If you’re building a agent
Always go the harness route first. Do not build a complicated 20 step workflow using a bunch of if else statements or langgraph
Use a harness as your agent eg. Claude code, codex, deep agents, glean etc
You’re just shooting urself in the foot off the bat
Trust me, prompting works surprisingly well
Ben Horowitz on treating your story as your strategy, and why founders often skip writing it even though it's one of the most important parts of the job:
"The story of the company is also the strategy of the company... In your mind, you're kind of adjusting that strategy a little bit at a time every day. But then a quarter later, it's actually pretty different than what you started with."
"So it's really important that you keep upgrading your story. The articulation of your story. I would definitely recommend it be in written form."
"Something that you can share with everybody in the company, and everybody you're recruiting, everybody you're trying to raise money from, all your constituents, every customer."
"The problem that I think founders have is it doesn't feel like work. Like, 'What are you doing today?' 'I'm working on my story.' That doesn't sound like work."
"Because it doesn't feel like work, people don't do it, but it's probably one of the most important parts of the job."
@bhorowitz w/ @speedrun GP @Tocelot
earshot v0.3 is out!
added:
- a library of 201 sounds, all made with code
- earshot kit can create a whole sound kit
- earshot sfx times a sound to the exact frame (improved)
plus earshot is now used in cinetic (skill for creating motion design)
will continue improving it!
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10 more startup programs giving away FREE cloud + AI credits
Bookmark to save your runway
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Some values can vary, so check each page individually
Founders, stop waisting money
8 startup programs offering up to $1M in credits:
@fdotinc - $1M
@googlecloud - up to $350K
@JoinEdgeCity - $200K
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@databricks - up to $200K
@fabric_vc - $100K
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Take in count, some require VC backing, residency participation, or partner referrals
Time to build!
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AI is making creativity more valuable than ever before and..
we have 3 years of data to prove it.
Introducing the Creative Intelligence 2026 report from @contralabs.
Full report: c87.to/creative-intelligence…
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While we've now launched a Rust rewrite, we're sharing those lessons for others going through a similar Python scaling journey.
openai.com/index/scaling-sto…
During the period when I had to downgrade from Sol to 5.5, I told my friend at OAI that it felt like being nuked back to the Stone Age.
We’re very likely approaching an event horizon: those who can feel AGI coming are being pulled into an accelerating future, while those farther away feel as if everything is standing still.
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This is the most impressive to me, more than the 100m world record.
This requires autonomous real-time planning and action in response to a fast-moving target and dynamic environment.
Galbot is one of China’s top humanoid robot startups.
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Can't recommend this blog post by @gordic_aleksa more. The perfect technical balance.
vllm.ai/blog/2025-09-05-anat…
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how.complexsystems.fail
also good
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this is probably the ugliest design i've ever seen
Celebrating small wins is hardwired into "Achieve," our goal-tracking sample app.
We wanted the simple act of checking off a task to feel like a celebration. Instead of the standard #Material ripple, we used Styles to drop in a custom, high-contrast completion animation—specifically, a brand-colored ring that expands and fades on tap, paired with a subtle pressed-state gradient.
It lets us focus entirely on polishing those custom, rewarding micro-interactions while Material handles the foundation.
#GoogleDesign #MaterialDesign #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev #UXDesign #InteractionDesign
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Operator Lionel Messi has scored his 20th career FIFA World Cup goal

































