Narrative violation: meetings are back. With Opus 5.5, executing on tasks that are single-player between a human and computer is largely solved. The bottleneck is aligning between humans on what to build, not stepping on toes, and change management. My recent most productive days have been 70-80% over a whiteboard with teammates. We don't leave until we're precisely aligned on what to build ("what prompt are we going to write?"). Related: I think whiteboards or designs as medium for alignment are much better than text documents.

Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component

We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better: Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better: Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better: Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work! In summary: - As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding. - Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.

I think every time AI can do something equally good or better than humans it stops being valuable or special Marketing videos used to take lots of work of editing and motion graphics and a big budget Now with Opus 5.5 etc it costs $0 to make one as good or better That means ANYONE can make a marketing video now, so the timeline gets flooded with these videos (as you see happening now) and people stop caring about them, stop watching them and they stop grabbing attention The response then to still grab attention is be different and that probably means IRL marketing videos that are original and unique and maybe personal It's the grim reaper meme where AI keeps commoditizing another media format and bringing the cost down to close to $0 It already did so for graphic design (2023), last year with Nano Banana for photography (2025), this year with Seedance 2.5 it did it for video (2026) and this and next year motion graphics

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This 15 minute video is a must watch. Foley (Peloton founder) delves briefly into ways fitness classes look like a modern-day religion. From the community to the lighting. youtu.be/-g5Y-Dp5kDw

Here's the final version of the global population density graphic I made, because another one that is circulating was less well defined, and someone cropped NZ off it