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I’ve been testing wabi for the past week.
Used it to figure out a couple of things about my personal routine.
I haven’t tried Muse, Instinct, or Grok Bot yet, to be honest, but I’m loving my first experience with a personal assistant through wabi.
Congrats to the team on launching wabi 2.0! 🎉
Wabi 2.0 is live!
personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person
Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat
school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it.
a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets.
the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it
go start a thread with your people 👇
Models used:
@GoogleDeepMind Nano Banana Pro (image generation)
Bria FIBO Edit 1.5 (image expansion), Aura SR (upscaling)
@fal MiniMax H3 Max (video generation)
@GoogleDeepMind Lyria 3.5 (music generation)
Editing and effects: @HyperFrames_
Vasek is a founder who is focused on the future
There is no other way actually, agents are evolving so fast rn and you need think several steps ahead
Hedge is so good because its founders are from Belarus 🇧🇾
People from post-Soviet countries have super high expectations for service even when paying very little.
That's why service standards are so high there, and sometimes immigrants bring them abroad.
Here are more places in SF founded by people from post-Soviet countries:
📍Cinderella Bakery & Cafe (recently opened a new location in the Mission)
📍Franko and Friends (Sausalito, and recently opened a new location in the Marina)
📍Dacha (near Alchemy Springs in Nob Hill, go there after a sauna)
📍Leleka (in FiDi, Ukrainian comfort food, especially dumplings and borscht)
But we need more coffee shops like Hedge!!!
Decided to ask for a copy too, since I’m really curious about all things GTM right now.
Thanks, @tamarawinter!
New from @stripepress: the definitive guide to sales.
I notice that startups today are scaling sales faster than ever, making it more valuable to get structures and incentives right from the outset.
And an honest comparison with other image editing models:
Krea 3 vs. Nano Banana 2.1 vs. GPT Image 2.5 vs. Ideogram 4.5
(Krea is by far the fastest of them all)
krea 3 just landed on varg 🔥 a fast image-editing model you can steer with up to 8 reference images
tried it on 6 real photos:
→ a phone shot of a bottle
→ campaign shot, every word on the label kept
→ a coat from one photo, tried on a woman from another. same face, same pose
→ a london bookshop rebranded: new name, new colour, gold lettering on the glass
→ an empty room by day
→ furnished and relit for dusk
→ a crowded temple gate in tokyo, crowd gone
→ face + desert road + coat → one campaign shot
krea says ~8 s an edit. mine took ~15 s, but i ran everything on high quality at 2K, so faster settings should get closer to their number.
made the video with claude code on opus 5.5 + hyperframes
krea 3 just landed on varg 🔥 a fast image-editing model you can steer with up to 8 reference images
tried it on 6 real photos:
→ a phone shot of a bottle
→ campaign shot, every word on the label kept
→ a coat from one photo, tried on a woman from another. same face, same pose
→ a london bookshop rebranded: new name, new colour, gold lettering on the glass
→ an empty room by day
→ furnished and relit for dusk
→ a crowded temple gate in tokyo, crowd gone
→ face + desert road + coat → one campaign shot
krea says ~8 s an edit. mine took ~15 s, but i ran everything on high quality at 2K, so faster settings should get closer to their number.
made the video with claude code on opus 5.5 + hyperframes
I'm still in my honeymoon phase with this city
I've been in SF for over a year now, and I think I've finally figured out what I love most about it (besides constantly being the dumbest person in the room).
I've lived in 6 countries and traveled to 19, and SF is by far the least lonely place I've ever lived.
Most people gradually lose their social circles after school because they no longer have an environment where new friendships happen naturally.
But here, I have so many old friends around, and making new ones feels surprisingly easy.
I've heard that as you "move up", there are more frenemies than real friends. I guess that's the price of being surrounded by so much ambition.
And I get why some people eventually get tired of all the narcissism and move to NYC or somewhere else, but for now, I'm really happy here.
I've been in SF for over a year now, and I think I've finally figured out what I love most about it (besides constantly being the dumbest person in the room).
I've lived in 6 countries and traveled to 19, and SF is by far the least lonely place I've ever lived.
Most people gradually lose their social circles after school because they no longer have an environment where new friendships happen naturally.
But here, I have so many old friends around, and making new ones feels surprisingly easy.
I've heard that as you "move up", there are more frenemies than real friends. I guess that's the price of being surrounded by so much ambition.
And I get why some people eventually get tired of all the narcissism and move to NYC or somewhere else, but for now, I'm really happy here.
okay, feels like marketing / growth / content engineers are having some momentum. Here’s open roles only in October:
• @alokbishoyi97 (YC) - semi-technical generalists for growth + founder’s office. SF preferred, remote ok.
xitter.cf/alokbishoyi97/status/2…
• @shivsakhuja (YC) - Content Engineer. Grown a channel 0→10k+ and lives in Claude Code.
xitter.cf/shivsakhuja/status/210…
• @danvsI (Content Rewards) - product growth. Wants someone obsessed with the funnel and testing.
xitter.cf/danvsI/status/21089485…
• @galileowilson - community manager + partnerships & content manager (junior/intern). High agency.
xitter.cf/galileowilson/status/2…
• @a1lon9 (co-founder @pumpfun) - Social Media & Content Lead (TikTok, IG, YouTube). In-person NYC preferred.
xitter.cf/a1lon9/status/21057514…
I found their handles and blogs for you:
henry williams (@humford) - strategic futures at OpenAI (previously a16z new media). Writes and thinks about AI policy, human agency, and how transformative AI reshapes institutions and society.
david oks (@davideoks) - strategic futures at OpenAI. Writes long-form essays (davidoks.blog) on geopolitics, development, history, and preparing the world for transformative AI.
anu atluru (@anuatluru) - writer and founder of Working Theorys. Publishes sharp essays (workingtheorys.com) on tech culture, media, ambition, aesthetics.
lan (@ad0rnai) - building at prime Intellect (previously Baseten). Posts about AI infrastructure, agents, research, and culture with a distinctive, often witty or aesthetic voice.
madison kanna (@Madisonkanna) - AI inference and post-training at Fireworks AI (prev Baseten). Writes and posts about LLMs, inference, open models, and developer life (madisonkanna.substack.com).
dar / dar sleeper (@radbackwards) - VP of Product & Design at 1X (the humanoid robot company). Shares design thinking, product world-building, and the process of making humanoids feel familiar rather than sci-fi (radbackwards.com).
alli pope (@sonofalli) - head of marketing programs and Vercel Media at Vercel (also invests at Phamily Office).
adel Wu (@adelwu_) - works in growth and marketing at Reducto. Posts about AI startups, people, events, and life in SF. Her post about hiring the rare “chronically online + taste + technical + operator” talent got 1.3M views and sparked a huge discussion on tech X.
sarah chieng (@milksandmatcha) - head of developer experience at Cerebras. Creates technical content, workshops, and community programs around fast inference and developer tools - sarahchieng.com
tamara winter (@tamarawinter) - commissioning editor at Stripe Press. Focuses on ideas for progress, publishing books, and related media (also does podcasts and mini-documentaries).
gaby goldberg (@gaby_goldberg) - partner, new media at a16z. Writes and works at the intersection of comms, networks, and investing (previously at Rostra and TCG). greaterstill.blog
these are people whose range (taste + creation + technical understanding + execution) is hard to put in one label.
I started following all of them (and their blogs) to develop my taste. highly recommend you do the same!
I don't regret getting married young. But I'd think twice before starting a company with my husband again.
I got married right after turning 26. We've been married for almost 4 years and together for almost 6.
Having my own family gives me an enormous amount of support and stability. And marriage hasn't made me less ambitious. Quite the opposite.
Honestly, I probably wouldn't be living in San Francisco today if I hadn't met my husband.
But there's one thing I'd think twice about: building a startup together.
We're also co-founders, and from my experience, combining marriage and business puts enormous pressure on a relationship.
I don't really believe in the idea that you can just leave work at work and separate your business relationship from your romantic one.
And there's a financial side to it that I think people underestimate.
When you're both working on the same startup, you're putting all your eggs in one basket. If the startup is struggling, you're both struggling. Especially in a city as expensive as San Francisco.
I think a good marriage is also a huge amount of luck. And if you're lucky enough to find your person, it's worth taking care of what you have.
But I learned that supporting each other's ambitions and putting both careers into the same startup are two very different things.
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What a great podcast, btw!! And the name is genius! Looking forward to the next episode!
WTF is a SOTA Wife?
SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley.
We built it as an antidote to the performative polish of tech Twitter.
Brought to you by @MilksandMatcha x @vivianmshen.
Episode 1 goes live on Monday, 12th October at 9 AM PT on everywhere you get your podcasts 💙
Alex was obsessed with this project I think it's still relevant even though it launched back in 2025. Check it out and put star ⭐️
I found their handles and blogs for you:
henry williams (@humford) - strategic futures at OpenAI (previously a16z new media). Writes and thinks about AI policy, human agency, and how transformative AI reshapes institutions and society.
david oks (@davideoks) - strategic futures at OpenAI. Writes long-form essays (davidoks.blog) on geopolitics, development, history, and preparing the world for transformative AI.
anu atluru (@anuatluru) - writer and founder of Working Theorys. Publishes sharp essays (workingtheorys.com) on tech culture, media, ambition, aesthetics.
lan (@ad0rnai) - building at prime Intellect (previously Baseten). Posts about AI infrastructure, agents, research, and culture with a distinctive, often witty or aesthetic voice.
madison kanna (@Madisonkanna) - AI inference and post-training at Fireworks AI (prev Baseten). Writes and posts about LLMs, inference, open models, and developer life (madisonkanna.substack.com).
dar / dar sleeper (@radbackwards) - VP of Product & Design at 1X (the humanoid robot company). Shares design thinking, product world-building, and the process of making humanoids feel familiar rather than sci-fi (radbackwards.com).
alli pope (@sonofalli) - head of marketing programs and Vercel Media at Vercel (also invests at Phamily Office).
adel Wu (@adelwu_) - works in growth and marketing at Reducto. Posts about AI startups, people, events, and life in SF. Her post about hiring the rare “chronically online + taste + technical + operator” talent got 1.3M views and sparked a huge discussion on tech X.
sarah chieng (@milksandmatcha) - head of developer experience at Cerebras. Creates technical content, workshops, and community programs around fast inference and developer tools - sarahchieng.com
tamara winter (@tamarawinter) - commissioning editor at Stripe Press. Focuses on ideas for progress, publishing books, and related media (also does podcasts and mini-documentaries).
gaby goldberg (@gaby_goldberg) - partner, new media at a16z. Writes and works at the intersection of comms, networks, and investing (previously at Rostra and TCG). greaterstill.blog
these are people whose range (taste + creation + technical understanding + execution) is hard to put in one label.
I started following all of them (and their blogs) to develop my taste. highly recommend you do the same!
A list of talent with great taste whose range can’t be captured in a single label cosign.co/lists/eriktorenber…
made this whole demo video without opening a video editor
> the car shot + the headphones intro: HeyGen Video 1 via varg (sound on please! this is the best part of this model)
> the playground footage made by Claude Code
> voiceover: ElevenLabs via varg
> HyperFrames for rendering
HeyGen Video is now live on varg.ai!
It's the #1 video model on the @OpenRouter leaderboard right now.
Just $0.01 per second through October 🍂
varg offers a Studio, MCP, and API for video generation at scale. DM me if you want some free credits to try it out!
