Dan Batten
@DanBatten
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🌱 Building an autonomous creative intelligence system with @1nfiniteGarden Advising @littleplainsxo Ex Hims & Hers, Pattern, Gin Lane
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2009
We are hiring an AI Performance Engine Architect at @1nfiniteGarden to build autonomous agents that run paid growth in an entirely new capacity. This is not an in-house media buyer or agency role. It’s about turning elite paid growth decision-making into systems that can scale
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If you want to work do one of the best agencies in the biz check this out…
For 2026, @littleplainsxo is building a creative studio organized around systems that scale. We’re looking for FT senior talent with strong fundamentals who are curious about how the work is evolving, and interested in applying their craft alongside modern tools and software.
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What a wild time to be alive
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Intelligence isn't the issue anymore, but memory is. Personal, curated context is starting to become the real asset and it’s quickly changing how necessary apps and software in their current state actually are. Wrote more on this below 👇🏼
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A lot in here that is bang on - particularly 6,7, an 12. Your personal data and context is going to become the biggest asset in 2026. A move to more personalized software and a big move away from clunky one size fits all software of the past.
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Agency and taste are the things humans have to do. Everything else the machines can do.
Jensen Huang: AI is going to make poorly defined work much more valuable. Because that’s all humans will do. AI will handle everything else. So what is poorly defined work, and how do you get good at it? Defined work means given these inputs, produce this output. Write code
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Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are
Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important
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beyond the text box: the bottleneck isn't the models anymore – it's the interface. our thoughts aren't linear. they're spatial, visual, emotional. sketches with arrows everywhere. half-formed plans. a melody that captures the vibe. but we're still forcing all of that through a
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11 Predictions for 2026 Every year I make a list of predictions & score last year’s predictions. 2025 was a good year : I scored 7.85 out of 10. Here are my predictions for 2026 : 1. Businesses pay more for AI agents than people for the first time. This has already happened
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Software > Systems > Societies As 2025 comes to a close, we’re all moving from isolated software tools to agentic systems coordinating those tools to emerging “societies” of autonomous agents that can research, generate, QA, and ship with minimal (to zero) human intervention.
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A lot of incredible innovation happening @littleplainsxo right now - reshaping what creative teams, process, and work looks like for the future, all whilst getting to work with clients who are building brands that are truly innovating. Come join the team!
We’re hiring an AI Creative Director at @littleplainsxo, with a $10,000 referral fee via Liftoff: https://t.co/rNZydDbWOD As our AI work continues to grow beyond our sprints into the core studio offerings, we’re pairing classical creative leadership with a new generation of
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Built a fun little tool for the @littleplainsxo team, based off a personal project I have been playing with for the past 6 months. I have always wanted a smarter, more visual, and highly searchable way to bookmark stuff from many different sources, all in one place. Below is
archivvve.com
Save and organize interesting content from around the web. Your personal archive of ideas, inspiration, and things worth remembering.
Want to know what inspires us at @littleplainsxo every day? We opened up our internal #inspo stream as a live updated, AI-searchable archive you can explore daily. Built in a weekend by @DanBatten using Claude Code, Cursor, Supabase, and Vercel. Enjoy! https://t.co/kZVEse1Qua
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@NickADobos Intention and care. Lots of people think slop is related to AI, which can be true but doesn’t have to be. Slop existed well before too in products and experiences that were simply devoid of care. AI output just happens to be slop by default because carelessness is built into
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Constraints breed creativity. Creativity creates innovation. Innovation creates leverage. Leverage creates profit. ♲
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This is really well put by @ryolu_ Code only feels like a cage if it’s slow and expensive. That used to be true. It’s much less true now. When feedback is fast, code stops behaving like concrete and starts behaving like clay. You can shape it, break it, reshape it. That’s not
code isn't a cage, it's the only material that's actually boundless. you can rebuild, restructure, and reimagine faster than any other medium in human history. the idea that working in code locks you into existing patterns is only true if you're afraid of the material. the truth
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I agree with a lot of what’s being said about protecting early design from premature constraint. Early design is a search. You don’t know the answer yet, and you need tools that let you stay loose, wrong, and curious. Where I think the conversation misses the point is in
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I get the instinct behind this take, but it assumes the tools are the idea. They aren’t. Wright didn’t design the Guggenheim because he avoided materials. He designed it because he had instinct, taste, vision, and judgment. If better tools existed, he would’ve used them. AI
Asking designers to code while they design is like asking an architect to lay bricks while sketching. You'll get a building, but it probably won't be the Guggenheim. Designing in code is incredible for the last mile, but the first mile needs the most distance from what's
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Wow.. not to be hyperbolic but the combo of Cursor + Opus 4.5 now is going to have pretty far reaching effects on the pace of building ~great~ products. I think Figma is in trouble here...
You can now design directly in your codebase. Select elements, modify them visually, and Cursor writes the code.
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