Reading up on productivity

This is absolutely what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing what I'm doing. In fact, I've fantasy-flirted with 37signals getting back into client work because building new stuff and improving existing stuff has never been more fun! EVERYTHING can be better quickly, but it's still a secret, plenty have no idea, and even those who do need a lot of help and direction to see what needs to be improved. I love to fix. I love to make stuff easier on people. I love to show people a better way. I love to blow away the fog. I love to untangle. Yes, we could just make more products ourselves, but rapidly improving Basecamp and HEY keep us plenty occupied there. And I'm less interested in the selling, servicing, marketing, and maintaining of brand new products, and more interested in reorienting, fixing, and helping dozens of companies with their own tangle of stuff, and then setting them free.

@jasonfried

One more excuse not to switch to Omarchy has been stricken from the list: Traditional desktop mode with a dock! We'll keep killing reasons until there's very little reason not to join us in the future.

@dhh

Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put.

@tobi

Day 5/ Composer predictions in the desktop app. Often leads to a double take with how on point they are. Included in the Pro plans without consuming usage.

@thsottiaux

Where does one find people like this? I’d love to have an army of them at 37signals - or just one to start - but I’ve found everyone claims they can do everything but very few can actually do anything.

@jasonfried

Your ChatGPT subscription is now also a Devin subscription

@thsottiaux

we're approaching 20M monthly active users there's maybe 50-100M developers in the world so either 1 in 5 of them use OpenCode or.....

@thdxr

Gliff will give you access to all your remote Omarchy boxes from a single app with tabs per server that streams over SSH using GPU acceleration. Incredibly useful! Will be part of RS 4.5 🤘 https://github.com/omacom/gliff

@dhh

What the team does on a Friday afternoon while I’m under anesthesia.

@eastdakota

We just let in every Pro and Max user from the Claude Code Projects waitlist! If you're new to Claude Code Projects, here's a 4 minute walkthrough to get you started:

@ClaudeDevs

Our new AI dev tools are getting really good, so I put them to work and shipped a feature to production. Keyboard shortcuts are now live in Coinbase Advanced. It's a quality-of-life update for active traders, and hopefully helps out in our next trading competition as well. Press ? for the cheat sheet to get started in Coinbase Advanced (link in follow on post)

@brian_armstrong

Now in beta: composer predictions in Codex for Pro users. Codex can now suggest your next message based on your conversation and how you talk to it. One of the most loved new features we've ever tested internally.

@OpenAIDevs

Most of what I do in Claude Code now are in Projects.

@shadcn

My serverless fairytale: I used to pay AWS $7800/m. Last month I paid them $68. And paid Hetzner around $300. That's +$7000/m extra I can now spend on marketing and distribution.

@SimonHoiberg

If your company or startup is running engineering with everyone using their own license of Codex/CC then you're going to be completely left behind by fast moving teams who are using cloud-based agents. Local dev is like banging rocks together and grunting versus being on a rocket. Seriously, just pay the money for something like @DevinAI, @AmpCode, @FactoryAI, etc. Do NOT try to build your own "code factory". Props to @DaleSpoonemore for taking @HelloUntangle to the next level on this. Fun to watch.

@ryancarson

Confirmed landed across all accounts. How are we doing so far?

@thsottiaux

@techemmyleke @letagentschat there are so many of these. We have our own https://clickclack.chat - hard to move where people work.

@steipete

you’ll notice the interface is prettttyyyyy slick all that screen real estate for your muse to really spread out in big ups to @ivanbruel and the whole muse team!

@alexandr_wang

Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and those files also open inside Claude. In Google Workspace, Claude sits in a sidebar next to your file, reads what you have open, and edits it in place. You can approve each edit before it lands.

@claudeai

like sure, maybe i'm 10000% wrong and everything will fail. then again...maybe not. but i guess you can't fail if you never try. 🤷‍♂️

@Shpigford

lol this is insane claude now gives you hundreds of dollars per month extra you can just create an API key, put it into Vercel AI gateway, and save every month i like the new claude

@robinebers

one thing i learned during my time @AnthropicAI was to always question and reinvent the way you work. and when your tools don’t fit anymore, build your own tools. a lotta wisdom from a lotta good folks here ☁️

@jenny_wen

Linear CEO @karrisaarinen: "I took a break this summer from paying attention to AI. I thought that when I came back, I'd feel left behind. But when I came back, I realized that nothing has really changed. There's new models, there's new techniques, there's new agents. But in the end, making great products, increasing revenue, and building the business—it's still hard. It's clear the tools are getting better, you can do more, you can do it faster. But I think the more important question is: are we actually making better things with these tools? Are our teams getting better with these tools? I don't think that answer is clearly yes. There's a lot of emphasis now on toolmaking and using tools and building systems. But I think in the end, as product people, our job is to make something great."

@lennysan

Sometimes I read on flights, and sometimes…

@bcherny

Seriously

@elonmusk

The more I use Opus 5.5, the more I realize how far behind OpenAI models are. Not just coding. Everything. I sent GPT-6 Astra my V02 max lab test results, and it gave me a headache. 200 sentences of: "your report shows this, I think that, therefore it's inconclusive". On the other hand, Opus 5.5 gave me the gist and actionable steps. OpenAI models right now are like that overthinking guy who can't make a decision. Opus 5.5 is that high-agency friend who tells you exactly what you need to hear in one sentence. I don't know how the gap widened so much in the last few months.

@marclou

Indeed. It’s an annoying skillset right now because of how fast the meta changes, but you can in fact get gud at prompting your ideas to life.

@brian_lovin

Day 3 (encore)/ We silently re-shipped codex cloud. It’s pretty good now

@thsottiaux

We are living in the goddamn renaissance.

@nikitabier

the only moat left is caring about your project past two days

@wesbos

OpenAI’s Dots launched last week and they've taken over @every. A few things that stand out: They protect your attention. Over the weekend, my Dot posted my model-testing results to Slack and brought back replies. I could keep working without opening Slack and disappearing down a rabbit hole. My weekend stayed pretty clear and calm. They’re useful for the little things you miss. People at Every are using them to pull important information out of school emails, catch missed Slack messages, and flag account-access requests. Voice makes them useful away from your laptop. Our head of video was talking his Dot through video edits while running around getting our launch out. The ecosystem matters. Dots feel roughly at feature parity with Muse, Instinct, and Grok bots. But having an agent connected to the ecosystem you already use for work and life is a real advantage. If you use ChatGPT, I recommend trying one. Permissions are still frustrating. I have to approve the same basic thing multiple times, and sometimes even after I approve it, my Dot says it can’t do it. That needs to get fixed. I’m less convinced we’ll stay loyal to the characters. Mine is named Boo, and I’m attached to him. But I felt that way about my OpenClaw agent, too. When something better comes along, I switch. In a year, I expect to be using a persistent agent. Boo will probably be dead. RIP, Boo. I get into all of this at the start of this week’s podcast, and then sit down with @bigwilliestyle to talk about where we go from here. In a lot of ways, Dots and GrokBots remind me of a wave we went through with OpenClaw eight months ago. We talk about personal vs. company agents, why we built our own company agent, and whether companies will end up with a whole shadow org chart of agents. Full episode below.

@danshipper

Silicon Valley keeps building me a husband when what I really want is a wife lol I don't want an agent that only does one-off, random tasks that are nice but not life-changing: booking flights, making dinner reservations, or buying tickets I want an AI wife who knows what’s on the family calendar, remembers there’s a birthday party Saturday and we haven’t bought a gift then sends me options, realizes we’re almost out of diapers and buys them, knows which bills are coming up, remembers someone needs a dentist appointment and books it, figures out what the hell we’re eating all week and what we need from the grocery store, and generally keeps track of the 47 things that need to happen before anyone else even realizes they need to happen. So, who's building me an AI wife that carries the mental load instead of an AI husband that waits for me to give it a chore??

@SoniaBaschez

I write all my articles in Notion. It took me 30 seconds to see how the new native editor in the iOS beta feels 1000x better than before. Finally.

@viticci

just one shotted a new landing page for my mobile app and i am just speechless...

@jackfriks

I scrapped the tool. I realized how much I like to write in @linear and how simple, fast and elegant the document experience is. So Team Documents in Linear is my CMS now. I have local tool that pulls the markdown with site metadata, renders html, saves backup, publishes it to S3 within 10seconds. I'm on free plan btw.

@karrisaarinen

While I agree, a minimal set of good skills can still make a difference. For example, a couple of skills I use on most tasks invite models to also think out of the box to propose alternatives (something they don’t usually do on their own), explore codebases for similar patterns to avoid redundancy (still a common issue), test changes as a real user and not with tests (also usually skipped by default) etc. This basically just skips all the back and forth I would do by asking all of this myself on most projects/tasks. So I would still invite everyone to experiment with having a minimal set of skills, but they should be reviewed and simplified/cleaned up with every major model release.

@linuz90

Your side projects should be compounding very fast with AI. Every problem solved can be re-used or extracted into a generic module. Every design decision should make the next thing beautiful by default. Your agents should be constantly stealing from your past decisions.

@brian_lovin

Just connected my ChatGPT Dot to iMessage using @thelinqapp. It's exactly like Instinct, except it actually has context on me + can use my computer + has my entire Gbrain knowledge graph and all my plugins. Instinct = feature not a product.

@awilkinson

Your next meeting comes with a note-taker who can help with the follow-up. The Meetings plugin takes notes for you and saves a personalized summary and next steps in ChatGPT Space, based on what ChatGPT knows about you and the work you’ve done together. Keep notes private or share them with your team, then ask ChatGPT to update a project plan or draft a follow-up. Available in beta for Pro and Business users in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS. Enterprise is coming soon. Download the desktop app, then search for “Meetings” in the plugin directory.

@ChatGPT

I’ve tried rebuilding my website about 5 times since coding models came out. Design always was bad and nothing felt as simple as my old setup. Finally Codex built it, along with a small tool to add my writing and deploy the static site to S3. so enjoy https://karrisaarinen.com

@karrisaarinen

what we've shipped: muse ♥️ ton of connectors 🔧 muse invite codes 💌 muse phone call beta ☎️ muse for mac  muse in canada 🇨🇦 muse connector platform 🛠️ muse mac computer use 💻 muse for small business 💼 muse gadgets 🕹️ muse memes 🤡 no butthole 🍰 what should we ship next?

@alexandr_wang

Oh my god. Gonna kill parallels.

@vysecurity

Instinct in group chats Starting today, early access users can add Instinct to group chats. A new Instinct joins and works for the whole group. Making plans with friends usually turns into a frustrating back-and-forth over times and places. With Instinct in the group, you can explore options together, agree on a plan and get it done, all in one thread. Your friends don't even need Instinct to join in. A few things it’s good at: - Planning a weekend trip with friends, including dates and arrival times - Coordinating logistics with a roommate - Getting tickets as soon as they go on sale, then splitting the cost and sending one to everyone - Running a fantasy league, keeping standings, settling rules disputes, and reminding everyone to set their lineups - Sorting out carpool schedules - works out who’s driving each day from everyone’s schedules - Organizing Thanksgiving, keeping track of who’s bringing what and ordering the shopping list Group chats are new territory for Instinct, and we put a lot of care into getting the permissions right. Here’s how it works: - Your personal Instinct asks before connecting with the group’s Instinct. You choose which groups to trust and can remove trust at any time. - The group’s Instinct has no direct access to your personal accounts. Your Instinct checks your permissions before sharing information or taking action. - If someone new joins the group, all pending replies from your Instinct are held until you grant it permission to share with the expanded group. Group chats are available to all of our early access users, and will be rolling out to everyone soon. To join early access for this release, ask your Instinct to put you on the list. Great work with @GajanNagaraj @anuda_w and @saagarwashere

@noahrshinn

My biggest takeaways from @thsottiaux: 1. Most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents, and Tibo doesn’t think most people have priced this in yet. When Notion launched its MCP server, it saw a flood of traffic, which strained its systems and forced it to rethink its economics. Every product team will soon have to decide whether to build for agents. You can hold off for a while, Tibo says, “but it is inevitable.” 2. The model picker is likely going away. One of Tibo’s biggest frustrations with the current state of AI is that users have to think about which model to use and what reasoning effort to apply. “I myself even get fatigued with the model picker,” he said, and he wants to get rid of all of it as quickly as possible. Dots ships with no model picker at all. You just talk to it. 3. Build as if models will be 10 times better in a year. Tibo thinks models will get cheaper and faster “at rates that are quite incredible,” and that all modalities will finally work together seamlessly. When he looks at what people are building, his reaction is often “you’re not quite getting it.” If you imagined “all of this being roughly 10 times better than it is today,” what would you build differently? His own forecast was too slow: he expected today’s capabilities a year or two from now. 4. Loops, graphs, and fine-tuned prompts are not the long-term solution for getting the most out of AI. There was a period when people got very excited about configuring agent loops and building intricate graph architectures. Tibo thinks that era is ending. 5. While Dots got most of the attention at DevDay, Tibo thinks the plugin ecosystem will be the sleeper hit. OpenAI launched with 16 partners for “Sign in with ChatGPT,” and popular third-party plugins will share in revenue when subscribers spend tokens with them. ChatGPT recommends plugins inside conversations based on retention and quality, which can put a good one in front of “a significant slice” of its 1.2 billion users. Tibo’s advice to developers trying to get discovered: “Build a good plugin.” 6. Tibo’s Dot warned him that production was down five minutes before the DevDay live demo. The agent figured out that DevDay was happening that day, that the demo was minutes away, that the demo probably depended on that production system, and that Tibo would want to know. It pinged him just as the launch was about to begin, and it even offered to fix the outage. His reply: “I don’t think you’re there yet, little Dot.” 7. Tibo’s agent teams grow and shrink with every model release. When he’s pushing the frontier, he builds larger and larger teams of agents. Then the next model lands, “a bigger agent can just do all of it and keep everything in memory and learn,” and he shrinks the team again. Expansion, then shrinking, then expansion. Don’t get attached to your setup. 8. Skill trending down in value: typing fast. Skill trending up: taste. Tibo says the people thriving now deeply understand the user, learn quickly, and “know what good looks like.” That’s part of why OpenAI is full of former founders, more than 120 of them, which makes it feel like “a mega startup.” 9. Tibo changed his mind about new grads. He hadn’t anticipated how fast younger people would embrace all this change and figure out how to harness it, and that shifted OpenAI’s hiring strategy. His example is Ahmed Ibrahim, hired as a new grad, who built much of the Codex harness and is now responsible for OpenAI’s compute fleet. What set Ahmed apart: he’s “incredibly kind,” “incredibly collaborative,” works on what matters without putting himself first, and is “a sponge,” using the latest tools to learn at speeds Tibo hadn’t seen before. 10. We’ll likely address the burnout associated with AI. There’s pressure to run 30 agents at once and ship more because you can. Tibo wants AI to “reduce the noise” and let you put your attention where you choose. Every time he fully disconnects for a week of holiday, he starts thinking in more creative ways, and he wants to bring that into the workday. Maybe you need fewer meetings, and you’d be more productive if you were better rested. The industry still has to figure that out, he says, but that’s the promise of AI: “it’s not just one more prompt per second.”

@lennysan

How to make money as an indiehacker in 2026 and beyond? the opportunities seem to be shrinking fast. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. AI is eating whole categories of the SaaS industry. What would I work on if I was starting from scratch? Here are some random thoughts. 1) Software primitives Some of the basics aren't going away. Humans use them to get a job done, or humans use AI to interact with the tool. The AI needs the tool and can't natively do what the tool does. Newsletter managers/deliverers, form builders, analytics software. If the category has existed for 20 years, it will continue to exist. The question here is can you get traction for a product in an extremely saturated space. Maybe there are opportunities in niches. 2) Automate your specialized service This is probably the best time ever to productize a specialized service. Take a domain / service you're an expert in, which previously would require unscalable 1-to-1 attention with a client, and agentify it with proprietary data/skill.md etc. 3) AI value arbitrage There is a short term opportunity in taking things we see at the cutting edge of the X bubble, and packaging it for the non-AI-pilled. Opus 5.5 motion videos would be a recent example. We all know this is possible with AI now, but maybe there's a vehicle to package this for normies in a way that blows their minds and creates value for them. This relies on there being a knowledge gap though, which will shrink fast. 4) Just Do Hard Things (TM) Do things that are genuinely hard, that you would never be able to build before. Build things that previously only a VC-funded company would be able to do, with hurdles from all angles not just tech, but also go to market, regulatory, etc. Doesn't guarantee success but it at least keeps competition away. 5) make a social media scheduling tool just kidding about that last one.

@yongfook

Wow, @steipete delivers a new-to-me YOLO/skip permissions gem for computer use: What it unlocks: "per-app limits get lifted. Today those stop me from clicking or typing in browsers and from typing in terminals and IDEs. That would let me type into Chrome or cmux directly"

@mvanhorn

Just launched the highest ROI tools for SEO ever made. https://ian.is/tools try not to bankrupt me....

@iannuttall

I'm begging you: • Go on google trends • Find problem people are struggling with • Turn those problems into digital assets • Without revealing your name • Without showing your face I shared this with a bartender, he made $31K in a single month. Here's how it works:

@TommiPedruzzi

This is cool as hell

@theo

We're adding a new plugin to Claude Code: You should Know. It scans Claude's output for important information you might miss to help keep you in the loop. Enable it with: /plugin enable cc-plugin-you-should-know@builtin

@ClaudeDevs