilot your Mac Lou Zell

5/ RAGs to Riches Text messaging agent to answer questions about CalFresh benefits (aka California food stamps) AI for welfare

WHY YOUR PRODUCT IDEA SOUNDS TOO COMPLICATED: THE "SIMPLE TO WTF" SCALE There's a complexity scale for how people describe products. Here it is, from simplest to wtf: - SIMPLE (and easiest to understand): The product can be described in 2 words as [adjective] + [noun] like

This is wild. Just 2 weeks ago, Claude Computer Use dropped, and it's completely changing the AI assistants game 8 wild examples: 1. Claude, watch this site video, note issues & make a spreadsheet report

The scariest thing I've realized recently about AI replacement: 1️⃣ Most companies CAN'T WAIT to get rid of developers 2️⃣ Most companies CAN'T WAIT to have fewer employees So it's not like AI will have to fight to break in. It's the opposite. The AI will be WELCOMED.

So in 2026, ONE person with like 3 employees very similar to them in generality—each with a bunch of AI Agent systems—will be doing the work of hundreds or thousands of corporate workers from 2021.

An update on my AI avatar that's taken over my social media video content: The account has grown to 48.4k followers and racked up 7 million+ views. But the most interesting insight from this experiment hasn't been the growth, it's been the *unexpected* near-zero backlash. When

Varun Mayya Kwebbelkop Just found out my avatar videos are starting to make its way from Insta gram to X too (this one has 650k+ views!) Cool to see so many people resonating with video! This newsletter-to-avatar experiment has brought our writing to so many new audiences

Y Combinator's 2024 request for startups:

5 years ago, I needed 30 people & $3M in funding to build just one startup, Today, I run 11 bootstrapped SaaS projects with just a handful of people. These AI agents & tools 10x busy founders in marketing, coding, legal, operations, design, sales, anything 🧵 :