Co-founder & CEO @ Magic Hour (@magichourai) - building creative tools with AI

Oakland, CA
Joined April 2009
Last week, I had an hour to use 50% of my Codex credits (thanks @thsottiaux), so I asked Astra to create a personal website in Guardian, my favorite map from my favorite game, and make it a treasure hunt. It ended up taking 973M tokens, 37 hours of Codex runtime, and 25-30 hours of my time across 8 days. Try it out and let me know what you think: runboli.com
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We just launched Video-to-Video v3. When we started working on v2v in 2023, the outputs were flickery and lacked temporal consistency. Today, it's hard to make out the outputs from real video game and cartoon scenes. It's been really fun working on this over the years. I'm excited at where we're headed.
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When you're the least technical person on the team and short a desk
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Live in Oakland
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Replying to @magichourai
@magichourai took home 1st place, 2nd place, and a 5090 GPU at the first @ComfyUI hackathon. This team is cracked
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Thanks @jojodecayz for organizing, and @Comfyanonyous, @PurzBeats, @JulienAIArt, @ErwannMillon, @Kosinkadink, and Benjamin Lu for judging.
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When @KDTrey5 shares a video made using your product 🤯
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Excited at what we've got cooking
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Doing a startup is just chasing one moment of inspiration, over and over again
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Learning Figma is like discovering designers have been playing competitive Starcraft this whole time It's like "wait, you've been memorizing 50+ keyboard shortcuts and navigating buried menus for years?"
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Recessions as an adult are so much less fun than recessions as a kid
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Yesterday I visited UC Berkeley for the first time. First time on the other side of a job fair. Less nerve-wracking. A lot of students were nervous, like I used to be. After, we followed @kathrynwu1 to get tofu soup in an alley. I think I would've liked going here.
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4o image is pretty incredible
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This one did it for me
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Founder mode is watching daily pool parties in 81 degree weather while checking your co2 monitor to make sure you're not slowly dying
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it's harder to empathize with people when you haven't experienced the same things, like fighting a war on your own soil, but we should still try
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putting decisions through chatgpt, claude, and grok feels like having a board of advisors without the calendar invites
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there's something intimate about hearing someone say "why?" it's like getting a peek into a thought that typically only lives in their brain
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One year of Group Office Hours with the Camels. Some of my best friends from YC, and one of the few recurring meetings I look forward to @isabella_patane @illiana_reed @Vercantez @notdavidhu
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me trying to test every new ai video model
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