Controversial AI use case: helping humans become better artists. I paint for fun and this week I started using AI as an art teacher Not to generate paintings but to help me understand: • what to tweak • what to leave alone • where the eye gets stuck • whether I’m overworking a piece Here’s an example from a study I did tonight, it didn’t just critique the painting — it explained and visualized why certain edits improved the composition. Maybe the future isn’t replacing creativity but helping more humans create and learn - with thoughtful personal tutoring on demand.

Two weeks ago I started leave for baby #3 (aka AGI v3). And I want to do something I haven’t done since college: build for fun. I originally went into product for two reasons: 1) I loved bringing people and ideas together and making them real. 2) My friends were much better engineers than me. Twenty years later, that gap has narrowed — not because I’m a better engineer, but because the tools are. It’s now faster to build something than to write a PRD or mock it up in Figma. That means the ideas I’ve had for my kids and our family don’t have to stay in my head anymore. So each week (assuming AGI v3 doesn’t consume all available compute), I’ll share something I built during leave. Starting with: 🎮 games.roseyao.com games for my kids featuring dinosaurs, ponies, pirates, and dragons and a little bit of reading, math, and physics. I’ve spent most of my career building for billions of users. It’s been surprisingly joyful to build for five.

Why is Claude always trying to reduce scope and calling me “overly ambitious”? Am I being PMed?

Happy 20th anniversary to Google Translate. I moved to the US at 10, and English was a struggle. I knew the words, but the pronunciation? That was a different story. 😅 Today we’re celebrating Translate's 20th anniversary with the feature I wish I had back then: Pronunciation Practice! 🗣️ Now rolling out on Android in the US & India in English, Spanish and Hindi.