A decision on SB-1047 is due soon. Governor Gavin Newsom has said he's concerned about its "chilling effect, particularly in the open source community". He's right, and I hope he will veto this. If you agree, please like/retweet this to show your support for VETOing SB-1047!

Steve Jobs over 40 years ago nails one of the most foundational elements of why Silicon Valley, and to a large extent America, is able to build a culture of innovation and risk taking. h/t Historic Vids

it’s not that the future is going to happen so fast, it’s that the past happened so slow.

Steve Jobs explains that every new medium initially copies the last medium, but then we figure out what it’s much better at. This happened from radio to TV, mainframe to PC, and PC to mobile. The same will happen in AI as it changes how we use software.

I just published a new essay, and since the algorithm prefers links in replies, I dutifully put it in a thread about why I wrote it. But a lot of people didn't notice the link, so screw that: The Origins of Wokeness: paulgraham.com/woke.html

Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure

I want to see an AI-focused app store that gives app developers durable memory, access to data specific to the app (e.g. just travel related info on me if my app is travel), app discovery, and monetization Big tech may do this but there's a window where it could be you instead

Y Combinator JUST announced what startups they want to fund next in 2025. And it's mostly AI that replaces $100k/year job functions. My notes below in case it's helpful to you:

I'm proud to announce YC's first AI Startup School— June 16 and 17th in San Francisco. It's a totally free conference bringing together the next top CS and AI minds in the world. Learn from top founders and AI researchers and meet your peers who will build the future. Apply now

AI Agents will cause a TAM expansion in enterprise software because you can deliver use-cases that were not tied to tech budgets before. There will be many spaces where there are vastly more agents than seats or where the agent costs multiples of what a seat used to be.

Steve Jobs is the greatest artist who ever lived.

I’ve met with dozens of IT leaders over the last couple of weeks and the number one conversation in IT is AI Agents. Importantly, most of the current energy from enterprises is about looking to use AI to do new or more things in their business, not the same things that they

In recent conversation with IT leaders across a range of industries, the topic of business model transformation has come up more than ever due to AI and AI Agents. Most companies are rapidly thinking through what the impact of their business will be in an AI-First world. Not

A major mistake I made in my undergrad is that I focused way too much on mathematical lens of computing - computability, decidability, asymptotic complexity etc. And too little on physical lens - energy/heat of state change, data locality, parallelism, computer architecture. The

The most important factor for AI Agents is to get them the context necessary to execute the task successfully. No matter how powerful AI models get, context will always be king. Data, workflows, tools, domain knowledge, and tuned instructions will all be critical.

Nailing the right AI Agent UX right now is critical. Requiring too much human interventions won’t deliver enough value. Handing off all the work without user validation doesn’t quite work yet. Build UX patterns that live in the middle, but that can evolve to full autonomy.

It’s possible to imagine a future where AI Agent pricing converges with the cost of compute. However, AI Agents require significant domain knowledge, customer data, workflows, and a tuned UX to make them effective. This then would lead to software-like margins. Will see.

It’s crazy how much AI Agents are going to change the core premise of software. Since the beginning of the industry, software has been something that enables people to do their work. We’ve spent decades building features that make people incrementally more productive when using