the LLMs have reached boyfriend levels of intelligence

1/ For years, I thought I was driving innovation — helping shape early versions of Google Maps, Search, and YouTube. Then an MIT professor asked me: “Can you name a time you designed a truly new behavior?” Not a better version. Something genuinely novel. I couldn’t. 🧵

Beautiful reminder:

This is so real

"In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

1/ Market research is a $140B industry built on slow, expensive surveys, biased panels and consulting project work. AI is tearing it down and replacing it with AI-moderated interviews, dynamic analysis, and even synthetic societies of generative agents. A new wave is here:

As an… – #iOS26 user I want… – a translucent UI that reflects and refracts its surroundings, delivering a new level of vitality across controls so that… – I can struggle to read

In 2022, McKinsey was paid $55M to advise Warner Brothers to combine with Discovery. From 2022-2025, McKinsey charged Warner Brothers Discovery $37M by advising the company to change HBO to HBO Max, then to Max, then back to HBO Max. In 2025, McKinsey billed Warner Brothers

Models must constantly evolve and adapt to their environment.

AI-generated ASMR is exploding online. Viewers say it sounds so realistic, they play it on repeat — and channels are gaining thousands of followers from just a few fully AI-made videos. 10 wild examples so far: 1. Glass Breakfast Cutting

Professional prompt engineer Sander Schulhoff and his team analyze over 1,500 academic papers covering more than 200 prompting techniques. Here are what they found are the top 5 most effective prompt techniques (with examples): 1. Few-shot prompting Instead of just asking a

The funny thing is we've all been both those guys 🤣

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

Instant masterpiece by Jerry Neumann. One of the clearest frameworks on who actually captures AI value. Amazing essay published in Colossus Here are my notes

Haaland scored his record breaking 50th Champions League goal last night Phenomenal achievement but the celebration is also a demonstration of how hard it is to see things from the audience’s perspective

I gave Opus 4.1 access to a pen plotter- And asked him to draw several self-portraits. Here are the results:

"no Shakespeare yet -- only syntactically correct Bash scripts"

Dude makes a React Native app that generates stories for kids. Named it DreamWeaver. Absolute honest mistake if you’re under the age of 25