Not a lot of people have spoken about this. Sure, great for prototyping, often creates slop, but for enabling polish and detail, especially for designers, there’s huge potential.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Screenshot of an advertisement for the Vercel AI gateway with the text "Use AI Gateway as your Claude Code provider for automatic failover and zero downtime"

Respect to the growth team at Vercel. Sad thing is that they probably had this ready.

Yea I’m guessing they decided to start with something easy.

Underrated advantage of coding with LLMs: opening a chat with a record of what you were doing right before you went to those three meetings in a row is super helpful

MCPs are exposing the shortcomings of a lot of apps’ APIs.

Meta creates AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss Digital avatar being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected

Fantastic idea. Sure this will go great.

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A particularly infuriating part of working with LLMs is that when the conversations get longer because you’re having issues, it seems to gets more and more confused from having to work with more overlapping context.

So as things get worse it gets less competent.

Anyone seen research on this?

To belabor the point, if every user who blocked @attie.ai would do the following I think cool things would happen:

1. Stop asking for an edit button
2. Go make a post on the User Intents proposal demanding that @bsky.app and the @atproto.com teams ship it (link below)
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3. Now you're not in attie

How far are we from Claude taking screen videos or sequences to verify interactions and animations?Screenshots feel very limited.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

I think so. I've even considered automating this in past and am thinking about doing it again for next time I'm in that situation.

really good piece at the Argument by Maibritt Henkel on the actual polling data on young men, in contrast to the insane discourse about them

they're pretty liberal www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-bros-a...

Question modals are the worst part of the Claude experience. I love how they built something that can almost have a conversation but turned it into an IVR/Google form because… I dunno why they do this

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

And to me that’s a very different question from “how do we maximise AI adoption to increase productivity and profit”

And so the question to me is… how do we open up access to and commodify the tools, so we get maximum benefit from their usage?

I have to say this piece resonates with me. I’ve felt excited about building things in the last months in a way I haven’t been for a while. And I’m building those things for myself.

Every single post about productivity in the abstract begs the question "producing what?"

Interesting the I start to notice projects like @semble.so as I realise I’m starting to use @are.na as a general purpose collection tool for web content for personal agents.

Meta ramps up AI adoption push Meta appointed its chief technology officer to oversee efforts to drive AI adoption across its workforce, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Don’t see why this is so hard. Just put a giant chat with Meta AI button in every app and search field employees use 💁🏻‍♂️

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Trump’s sanctions against a UN human rights expert show free speech is dying | Francesca Albanese recommended ICC arrests and investigations over Gaza. Who will be the administration’s next target?

Trump’s retribution against Albanese should concern far more than those focused on Israel’s human rights record. It should trouble anyone who believes in free speech.

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@paper.design Is there any more detailed documentation for your MCP? Trying to work out how it should work when recreating a design from code that includes images.

Can see potential for a very nice workflow with read/write MCP between Claude Code and @paper.design. Not quite there yet though.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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How often does it get autocorrected to Chadcn?

It’s refreshing how much more comfortable you can be as a designer working with a rough prototype or early implementation when you’re 100% confident you’ll be able to make any desired design changes yourself before it ships.

LLMs are an amazing change to this workflow.

I’m sometimes struck by how uncritical our industry is. Scrolling through LinkedIn and most of the posts are takes on an LLM company’s takes on how we will use LLMs.