@joshconstine
Investing in pre-seed mutants and helping them tell their superhero origin stories. Venture Partner @SignalFire, ex-Editor @TechCrunch, SF maxi.
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Hugging Face's event listing places the free San Francisco gathering at The Midway, with community demos followed by dancing.
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The announcement says version 1.3.8 uses a local decision model to categorize emails before auto-replying in your voice.
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Ghost describes on-device models that continuously gather context from apps, files, wearables, and smart-home devices.
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A writer argues that withholding email, files and messages could limit an AI assistant’s usefulness.
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Underdog says its Mac assistant stores personal data on-device, with iOS, Windows and Android versions planned.
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An SMS newsletter operator recommends building on Photon instead of working directly with phone carriers, citing their own difficulties.
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A post likens personal AI’s current stage to the Homebrew Computer Club era and predicts it won’t stay there.
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One post argues that high model costs clash with a basic constraint: most people still cannot pay for software.
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The Decoder reports that Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's former heads of product and engineering, are joining Yam to build tools for creators and their communities.
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One post argues that inspiration is the new bottleneck and that text-only formats limit discoverability.
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Z.ai says the system reached production readiness less than two weeks after its first successful run. It credits detailed tests and measurements with guiding the optimization.
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One post proposes browsing ready-made templates for what it calls “1-click life improvements.”
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Air Street's Nathan Benaich announced the round, saying a portfolio founder who tried the product had urged him to invest.
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The user predicts an OpenAI or Anthropic iMessage agent would undercut Instinct, citing access to existing personal context. A reply suggests asking AI to compile that context for a new assistant.
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Investor Josh Constine posts a wish for creators to share personalized AI experiences at no hosting cost.
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Serial entrepreneur comments on autonomous vehicle progress in reply to a post.
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Josh Constine, a venture partner at SignalFire, posted the idea on X.
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Disagrees that technical terms in Dwarkesh Patel content were engagement bait.