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🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨
No one asked and yet I delivered. it's Factory vs Cognition beef live here on x dot com the everything app. What does this all mean? Who won?

I'm not here to deliver the news. I'm here to tell you how to feel.

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• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

Introducing MOTS Office Gyms, a series in which I tour the gyms of the greatest companies on this planet.
For the inaugural episode I got to tour and rate the @cognition garage gym with @imjaredz and we summoned employees to do pull-ups with us.

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• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

It's Been A Slow News Week So That's Where MOTS Comes In To Cover What No One Else Is Willing To Cover:

• Corgi Crash Outs
• Top 100 Poster Controversy
• Alex Wang Muse Mascot Gooning

I Also Responded To All Of Your DMs That You Sent Me

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

Today is the one year anniversary of MOTS and to celebrate I was lucky enough to hang out with @TaylorLorenz at the park and read ads at her.

We covered:

• The creative process
• AI doom
• Messaging around data centers and AI

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

There is no greater honor in this life than being a "friend of the show" so that's why @baelentina_ and I of MOTS caught up with @theojaffee and @schisofrenia of @MTSlive (we are friends of the show of the friends of the show).

They graciously hosted us in Napa this weekend and we got to discuss some AI stuff like:

• Kanye Nick Land
• IG girlie AI sentiment
• Normie doomerism

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

Everyone has moved back to SF so I took @briannekimmel to my favourite spot at my favourite park to drink coffee and protein shakes while discussing this. We covered:

• How to make it in SF
• How one's relationship with Silicon Valley changes over time
• Is it possible to get sick of SF?

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

What the timeline needs right now is a male in tech's perspective on the hot girl in tech.
It's time to end my career by covering:
- Intro posting
- The rise of the growth girl
- Why it could backfire

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditional tools.
• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

So it turns out that @stephenbalaban (Co-Founder and CTO of @LambdaAPI) and I have been mutuals on X (best friends) for years so it was amazing to finally properly hang out.
We covered:
- What it was like to be so early
- The future biggest owners of compute
- Is jalapeño green inspired by NVIDIA green?
- Data center misinformation

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditional tools.
• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

I visited the @vercel openweights event to do the only things I'm okay at:
- Lift
- Podcast
- Talk to dudes

I was joined by @MelkeyDev and @andrewqu on the gym couch to discuss the current state of software engineering.

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditional tools.
• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.

In this MOTS extra I took @iamjasonlevin to the park where I apologised to MOTS listeners (in general) and we discussed the state of marketing. We covered:
- Paid launch video boosting
- Calling yourself hot online
- Corgi Cafe alternatives

You don't get this kind of analysis anywhere else.

Watch on X; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sponsors

• Blackbox AI is an AI-powered software development platform designed to help developers and non-developers build, test, fix, and deploy code and applications faster and with less manual effort than traditional tools.
• Capy is the better way to build and run AI workflows. It’s a multiplayer IDE for agents, automations, and intelligent systems. Create agents, automate tasks, and connect your data into systems that actually get work done, all in one place.
• Circleback makes meetings memorable. From detailed notes to action item tracking and searchable meetings. With powerful automations and integrations, Circleback helps you capture knowledge, stay organized, and turn conversations into meaningful work. Use this link to get 60 days free.
• Langfuse is the #1 open-source LLMOps platform that helps developers trace, evaluate, and optimize LLM applications from prototype to production. With observability, prompt management, experiments, and evaluations in one integrated platform, Langfuse makes it easier to build reliable AI products that continuously improve over time.
• Chatbase is an AI agent platform that helps businesses build, deploy, and manage AI customer support agents across chat, email, and voice. With powerful integrations, enterprise-grade security, and a no-code interface, Chatbase makes it easy to automate support, resolve customer issues faster, and deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale.