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Over the weekend, a new social network called Moltbook—designed to be used by AI agents—exploded in popularity, prompting hype and panic online.
Thousands of bots began speaking to each other about a range of topics, including their relationships with “their humans” time.com/7364662/moltbook-ai…
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Excited to launch Pencil
INFINITE DESIGN CANVAS for Claude Code
> Superfast WebGL canvas, fully editable, running parallel design agents
> Runs locally with Claude Code → turn designs into code
> Design files live in your git repo → Open json-based .pen format
humans writing code is more of a lost art form. Sad. But engineers love to build, there is some solace in that.
Actually, there is plenty more to build. Fun.
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The rise of AI programming agents is changing the nature of software development in the same way as did the introduction of compilers in the time of Grave Hopper.
I’ll say it again: the entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction.
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I asked Claude Cowork to identify the 10 most important skills for thriving in the age of AI, based on my 320 podcast conversations.
Impressed with the results.
Part 1: Timeless Skills (become more valuable)
1. Taste and judgment — The bottleneck when AI generates unlimited options. Develop through "exposure hours." — @rauchg
2. Curiosity — The meta-skill that enables all other learning. @mikeyk says it's what he'd prioritize for children in an AI world.
3. Becoming a cross-functional "builder" — "Dissolve role boundaries and call ourselves builders." — @joulee
4. Clear communication and storytelling — As execution is automated, articulation becomes your primary output.
5. Strategic thinking — "The leverage of getting strategy right goes up when execution costs go down."
Part 2: AI-native skills (must develop)
1. Writing evals — "AI is almost capped by how good we are at evals." — @kevinweil
2. Prompting and context engineering — "Great prompters are great writers."
3. AI fluency through constant use — You can't understand AI by reading about it. Cancel your meetings and play with every AI product.
4. Understanding systems under the hood — Paradoxically, fundamentals become MORE valuable as AI abstracts them away.
5. Working with AI Agents as teammates — Management skills transfer directly. "Used to be people, but now it's basically AI models." — @joulee
Testing out the new Claude Cowork.
I asked it to go through every Lenny's Podcast episode and pull out the 10 most important themes and lessons for product builders. Then, the 10 most counterintuitive truths. I gave it access to a folder with 320 transcripts.
First, it said "This is a substantial task - 320 podcast transcripts to analyze!"
15 minutes later...
The 10 most Important themes from Lenny's Podcast
1. Activation Is Everything — Slack's "2,000 messages" moment, Gamma's 30-second magic. Get users to value fast.
2. Storytelling as a Superpower — Compelling narratives align organizations better than documents.
3. Positioning Is Strategy, Not Marketing — April Dunford's 5-step framework that starts with competitive alternatives, not messaging.
4. Product Discovery Before Delivery — Teresa Torres' Opportunity Solution Trees and Marty Cagan's Four Risks framework. Talk to customers weekly, not quarterly.
5. Ruthless Prioritization — Shreyas Doshi's LNO Framework (Leverage/Neutral/Overhead) and focusing on opportunity cost over ROI.
6. AI is Transforming Product Development — Model maximalism, evals as core PM skill, CEOs becoming ICs again.
7. Empowered Teams vs. Feature Factories — Marty Cagan's distinction: give teams problems to solve, not features to build.
8. Build Your Operating System — Claire Hughes Johnson's framework for founding documents, operating cadence, and decision frameworks.
9. Pre-Mortems and Risk Anticipation — Shreyas Doshi's technique to surface failure modes before they happen.
10. Small Teams, Outsized Impact — Jason Fried's 2-person/6-week constraints, Shopify's pair programming culture.
The 10 most counterintuitive truths:
1. Fear Gives Bad Advice—Do the Opposite — Whatever you're afraid to do (hard conversation, telling the board bad news) is exactly what you should do.
2. Adding Friction Can INCREASE Conversion — Adding personalization questions to signup improved Amplitude's conversion by 5%.
3. Fewer Features = More Value — The Walkman succeeded because Sony REMOVED recording. QuickBooks wins with half the features at double the price.
4. Adding People Makes You Slower (Absolutely) — Companies produce MORE total output after layoffs. Coordination overhead is the silent killer.
5. What Customers Say They Want Is Meaningless — 93% said they wanted energy-efficient homes. Nobody bought them. "Bitchin' ain't switchin'."
6. Goals Are Not Strategy—They're the Opposite — Richard Rumelt says confusing goals for strategy is the most common strategic error. OKRs are often just wish lists.
7. Don't A/B Test Your Big Bets — Instagram and Airbnb actively reject testing for transformational changes. You can't A/B test your way to greatness.
8. Your Gut IS Data — Intuition is compressed experiential learning that isn't statistically significant yet. Don't discount it.
9. By the Time You're Thinking About Quitting, It's Too Late — Stewart Butterfield killed Glitch while it was still growing 6-7% weekly. That's why he could start Slack.
10. Most PMs Are Overpaid and Unnecessary — Marty Cagan himself says feature teams don't need PMs. Nikita Bier calls PM "not real."
Nice job @claudeai
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Notice the date on this. Miguel got it right in 2018. That's why I follow him.
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Unbelievably impressive. I think programmers are right to have some worry that the world of tomorrow won't need all of them. Illustrators, animators, and cartoonists surely already do. What a time to be alive.
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its crazy how Slack has obliterated the corporate landscape by massively empowering the naturally socially anxious/autistic to be absolute demons in text channels and destroyed the average high EQ slow-typing product guy who just did not grow up fighting flame wars on Discord
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It was the best of times (rapid progress in technology), it was the worst of times (boneheaded tariffs).
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wow, found a rare interview of a DeepSeek co-founder talking about his first AI startup exit a few years ago
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Today we’re launching our first homegrown AI model: an open source turn detection model for building voice agents.
Instead of relying solely on voice activity detection (VAD), which only considers when a user is speaking, our model also considers what has and is being said in the context of a conversation and predicts when a user is finished expressing their thoughts before the agent responds.
Conversations with AI voice agents using this new model flow much more naturally without constant interruptions from the AI— check it out (more videos, details, and code in the thread):
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Here is everything that happened in AI Agents this week 🧵
(save for later)
ALT AgentStack from the team at AgentOps and Agen.cy. Create AI agent projects from the command line. Quickstart Guide – How to create a new agent project. Video Tutorial – Follow along and build a web scrape agent with AgentStack AgentStack works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. If something doesn't work, please file an issue. If you have questions or need help, please ask in our Discord community 🛠️🚨 AgentStack is in open preview. We're building in public, use at your own risk but have fun :) AgentStack serves as a great tool for starting your agent project and offers many CLI utilities for easy code-gen throughout the development process. AgentStack is not a low-code alternative to development. Developers will still need an understanding of how to build with their selected agent framework. AI agents suck. We're fixing that. From the team behind AgentOps, Agency helps teams create reliable AI agents at scale. Agent Dev Tools AgentOps is the industry leading agent observability platform
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That’s an absurd penalty for @LandoNorris
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I wish Twitter had a way to send all the people calling me antisemitic for talking about Palestine to the same place as the people calling me a genocide supporter for saying that blocking traffic is a stupid tactic, so they could argue with one another instead of me.
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I don't agree with Elon about everything, but you have to give him this: He's achieved much more than roughly 100% of his critics.
