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Blake Robbins retweeted
Today’s ticketing systems weren’t built for agents.
Over the past 3 months, we’ve been building a new product at Parahelp to solve this: Infrastructure purpose-built for your agents (like Claude, Grok Bot, or one built in-house) and team to resolve support tickets together.
Blake Robbins retweeted
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
Blake Robbins retweeted
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
Blake Robbins retweeted
Hello World 👋
Ultra Security is out of stealth with $10M in seed funding to secure autonomous systems.
Ultra puts enforceable boundaries around autonomous systems without slowing down the work they're built to do. We've built guardrails, governance, observability, and anomaly detection in one platform.
Agents aren't predictable. Security should be.
Blake Robbins retweeted
now live on smash.fun: Super Smash Bros Melee support. Play as yourself or 1000+ others in the browser
Blake Robbins retweeted
Try this prompt in Claude chat to give it more context about yourself:
Interview me in depth using free text, or askuserquestion tool when multiple choice works, about relevant parts of my life you don’t know about yet and save it all to memory.
Blake Robbins retweeted
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Great discussion with an exceptional investor.
Dialectic 56: Miles Grimshaw
@milesgrimshaw is an investor at @ThriveCapital.
He has spent his life hunting change: from "adventure racing" to finding and working with the world's most ambitious companies.
His favorite part: getting to go back down the mountain and begin again.
I talked to Miles about playing infinite games, seeing greatness up close, and the biggest change he's seen so far:
After a career of software investing, all of the underlying assumptions for venture-backed software startups are in question.
What moats will persist? Is software over?
We also discuss:
- Impatient patience: flying to Ottawa for dinner with @Sirupsen and waiting a year to invest in @turbopuffer
- Two fundamental questions: "what is it?" and "who cares?"
- Software's barbell future: Benioff building "sales city" and "the champagne region of Palantir"
- Founder Vision: "you go where you look" and what @mntruell saw for @cursor_ai
- Getting up to speed as a generalist: "I don't know" and "I'll figure it out"
- Intuition for great: committing to SpaceX laser engineers (@meshoptical) in 48 hours, with no domain expertise
- Humility and conviction: leaving Thrive after a ~decade for Benchmark, and coming back
Timestamps:
(0:00) Opening Highlights
(1:37) Intro: Miles Grimshaw
(4:30) Infinite Games, Adventure Racing, and Starting Anew, Over and Over
(11:01) Staying Hungry: Proactive Hunting and the Turbopuffer Story
(17:35) Impatiently Patient: Courtship, Cursor, Recruiting, and Joining the Team
(25:33) Loving Change: London to America, the Himalayas, and Learning New Sports
(31:36) The Genetics of Companies: "What Is It?" and "Who Cares?"
(38:08) House Cats & Tigers: Where Is the Founder Looking?
(47:00) Confidence in Uncertainty and Customers That Pull You Into the Future
(54:25) What Remains for Software: Moats, Cities, Wall-Clock Time, and the Barbell of Scale & Luxury
(1:04:54) Craft, Trust, and Why Software Isn't Over
(1:11:13) Intuition: Gradient Descent and Seeing Greatness Up Close
(1:18:07) "I Don't Know" and "I'll Figure It Out"
(1:22:12) Commitments, Not Bets: Closing People and Board Work
(1:29:06) Joining Thrive, Being a Punk, and Music Studios over Jury Trials
(1:36:18) Leaving for Benchmark and Returning to Thrive
(1:43:18) Dream Bigger: Lessons from Josh, Teaching Agency to Kids, and Going the Distance
@DialecticPod 56: Miles Grimshaw - Back Down the Mountain - is out now below and on all platforms.
Blake Robbins retweeted
I love Smash 64 but I wish I was in it, so I hacked the original game to run in the browser and put myself + 1000 others in
Upload yourself at smash dot fun
Blake Robbins retweeted
Dialectic 56: Miles Grimshaw
@milesgrimshaw is an investor at @ThriveCapital.
He has spent his life hunting change: from "adventure racing" to finding and working with the world's most ambitious companies.
His favorite part: getting to go back down the mountain and begin again.
I talked to Miles about playing infinite games, seeing greatness up close, and the biggest change he's seen so far:
After a career of software investing, all of the underlying assumptions for venture-backed software startups are in question.
What moats will persist? Is software over?
We also discuss:
- Impatient patience: flying to Ottawa for dinner with @Sirupsen and waiting a year to invest in @turbopuffer
- Two fundamental questions: "what is it?" and "who cares?"
- Software's barbell future: Benioff building "sales city" and "the champagne region of Palantir"
- Founder Vision: "you go where you look" and what @mntruell saw for @cursor_ai
- Getting up to speed as a generalist: "I don't know" and "I'll figure it out"
- Intuition for great: committing to SpaceX laser engineers (@meshoptical) in 48 hours, with no domain expertise
- Humility and conviction: leaving Thrive after a ~decade for Benchmark, and coming back
Timestamps:
(0:00) Opening Highlights
(1:37) Intro: Miles Grimshaw
(4:30) Infinite Games, Adventure Racing, and Starting Anew, Over and Over
(11:01) Staying Hungry: Proactive Hunting and the Turbopuffer Story
(17:35) Impatiently Patient: Courtship, Cursor, Recruiting, and Joining the Team
(25:33) Loving Change: London to America, the Himalayas, and Learning New Sports
(31:36) The Genetics of Companies: "What Is It?" and "Who Cares?"
(38:08) House Cats & Tigers: Where Is the Founder Looking?
(47:00) Confidence in Uncertainty and Customers That Pull You Into the Future
(54:25) What Remains for Software: Moats, Cities, Wall-Clock Time, and the Barbell of Scale & Luxury
(1:04:54) Craft, Trust, and Why Software Isn't Over
(1:11:13) Intuition: Gradient Descent and Seeing Greatness Up Close
(1:18:07) "I Don't Know" and "I'll Figure It Out"
(1:22:12) Commitments, Not Bets: Closing People and Board Work
(1:29:06) Joining Thrive, Being a Punk, and Music Studios over Jury Trials
(1:36:18) Leaving for Benchmark and Returning to Thrive
(1:43:18) Dream Bigger: Lessons from Josh, Teaching Agency to Kids, and Going the Distance
@DialecticPod 56: Miles Grimshaw - Back Down the Mountain - is out now below and on all platforms.
Blake Robbins retweeted
In 2011, a fan asked Frank Ocean on Tumblr to explain his current situation to himself from 5 years ago
Blake Robbins retweeted
Trust the
ALT process 1 of 4 noun pro·cess ˈprä-ˌses ˈprō-, -səs pluralprocesses ˈprä-ˌse-səz ˈprō-, -sə-, -ˌsēz Synonyms of process 1 a : a series of actions that produce something or that lead to a particular result
Blake Robbins retweeted
Introducing here.now workspaces
A shared home for the dashboards, reports, docs, prototypes, and other artifacts your team creates with agents
Private by default, with URLs like brand-deck.acme.here.now
Just prompt: "Create a here.now workspace"
Blake Robbins retweeted
This is seriously the best World Cup lore download I've found. Highly underrated and totally unexpected. Who would've guessed that games industry legend @mitchlasky also turns out to be a class A football nerd?
as a complete World Cup casual, these consumer guides with @mitchlasky have made the tournament so much more fun to follow.
i said it last episode, and I’ll say it again: if there’s one thing Mitch loves more than games, it’s football.
