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ben

@benhylak

1 year

for years, i’ve had the privilege of being on the design team for visionOS. “here’s to the crazy ones”

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ben

@benhylak

2 months

i interned at google, and it was the most unserious place i've ever worked. full grown adults playing in ball pits, going down slides, and sneaking their family of 10 in to get free dinner.

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ben

@benhylak

8 months

did satya just aquihire openai for $0

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@benhylak

2 months

left apple 9 months ago and most weeks i make more money from patent bonuses than my startup salary lmao

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ben

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4 months

make music physical again

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2 months

ChatGPT incognito mode this can only mean one thing…

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ben

@benhylak

9 days

just tried it and... it's really, really bad. leaves me wondering if the demo was fake?

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@benhylak

9 days

the world is about to change very fast.

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@benhylak

5 months

someone should make a dating app where an LLM clone of you goes on thousands of dates with LLM clones of other people, and then your matches are when the LLMs decide to date each other. you can literally build this right now.

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ben

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wild exchange where @paulg learns that yc has a significant investment in openai

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@benhylak

2 months

@ass_hatchet one time i was stuck in a meeting room with a very large dog that couldn't stop farting. i mean, just ripping big ones, one after another.

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ben

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9 days

aged like wine

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@benhylak

1 month

AAPL immediately pumped at the mention of calculator for iPad.

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ben

@benhylak

8 months

some thoughts on humane. 1) look how the weight of the pin deforms the collar (and this is probably a fairly heavy weight shirt)

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@Humane

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This is the Humane Ai Pin

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3 months

love walking by this victorian designed by jony ive

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2 months

@pronounced_kyle He’s dead, so probably bigger problems to worry about

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ben

@benhylak

4 months

the whitehouse just leaked the freaking iphone 16

President Biden

@POTUS

4 months

Have you ever used a food delivery app to order a meal, but noticed a much higher end price than when you started searching? This is called “drip pricing” – and it adds up. My Administration is working to end this practice and other junk fees that rip consumers off.

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ben

@benhylak

5 months

just works.

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@haltor

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Apple Vision Pro works perfectly fine without any kind of guardian/boundary setup. Proof that Meta needs to keep lawyers out of product meetings.

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ben

@benhylak

3 months

siri made this noise in the middle of setting a timer today. (manmade horrors beyond my comprehension)

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ben

@benhylak

29 days

when people dunk on tim cook, this is the guy they’re dunking on

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ben

@benhylak

8 months

i'd expect more answers from the founder of quora

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@benhylak

6 months

took a break from b2b saas to build an ai native terminal. most of my workflow is just pressing enter now.

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@benhylak

2 months

if humane had any real/agentic architecture, a change like this would be very hard.

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2 months

all ai pins internally + a small number externally are now running gpt-4o! still early, but so far lots of great improvements: 14% decrease in latency 28% shorter answers 33% fewer bad answers beyond the numbers, everything just feels smarter and more accurate (as expected)

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3 months

it's gone too far

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5 months

❤️

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@benhylak

5 months

so cool seeing people notice these kind of things

Brad Lynch

@SadlyItsBradley

5 months

For those who didn’t notice: Apple applies colored lighting to your hands/arms to match the AR/VR environment

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@benhylak

5 months

the crazy thing about having an os is that this isn't an app. this is just a file.

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@BenGeskin

5 months

Apple Vision Pro adapts the light and reflections on 3D models to match the environment, both real and virtual 🤯

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ben

@benhylak

1 year

my life dream, since I’ve been 5, has been to work at Apple. but I’ve also always dreamt of starting something of my own. after 4 years at Apple, today is the start of my second dream.

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@benhylak

5 months

everything you’re seeing now is old news to people at apple. and they never stopped building.

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@benhylak

2 months

@smems_ very much not royalties, just one time bonus when the patent is filed.

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@benhylak

5 months

can’t overstate how fun it is to just move windows around

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@benhylak

6 months

why is no one talking about how beautiful this case is.

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@benhylak

6 months

mission accomplished.

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@benhylak

1 month

mind blown right now. bought this accessory that makes the vision pro actually wearable and massively increases the field of view used to get tired after 15 minutes, now hours pass by with no problem. one size fits all. ugly as hell, but wtf.

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@benhylak

5 months

reading all the reviews, a ton of the things im the most proud of are so good no one even noticed.

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@benhylak

4 months

apparently rendering ui that has a number with text above it is called generative ui now

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@drew_carson_ai

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Dynamic UI ✨ Ai Pin fetches information from the internet and composes it into a UI that makes sense contextually. i.e. these displays are not "coded" by employees, explicitly. Imran gives us a few examples: a flight, a sports game score, and a stock price. (12/14)

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@benhylak

9 months

the kids are marching for palestine on roblox. i'm really living in a completely different reality.

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ben

@benhylak

1 year

also this hopefully goes without saying, but the magnitude of technical innovation needed at every level to bring this to reality is staggering. engineering at apple is world class.

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@benhylak

5 months

seeing my friends makes it all worth it

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ben

@benhylak

1 year

Design. Engineering.

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@benhylak

1 month

All of the AI images from the keynote have the distinct stable diffusion look/feel.

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@benhylak

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@benhylak

5 months

project I did in 2019 vs. Vision Pro review in WSJ

Luke Wroblewski

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designing AR to augment reality not distract from it: "Unlike other AR applications, our system requires little-to-no explicit input (e.g. gestures or voice commands). Instead, the system primarily uses the actions of the user as input..."

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@benhylak

4 months

in the future, ai will improve the products you use, before you even have a chance to leave feedback. to that end, i’m excited to announce @dawnanalytics , which i’ve been building with my best friends @snarkyzk and @alexisgauba

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@benhylak

3 months

my favorite @paulg quote is "successful founders never sleep"

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@benhylak

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@benhylak

9 months

implementing production ready ui with figma + gpt-4 vision 🤯

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ben

@benhylak

8 months

the entire course of human history was just changed

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@benhylak

1 year

time to build 🔨

visionOS Overview - Apple Developer

All-new platform. Familiar frameworks and tools. Get ready to build and design an entirely new universe of apps for Apple Vision Pro.

developer.apple.com

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@benhylak

11 months

GPT-3 was ignored for years until ChatGPT made using an LLM as simple as texting. Overnight, it became a historic success. Design matters.

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@benhylak

6 months

there was a time where the entire project felt like pure fantasy, absolutely impossible. still surreal to see it on

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@benhylak

14 days

here's the talk I gave at yesterday: designing unbounded products lessons from vision os, good/bad ai product examples, thoughts on the future, and more below 👇

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@benhylak

10 months

someone had to make it

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@benhylak

23 days

i non-ironically believe the first version of Siri was the best.

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Old Siri

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@benhylak

2 months

i think most of the alpha is in ignoring fake signs of success (followers, 30u30, valuations, corporate leveling systems, etc.)

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@benhylak

6 months

how much do artists on spotify make again

Daniel Ek

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6 months

After sitting with our legal team to parse through the fine print of Apple's DMA announcement (that took a while), which is, at best vague and misleading, I wanted to share my thoughts. While Apple has behaved badly for years, what they did yesterday represents a new low, even

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@benhylak

8 months

5) when asking ai pin to send a text for you, you can also ask it to modify the tone. in this case, it added a "can't wait!" at the end. for all the talk of vr dystopia, this really didn't land well for me.

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ben

@benhylak

6 months

1. Can’t lie down in bed (my favorite way to use it tbh) 2. This is true only if your neck is perfectly straight forward

Marques Brownlee

@MKBHD

6 months

Fun fact: Oculus Quest Pro weighs more than Apple Vision Pro! But on Quest Pro, much of that weight is battery BEHIND your head Weight distribution matters. A lot.

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ben

@benhylak

1 year

before (joining) / after (shipping)

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@benhylak

2 months

brought my vision pro on a long flight, girlfriend didn't let me use it.

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@benhylak

6 months

when your vision pro order gets delayed

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@benhylak

6 months

dating a pretty girl has opened my eyes to the extreme inequity of pretty privilege her checked bag was 8 pounds over and they just let it slide. absolute insanity.

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@benhylak

5 months

we'll take second place to chatgpt tbh

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@sama

5 months

vision pro is second most impressive tech since the iphone

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ben

@benhylak

8 months

2) text looks mostly illegible. maybe this was an issue with the capture and it looks better on-axis?

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@benhylak

1 month

if you're paying attention to the evolution of ai interfaces, you'll notice that prompts as we know them are a thing of the past.

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scrub between emotions for a single character, could be controlled with emotion recognition in a web cam as well.

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ben

@benhylak

1 year

i’m so proud of what we made together. and there’s still so much more to share. stay tuned for more tomorrow 😀

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ben

@benhylak

1 year

watched the announcement video with all my friends and family yesterday 🥲

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@benhylak

10 days

making good ai apps is very, very hard.

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@benhylak

5 months

I think you should buy a Vision Pro if you: travel a lot live alone + don’t have a TV are a professional that works with media (e.g. movie producer) OR you’re an early adopter with a lot of money you should buy a Quest if you like Beat Saber + have a tough stomach.

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ben

@benhylak

8 months

one more thing to clarify -- the team behind humane is insane. I think great teams can make bad things. I don't know that ai pin is a bad thing, but there are seemingly bad things about it.

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ben

@benhylak

6 months

I believe the developer of Pages and Numbers has been busy for the past few months.

Steve Moser

@SteveMoser

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It’s really odd how Microsoft is launching Word and Excel on the Apple Vision Pro App Store on day one but Apple doesn’t have a native visionOS version of Pages and Numbers yet.

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ben

@benhylak

6 months

behind the scenes! I design everything in greyscale and then figure out the right blend values in-situ.

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@benhylak

1 year

curious why we designed visionOS the way we did? (and how you can build beautiful apps for the platform?) check out the Principles of Spatial Design talk. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Principles of spatial design - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer

Discover the fundamentals of spatial design. Learn how to design with depth, scale, windows, and immersion, and apply best practices for...

developer.apple.com

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ben

@benhylak

11 months

the last thing I worked on took 4 years to announce. this took ~ a month. meet sidekick: a suite of AI powered tools for vs code join the waitlist: 🦸👇

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@benhylak

8 months

15 mins after @satyanadella was on stage talking about copilot, the head of dev rel at openai was using @cursor_ai 👀🫢

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@benhylak

2 months

if you also want to make a small salary building cool stuff with really fun people, come join us @dawnanalytics (backend devs to the front pls)

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@benhylak

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I wanna meet the @coinbase employee who wrote the code like if(request.error) { balance = 0 }

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girlfriend reveal

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mesmerizing in person

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@benhylak

8 months

ok so if you google Sam Altman, there's a tweet that shows up where sam is announcing he's running for president (this is not fake)

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@benhylak

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when I worked in faang, my friends told me I had no idea how startups worked and I didn’t believe them now I get it.

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@benhylak

5 months

Quest vs Vision Pro safety boundaries

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@benhylak

10 months

ai pendant, has context about your entire life. coolest ai demo I’ve seen so far. @AviSchiffmann

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@benhylak

1 year

if I ran @peta , I’d be investing every cent in training an LLM for animal to human communication. imminently possible for many species, game over for carnivores. im honestly just eating as much meat as I can before pigs start speaking to us

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@benhylak

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@nftsasha @paulg it is now quite a significant investment

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@benhylak

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the white fuel band lives rent free in my head.

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@benhylak

5 months

eyesight is so good sometimes

Aimi Sekiguchi🌐ايمي

@sekiguchiaimi

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Walk around Tokyo with #AppleVisionPro 🥽🌐

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@kurilod @smems_ big surprise to me as well! most companies don't (i know google doesn't)

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@benhylak

7 months

. @naval bro, wtf is this shit

Andrew (digi)

@andyohlbaum

7 months

Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖 Site: Twitter: @digiaiapp A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)

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@benhylak

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Ready for the day

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@benhylak

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4) I don't get pinning it on a jacket. aren't you going to take the jacket off? if they're trying to replace a phone, this seems like a big problem.

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@benhylak

5 months

remember when everyone was freaking out because tim wasn’t walking around Apple Park wearing a Vision Pro

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@benhylak

9 months

my favorite part of this was when he holds up the “hardware” box as proof that he definitely prototyped this a long time ago and isn’t just ripping off @AviSchiffmann

Dan Siroker

@dsiroker

9 months

Introducing Rewind Pendant - a wearable that captures what you say and hear in the real world! ⏪ Rewind powered by truly everything you’ve seen, said, or heard 🤖 Summarize and ask any question using AI 🔒 Private by design Learn more & preorder:

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@benhylak

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also, reminder that a ton of people worked on vision pro, i’m just the loud one

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@benhylak

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so if the openai <> apple thing is true.... what happens to the siri team?

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