At @DaywardAI we've been operating in stealth mode for the last six months on a world-changing project, and now it's finally ready to be introduced. I'm incredibly please to introduce the Agentabulator. AI will never be the same. It's hard to explain in words, it's best that you watch our launch video below.

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New Macs predicted for Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event next week on October 28! @markgurman says touchscreen M5 MacBook Pros, a 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro, and a new iMac. Here’s how I would play it if you're looking for a new MacBook Pro: There’s a non-zero chance Apple uses this event to raise the price of the M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB. (Apple already raised prices once this year, so don’t believe people who say Apple never does this. Component prices keep rising and Apple likes to protect its margin.) The M5 Max MBP won’t ship until November 12. If you think you might want one, pre-order now and cancel after the event if it’s no longer attractive. If the price goes up, you’ve locked in the current one. Bonus: Gurman says the touchscreen models keep the M5 Max chip, so you’ll see the new design and its price before your order ships. You can pick the old or new design. There’s really no downside to dropping in a pre-order if you’re unsure, except the hold on your credit card. I’d get an M5 Max 128GB MBP with nano-texture and a 4TB SSD. (For $7,849 😬😬😬) Best laptop Apple has ever made in my experience, and I was there 22 years!

Excited to present in a few for the AiOS meeting at @convex !

Tonight I’m at AiOS SF talking AI on Apple devices, but... one more thing 😀 Years ago at Apple I set up a demo for a senior government official: real-time translation software for service members, running on an iPod touch strapped to a forearm. Before it started, I was alone in the room with Tim Cook. I don’t think he had ever said my name before. “So Todd, what are we showing today?” I WAS NOT READY FOR THAT. I told him all about the translation software. There was a pause that felt terrifying. Then: “That’s good, but remember to always show and explain the Apple product first.” The translation app was the cool part, but Apple sold iPod touch. That’s what I was there for. I never forgot that. I see the same thing in AI now. Companies talk about the model they’re using, and tooling, and hardware, and the customer is left wondering what the product actually does for them. That’s where I fit. After thousands of presentations to executives during 22 years at Apple, and after helping launch Apple Intelligence and AI messaging, I’m starting @DaywardAI to help companies show and explain their AI, and build things with it. A lot of it runs on hardware they own. Turning the technical into the understandable is my superpower. I’m already working with a few companies, private individuals, and artists to create amazing results from unreasonable requests, and I’m having a blast doing it! We are so so early on AI, the next few years are going to be INCREDIBLE.

Shower thought: Bezos had that line, “your margin is my opportunity.” With AI, I think you could argue the next version is “your overhead is AI's opportunity.” There are companies with MASSIVE overhead. They overpay their executives. They have a CEO, they have SVPs, they have a giant expensive structure, and a lot of them have private equity and debt on top of that. And they are reluctant or slow to automate. Does AI lower the barrier to entry? For an online business, I think it does. But even if you’re a local gym, maybe AI helps people find you, and makes it easier to connect with other independent gyms and offer something like a shared membership and some consistency. So maybe all that overhead in these complicated organizations, with money getting pulled out at layer after layer by greedy executives, is what AI threatens next.

Great night at the @a16z xApple event run by my old colleague @joshelman ! But how did all these ex-employees get to be so young? 😀 Also: literally everyone in SF works in AI. 🤖🧠