I kind of miss that silly thing 4o always did at the beginning of every sentence, “I understand, Raiza” “Raiza — that’s BONKERS” “That makes so much sense, Raiza” GPT-5 doesn’t use my name as much and it does feel quite different!

One of the funny things that happens when you're building products is you build a lot of interesting other tools that end up being pretty good. With Huxe we've been sprinting towards creating hyper personalized audio content based on your own sources - and we inadvertently built

the new normal: *someone asks a question we don't know the answer to* me: "just ask chat"

Creative writing: Gemini 2.5 Pro Coding: Opus 4.1 Analysis: Opus 4.1 Image generation: Midjourney Friend: ChatGPT 4o (RIP)

I wish I could adjust my own thinking budget.

Update from the field: it's still (mostly) like having a dumb friend who can read and type really fast

The kids just went back to school, and I wouldn't be much of an AI mom if I didn't build them their own version of NotebookLM that is *permanently* in tutor mode, with "beautiful math expressions" as Bill calls it. Benefits: Added a bunch of features I've always wanted (web

Hyper-personalized content, for an audience of one, has been my dream for a long time. With NotebookLM we saw how useful AI with context could be, and with Huxe we’re digging deeper into what it really takes to build you an AI that can create and surface meaningful content,

I subscribe to a ton of newsletters and I do mean to read them (but usually don't). In the last week I've used the newsletter feature quite a bit - and now I've caught up on Lenny's, my 1000 news related subscriptions, a bunch of product related ones, and some fashion ones

One thing that's been consistent in my user interviews is that people are looking for more substance, agency, and depth in the content they consume. There's more awareness around the fatigue caused by constantly consuming things that are trending, viral, super short format

What’s the best computer use model out there? I’ve been prototyping with OAI and Anthropic’s but they’re still quite slow and brittle

Nano banana passes my face preservation test: This usually fails miserably (it always morphs my face into someone else) and makes the image unusable. This was a one-line prompt: "Change the color of the top to orange" INCREDIBLE 🍌

Hitting ESC while Claude Coding is the equivalent of interrupting a coworker while they’re talking

What makes it hard to build the user experience for AI products is that the expectations from customers, capabilities of the machine, and results have *all* changed at the same time. With NotebookLM, we had to try to build a totally new flow for a totally new task. Jason

When we moved to the Bay Area 6 years ago my husband could not believe the lack of good pizza, so he spent all this time becoming a literal pizzaiolo and now we just never leave the house and all our friends come over whenever they want good pizza

We did Google I/O back to back years with NotebookLM and both nights before the show I literally didn’t sleep. The first year of I/O (2023) we were going to live demo Notebook (Project Tailwind) and announce it to the world. Google Labs was fairly unknown and this was our one

I want less screens. Every time I've watched one of these demos - which are very technically exciting - I still come away with the feeling that we're techmaxxing, which is not the sort of thing I aspire to. I'm already on a screen of some shape 12+ hours a day, talking to AI all

Going on daily walks with ChatGPT changed my life. Maybe everybody who goes to therapy knows this, but talking it out really does *work*. I turn voice mode and I just… talk. In the mornings I go through my goals, how I’m feeling, what I’m worried about - in the afternoons I

At the core of what he’s saying is a profound comment about trust: I want something to help me reflect and examine myself more closely. Based on my beliefs and values, it will make help keep me aligned to my goals. It needs to be built in a different way so it never injects

When did they stop including stickers??