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Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser.

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enough. Jobs are a great example: Especially if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for.

In the latest piece in his series Also True for Humans , about managing AIs like you'd manage people, Michael explores the inner workings of AI agents—the next generation of assistive AI technology—and what they need to succeed. He goes in-depth on the reason and act (ReAct) pattern, one of the first attempts to give large language models the tools... See more

Sora currently works best as a complement to other AI content generation tools: Spin up a scene on Midjourney, generate a voice on ElevenLabs, and produce your video through Sora.

Sora nails the photorealistic details but can't match Runway, or other AI video generation tools,on fluid motion.

“I think there's a whole class of people who are allergic to code...they don't even want to know it exists...and Val Town is not the product for those people. The product for those people is Claude Artifacts or Github Spark.”