The vibes couldn’t be more immaculate in America right now

i think everyone should watch hajime no ippo atleast once in their lives. it is way better than every self help book i've read or productivity video i've watched on yt it shows how pursuit of greatness is really just becoming someone who can do hard things consistently

the hardest task for CEOs for 300 years have been scaling companies with more people but tokens will quickly rise to be some companies largest cost. this will happen at the speed of CEOs learning how to adapt ai or being replaced

It is known that Anthropic names its models based on coffee blends from Postscript, a cafe one block away from its offices (E.g. Postscript Haiku, Postscript Sonnet) I therefore can’t wait for the inevitable release of Claude Requiem, which would be the coolest model name in the world

It’s about to be even worse next year. Total embarrassment.

Logic is for justifying decisions already made on vibes

Measuring someone's productivity by their token usage is a horrible idea. Giving everyone the same fixed token budget isn't much better. So what's the right way to roll out AI across your org? We built a system to measure how many productive engineering hours every Devin task is worth, validated against a dataset of real engineers’ times estimates. The goal is to answer the fundamental question that companies are grappling with: how much real value are you getting from each of your agent sessions? On top of that, we're giving an AI productivity guarantee! Now if Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we fund your usage until it does. The whole industry needs to move from measuring activity to measuring output. We hope to see more AI companies taking this approach.

You’re offered the choice to take an uncontested, offhand layup for $100,000, but if you miss you die Do you take the layup?

Two months ago, when @AOC and I proposed an AI data center moratorium, we were called “Luddites.” Now New York is on the verge of passing a moratorium and dozens of localities are doing the same. People understand: AI must work for all, not just oligarchs.

We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story: Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own notion.com. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider. A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan. So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.” The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done. I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to notion.com. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!

BOSHHHH @Johnfis08605918 has set a NEW Guinness World Records title for the most takeaway dishes memorised in 30 seconds 💪

Empathy loop: think about the user and what they want, and give them it Conviction loop: believe you will create something of value for that user, even if most people think you won't

Omg wait does Cisco refer to San Francisco

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Normally I wouldn’t share something from a competitor, but this one seemed interesting. Since day one, @linear has been built for the most ambitious teams in Silicon Valley and beyond. That was always intentional, and we're very happy to serve those teams. Teams at OpenAI, Coinbase, Ramp, and frontier companies across fintech, healthcare, aerospace, and more use Linear to build and ship. Even teams building supersonic jets, like Boom Supersonic. We’re now seeing companies switch to Linear every week, and the pace is accelerating. We’ll keep doubling down helping Silicon Valley and other high performing teams on the planet build better software, faster even if our competition decides not to.