Sottiaux's rate limit update (1382 likes, top of the day): 'We've found (a) some inefficiencies when using images in long sessions with multiple compactions (b) high p95+ usage for Computer History (c) a feature that was meant to generate conversation titles that was draining a bit more usage than intended. And we have a tiger team combing through everything and shipping fixes.' Peter Yang's privacy cleanup (447 likes): 'If you care about your privacy: 1. Go to myaccount.google.com in Chrome 2. Run this prompt in Codex or Claude Code and tell it there's an open tab in your browser 3. Then pick the ones you want to remove and tell AI to do it. Just disconnected half the apps that should no longer have my Google info.'

Peter Yang's new skill (188 likes): 'I'm working on a new AI skill. It's called /fuck-cancer. Goal is to help patients and their family navigate this whole process and stay informed.' Plus Instinct shipping external data deletion (13 likes): 'you can now delete external data (like my 36 Gmail records)… Kudos to the Instinct team for listening and shipping this quickly.' Levie on evals as the rate limiter (138 likes): 'AI diffusion is far more rate limited by having good evals than most realize. The far bigger space over time are evals on all the major workflows that enterprises do.'

Rauchg's geography long (735 likes): 'AI can do many wonderful things and grant many wishes, but we have only one earth, one California, one Patagonia, one Mendoza. USA and Argentina are two of the freest countries that also happen to have the most glorious land and geography. I'm very long 🇺🇸🇦🇷.' And SF paradise (1084 likes). Amjad's shipping cadence (643 likes): '"Pretty soon" turned out to be 3 months.' Plus 'A week has 7 days. That means 7 ships' (70 likes).

Zara's solo-vs-org observation (147 likes): 'There's a phenomenon where talented individuals can achieve 10x their potential thanks to AI when working on their own thing. But when the same individual is put into a large organization, they at most increase their potential by 20% (and sometimes it's even decreased). This is why I'm seeing more and more talented people leave large companies.' Plus her one-liner (336 likes): 'Everyone who's ahead in using AI thinks they're behind.' Dan Shipper's Every hiring (131 likes) and 'agent native ftw' (149 likes).

Nikunj's ragebait story (370 likes): 'Kids, I don't know what advice you are getting, but ragebaiting investors and then sending them SAFE docs to just wire you money is NOT how investing works.' Follow-up (23 likes): 'These are Twitter DMs. I try to be helpful to as many cold DMs as I can. This one shouldn't have passed the bar. Doxxing someone is not my style. I can't stress enough how important it is to find the right people to take advice from.' Plus his LinkedIn observation (40 likes): 'We complain about slop at X, but LinkedIn has stooped to unimaginable levels of slop 🤮.'

Madhu Guru's evals Part 6 (143 likes): 'Hill climbing on evals is just a fancy way of saying: pick a dimension that matters and optimize for it. This could be improving the quality of existing features based on your latest production data on high value user journeys, expanding to adjacent use cases, lowering cost or latency.' With the full series linked (Part 1-5, 2 likes).

A re-run in today's feed: No Priors' conversation with Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest (originally covered in our 2026-08-15 issue) — bought the domain out of a bankruptcy auction in 2005 for $55K when VCs called it 'uninvestable'; today 250M+ members, ~10M daily actives, $200M+ revenue, 650 people, zero outside capital. Key topics: the COVID/Queen's Gambit wave and the 2023 short-form-content wave (mittens bot, cheating scandal) compounding growth; Lichess as 'the Linux of chess'; chess not being patentable — winning via product, community, content; computers first making chess boring, then making it more exciting than ever; AI coaches on game review and personalized puzzles; younger and younger prodigies; repetition as the unshortcutable path to expertise; cheating as an arms race of statistical models; chess as the Beatles in a world of infinite AI-generated content; Gambit poker with chess-style ratings; 'listen to your heart, not the founder-advice industrial complex.'