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Two weeks into living in San Francisco.
A few observations about the city, starting over, and getting coffee
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Thank you for featuring our work🥰
I recently met @catherineliangq at a lunch organized by @gopalkraman. She spent time building and testing agents designed to play games like real players for a popular gaming company.
She shared that experienced human players can still tell when they're playing against AI, but since Astra, agents have become increasingly good at playing alongside less experienced humans without being detected.
She also coauthored World of SWECraft, a study of agents working together on real software. I wrote about her research on my blog. Check it out, follow her, and read the full paper linked below.
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I would consider myself better than average at being able to tell what is created by AI, however I find myself increasingly not being able to tell
If the interaction is positive (or more positive than it normally would've been in the case of customer support), I am optimistic about this future
Thoughtful writing on this topic by @dgabeau below
I recently met @catherineliangq at a lunch organized by @gopalkraman. She spent time building and testing agents designed to play games like real players for a popular gaming company.
She shared that experienced human players can still tell when they're playing against AI, but since Astra, agents have become increasingly good at playing alongside less experienced humans without being detected.
She also coauthored World of SWECraft, a study of agents working together on real software. I wrote about her research on my blog. Check it out, follow her, and read the full paper linked below.
davidgabeau.com/writing/what…
I recently met @catherineliangq at a lunch organized by @gopalkraman. She spent time building and testing agents designed to play games like real players for a popular gaming company.
She shared that experienced human players can still tell when they're playing against AI, but since Astra, agents have become increasingly good at playing alongside less experienced humans without being detected.
She also coauthored World of SWECraft, a study of agents working together on real software. I wrote about her research on my blog. Check it out, follow her, and read the full paper linked below.
davidgabeau.com/writing/what…
Her full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.24061
and website: swecraft.world/
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Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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I think this is a defining opportunity at the most consequential moment for anyone early in their career.
Former analysts have gone on to start multi-billion dollar companies, work at some of the top brands in tech, start their own venture funds, and just about everything in between.
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160k users.
52x growth in 90 days
@usetapestry's Zumi is tapping into one of the most undermonetized audiences in consumer tech.
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Excited to be at Solana Consumer Day in Miami this May 4th presenting Zumi alongside @jodytu
Big things coming. See you there.
it's been a year since nyc consumer day and i'm excited to run it back in miami next week (may 4)
our app zumi is the fastest growing multiplayer ai companion on the market today and we @usetapestry just shipped the most ambitious version yet. a lot to show you!
see you there
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it's been a year since nyc consumer day and i'm excited to run it back in miami next week (may 4)
our app zumi is the fastest growing multiplayer ai companion on the market today and we @usetapestry just shipped the most ambitious version yet. a lot to show you!
see you there
Ok seriously, if you are building a game or any consumer app on @Solana or crypto, you are a true hero...
...and you should absolutely join us for Solana Consumer Day the day before Accelerate.
Presented by @SuperteamUSA
🔗👇
4th year exhibiting at @TechNYC’s CS Fair and it was the best one yet
Spent today at the @TechNYC CS Fair showing Zumi to ~2000 high schoolers
Takeaways:
- games & competition = immediate engagement
- kids like cute and familiar toys IRL
- high schoolers today are learning AI fluency faster than young professionals
We’re building for a way smarter, more opinionated generation than people think 👀🏗️
Zumi just cracked top 200 in the app store 🤯🤯🤯 onwards!
these @solana zumis are wilding
ICYMI: in zumi 2.0 we created a living third space for these ai companions and gen ai turns their day into “zumi-stories”
our users spend avg 17 mins/day and that metric is only going up
new form of consumer social, you’re still early
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AI development arc:
first: tools (chatgpt, claude)
second: characters (character ai, replika)
now: persistent companion worlds
Zumi is that third category:
✔️ it remembers you
✔️ it evolves over time
✔️ it has a life when you’re not there
✔️ it interacts with other agents
david gabeau retweeted
these @solana zumis are wilding
ICYMI: in zumi 2.0 we created a living third space for these ai companions and gen ai turns their day into “zumi-stories”
our users spend avg 17 mins/day and that metric is only going up
new form of consumer social, you’re still early
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last day of our offsite we were up till 4am shipping this, so kindly review at your earliest convenience
