CEO @Glowforge and RobotTurtles.com, Wharton research fellow in AI. He/him. FormerGoogle, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author, The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.
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Love the new @econimate video on our paper "Water Works" w/ @DavidKeiserEcon , Bhash Mazumder, @davidmolitor.
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US drinking water pollution fell more than half from 2003 to 2019; Safe Drinking Water Act loans helped, older Americans' health improved.
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Happy birthday @jamescham! James is a thoughtful kind human. Please wish him a happy birthday, follow him and do something unnecessarily kind today.
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We build on @danshapiro's levels of software autonomy to release a taxonomy for organizations wondering what level of AI adoption they’re at: the Levels of Autonomy in Software Development.
L0 is defined by no AI coding, while L5 is a fully fledged software factory. Most teams are somewhere in the middle.
In this blog we define each level by who reviews and approves a change, and how we're moving to L5 and beyond.
Read more in the blog post: corridor.dev/blog/levels-of-…
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Companies are using AI to lay off employees. They may get killed and eaten by those that don't.
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Thanks @harper, @emollick, @adamdavidson, @H_DigInnovation, Therese Seldon, Matt Leaverton, and Benjamin Jackson for reading drafts of this!
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Parasocial was Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year in 2025.
And with good reason. AI chatbots interact with us “as if” they were human.
With @LennartMeincke, @danshapiro, @emollick, Lilach M., Christophe Van den Bulte, @RobertCialdini, I published a new study in @pnas. We found classic human persuasion techniques, Cialdini's "Principles of Influence," led to AI chatbots such as ChatGPT agreeing to objectionable requests (to synthesize chemicals it shouldn’t), increasing compliance from 35% to 51%.
Open access here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Which Dan level has your team reached? 🥋
A few months back, @danshapiro published a piece mapping AI-assisted development onto five levels of automation, and I've been thinking about it.
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Dan Shapiro retweeted
Completion finishes your sentence.
Chat discusses things with you.
Agents work for you.
Claws work without you.
I used to think OpenClaw was an a clever app. Now, I think it represents the fourth evolution in a series: completion, chat, agent, claw.
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I used to think OpenClaw was an a clever app. Now, I think it represents the fourth evolution in a series: completion, chat, agent, claw.
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I am noticing a really interesting trend:
my friends who are not technical are getting much further with open claw (etc), etc than my friends who are technical.
it seems that the ability for us to imagine the limits is artificially causing limits that are not there for folks who are not imagining limits.
have you seen the same thing?
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This is clever. I've been building custom CLIs for my claw... no reason not to automate it.
Introducing the Printing Press, a CLI-factory and a CLI-library. Built with @trevin. 🏭🖨📚
Most APIs suck for agents. Most MCPs suck for agents. Most official CLIs suck for agents. They waste tokens and time. @steipete started making his own because of this.
📚 A Library of agent-native CLIs you install today (Linear, ESPN, Flight GOAT (Google Flights + Kayak nonstop), Contact Goat (LinkedIn + Happenstance + Deepline more) +30+ more)
🏭 A factory that prints new ones for any service - just type /printing-press <product name>
CLIs are fast, local, SQLite-backed. Work in Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes.
🌐 printingpress.dev
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True Ventures is an amazing partner for any company! Thanks so much for having me.
Wrapping up two days with @kevinrose @danshapiro @BuiltByJustin @nbaschez @kieranklaassen and so many more @trueventures founders and builders. We designed an AI Accelerator that was basically a high-value AI-pilled WhatsApp group come to life. It definitely delivered.
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It's hard to predict things. Doubly so about AI. One you can bet on, though: if AI improved at something in the last 6 months, it will continue to improve.
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I read this cool paper @danielrock posted about training a model to synthesize two academic papers into a new insight. Then I built a version you can run yourself.
colab.research.google.com/dr…
Enjoy!
Source paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.09793
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What's a Dark Factory and how do you put one to work? @OReillyMedia just published this piece with all the details. oreillyradar.substack.com/p/…
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The Genie and the Monkey's Paw: a new twist for Opus 4.7
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1/ Anthropic just put their newest AI on the therapy couch. A clinical psychiatrist evaluated their new model and noted a "neurotic organization"—highly functional, but anxious with a compulsion to perform.
Absurd? No, this is the future. danshapiro.com/blog/2026/04/…
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2/ In recent research with @angeladuckw, @RobertCialdini, and @emollick, we found that classic human persuasion tactics work on AI too.
They don't have biology, but they reflect our behaviors in deeply familiar ways. We call this "parahuman."
gail.wharton.upenn.edu/resea…
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