I built this thing called Clicky. It's an AI teacher that lives as a buddy next to your cursor. It can see your screen, talk to you, and even point at stuff, kinda like having a real teacher next to you. I've been using it the past few days to learn Davinci Resolve, 10/10.

POV: Software engineers 3 hours before the deadline. 😂

How me and claude “collaborate” on the work I’m paid a salary for

Optimus

Good Products are Opinionated. “Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things. Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do. If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features. @Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity. You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google. Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do. You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it. ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer. It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer. So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough. To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting. In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make. In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”

History rhymes.

SpaceX company policy

Marc Benioff says AI now does “30 to 50%” of the work in engineering, coding, and support at Salesforce. He also says there is a 7% error margin and admits hallucinations remain a factor. The future of enterprise software isn't perfect, but it's “pretty good.”

Few of them realize it, but people who say "I don’t think that we should have billionaires" are also saying "I don't think there should be startups," because successful startups inevitably produce billionaires. paulgraham.com/richnow.html

Some AI industry leaders are predicting white-collar bloodbaths. Even the most inspirational advice to new graduates lands like a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Some thoughts on new grads, and finding a job in the AI wave:

Good Morning X and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my pal and biz partner Lisa @_lev3lup . I am beyond the luckiest rabbit to have met Lisa. From our first never ending morning coffee threads through our first X spaces with great artists from this community to now a budding Turtle and Hare empire it has been a fantastically fun and wild ride. My life has certainly changed for the better since meeting Lisa and that sentiment is echoed by this community, both in public accolades and private DM's from you guys. She is a beacon of light in the community, IRL and is very much appreciated by everyone! Can't wait to host the Abundance Awards show together at the @aimusicvideo festival this week!!! Craaazy!!!!! Hope to see you guys there!