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Founder. Wellness, AI, Design Building in public from SF

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2012
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No way! I get 20+ robocalls and texts a day and you’re telling me that there’s a way to stop them?
Just published a Grok @Bot to remove my number from spam call lists and one to remove my personal info from public sites Call list remover: x.ai/bot/eGVcE2autG0u6UcAwE3… Privacy scrubber: x.ai/bot/ZSQK72Iear_ykfnpTIO… Took seconds to set up.
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“Don’t hide the details that make your product better.”
Why I think building an AI startup with OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or Grok models is kinda like ordering a crisp McDonald's Diet Coke.
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Seems like everyone’s using Muse to call businesses and tackle robocalls. NGL, I’m tempted to have Muse call back every robocaller. I get 10–20 spam calls a day and have basically stopped answering my phone altogether. Things are really getting out of control.
hell yeah i’ve been getting more spam calls and texts too this is what i’ve been looking for
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Finally back to the old plan instead of cutting limits by half. Thats the right call.
Day 25/ We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today. We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same. We’re also going to continue offering extended limits for dots for now, and usage of your dot will still continue to be separate from your default usage. And we'll of course also keep shipping better models and other efficiency improvements that increase your effective usage over time.
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For AI editing, this post sums it all up.
A few thoughts on agentic video editing I’ve had over the last few days: 1. 99% of ads should be edited agentically now. If your editors are still editing in the timeline, they’re falling behind. I got a message from my senior VE saying that he’s putting out 5x edits/day now at the same quality he was before. 2. The conversation with video editors will be uncomfortable because the timeline is all they’ve ever known. Some will be hesitant and some will be fearful for their job. I think the best way to address this is head on. The tech is inevitable, but having taste is still going to be incredibly valuable to train and give feedback to agents. Those who have this will become more valuable, those who don’t will struggle. 3. Opus 5.5 can natively edit all of your ads without needing any MCPs or plugins. I’ve tried the alternatives and couldn’t find anything that was significantly better than doing everything inside of Claude. 4. Have your senior editor(s) build skills for each style of edit (e.g. mashups, UGC, AI animations…). You can build these by feeding 4-5 inspo edits to Claude and tell it to make a skill out of it. I prefer building lots of mini-skills to one big video editing skill, so that the context stays as relevant as possible. 5. Once you have a base skill (e.g. ugly ads edits), the best way to train it is through feedback loops. Have the skill re-edit the last 25 ads each senior edited then put them in an artifact, and have the senior VE give feedback on each. Keep doing this until the skill is refined and it understands what a good edit is. 6. If you do this, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to make edits that need little/no feedback. Most of ours are approved after v1 or v2, sometimes v3. 7. Only A-player editors should be training the skills. 8. Re adoption in the team, the AI champion builds the v1. Then get out of the way. I’m not the best editor on my team, so my job is to build the harness that lets the best editors train the skills, not build the skills myself. 9. If you want to supercharge this process, have your top editors record their screen as they edit. Turn on Gmeet or loom and get them to narrate the reasoning behind their process. E.g. why they chose this cut, pacing or b-roll clip…this is all context that gets fed into your skills. 10. It takes time to build, train and refine these skills. You have to go through the dip to get out the other side. Budget time in for senior VEs to work on this - otherwise you’ll end up with skills that put out subpar edits and don’t save you much/any time. 11. Operate under the assumption that this is the worst video editing is ever going to be. Opus 5.5 can do most of our editing today…what will Opus 6/Fable 6 be able to do? The editing skills you build are only going to become more valuable as the tech evolves. I still don’t think people realise how big video editing being unblocked is. Things that I thought were 3-6 months away are now on the table. Will continue to share more as I learn. CRAZY, crazy times.
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This got me to think, are we all in a simulation?
This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet. 🌐 Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.
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This chart looks very promising. Gonna test out Terra 6.1 heavily this week!
Replying to @OpenAI
GPT-6.1 Terra substantially outperforms GPT-5.6 Terra on Agents’ Last Exam, a test of how well agents use software at work. It even matches GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes tasks over 3× faster on average than both Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
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It hits hard. “Life is a journey. Some walk with you for a while. Others stay in your sky forever.”
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Stop memorizing passwords. Use a password manager like 1Password. Enable 2FA and set up passkeys wherever supported. Do it before someone uses AI to hack your accounts. It’s already happening.
I spent the last 48 hours rotating passwords, adding 2FA everywhere, and spawning agents to audit all my startups' codebases. I tried to brute-force my own code, but, of course, OpenAI and Anthropic models wouldn't let me. I also ordered a YubiKey for myself and to apply to OpenAI's Daybreak program. I called my family and told them to do the same (rotate pwd + add 2FA). Black October was the tip of the iceberg, I think.
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Anthropic’s 24/7 proactive agent is finally here! I wonder if it’s like Dot, where you only get a single agent, or if we can spawn a team like Grok Bots. Either way, it’s definitely exciting news!
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
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This is cool!
The best intro ever made by Apple 🫪 Apple October (Unleashed) Event
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Someone vibed beehiiv at 1/5 the price, and that person is @marclou. If MailCheap offers 80% of feature but costs only $19, would you still pay $109 for beehiiv? Or it’s not even a dilemma at all?
I vibe-coded beehiiv, and it's 83% cheaper. ✨✨ Introducing MailCheap.ai ✨✨ Everything you need to run a newsletter... ✍️ Editor 📅 Scheduling 📈 Stats 🌐 A website for every issue 🛡️ Deliverability guardrails 🔗 Send from your own domain (and keep your reputation) And it's not a dinosaur tool: + It's open source; you can run it for free + It's agentic; everything in the UI is available to your AI Import from beehiiv, Substack, or Mailchimp in 2 minutes. You pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers. From $19/month. Oh, and no "Powered By" badge at the bottom of your emails.
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We didn’t expected this!
OMG the Tesla Roadster just flew in the air!
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Damn @maxjmeier, you guys are really onto something here. It's basically Costco disguised as a DTC brand. You might have cracked the CPG game!
AI has arrived. But the cost of almost everything keeps climbing. Today we launch Aonic Club, built on one idea: use AI to radically reduce the cost of living. Together, we can End the markup:
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Ok this one's actually exciting! Fish Audio just dropped Drama 3. You can direct how every single word sounds, the tone, the emotion, the shift in the voice. And it's open-weight, so anyone can run it. Check out this demo, it's hilarious! Folks at @FishAudio really nailed this launch!
$52M seed round. 15M+ users. But this is what we're most proud of yet. Introducing Drama 3: the most emotive and controllable TTS model in the world And yes, it's open-weight. You can now control how even a single word should sound, change its tone, and shift your voice mid-sentence. Uncle Roger was impressed too. Try it here: s.fish.audio/rqh0l8 Comment “DRAMA” within the next 48 hours for 1 month free. If you're an enterprise your first month is on us: s.fish.audio/qz9r0t
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As a heavy Adobe suite user, I think these open-source Adobe apps are gonna disrupt the ecosystem. Adobe's Creative Cloud sub isn't cheap. If there are open-source alternatives that work 85% the same and are more agent-friendly, what's the point of paying for the sub?
Todos los productos de Adobe reimplementados desde cero, gratuitos y de código abierto → getartcraft.com/apps
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I run a few Grok Bots, and now they can search, read, and monitor X with no more API charges via xurl. What better time to grow on X than now?
Grok Bot can now search, read, and monitor X.
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This is wild. Elon says Grok @Bot will use Claude Opus 5.5 when it’s the best model for the task.
Important note regarding Grok @Bot: Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs. Whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome.
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I'm a little concerned about the Jean-Philify of the internet, if you ask me.
Transformers, but with Megan Fox’s new face.
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