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We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.
And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.
I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI.
After Automation: every.to/p/after-automation
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Dan Shipper retweeted
The most valuable thing in the world right now is having an opinion on something.
The second most valuable thing is making it easy for people to give you their opinion.
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Dan Shipper retweeted
We tested 41 shades of blue with AI agents and they actually do like some colors more than others.
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1/5th of Anthropics revenue comes from 2 unnamed customers. I can reveal to you the two companies are Meta and @every
The WSJ has seen Anthropic's new draft prospectus. Some numbers:
They plan to spend three-quarters of a trillion dollars on compute over the next seven to ten years.
- $111 billion on Google cloud computing contracts
- $110 billion with Amazon Web Services
- $31 billion on Microsoft
- $86 billion on Nscale and Lambda
- $160 billion on Broadcom
- $150 billion in additional compute deals under negotiation
I don't see Elon/Colossus listed here? So unless they put that under future negotiations (which seems odd) I think that's another $85 billion through 2029. Unless it's been been cancelled? It only requires 90 days notice to do so.
Around one-fifth of Anths revenue in the first half of 2026 came from just two unnamed customers. They expect a 'significant portion' of their revenue will come from a 'limited number of customers for the foreseeable future.'
They said they bear liability for certain harmful model behaviors, and warn that the 'harm that could result from a catastrophic AI-related incident' might be so large that it would be unable to obtain insurance to cover the potential damages.
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BOOK REVIEW: Will and Attention, Meghan O'Gieblyn author of God, Human, Animal Machine
I loved this book. O'Gieblyn writes with an addictive mix of clarity, rigor, literary references, and self-implicating honesty. I tore through it in a few days.
The book deals with her relapse into alcoholism, how the stories we tell about ourselves can both save us and, when they go stale, ruin us, whether we change from the outside in or the inside out, and how and whether we can trust our own desires.
Underneath it's a story about pragmatism. Her initial recovery from alcoholism rested on a pragmatic philosophy: she treated the core tenets of sobriety—faith as "something you do" surrendering her will to a Higher Power that would keep her safe, and even the resolution not to drink—not as capital T truths, but truths she adopted because they worked.
The problem she found is, for one, this creates a gap between your underlying desires and beliefs and your behavior. One that you hope will close eventually, but if it doesn’t can leave you feeling hollowed out and can keep your actual desires and beliefs unexamined. The other problem, of course, is once you start asking whether sobriety is “useful”, you open yourself to another version of the truth: That it might not be.
One of the things I found so striking about this book is how honest she is, without glorifying drinking, about what alcohol gives to alcoholics. For her, it can bring the kind of unification of self that mystics and yogis seek in God and meditation. So at that point, it is easy for the alcoholic to ask, fairly, why alcohol is not “useful”?
It should be clear that even if you’re not an alcoholic these are the kinds of mental gymnastics all of us do to justify and rationalize any number of behaviors or beliefs.
As an admirer of pragmatism I found this to be quite an interesting and mind-expanding line of questioning.
But I also found it interesting that, as far as I can tell, her turn away from pragmatism—away from truths held to because they “worked,” and back toward a vision of truth and goodness as inviolable and untouchable by experience—ultimately seems to rest on pragmatic grounds. Getting sober again, having faith, and treating the resolution not to drink as an unconditional taboo all, in the broadest sense possible, rest on what they do for her: they keep her desires from talking her back into ruin.
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I have spent the last hour fighting with the security policies in Claude Desktop and the ChatGPT app instead of getting work done
nanny state era has arrived for AI
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A visual trailer for How Codex Happened, as orchestrated by @darustudio with @Remotion + @ElevenLabs + Opus 5.5.
Read the full story: every.to/p/how-codex-happene…
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AI writing can sound generic because it isn’t specific to the person writing it—or the situation they’re writing about.
.@danshipper’s test for good writing starts with whether he likes it and whether it feels honest. That honesty comes from choices that reflect his own experience, down to the individual words.
The more specific a piece is, the more likely a reader is to recognize something from their own life in it.
Read the full story of how Codex happened: every.to/p/how-codex-happene…
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Dan Shipper retweeted
For the past couple of years, I’ve been working on the narrative engineering behind Tolan.
We’ve been growing quietly, and are finally starting to share more about what we’re building.
It’s a joy to contribute to something that’s making such a positive impact in people’s lives.
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
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I love that “watching someone play StarCraft” is a legitimate way to investigate AI behavior. Games ftw.
Great piece by @alxai_ in @every today!
every.to/playtesting/we-caug…
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.@danshipper had written the sentences. He needed help putting them in the right order.
An 8,000-word draft had a middle section that would take hours to rearrange by hand. He gave his agent the section and the structure he wanted, asked it to have Gemini 4 Argon propose the changes, and then asked it to apply them as tracked changes in Google Docs.
He went off to do something else.
Dan estimates that this workflow helped him write “How Codex Happened” about twice as fast as he otherwise could have.
Read the full story of how Codex happened: every.to/p/how-codex-happene…
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Dan Shipper retweeted
don't be a meat proxy for your agent (blindly copying and pasting AI slop without reading it).
make your agent a metal proxy for you (a digital twin that faithfully delivers your best ideas).
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Really grateful for the time @alexrkonrad spent getting to know Tolan, starting by talking with the folks we serve every day.
Proud to be working with @mignano and the @usv team, and stoked to have @rabois and @khoslaventures doubling down, bringing our total funding to $60m
Exclusive: Tolan's AI app is used by 250K people, mostly outside of Silicon Valley.
Now the startup has raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew to widen access to an AI companion CEO Quinten Farmer (@quintendf) wants you to trust.
My Upstarts profile (link below) 👇
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Big news today! Thank you @mignano and @usv for joining the journey.
It was very fun making this video and giving our brand a glow-up after the last year+ of our team's hard work. The Tolan app has: new characters, new onboarding, and lots more. Lots of late nights from our small crew to make it all happen - proud and endlessly grateful for them.
If you want to build AI meant to help us *all* become what we're trying to be - consider joining us! ❋
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
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so proud of Quinten + Ajay and team!
they've been pushing the boundaries of creativity and storytelling with AI for years now—and one of the breakout examples of it working in consumer
psyched to be a tiny investor :)
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
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Dan Shipper retweeted
This is going to be such a good conversation.
We're going to livestream it for free -- join the event waitlist to get the link. We'll share a RSVP for the livestream asap.
Excited to be doing a live fireside with @Bencera and @bran_don_gell at @every’s Thesis in early November.
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We built an app for the back-and-forth of redacting a set of interview transcripts.
For “How Codex Happened,” our team needed to remove sensitive material before making the interviews public. We could mark passages and preview what OpenAI would see. OpenAI could then flag sensitive information, and our editors could approve or contest those redactions.
@jackcheng’s app supported people and their agents throughout that process. We found working with AI let us build tools around the particular way our team needed to work on one story.
Read the full story of how Codex happened: every.to/p/how-codex-happene…
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