
building products to grow agents and apps (https://nitter.cf/t.co/yTbFmMl8FG, https://nitter.cf/t.co/2HJTjuLLjp) @base @coinbase @coinbasedev
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gpt pro and business subs now pay for themselves if you're a builder using their api
today they also doubled usage limits
was legit about to downgrade back to plus but not anymore
golden window of subsidies won't last forever. take advantage and build, create and have fun with this unbelievable new technology
>multiple kinetic wars ongoing and escalating
>civil unrest rising everywhere
>governments continue printing fiat to infinity
>democratic socialists ascending to power and already scapegoating ai for everything
and jason wants you to dump the most hated asset NOW to prop up the hottest assetā¦
yeah ima keep holding my digital non-sovereign censorship-resistant store of value. has worked out pretty well for the last 10 years.
also think everyoneās portfolio SHOULD be diversified across all these things, but jason is abusing his platform by giving the specific financial advice in his post
A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started.
Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now.
Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue.
We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months.
Why?
Because there are far too many dynamic places to put your money that are creating MUCH more value.
Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value?
What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?!
The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED!
Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets!
No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone.
No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't ā and BECAUSE AI HAS!
Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity.
This should be obvious to everyone right now.
Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.
the average consumer is not going to sit through computer use to have their agent buy something for them
the field is still wide open for agentic commerce
āSuccess is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home.ā
itās that simple
I spent years thinking Iād never get married or have kids. Now I come home to my best friend and 4 kids yelling āDad!!ā as they run at me. To me, that is success. Hereās why:
Success was always something I had difficulty defining. One individual may measure success by money in the bank. Another may place importance on their professional accolades. And someone else may define it via their material possessions. Each person is optimizing for something different.
Eventually, I found a description of success that resonated and became my personal definition.
WHOOP founder @willahmed said, āSuccess is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home.ā
What a perfect encapsulation of how I view the world.
In my perspective, success has never been about a number, an award, or any single accomplishment. Frankly, I like to compete too much to ever admit I have āmade it,ā so my definition of success is naturally more about the process of my life rather than a specific outcome.
A large percentage of people do not enjoy their job. They either dislike their industry, company, or colleagues. They may stay in the situation because the money is attractive or they are scared to leave for the unknown. Regardless of the reason, these individuals are unhappy for a large chunk of their day.
Many people are also dissatisfied with their personal lives. Some are single and frustrated that they havenāt found the right partner, while others are married but unhappy because they feel like strangers in their own home. And plenty of people have health or financial issues that are gnawing at them daily.
Although I have faced similar daily struggles as others, I have always felt fortunate that I enjoyed going to work and coming home each day.
Professionally, I sacrificed my time and short-term potential earnings in order to work on what truly mattered to me. I was able to become my own boss and design a career that was satisfying and exciting.
The excitement in my personal life is entirely because of my wife and my kids. Getting married and having children has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. There is nothing better than walking in the door after a long day of work and hearing the sound of little kids yell āDad!!ā as they run towards me to give me a hug.
@polinapompliano and I are genuinely each otherās best friend. We enjoy spending the majority of our time together and we feed off each otherās energy and ambition. Maybe most importantly, we are happiest when we talk about ideas and help make each otherās dreams come true.
I am just as excited to go to work as I am to come home. I know it is probably rare, but I have achieved all the success I ever wanted.
My hope for you is that you can do the same.
This is an excerpt from my new book, How To Live An Extraordinary Life Volume 2. You can buy a copy of the book here: amazon.com/How-Live-Extraordā¦
you probably donāt stand a chance building against incumbents if youāre ignoring multimodal
builders should constantly be asking āhow can I use voice, video, or image to make this more convenient or delightful for users?ā
multimodal models make novel things possible and that presents an opportunity for builders to break open consumer in a way we havenāt seen since the colonization of mobile
there are so many new ux patters to be discovered and incumbents will take longer to adapt
beat them with speed - itās the thing you have that they donāt
ai will absolutely take the jobs of knowledge workers who fail to adapt to the evolving needs of their profession
making $200k - $750k reordering pixels on a computer screen in a climate controlled room all day?
yeah, what's worked in the past is no longer good enough
so what now? accelerate replacing your old self with agents. i guarantee a new form of work will appear for you - do it, that's your new job
now you're even more valuable than you were previously, and your incremental value accrual will come directly from your peers who are not bothering to adapt
in the end it won't be ai taking jobs, it'll be ambitious people using new tech to outcompete others. same has been true of every technological wave. adapt or be left behind
nobody is talking about product factories
engineering stopped being the bottleneck earlier this year. software factories are incredible but they can only make impact insofar as product and every other function keeps up
the most in-demand talent in 2027 will be people using agents to accelerate non eng work while maintaining quality
the cool think is that person could literally be anyone - a pm, designer, marketer, user researcher, devrel, bd, lawyer or even an engineer!
never in history has one person had this much leverage, this cheap, to build a business
the ai race has produced the most powerful tools ever made. no special knowledge needed. priced for anyone.
and it's subsidized. brilliant, hard-working teams are fighting so hard to win that they're selling it to you below cost. free markets at their best
go build
iām sitting in a recliner, doing a design review of an app iām building. entirely by voice.
astra 6 in @ChatGPT is acting as my head of design. it builds interactive prototypes, opens them, and clicks through the screens while presenting its recommendations.
i react out loud. it makes changes and shows me again. fast enough that it feels like a conversation.
the review is hands-free for me. i get to stay focused on what the product should actually feel like to use.
the workflow if you want to try it:
1. start with your existing app. be explicit about which flows should stay.
2. ask for a clickable prototype and a screen-by-screen design review.
3. turn on voice and have it drive the demo. give feedback as you go.
4. separate layout and behavior decisions from fonts, colors, and branding. this made a huge difference.
5. have it keep a running list of what you approved, rejected, and still need to decide.
6. ask it to summarize decisions, next steps and take a goal to complete
repeat until you're prod ready
still plenty of judgment required. but doing this from a recliner, just talking through ideas and watching them take shape realtime, feels pretty wild.
made an account with @Walmart today
@amazon you arenāt going to lose your relationship with me by letting my agent shop. youāll lose it if you donāt.
base has the best builders
we recently deprecated some features in our dashboard and @altagers shared genuine feedback and then shipped them in a fun ui for everyone š
Improved the Dashboard with Builder Codes on @base
-Better UX/UI
-Dedicated app pages for builder codes
-Sharing and rank cards
-OG and X metadata previews
-Multiple sharing templates
-Builder code "claiming"
-Cleaner, more readable stats
If your builder code is showing up as a random string, send me a DM ā Iāll be happy to connect it to your app name and website.
Iāve started collecting this data today, so the rankings will become more meaningful over the next 3ā7 days.
What should I add next?
šdashboard.duckfacts.xyz
guys I fear we went too far with the great unbundling
postseason baseball is exclusive to a different streaming service every time i turn it on
iām ready to be bundled again
take my money
consumer ai is oblivious to reality
most people get anxiety from chat interfaces. they are already overwhelmed owing people responses in their personal and professional lives. last thing they want is an always-on agent they constantly owe messages to.
cloudflare making big moves in agentic payments, built on coinbase/base
Today, weāre making the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway available as part of a closed beta, and showcasing four customer use cases that are in production today. cfl.re/4zbezF8 #BirthdayWeek
wiiiild friday night
last thing I remember was @thsottiaux promising a reset
killer new claude feature
previously found myself watching usage and needing to remind my orchestrator agent to have all other agents checkpoint their work so it wouldnāt be lost
top 3 painpoint solved
i spent years in investment management watching things like this stay reserved for institutions and the wealthy
now anyone in the world can own US equities and borrow against them
this is what economic freedom looks like
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