I wrote a long blot post on the economics of AI, prompted by two great workshops (Windfall and NBER), and me leaving OpenAI for METR: TLDR: we driving in the fog. 1. There is no standard model of AI’s economic impact. Economists have been using a wide range of assumptions to

There's a lot of noise on how to prototype *with* AI, but how do you effectively prototype a complicated AI product itself? Pryia Bager, an AI PM at Yelp shows us how they work backwards from "golden conversations" to realistic, AI-powered prototypes. In this ep of How I AI,

I'll be giving two talks open to the public: Oct 22 at Harvard's Fairbank Center with Susan Greenhalgh and Mark Wu fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critica… Oct 27 at Stanford's Hoover Institution with Stephen Kotkin hoover.org/events/book-ta…

“just optimal amount of Cali craziness”

any moment now, frictionless reproducibility will be recognized as a big thing!

next SF systems ! space is limited, register quickly luma.com/e7feg2i6

Whether founders can attract technical talent is a much stronger signal than whether they can raise money right now.

another reason to go to conferences and meet people in person is to evangelize Cedric Chin and meet fellow believers in the common cog.

Fabricate's new data agent is really good at generating complex JSON columns - objects, arrays, deep nesting, and foreign keys sprinkled throughout. Interested in giving it a try? Sign up for the private preview: tonic.ai/lp/fabricate-d… In fact it's so good that I needed to

I've just published a little article about a principle I've been using that I call ZFC (Zero Framework Cognition). I've found it to be a useful guiding principle in AI-enabled applications. steve-yegge.medium.com/56b090ed3e69

Say new things!

How do you work/compete with a partner who wants to be all things to all people? Be something specific to specific people!

Social signals are inherently dynamic!

Take notes when you meet people at a conference/event. Voice notes are good, because they're quick and people see you doing it. They can tell you're making an effort to follow up, not checking email. Get them transcribed and you have a list of followups

"tools of titans" kinda scratched a similar itch. i love finding out the minute details of how people i really respect work and conduct their lives. you'll often find incredibly idiosyncratic schedules, toolings, meeting formats, decision rubrics, etc

8 years ago I demoed Replit to Marc. I said it felt like a continuation of what he started with Netscape: Opening up creation to everyone. I left with $3m to build it! Last week I went back to the same office to reflect on how far we’ve come, and where we’re headed next. Enjoy!

Thanks to INMA for inviting me to keynote their tech and AI conference at KQED. It was a pleasure to share and my apologies for saying “everything is a diffusion of knowledge problem” a few too many times.

we’ve heard from a lot of our customers that managing the data pipelines to chunk, embed and load in data to search indexes can be a huge pain starting today, Github data is trivial to index in Chroma what sources do you want us to support next?

“Let the honey flow.”

Terrific to see Erik Brynjolfsson, Sara Rogier and David Rogier in LA.