Ian Landsman
@IanLandsman
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Bootstrapper, software developer, poker player. 2005: @HelpSpot 2014: @Laraveljobs 2026: @Outrocrew Pod: @MostlyTechPod
Joined February 2026
Powerful new Harvard Business Review study. "AI does not reduce work. It intensifies it. " A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because
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Ralph loops feel like slop cannons to me. Instead, I created the Counselors loop! Point multiple LLMs at a repo, give it a focus area, and let it rip for however long you want. It found some pretty great stuff in OpenCode, Vinext, and my projects! Let me show you
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Anthropic said no to the Pentagon. Now Sam Altman is backing them: "For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety." OpenAI and Anthropic both drawing the same line. This is a big deal.
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Obsidian Sync now has a headless client, so you can sync vaults to a server without using the desktop app. Try the open beta:
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Great post on Jack Dorsey laying off 40% of Block and why it’s (probably) more about bloated post-2020 hiring than AI Zooming out, it’s very inconvenient for storytelling purposes that ChatGPT (1) came out just after an absurd boom in tech hiring (2) just as the Fed starting
Few thoughts on the $XYZ cuts: - TL:DR: Mostly about XYZ being poorly run. Not really about AI. But most other smidcap tech also poorly run. Expect many more cuts - Below I tweeted that they only needed 60% of their company. That wasn’t a random number. Pull up any fintech/SaaS
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In Amsterdam you really need your head on a swivel or you’re going to get run over. Dig the energy.
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Nothing super great in my first photo session. These are my two favs (second below).
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Now, given I've slept 30 minutes in the last 36 hours, the question is, do I try and get a few hours of poker in tonight 🤔
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Been standing in the rain at this same spot for 20 min waiting for someone awesome to do something cool in this big empty space in front of me but hasn’t happened yet
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