CEO @Glowforge and https://teapawt.net/t.co/7QcGGhWs9L, Wharton research fellow in AI. He/him. FormerGoogle, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author, The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.
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Joined August 2007
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📣 Reed Walker and I are hiring a predoc at UC Berkeley! Please r/t.
Starts 2027, 1 yr renewable. Apply here 👉 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Analysis of air/water/climate/energy, trade/spatial, remote sensing/machine learning/models.
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Love the new @econimate video on our paper "Water Works" w/ @DavidKeiserEcon , Bhash Mazumder, @davidmolitor.
youtube.com/watch?v=HkDebSfr…
US drinking water pollution fell more than half from 2003 to 2019; Safe Drinking Water Act loans helped, older Americans' health improved.
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Happy birthday @jamescham! James is a thoughtful kind human. Please wish him a happy birthday, follow him and do something unnecessarily kind today.
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We build on @danshapiro's levels of software autonomy to release a taxonomy for organizations wondering what level of AI adoption they’re at: the Levels of Autonomy in Software Development.
L0 is defined by no AI coding, while L5 is a fully fledged software factory. Most teams are somewhere in the middle.
In this blog we define each level by who reviews and approves a change, and how we're moving to L5 and beyond.
Read more in the blog post: corridor.dev/blog/levels-of-…
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Parasocial was Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year in 2025.
And with good reason. AI chatbots interact with us “as if” they were human.
With @LennartMeincke, @danshapiro, @emollick, Lilach M., Christophe Van den Bulte, @RobertCialdini, I published a new study in @pnas. We found classic human persuasion techniques, Cialdini's "Principles of Influence," led to AI chatbots such as ChatGPT agreeing to objectionable requests (to synthesize chemicals it shouldn’t), increasing compliance from 35% to 51%.
Open access here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Which Dan level has your team reached? 🥋
A few months back, @danshapiro published a piece mapping AI-assisted development onto five levels of automation, and I've been thinking about it.
Dan Shapiro retweeted
Completion finishes your sentence.
Chat discusses things with you.
Agents work for you.
Claws work without you.
I used to think OpenClaw was an a clever app. Now, I think it represents the fourth evolution in a series: completion, chat, agent, claw.
danshapiro.com/blog/2026/05/…
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I am noticing a really interesting trend:
my friends who are not technical are getting much further with open claw (etc), etc than my friends who are technical.
it seems that the ability for us to imagine the limits is artificially causing limits that are not there for folks who are not imagining limits.
have you seen the same thing?
Dan Shapiro retweeted
Gemini was the only frontier model that was susceptible to these sorts of prompt injections (Though we tested Gemini 3 & not 3.1)
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New report from us: Can you prompt inject your way to an “A”?
As LLMs increasingly are used as judges, people are inserting AI prompts into letters, CVs & papers. We tested whether it works. It does on older & smaller models, but not on most frontier AI: gail.wharton.upenn.edu/resea…
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Btw, @danshapiro github.com/danshapiro/trycyc… is a really nice piece of engineering inspired by the strongdm team and superpowers. Today i experimented mixing gstack with trycycle all driven by an attractor engine. Fun 🤩
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Great little story from @danshapiro about how he asked a coding agent to fix the official webcam software from Canon that kept crashing. He woke up to a new, fully functional Rust webcam app that has worked ever since. danshapiro.com/blog/2026/03/…
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taking the tryke out for a spin. I have a feeling this will radically change how I write code / build things: danshapiro.com/blog/2026/03/…
@danshapiro thank you
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I’ve been using trycycle, Dan’s new “dark factory,” hill climbing skill.
It’s a remarkable piece of work. Relatively simple, but effective. I had reached the point as a super user of Jesse Vincent’s superpowers where I felt I could no longer be of help to the agent on a granular decision-making basis.
Trycycle is a brilliant attempt to remove the human from some of the grind.
You should try it. It’s easy, and a single prompt will often let you go on a walk for 45 minutes and return to a polished, tested piece of work.
I’ll have more to say later. Great work, @danshapiro!
Dark Factories are arriving. You can have your own - meet the Trycycle.
danshapiro.com/blog/2026/03/…
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Curious what knowledge work will be in 18 months? Look at what #AI is doing to coding right now.
In this post, Brian Madden takes @danshapiro's five-level framework for AI use in coding and translates it to knowledge work: bit.ly/3OJ7I3v
What level have you reached? 👀
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I use @kieranklaassen + @danshipper's /workflows:plan and /workflows:work on almost every feature or bug. It's the most important plugin in my stack. I often don't even read the plan, because I trust it's thoughtful and good.
But this @slashlast30days research showed me @obra's Superpowers fills real gaps - the brainstorming gate that forces you to explore approaches before writing a line of code, the TDD enforcement, the verification step that won't let you claim "done" without proof.
By the way, in this research I just learned that Compound Engineering has a new mode called /LFG that just does everything if you're feeling ambitious. I need to try that.
Compound Engineering makes projects compound. Superpowers makes code correct. Seems like the smart move is to blend both.
github.com/EveryInc/compound…
github.com/obra/superpowers
github.com/mvanhorn/last30da…
Thanks to @danshapiro who introduced me to Superpowers and @kevinrose who introduced me to Compound Engineering
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Your iPhone says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."
A new label is coming to software. The lights-out factory that powers Asian manufacturing is coming for code.
"Prompted by [Company] in [City]. Built by agents."
@danshapiro pilled me on the software factory. Then @nikbhogal blew my mind with where this actually goes.
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Very cool #startup #tip from @danshapiro -- one of the better ones I've heard after many startups & talking to so many #founders
linkedin.com/posts/brandonna…
@hyumility
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The dark mirror of @danshapiro / Cialdini-style “agents can be persuaded like humans”
