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Sunday, November 8, 2026

Thariq on what's top of mind: “too many people building agents and not enough people using software to improve the quality of fish”

Guillermo Rauch: “Generative UI for conversational agents. Combining @aisdk with Chat SDK and 𝚓𝚜𝚘𝚗-𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛, you can go straight from LLM to UI on platforms like Slack and Teams.”

Garry Tan: “Eval-driven development loops for agent skills is necessary. Every new model gets better.”

Matt Turck: “How VCs who got into the 2nd tranche of a hot deal look at the VCs in the third tranche”

Today's featured podcast: Latent Space — “Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich”

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Swyx

Swyx

@swyx

achieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @smol_ai - @cognition - @temporalio - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod

we are committing to weekly coverage of the Anthropic IPO all the way until it does or doesn't happen. Having covered mega-IPOs from $BABA to $TEAM, I get to dust off my equity hedge fund analyst hat with my AI Engineer hat once more, this time with my good friend @jaminball who is challenging @ttunguz for writer-VC-extraordinare of his generation.

Thibault Sottiaux

Thibault Sottiaux

@thsottiaux

Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI

Quite cool what you can do with a single prompt these days 👀

Peter Yang

Peter Yang

@petergyang

Practical AI tutorials and interviews for busy people | Get my best AI skills and guides at https://t.co/6VAA6p81x6

Paging my favorite ChatGPT Images PM @adele__li https://t.co/DGXQQyEP09

Nan Yu

Nan Yu

@thenanyu

product, codex @openai. prev head of product @linear

what do the shrimp welfare ppl think about this one I wonder https://t.co/3jInoOgkac

Thariq

Thariq

@trq212

playing WoW forever, formerly Claude Code @anthropicai

too many people building agents and not enough people using software to improve the quality of fish https://t.co/3ewG2QhovT

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Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch

@rauchg

@vercel CEO

Imagine we get gta6.wasm before gta6

Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie

@levie

ceo @box - your business lives in content. unleash it with AI

The future is files. And GPUs. https://t.co/fbI1NHn8u5

Garry Tan

Garry Tan

@garrytan

President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @garryslist—Creator of GStack & GBrain—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop

Computer use on Aside is *amazing* and also has an added benefit of literally being a real Chromium browser that few/almost no sites can block https://t.co/jmZVxOansa

Matt Turck

Matt Turck

@mattturck

VC at @FirstMarkCap. Host: MAD Podcast; Organizer: Data Driven NYC, Author: MAD Landscape.

How VCs who got into the 2nd tranche of a hot deal look at the VCs in the third tranche https://t.co/pU1gEhbacZ

Zara Zhang

Zara Zhang

@zarazhangrui

Builder. Harvard’17. Instagram: https://t.co/aJqTEMrL2L GitHub: https://t.co/KCuEajezlL

As I've said before, your personal website is the new resume LinkedIn shows a list of titles; your personal website shows your taste, your thinking, your actual work You don't need to be confined by the existing social media platforms https://t.co/Eysl2kgvsa

Nikunj Kothari

Nikunj Kothari

@nikunj

partner @fpvventures - investing in seed/A. previous: early hire @meter, @opendoor, @atlassian & others. love @shimoleejhaveri + 👦👧

(re) introducing texts wrapped > imessage, whatsapp and phone calls analyzed > one terminal command, full disk access and that's it (or use claude code / codex) > runs on Mac, 100% local, no AI, open source > fresh coat of paint, new insights, better accuracy wrap2026 dot com https://t.co/u6hprVFnBm

Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper

@danshipper

ceo @every | the only subscription you need to stay at the edge of AI

the @every team, nov 2026 so proud of this crew! https://t.co/qXDvQa02CL

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