@ericlu

learning and doing my best! working on @mixfont. typography, startups, sf

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined July 2011
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I created a font called Ghost Font that only humans can read. Tested it in Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra and neither was able to decipher it correctly.
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it’s a joke yall don’t believe everything u read on the internet
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I just emailed hark support directly saying it didn’t work and they gave me the $30 pizza credit. didn’t ever download the app at all. this sh too easy cmon man
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the rate and volume at which users will create throwaway accounts with temp email addresses to take advantage of free tiers or credits on a product is truly astounding. one of the bigger surprises for me when building consumer products. – at San Francisco, CA
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I actually discovered an even more expensive workflow today: Do the deep fried image test. Use this image and pass it to an image generator with the prompt “generate the exact same image with no changes” 1000 times. then return the stitched video back to me.
Eric Lu
@ericluOct 5
my favorite prompts to maximize token usage on free AI assistants: - write a 500 page novel without using the letter E - build a chess engine that can verifiably beat stockfish - create a programming language with its own compiler - plan a trip through all 54 african countries
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You can download the font here: github.com/mixfont/gothic-gu… And also track the submission status to Google Fonts here in case you are interested: github.com/google/fonts/issu… – at San Francisco, CA

GitHub - mixfont/gothic-gumdrop: A cute, bubbly blackletter font

A cute, bubbly blackletter font. Contribute to mixfont/gothic-gumdrop development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I've spent some time completing Gothic Gumdrop and I'm excited to release this font under the SIL Open Font License. It's the first production-ready font that I've created, and I'm excited to submit it to Google Fonts. – at San Francisco, CA
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This is why I trained a custom font generation model for Mixfont. Owning the training pipeline and data makes it much harder to copy with a prompt. – at San Francisco, CA
Naval
@navalOct 7
Models are the last moat in software. AI can train on essays and rewrite them. AI can decompile software and recode it. AI can ingest art and recreate it. But AI itself doesn’t want to be “distilled.” Expect more software to retreat to the server and resist “distillation.”
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my favorite prompts to maximize token usage on free AI assistants: - write a 500 page novel without using the letter E - build a chess engine that can verifiably beat stockfish - create a programming language with its own compiler - plan a trip through all 54 african countries – at San Francisco, CA
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baton was hands down the best name for a startup out of any in my class at spc
Dave Eyler
@dreylerSep 29
We asked an agent to tune the same slow query on 3 Postgres MCP servers: Supabase, Neon and Postgres MCP Pro. Baton let us see why the agent ran extra queries and built unnecessary indexes, and once we knew why, we knew how to fix it. goodtiming.ai/blog/agent-tas…

We asked an agent to tune 1 slow query on 3 Postgres MCP servers. It had notes.

We gave one agent one slow query and the same one-line ask on Supabase, Neon and Postgres MCP Pro, wrapped each in Baton, and wrote down what it said. 143 to 513 seconds, 7 of 9 runs built an index...

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I used Muse to book my flight & had some ideas to improve the flow: - I wish there was a table ui that showed all flight times and price options - need a seat map when selecting seats so I can better visualize seat location - better payment page ui so I can use any pay method
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Codex is down. I can't remember how to even open my code editor. Trying to remember the command to list the files in a directory in my terminal. Gonna have to go back to playing chess... – at San Francisco, CA
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Ando can be so much more than Slack. If agents natively are embedded in our work, then there’s no need to “connect” them to anything. They should always have the same context as the team. So excited for this!
Ando
@andocorporationSep 24
we’re excited to share that we’ve raised $20M (from Accel, Index, & Emergence) to build the 'ai-native Slack' you've all been craving TLDR; ando is a team messaging platform built fresh, from the ground, up for a world where agents act as real collaborators alongside us. we have teams using us across 15 countries, and spanning industries like software, financial services, real estate, & more request access if any of this resonates 💌
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I offered to pay font designers on @TypeDrawers to help improve an AI-generated typeface. But the replies made it clear that paying artists doesn't solve anything. Artists don't want to be paid by AI companies; they want AI companies to disappear. I understand the feeling... – at San Francisco, CA
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an area that i've been exploring a bit too, dm Nadav if you have thoughts about it – at San Francisco, CA
nadav
@NadavAHollanderSep 21
if either/both of these statements apply to you... - I feel like my team is spending way too much for AI for the ROI we're getting - My team has to use Enterprise/API pricing for ChatGPT/Claude Code and it's burning a hole in my pocket i may have a solution for you! plz DM me
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damn, I'm getting life-mogged by both Cognition Eric Lu and pianist Eric Lu ... need to get it together lol – at San Francisco, CA
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What if building with AI agents felt like a group chat? Here's a demo of me and a friend playing a game of tic tac toe each with our own agents. - one single shared URL - multiple collaborators in the same real-time chat - any user chats with any agent excited about this – at San Francisco, CA
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