Huge huge huge congrats to @66_shrey and the @meadow_so team!!! Years of work leading up to this moment!
my favorite time in sneaker twitter was pre ~2019. it was a much more collaborative, less transactional environment. just a group of people working together to solve interesting problems. at a certain point it got extremely cutthroat, bot devs receiving death threats (ultimately the reason I stopped doing it), people paying hundreds of thousands for bypasses, it was a fascinating market but no longer something I wanted to be a part of.
10 years ago when I was 16 or so, I did a twitch stream for a couple hours showing people how to code their own bots and uploaded it to youtube. at that time I was making pretty good money for a high schooler but the group of people I was working with was much more interested in just solving difficult problems than making as much money as possible, and it felt closer to an open source community than anything else
youtube.com/watch?v=rkt8o1Ze…
noah fichter retweeted
Anytime I talk to someone who conspicuously says my name (you know it when you see it), it gives me the ick
The tech world’s reaction to this makes me frustrated, because if you actually spent time in and around schools you’d understand how much of a problem AI is in schools right now.
Schools have no literally idea what to do about AI. No one has really figured it out yet. Especially when many of the school-specific chatbots we’re putting in front of kids are actively decreasing scores!
Seems pretty obvious to me that Mandani & co spent time in schools, realized the chaos these tools are causing, and decided that we need to take a second to breathe to actually figure it out. Not that he’s anti-AI.
Education might be the hardest application of AI to figure out because it’s not about efficiency. It’s not so clear cut as problem -> solution.
As I’m interviewing for a few different roles, the number one reason I get for why they’re looking for a new role is that they’re tired of working remote and want to be in an office again
Humans are not meant to be isolated all day every day
had an engineer quit today and there was nothing I could say to keep him.
2 years with us. Loved the team, learned a shit ton, no problem with the work itself. He was just straight burnt out working remote every day and it was starting to affect his mental health.
I've been remote for 15 years straight. Probably have some version of the same damage and can't see it anymore. Still think it's worth it.
noah fichter retweeted
Kids should be learning faster.
AI can help.
Bloomy (@bloomylearning) is an AI-powered mastery learning platform that meets every student where they are. Students receive standards-aligned instruction from a Socratic AI tutor, while teachers save time and spot misconceptions faster thanks to AI-enabled insights.
In early pilots, Bloomy students grew ~2x faster than projected on their NWEA MAP assessment.
Starting with English, Math, and Writing for K-12.
bloomylearning.com
noah fichter retweeted
I’ve decided to leave @AnthropicAI
Never thought I’d say this so soon. The pursuit of AGI has truly been my life’s work but something more important has emerged.
In 1942, hundreds of America’s best scientists made huge sacrifices and joined the Manhattan Project to protect this nation against immense evil.
Today, America faces a similar danger. Over the last few years sparks of AGI have been felt across the world.
In order to protect this great nation against the threat of AGI ending up in the hands of evil, I have decided to join the modern day Manhattan Project.
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining (and moving into the office) @UseCorgi as a sales development representative!
It takes us 1 day to migrate a customer’s data, but 6-12 months to actually fully transition them. The premise that defensibility has historically been about the data, and not the habits of hundreds or thousands of people in an organization, is mistaken.
Systems of record maintain their moat until you no longer need humans to do any data entry or workflows at all
noah fichter retweeted
Introducing Slash Accounting Automation:
The world’s fastest way to categorize expenses…
To prove it to you I risked my life and free fell from 12,000 feet.
Forever, finance teams have wasted 10+ hours/mo on manual expense work.
> Uploading receipts
> Assigning categories
> Matching transactions
> Exporting to your ERP
> Repeat 200x
We built the world’s best accounting automation to kill this completely.
1. Auto-categorization catches transactions as they hit your account
2. Purchases are instantly tagged with your ERP properties
3. Batch approvals process 1,000s of entries in seconds, not hours
Everything syncs directly to QuickBooks.
> No CSV exports
> No manual data entry
> No reconciliation headaches
Natalia processed an entire month of company expenses in under 60 seconds.
That workflow used to take finance teams hours they don’t have.
I'm excited for what social media looks like in a post-scarcity society; without the advertising (and thus attention) incentives, I can see it returning to its roots of enabling genuine human connection
variant is actually incredible. I’ve been using it for the past few months to help visualize the vague designs/flows in my head, and almost all of them make it into production
Introducing @variantui
Enter an idea and get endless (beautiful) designs as you scroll
No canvas, no skills or MCP, no constant prompting
Reply if you'd like 200 free designs to give it try
going to be much more of this the next decade. teaching is shifting from "delivery of content" to "educational guide"
there's already a huge battle in california underway over this: is the purpose of public education to educate or is it a jobs program?
but, when faced with questions like this where there's a direct conflict between teacher wellbeing and student outcomes, there is a simple imperative to prioritize student outcomes, and to find other ways to improve teacher wellbeing as a result.