Dan Shapiro's Blog

Day over day, year over year, AI is driving down the cost of writing code. Economists have a word for what happens when stuff keeps getting cheaper: deflation. And you do things…

I’ve been impressed with AI Studio’s Apps for prototyping. https://aistudio.google.com/apps So I decided to give it the ultimate challenge: I pasted in XKCD 1425, and nothing else. I’ll let you be the…

My wife pointed out that most of my shirts predate the pandemic, and it was time to shop for something new. This is not something I enjoy. So, like most things I…

Tuesday, 9:40am, Seattle. Whatsapp buzzed. Harper sent a link – a new project from Steve Yegge that makes AI agents more effective. Worth a try. I opened Codex CLI* in Powershell and…

Something new is possible. Four weeks ago, I braved the gaggle of Waymos nosing around the Presidio to check out Connected Stack. I plopped next to my buddy James Cham, notorious partner…

June 2023. ChatGPT was six months old. We’d launched our first AI feature, Magic Canvas, three months before. I was meeting with our friends at Joann Fabric (may they rest in polyester)…

Every time I travel to a city, I wrack my brain to try to remember who lives there so I can reach out to visit. And I’m terrible at it. So I…

(Yes, the day job is still Glowforge and lasers, and I still love it!) I’ve signed on as a research fellow at Wharton’s Generative AI Lab with the incredible Drs Ethan and Lilach Mollick.…