Ben Horowitz cosigned the Databricks co-founders in 2013, when they were Berkeley academics. " When I met with them, they were like, 'We need to raise $200,000.'" "I said, 'I'm not gonna write you a check for $200,000. I'll write you a check for $10 million.'" "You need to build a company. You need to really go for it if you're gonna do this, otherwise you guys should stay in school."

Today we announced the preview of Microsoft Autopilot is rolling out to our first customers - "Autopilot is a persistent, proactive and personal agent that keeps working even when you’re not" It's been a while since I updated you all on what we are building. First Scout is now Autopilot, and my team leads building this personal agent. We are building Autopilot on @openclaw, working with @steipete and the OpenClaw Foundation to make it a fantastic enterprise grade runtime. blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202… Re-introducing Sebastian, my Autopilot - and he is as excited as I am!

If you know anyone looking for a good and fairly AI-proof career, watchmaker (= watch repairer) seems a promising one. Every watchmaker seems to have more work than he can handle, mechanical watches are increasingly popular, and it will be a while before AI does this.

I'm hearing a new concern from founders: AI brain rot Some employees are becoming so reliant on AI that they are losing critical thinking and struggle to ask the second order questions to move an initiative forward.

Announcing Cosign. Silicon Valley knows people by watching other people know them. One person's visible belief becomes a signal to someone else, and the network updates its priors. Ascendancy is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. The earlier someone is in their trajectory, the less proof there is to go on, and the more meaningful the vouch. Belief compounds. People used to earn status through rites of passage like graduating college and landing prestigious jobs. People collect status in bits now, 24/7, often outside any formal system. Showing your work in public has become the new warm intro. Vouches take many forms. A tweet, an invite, an introduction, an angel check. Being undeniable and getting credible people to say so is how you become somebody in Silicon Valley. The game only works if new people can win. Everyone benefits when good people get pulled into the game faster. If you believe in someone early, say so. cosign.co

Opus 5.5 animation created with this prompt: "make me an animation to explain why celld earns its place." There's way more context behind this but i thought the opus 5.5 output was impressive enough to share it here on X.

My legal team on their way to review a 400 page privacy policy from a random website before I agree to accept all cookies

🪩🎉Tomorrow at 9AM PDT I'll be introducing discobox, live demoing, and ranting about how terrible sandboxes are. It will be fun. YT link in thread. Will also be live streamed on X.

No, please, we need more. How else will I be able to build and sell a sandbox orchestrator. discobox.ai You know that's what I'm doing. Pretty soon I'll be integrating with every one of these project. We need at least 3 per developer!

The sandbox announcements with effectively identical and wildly undifferentiated technology will continue until morale improves.

Was wondering where my disk space went. Therefore this exists now. You can simply wish software into existence.

Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges

err... no. Professor Hinton, like all inventors/engineers, likes to tout how his engineering was remarkable. btw, a kill switch is absurd. Either tax the companies or jail the execs when sh*t happens. That's more effective than a kill switch.

You guys think @alexandr_wang is underdressed but he's literally flexing on you like crazy lol There are levels to this

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