druski genuinely saying some real shit here

The World is Changing: AI For Creativity By Jeffrey Katzenberg A few months ago, I sat in my office in Silicon Valley and watched as a tech founder showed me something extraordinary. On the screen was a fully realized, beautifully lit, well-composed animated scene. It was stunning and it made me feel exactly what I felt in 1986 watching Luxo Jr. That was the first time I watched a computer-animated 3D character take a breath and seem, against all reason, to have life. It left me in awe. Later that day, I received a text from an artist I've known for thirty years, 350 miles to the south, in the city where I spent most of my career. After seeing a similar video, she texted: "Is this the end of us?" My answer was, "Certainly not.” I have spent the better part of the last decade in Silicon Valley, but the heart of my career has been in Hollywood. Being deeply connected to both worlds means I have deep loyalties to each and a responsibility to speak honestly to both. In 2023, I said that these new AI tools would cut the time and cost of producing world-class animation by as much as ninety percent within three years. Some colleagues were alarmed, many were furious. There is growing fear and resistance surrounding AI within the creative community. I deeply understand it, because I've spent countless hours walking through animation studios watching gifted artists bent over their desks, rebuilding a single second of film for the tenth time because the ninth version wasn't quite right. I've sat in screening rooms where four years of people's labor played out in minutes, and I knew the name of every person that had spent countless hours bringing those images to life. The creative process is a calling, there's really no other way to describe it. From the outside some see resistance. From the inside, it is love. People do not fight this hard for things they don't care about. The pushback coming out of Hollywood represents the collective effort of people who are deeply passionate about their craft. Is History Repeating Itself? The history here is more complicated than either side may realize. In 1906, the most famous composer in America, John Philip Sousa, published an essay titled “The Menace of Mechanical Music." He warned that the phonograph would become "a substitute for human skill, intelligence and soul." Sousa's fight was not really about the machine, it was about money. The machines were playing his compositions, and the men who built them weren't paying him a cent. His campaign helped create the Copyright Act of 1909. He did not stop the technology. He changed the terms under which it could use his work. A hundred years ago, sound came to the movies. We remember it now as a miracle, and it was. What we forget is who paid for it. Before sound, tens of thousands of musicians made their living in the orchestra pits of movie houses, scoring every film live, every night, in towns all over the world. When the soundtrack arrived, the work of one composer and one orchestra was recorded for a film that went into thousands of theaters. The union fought back with everything it had, taking out newspaper ads across the country warning against the menace of "canned music," one of them showing a mechanical man tearing the strings out of a harp while an angel wept. They were not fools, and they were not Luddites. They were right. Those pit jobs did not come back. And yet (this is the part we have to be brave enough to admit), sound gave us the movie musical, the modern score, sfx, sound design, audio engineering, and an art form vastly larger than the one it disrupted. And it helped keep Hollywood in the forefront of world entertainment for the rest of the century and into the next. The loss was real. And yet the art form expanded. This is a story that has been told over and over again. To resist technology is to risk irrelevance. Just look at Kodak or Blockbuster. To embrace technology is to open doors of new possibility. Just consider Apple and Netflix. What I Learned From Walt Disney In the mid-1980s, I was tapped to lead Disney's animation division at a moment when the studio was at an inflection point. Animation wasn't just another business unit. It was the soul of the company, a medium revered because of Walt's genius and his passion. But the production system was cumbersome and unforgiving. A single movie was 125,000 individual hand-drawn and painted cels, photographed one frame at a time. Every revision carried a cost measured in months. These degrees of difficulty shaped the kinds of stories we could tell. We found our way forward in an unexpected place: Walt himself. The Disney archives held astonishing recordings of Walt explaining his creative process. His own writings. His notes and storyboards. Work product captured at every stage of his process. This was truly a gift. Listening, reading, sitting with the work itself, we heard him talk about character, about emotion, about how an audience feels when a character truly comes alive. He talked about making bold choices and refining a scene until it genuinely moved people. We didn't hear a word about pencils or paintbrushes. In fact, Walt was famous for being a technologist, forever hunting for state-of-the-art tools, often inventing them himself to achieve the images he saw in his head. But he never defined animation by the tools. He defined it by whether the audience believed the character. His principles were timeless. The tools were not. That realization changed everything. We co-developed the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) with a young Northern California company called Pixar, replacing hand-painted cels with CGI. In The Little Mermaid, the final scene shimmered with a dimensionality and light that the old process simply couldn't achieve. In Beauty and the Beast, the ballroom sequence moved with a cinematic sweep that placed the audience inside the emotion of the moment. In Aladdin, the Cave of Wonders felt vast and alive, and the Magic Carpet became an intricate, compelling character all its own. In The Lion King, the stampede carried a scale and intensity that raised the emotional stakes beyond anything we'd done before. Technology didn't diminish the craft, it expanded the canvas. It gave artists more room to create. A decade later, the canvas expanded again. When Disney released Pixar's Toy Story, it wasn't simply a technical milestone. It was proof that a fully computer-animated film could carry real emotional weight, that it could make audiences laugh, cry, and believe. At DreamWorks, we made the difficult decision to sunset hand-drawn animation and become a fully computer-animated studio. It was the right thing to do, but it was not without pain. It cost talented people their place in an industry where they had worked their whole lives. Some made the leap to the new tools and did the finest work of their careers. Some never did. Tools are never the point. The instruments change with every generation. What endures is taste and imagination. The magical ability to make an audience feel. One of the greatest storytellers of our generation, George Lucas, succinctly captured the eternal essence of this issue: “It’s not the how, it’s the why.” A Distinction With a Difference I asked one of the leading AI models a question that has been challenging me for months. What is the difference between reasoning and creating? Its answer changed how I think about almost everything happening in this industry. It said . . . Reasoning and creating are two distinct cognitive modes, though they also work together. Reasoning is fundamentally evaluative and analytical. It operates on what already exists: facts, premises, evidence. It moves toward a conclusion that was in a sense already implied by the input. Reasoning is constrained by logic and truth. Its goal is to arrive somewhere correct, not to invent somewhere new. Creating is fundamentally generative. It produces something that didn't exist before. And crucially, there's no single right answer waiting to be found. A blank page has infinite valid responses. Creation involves choices that can't be fully justified by logic alone. Taste, intuition and vision fill the gap where deduction runs out. Reasoning is what Silicon Valley has been perfecting. Creating is what Hollywood has been practicing for more than a century. AI today operates almost entirely on the reasoning side of the line. It can deduce, evaluate, optimize, and pattern-match brilliantly. And while it can create, there is a real distinction to being creative. What it doesn’t yet have is those things that make us human: empathy, devotion, serendipity, the kind of creativity that comes from a person trying to say something only they could say. When the bot generates a piece of art, it is not trying to communicate anything. It is statistics, not soul; it is emulating things that have been done. By contrast, human creativity isn’t about repeating patterns of zeros and ones; it is about doing something new. One day, AI may close this gap. Three years ago, the leaders building AI would have called what they are achieving today, improbable, if not impossible. Impossible is no longer improbable. Today, the line between reasoning and creating is real. Even the leading technologists acknowledge we are not there yet. There is no scientific path to crossing this divide that anyone in the field can articulate today. Understanding that gap is where we will find common ground. A Path Forward In 2016, I closed one chapter in Hollywood with the sale of DreamWorks and opened another in Northern California, co-founding WndrCo. We’ve backed more than 50 founders building the next generation of technology and watched how breakthroughs in Silicon Valley emerge, first as experiments, then as platforms, and finally as infrastructure that reshapes entire industries. It's worth remembering that the last great revolution in animation also came from the north. Pixar was a Northern California company, forged not in the conventions of the Hollywood studio system, but in the technological breakthroughs of Silicon Valley. I've spent years on both sides of this bridge. For sure, I don’t have all the answers (take Quibi, for one!). But, from my past and present vantage points of my long career, here is what I see . . . Brilliant people in Northern California building this technology have made something extraordinary. They have earned the right for the rest of us to be, if not believers, at least optimistic that what comes next will be remarkable. But they have not made an artist. The tools are powerful, but they are not what makes a story matter. That knowledge lives 350 miles to the south, inside people whose life's work has informed the very models you are building. The right path forward includes them by design, with credit, with consent, and with compensation. Build this with the storytellers. Not on top of them. Taste is not something that can be synthesized, it is uniquely human. At the same time, Hollywood needs to accept that AI is not going away. The energy they are spending trying to make it disappear is energy they are not spending deciding the terms on which it will exist. And the terms are everything. The north needs something from it that they cannot build and cannot buy: creativity. The kind that takes a blank page and conjures a single right answer where there was none and has held audiences for a century. Without it, the most powerful reasoning engine ever invented will still be missing the only thing that makes a story worth telling. The artists who learn to wield these new instruments will do things the engineers never dreamed of. They always have. Edison invented the motion picture but made terrible movies. It took Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton and so many others to make movies emotional. Now, the canvas is about to expand yet again. We should decide now that we intend to paint on it. There are so many valuable lessons in history. This has happened many times before, and it was never settled by the technology. It was settled by the terms. Sousa did not stop the phonograph; he helped write the law that made sure composers got paid. And two years ago, when the writers and the actors walked out, they were fighting for the very things Sousa was fighting for in 1906. Consent, compensation, the basic recognition that human creative work has a price that must be paid. The terms of that fight are still being negotiated, but the principle is older than any of us. The tools-versus-no-tools argument is a trap. First, we must all agree that there should be terms. Then we can have the crucial debate about what fairness requires. What I Learned From Steve Jobs Years ago, Steve Jobs said, "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing." He was describing a device. But he could just as easily have been describing this tale of two cities. What I See Coming Soon As the barriers and the costs come down, more films will get made, not fewer. Studios will get to take more risks. There will be more seats at the table, and very soon entirely new forms of storytelling. In the 1980s, animation was dismissed as a niche corner of the business. Today it is one of the most beloved and profitable forms of storytelling in the world. In live action, filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Peter Jackson embraced new visual tools not as shortcuts, but as instruments, and expanded cinema in the process. Every time storytelling has met a genuine technological shift, from synchronized sound to color to computer animation, it has redefined the boundaries of the medium and grown larger in the process. Assuredly, I don’t have all the answers, but I am confident that the creative opportunities will expand yet again. How we come through this is a choice. The north has the new tools. The south has the creative soul. The best future will draw on the best of both worlds.

I think work like this is an example of how AI has moved the bar for what work could look like. It does require a mix of creativity and skill to find and accomplish ideas like this. Rather than being anxious about AI, explore, be creative and shape the new frontier of what is possible.

I joined my first dev job and a few days later they announced they were moving away from grunt and gulp.

Maternity leave always makes me feel left out and left behind lol

It’s fine if they’re beautiful, but it’s not fine when they have bad opinions about racism or gatekeeping lol

Y’all know @ashtom as the CEO of Entire, or the ex-CEO of GitHub. I know (and LOVE) him as the creator of Hadge! I showed him a preview of the dashboard app I’m building on top of it and it was an absolute fanboi moment!

Just met @ashtom at the @EntireHQ booth at #WeAreDevelopers. Walked up as a big GitHub fan and grabbed a pic. Checkpoints clicked for me: keep the agent’s prompts and reasoning with the commit, not lost in a chat.

jev + opus 5.5... i simply can't comprehend why everyone isn't building this yet. in my workflow, this cut costs and time by ~80%. i think it's one of the best ways to use it. → pick relevant project notes before loading the context → route suitable tasks to a faster worker → choose a recovery path when a tool fails → run focused checks before the full test suite opus handles the hard reasoning. jev picks from options the harness prepares and validates. i explain how to build the decision layer in the article below:

ten years ago there was much talk of imposter syndrome and dunning-kruger effect AI poured gasoline on both

Here's Rhys' practical guide to shipping an MCP your users want: - Your MCP should be able to do everything your dashboard can Yes including things like deleting resources. The way to make this practical inside of an agent while not having things be unsafe is to deep link them into your product from inside the MCP - Do not ship lazy loading / codemode inside of your MCP CodeMode is a harness detail. Most harnesses (Claude / Codex / OpenCode) support codemode now, the problem is if you have two codemode MCPs they don't compose nicely (Executor v2 will still support CodeMode, but, will start to default to a transparent tool proxy for better clients) - Ship a search docs / skills tool Agents love these and it helps give them more understanding of your product MCP is getting skills over mcp which will help here in the future - Have a deep link into product tool Let the agent generate a URL that brings them into your product, people still want to use your dashboard and data visualization! They just don't want to click through things - Customization I think this matters less over time, but, you can allow people to select 'toolsets' of things to connect with to clients. Some clients don't support customizing tool selections and then it's also nice to have tool permissions set to the auth token - Let people OAuth from whatever client they want Please stop putting restrictions on which clients can authenticate to MCP servers, your users hate it, it doesn't improve security, all it does is add more friction PostHog and Sentry are my two 'AI native' companies to look at today, they both have an excellent onboarding, MCP / CLI experience, if you need a place to learn from look at them To be honest though, while all the above is helpful just shipping your API spec + CIMD OAuth to it is enough for 99% of agents to have a good experience

Scott Hanselman brought the truth to RenderATL: AI can take care of the mundane, non-creative stuff, but it can’t replace your taste, your responsibility, or your judgment. We are not here to memorize basic information anymore... we are here to be aware and apply actual critical thinking to what we build. When was the last time your gut told you an AI output was completely wrong? Sound off below.

Saying Java in Seattle & Java in SF are two wildly different things

Second and third best thing about @EntireHQ are @HaimantikaM and @lizziepika. First is trails. 🙇

Here at the best @WeAreDevs San Jose booth w/ @jkcso ! Stop by all day to see our demos, meet Marvin, && get merch! #wearedevs #wearedevelopers

About to teach the developers' guide to the agentic forge at 1pm workshop stage 8 w/ @evisdrenova @WeAreDevs #wearedevs #wearedevelopers

Thanks for ruining this Feige you old washed up fuck

Still running small T3 instances? T8i offers up to 30% better price performance with the same CPU-credit model. Unlimited remains the default, so sustained CPU can add charges. Benchmark before switching. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…

New show. Check it out at kNOwBETTERHIPHOP.com

We don't have enough empathy for unemployed young people

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS is nice to talk to. What do you think?

Is your voice agent moody? It should be! With Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, you can direct its mood or let the agent decide for itself. Cheerful, furious, wistful, apologetic, it nails all of them and sounds great. Give it a try on LiveKit: livek.it/obFIyE5

The materials for the first class of my Stanford course 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 are officially on the course page. This includes slides, completed code, and video demonstration of the exercise we worked through. Also week 1 assignment is on the course Github repo! themodernsoftware.dev/

What a time 😂

I’m still very much so interested in solutions engineering and forward deployed engineering. Wondering how I can get some customer facing experience while in school. Like what internships could I do that would give me that kind of experience?

Software engineering was never about typing code When I was on the VS Code team, engineers often drove new product features. The backpressure came from demoing our work live every day in standup. New features had to solve a real problem, fit into the product, and improve developers’ workflows. If you failed to tell a coherent product story for your feature, the code didn’t ship. Nothing trains product judgment like being roasted by your team every day. I’ve spent the last year doubling down on everything around the code. Thanks @kentcdodds for a great conversation on the evolution of product engineering in the age of AI!

I think both things are true, one more than the other depending on who you’re talking to🤷🏾‍♀️

Ceora is right. All of your hard work can get knocked if you have an extended unemployment or have to take a lower paying role and your lifestyle expenses are too high. A few years ago I wrote a strategy called The Downside To Making The Most Money You Ever Have? The biggest threat is the lifestyle creep that many tech folks have enjoyed over the years.

One of the highlights at #FlutterConfLatam26 was the games built for the conference! @diegoveloper and @craig_labenz getting their game on! 🎮💙😅

new blog post 🎉 I built an AI squad and had my most productive Saturday ever so I usually wait a few weeks before trying a new AI tool, but after watching @atmoio's video like 6 times I caved and installed Grok Bot on a friday night 😅 Here’s the story 👇 jtemporal.com/i-built-my-ai-… 1/6

OMG, it's finally here! ✨ Material and Cupertino are now standalone packages on pub.dev this change is all about better design velocity going forward. if you look at the repos in the coming weeks, you'll see what I mean ;) run dart fix to add the new standalone libraries & if you're building a custom design library - I want to see it, send pics! flutter.dev/blog/decoupling-…

Bye Cancun 🇲🇽 amazing experience at #FlutterConfLatam26 - returning home with a bag full of swag and great memories @FlutterDev #Flutter #Dart #Cancun #Mexico 💙💙💙

LiveKit has acquired @LoopholeLabs, an infrastructure company whose technology will enhance our platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents. With their team, we move closer to offering customers essentially unlimited concurrent agents. Welcome to LiveKit! fortune.com/press-releases/l…

I let Jev play 3 games for about a dime a run 🎮 Brotato + Vampire Survivors: ~240ms per call Slay the Spire 2: GPT-6 Astra beat it Lesson: tune what the model knows before making the prompt longer. Full write-up + open-source harnesses below 👇 nitter.net/i/article/210282648889…

blows my mind that there’s still huge group of programmers thinking that AI is just a fad and we’ll go back to writing code by hand soon because things will need to be “cleaned up”

I've been sitting here crying over this for 5 mins. They are so cute 😭😭

Prompt à la carte - lunch tables with dedicated discussion topics Cool easy way to find your tribe in a sea of thousands

Developers are asking for better tools on GitHub for autonomous agentic coding. At the same time maintainers feel overwhelmed and want more control. Both are important! Here's me at AGNTCon Europe sharing 2 of the features I've been using daily for my own agentic workflows💜

“i see us now as basically system designers" 🔥 new podcast with @techgirl1908: piped.video/-sJ-webIY5s

The problem with Meta making anything cool is....its Meta I rather wear a Lugz boot than anything from Meta

AI may have taken code away from me (according to dhh) but it'll never replace community

An [array] of developers enjoying life outside of AI

The worst part of every project is if you need some Google API key.

I don’t understand why people do this. Yesterday, this lady asked if she can come to my house at 12:45. Today at 7:53 am ..she’s like actually I’m going to come at 9:45. First of all, I’m sleeping. Second of all, this is horrible communication skills.

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now on Amazon Bedrock. Sol is aimed at coding and complex tasks. Luna is built for high-volume extraction, summarization and routing. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…

Stanford dropped CS329Z today. Engineering AI Agents. compound systems, build RAG/tool use from scratch, then frameworks, then how you actually evaluate this stuff. gonna follow along online. looks pretty neat. cs329z.stanford.edu/

AI is getting cheap enough that you can process everything you see Built a Thrift Store Scanning Agent that processes video frames, looks up the price online and alerts you to good deals

Tip: Update your resume and mention how effectively do you use AI at work. Companies are now looking to Hire AI-Native product-first software engineers, so it should be clear through the resume. You diagnosed the problem X with the AI and then came up with a solution Y looping in the team (majorly PM and researcher and design) and that resulted in outcome/impact Z.

For a sophomore (2nd year) computer science student, what advice would you give them, to break into the industry (after graduating) and have a great career in building software?

exactly

they kicked me out of SF now i have free healthcare and education

this platform in 3 pictures

.@grok based on my AI research work and my posts history on X, which companies and accounts here on X should I collab with? @-mention and invite all and include topics/domains we should work on

not everything needs a subscription, someones gotta hold it down for free

lol toddlers are so funny. I heard mine talking to herself and looking at a lit candle. “Very hot. Don’t touch. No. No. Hmm I will touch!” Obviously we stopped her beforehand.

Hot/weird take: I think we’re getting a little *too good* at startup launches. Everything feels manufactured.

Lmao u will see it if you go to Jamaica, Trinidad, or Guyana .

Iconic

Stanford CS336 is crazy bro , You think you too behind in the AI/ML p try CS336. You go from Zero to one in oneplaylist maths is a prerequisite tho.

Did Zuck cook today?

Yes, the web assumes you're human. Page layouts, CAPTCHAs, carefully crafted calls-to-actions on videos? Agents don't care about any of that. Good @builderio post ... builder.io/blog/the-internet…

AGNTCon + MCPCon. San Jose. October 22–23. What if you were in the room? Don't take our word for it. Listen to the community. Register: events.linuxfoundation.org/a…

lol they are all wrong. I broke this story on September 5th. blockedandreported.org/p/epi…

BREAKING NEWS: #ElizabethHolmes is leaving prison and transitioning to a halfway house in Del Valle, TX (near Austin) next August according to a notice sent to victims of her crime.

🔄 Every software loop needs feedback: design, build, test, launch, and review. When human users hit broken flows on a site, some file support tickets. But when AI agents hit dead ends, they fail silently or apologize in prose. What if we give agents a bug-reporting tool? 🧵👇

Best part of AI is shattering dev's egos, the worst part of this industry. You are not special. Your code actually sucked like everybody else's. You were never the smartest person. The things my sales guy BIL and designer brother are doing is beyond anything I have done.

Tech really gave me friends and brothers across the globe.

So excited for this talk! @jpschroeder and I had some great banter about this whole domain specific agents thing. looking forward to more of it