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“this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November)” This was around the time that @bcherny started to increase his AI-written coding output significantly. Not long after, Claude Code became the go-to for developers. Andrej signalling this is significant. Especially since he’s now on the Anthropic team and has a line of sight into the next few months that we don’t. Exciting to see where development goes from here!
This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time. I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!
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Notion's infrastructure move away from .so to Notion․com is the last piece in a long branding effort. The company has owned Notion․com since late 2019/early 2020, between Series A and B funding rounds. It has been used for marketing (like social presence, or podcast ads) for several years, and very effectively! Congrats on the switch.
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!
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Congrats to @BillSweetman on brokering the deal back in the day.
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This feels like an incremental improvement that you would likely only notice over long coding sessions. Is that fair, or am I missing anything?
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Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors. Available today at the same price.
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James Iles retweeted
#NordicDomainDays traditions continue. A wonderful evening with friends. Smiles | Laughter | #Domains Photo (left to right) • James Iles • Alan Shiflett • Monte Cahn • Braden Pollock • Mark Ghoriafi
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Wonderful to catch up with @DomainNameWire today. Fun fact — I used to write for DNW!
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The domain investing track at Nordic Domain Days is under way. @GGRGcom, @AlanShiflett and @BradenPollock chatting outbound.
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ICA NYC was a lot of fun. Grateful to @squarespace for hosting, and for reconnecting with so many people at the event. The best part? Hearing Larry & Jeff Fischer talk about the AI•com deal, which the buyer and seller chose to close with no escrow! 🤯 On to @nordicdomain
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James Iles retweeted
📅 Mark your calendar. GoDaddy's Premium Auction Event returns June 3. 2,600 no-reserve domains, headlined by: 👉Unemployment․com 👉DUIAttorney․com 👉Bracelet․com Closes June 9-10 Download the full list! godaddy.com/resources/news/p…
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If you want to mention a domain name in a post, but you don't want to link to it, use a fake dot: ․ It's technically the one dot leader (U 2024) which isn't the same Unicode as the full stop. The outcome is domains with no links: example․com
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GoDaddy has some of the best people in the business. And I'm so glad that many investors came to GoDaddy's HQ for the meetup, talking Afternic, Auctions, and DomainNames•com among other things. Congrats @jjstyler. Where should we host a meetup next?
It was great seeing friends at the @GoDaddy Domainer Meetup. Kudos to @mikegaffney for coming all the way from Texas! Had an AMAZING session on how to dig deep in GD Auctions and how to use AI to find gems. Thanks to @jjstyler for putting this together!
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Happy "it's happening" day for LTO sellers.
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James Iles retweeted
For more than ten years, I tried to buy a domain name. The domain name changed hands multiple times following corporate acquisitions. A couple of my offers were rejected, but my emails were usually not returned. I engaged @GoDaddy DBS broker Jordan Cavanaugh to negotiate on my behalf. I was able to reach a deal, and the transaction closed yesterday. I am very happy to now own Independence.com. Thanks to Jordan for his insight and advice throughout.

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Gemini․com is so prominent in Gemini (the crypto company's) branding. But it makes sense. With Google Gemini's strong AI market presence (750 million MAUs), @Gemini is leveraging Gemini․com as a differentiator here.
Apr 27
DAY 1 @ THE SUPER BOOTH
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I have Lenny's Insider Product Pass, and it's a useful way to test AI tools and learn how the various offerings might fit into your own workflows. There are some new tools just added to the pass. If you're interested in the world of AI, here are a few ways I think domain investors could leverage these...
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These are examples, and there are likely plenty more here. The point is, that Lenny's pass is one lower cost route to test tools and see what's really possible.
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AI tooling is subjective - what works for someone else may not work for you. But be open, and try! Personal views, just sharing what I find useful.
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