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Henry Modisett retweeted
First of Kind: The @rauchg interview
Season 3 starts now. I sat down with Guillermo in San Francisco to talk about layout shift, random acts of AI, and a dragon painted in a single stroke.
00:00 Human Effort Is Still Underrated
00:44 Chief Executive, Chief Designer
02:33 Two Bets: Software and English
05:15 Gmail Was My Siren Call
11:06 Exposure Hours
14:49 Layout Shift / One Stroke Dragon
17:10 No Random Acts of AI
25:17 Can Agents Have Taste?
30:15 Software Factories and Manufacturing Agent Customers
34:59 Everything Is Communication
38:04 A New American Story
41:52 Lifemaxxing
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of @vercel. Growing up in Argentina, he taught himself English in order to teach himself programming, then went on to create @nextjs and other foundational technology for the real-time web.
In our conversation, Guillermo explains why he designed Vercel’s first command line before writing any code, why layout shift erodes trust, and why his company won’t commit any “random acts of AI.”
G is not just a chief executive. He’s a chief designer.
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Guillermo Rauch: One Stroke Dragon
First of Kind, S3:E01 @firstofkind
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Henry Modisett retweeted
Instinct and Muse were great at helping me.
Wabi is great at helping all of us.
That difference ended up mattering way more than I thought
Wabi 2.0 is live!
personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person
Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat
school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it.
a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets.
the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it
go start a thread with your people 👇
Henry Modisett retweeted
Multiplayer agents as group chat seems quite inevitable and Wabi's built it
Wabi 2.0 is live!
personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person
Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat
school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it.
a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets.
the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it
go start a thread with your people 👇
Henry Modisett retweeted
This is extremely well crafted. You have to try it out
Wabi 2.0 is live!
personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person
Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat
school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it.
a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets.
the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it
go start a thread with your people 👇
Henry Modisett retweeted
First of Kind returns this week.
Season 3 debuts with E01 @rauchg
Follow @firstofkind or sign up at firstofkind.com to get notified when it drops.
It's been so fun to figure out how to make an assistant useful and fun when you are with other people. I've bee creating, planning, teaching, and memeing since we got it working. We're live and open. See you in there.
Wabi 2.0 is live!
personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person
Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat
school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it.
a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets.
the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it
go start a thread with your people 👇
Henry Modisett retweeted
Wabi 2.0 is live!
personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person
Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat
school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it.
a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets.
the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it
go start a thread with your people 👇
🤖 Made with AI
There's something very familiar and yet very novel about using Wabi. The Mac app has become such a perfect extension of what makes Wabi fun and useful. Send me a DM so I can invite you to try.
Henry Modisett retweeted
pplx-decider-v1.1-27b scores the highest on Decision Bench for accuracy, with the lowest cost.
It reached 94.5% accuracy across 1071 cases at $0.017 per 1,000 decisions.
Full evaluation: decisionbench.ai/
Get Started: pplx.ai/decisions
For me, I ship 1 pr a week with 100,000 unrelated changes. Then I ask an eng if it seems good (after merge).
Henry Modisett retweeted
nobody chooses a hike from text alone
people want to see the trail, the views, the route, who’s coming
the future isn’t less interface - it’s the right interface, at the right time, for the right outcome
Henry Modisett retweeted
Perplexity wins on Hugging Face Decision Index (benchmark for decision models). Our model is open-weights and accessible to all!
pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, our updated open weights multimodal decision model, is now available.
It scores the highest on the new @huggingface Decision Index 0.3 benchmark. pplx-decider-v1.1-27b costs half as much as v1, at $0.02 per million input tokens.
huggingface.co/spaces/multim…
Henry Modisett retweeted
designers still seemingly not capable of separating behavior from presentation
the best part of having a baby is you can grab their legs and make it look like they are dancing when you play music
The thing that may be hard to understand about Silicon Valley, and especially engineering-driven culture, is that a lot of things are created because somebody wanted to see if they could.
There was no vision, no worldview, no problem being solved. On average, the result is unapplied or misapplied novelty, with the occasional useful innovation.
What's interesting is that as software gets easier to build, the power to build spreads beyond established institutions, the ones with checks and balances and market forces to filter out random creation. I think we're going to see a future with a lot more unruly software: some of it controversial, thoughtless, or dangerous, and some of it genuinely special, curious, and creative.
But we'll probably overestimate the impact of any individual thing. Distribution is harder than ever, and even what does get distributed well will have plenty of determined peers.