Human-centered systems thinker. AI-centric designer + builder.
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Ryan Green retweeted
I asked Claude: "What types of businesses outside of the labs will get stronger as raw intelligence explodes?"
Honestly, spot on response.
Ryan Green retweeted
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
Ryan Green retweeted
design slop indicators
- tags
- italicized words
- instrument serif, negative kerning
- over the top detailed UI
- dividers
- multiple color shades and opacities
- containers with borders
- diagrams. the more detailed, the worse
- code breadcrumbs
- section numbering
Ryan Green retweeted
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-be…
Ryan Green retweeted
more design thinking > faster screens
“3 to 4x faster” is the wrong thing to be proud of. If the win is that designers make screens faster, you’ve sped up the part that was never the problem. I don't think moving off Figma makes anyone a better designer. Pointing an LLM at your UI kit just gets you a screen that looks like your product, rendered quicker.
The hard part of designing a product isn’t the happy path. It’s knowing your customers and your business. All the research, all the states the product can be in, how it behaves in each one. Our prototypes are code first, so they run on that context in the same code we ship.
At @mercury we use the time we get back differently. It goes into exploring more directions, pressure testing them against real customer insights, and iterating on the details until they feel right. That extra time is spent on more revs and it’s how we keep our craft bar as high as it is.
Revolut's designers are moving off Figma.
Storonsky spotted one team designing much faster than the others. What they did:
1. Gave an LLM Revolut's design system at the code level
2. Prompted it to build new flows on top of that system
3. Got a live interface they can click through on a laptop or phone, instead of static frames
Result: 3-4x faster. Now he's pushing it to every designer at Revolut.
His job, as he describes it: find what works in one team and spread it across the company.
Full breakdown here:
productmarketfit.tech/p/revo…
Ryan Green retweeted
Things you can use Al for when working on UI:
- ask it to try and break the stuff you built
- let it create state machines to check different scenarios (success, error, different user roles, etc.)
- when finished, ask it to make before/after screenshots
- make it ask you lots of questions about the thing you are working on to validate the idea
- let it create a few variants of a Ul piece so you can try it out
- setup loops to maintain a quality bar by constantly monitoring
Ryan Green retweeted
I’ve done 5 or 6 advising calls this year with designers ~10 years into their career. I told them all the same few things:
Ryan Green retweeted
designers are good founders > engineers:
1) they talk to users
2) they solve problems methodically
3) they care about how it looks
4) they care about users winning, not just tech
designers who build things are the future - we should encourage more of it, not less.
Ryan Green retweeted
I got to see @sandbar in action at dinner last night.
I will be buying one.
So good.
Ryan Green retweeted
Running artefacts inside artefacts....
So I made this file called Claude Computer that turns Chat into a virtual machine and inside of this I can now run other artefacts well .... what is going on ...
So I absolutely love the ease, use, and absolute power of @claudeai artefacts so I made one when you load it at the start of a conversation in vanilla chat you get kind of a virtual machine / desktop / OS to play with (with Claude itself obviously).
Think:
Claude Computer is a spatial desktop that people and their Claudes use together, live. Instead of replying with a wall of text, Claude answers by building things on the desktop: documents, spreadsheets, slides, whiteboards, polls, quizzes, forms, boards and small apps. You tick, drag and vote in them, and one click hands the turn back to Claude.
Blog post on Substack below.
Ryan Green retweeted
If you're still building new screens by hand from your component library, you're behind.
Ryan Green retweeted
I need 1password to build me a feature that systematically rotates my passwords every month, and sends the updates passwords securely to all the services I'm signed up for.
Security just can't be a wild west like this anymore, we need secure protocols
This is the only good thing I've seen from the Duo so far. Still not in love with the form factor.
If they could shrink it so that when you open it up, its the size of my 18 Pro, then we'd be cooking. iPhone Duo Mini would be 🔥
1984년 매킨토시로 변한 아이폰 듀오
애플의 첫 폴더블폰 〈iPhone Duo〉를
반쯤 접으면 1984년 매킨토시를
재현한 작은 노트북으로 변신합니다.
새롭게 공개된 〈Tiny Computers〉는
매킨토시부터 윈도우 95·XP까지
고전 컴퓨터 10종을 체험할 수 있는 앱입니다.
키보드 입력은 물론 그림 그리기와
간단한 게임도 즐길 수 있으며,
일반 아이폰과 아이패드에서도 이용할 수 있습니다.
🎥 idanbo
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For anyone that's turning their nose up at partnerships like this, need to realize that organic growth can only take you so far once the market hits a certain point of saturation.
There's always a question of whether the typical Amex Travel consumer would forego the amenities of a hotel in favor of an AirBNB, but sometimes just having that as an option is enough to push potential cardholders towards one rewards ecosystem versus another.
Even a small percentage of lift (on either side) is massive at the scale of Amex & AirBNB.
This felt inevitable. As Airbnb’s inventory became less differentiated, brand and UX could only take growth so far. This deal is an acknowledgment that cohorted distribution matters too, especially when the partner already has a demand-side moat of affluent travelers you want to reach.
This was a thesis I had at @turo years ago as well and we built out an entire Partner API platform as a result
cnbc.com/2026/10/22/american…
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Ryan Green retweeted
Designers spent decades wishing they could turn their Figma files into real, working products.
Now that we finally can, half of us can't even be bothered to open Figma.
The ability to build isn't an excuse to stop designing.
If anything, it's a reason to care about design more than ever.
Ryan Green retweeted
Marc Andreessen says the gap between what AI-native startups and incumbents think AI can do is the widest he’s ever seen:
"The AI-native early stage startups have just a completely different view on what they can do with AI than the typical incumbents in almost any industry, almost without exception."
"AI is just racing ahead in capability even week by week... There are going to be a lot of industries that are really up for grabs in a fundamentally more profound way than maybe has been the case in the past."
"The founders are gonna have a level of superpowers coming from the use of these tools and these technologies that they just simply haven't had in the past... Had I had Astra and Netscape in 1994, like, oh my God. Like, Ben, what would you and I have been able to do at Netscape?"
"Those entrepreneurs are gonna color way outside the lines. We already see this. They're not gonna think of themselves as like, 'I'm just a software company,' or, 'I'm just a hardware company,' or even, 'I'm just an AI company.'"
@pmarca @bhorowitz
Today, a16z Crypto is becoming a16z Frontier.
Since joining a16z in 2013, @cdixon has focused on technologies that look futuristic well before they reach the mainstream. Those themes led to investments in Oculus, Skydio, Zipline, Coinbase, Solana, and Uniswap.
Frontier expands that mandate beyond crypto to back "outer planet" founders who are building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop.
Chris joins @pmarca, @bhorowitz, and @eriktorenberg to discuss why crypto has become part of the broader tech landscape, why Frontier fills a hole in the firm's architecture, and why they'd rather be too early than too late.
They also get into why the gap between AI-native startups and incumbents is the widest Marc has ever seen, how AI could pull forward 20 years of frontier technology, why stablecoins may become the way AI agents pay each other, how AI is breaking the internet's business model, and why today's 18-year-olds are about to become superhumans.
0:50 Introducing a16z Frontier
2:49 Smartphone parts to drones and VR
4:47 Backing the "outer planets"
7:11 Good ideas that look like bad ideas
10:43 The JP Morgan photo in Marc's office
15:13 Good tech ideas eventually work
16:53 AI may pull tech 20 years forward
18:18 The widest AI gap Marc's ever seen
22:06 Workers adopt AI before companies do
26:32 Old use cases vs. AI-native ones
30:08 Beyond "product manager brain"
34:45 AI can reverse engineer any hardware
38:23 The case for open source AI
46:36 How AI breaks the internet's model
49:11 VR, homebrew hacking, multiplayer AI
54:00 If you're 18, study "modern alchemy"
YouTube: youtu.be/-9XQMHhpypc
Not an offer or solicitation. None of the information herein should be taken as investment advice; Some of the companies mentioned are portfolio companies of a16z. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more information. A list of investments made by a16z is available at a16z.com/portfolio.
Ryan Green retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Ryan Green retweeted
If you wanted to know all the jobs that AI will produce, look no further than cybersecurity. This is going to become one of the biggest investment areas for enterprises going forward.
And even as the work becomes more agentic and autonomous you will need more talent to point the agents at the most critical work, review findings, patch systems, respond to incidents, and more.
Lots of opportunity right now for the systems that protect data and enterprises, as well as the professionals that are deploying them and protecting organizations.
It’s going to only get more wild out there.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Ryan Green retweeted
keeping up with AI is a full-time job. that's why every company needs a frontier team:
the frontier team's job is to keep up as models change. everyone else's job is to use what they learn
we made one @Every and it's completely changed how we work:
0:00 Introduction: Why every company needs a frontier team
2:42 Why the best frontier teams have pirates and architects
4:57 How Head of Evals @hammer_mt builds personal benchmarks
6:46 How Opus edited an explainer video using Slack messages and meeting notes
10:20 Working with AI means protecting other people’s attention
12:26 Why a frontier team needs a “wrangler” like Arielle Shipper
18:58 Why senior editor @jackcheng built a tabless browser
24:37 How resident writer @kplikethebird teaches her AI writing plugin who the reader is
30:51 Inside engineer @JannikJung’s personal AI orchestrator
35:41 Compound engineer @kieranklaassen uses AI to build power tools