we have a winner for the most absurd AI startup ever this Peter Thiel backed company uses AI robots to stab fish in the brain so they taste better and last up to 3x longer it's called Shinkei and it modernizes a centuries-old Japanese technique dozens of Michelin-star restaurants are already lining up to buy the fish here's how it works: > the problem is when a fish gets caught, it usually just suffocates on the boat > that stress floods the meat with hormones and lactic acid, which hurts the flavor and texture > the old Japanese fix for this was spiking the fish through the brain right after the catch, which stops all that > but doing it by hand is impractical for most American fishing crews > so Shinkei built a fridge-sized robot that sits right on the boat's deck > the crew feeds in a fish and AI identifies the exact species, so it knows exactly where the brain and gills are > the robot then drives the spike through the brain and cuts near the gills in about 7 seconds > the fish goes into an ice slurry so the blood drains out > so the fish doesn't sit there stressing out, and that tasty flavor and texture is preserved example number 5,392,417 of how AI can be applied to literally anything

damn Jev just got lapped. Snap now has 12x Jev's decision context. and these decision models mog LLMs for micro-decisions where your agent needs an instant answer: > which ticket needs a human? > is this lead worth chasing? > does this contract clause break our rules? otherwise, you're just wasting time and tokens waiting for Claude to generate an answer when your agent just needs: > yes/no > a choice > or a score its basically like hiring a rocket scientist to sort support tickets. and with a massive 384K tokens, Snap can factor in more customer history, past deals and company rules when making those calls.

i agree. Grok Bot already feels like the agent product Steve Jobs would’ve cooked. for me, it’s surprisingly addictive and much more enjoyable to use than Codex or Claude Code (especially on mobile). my bot lineup so far: > an events bot that’s basically my own “Luma,” finding stuff to do wherever i am based on my taste and sending me the links > a health trainer that tracks my nutrition and workouts and reminds me when to train > a virality hunter that finds content ideas aligned with my brand for me to post about > a builder bot that finds new AI tools and workflows on X and helps me implement them in my business and personal life > an admin bot for the boring payments/administrative stuff i need to get done > a chief of staff that helps organize all of them it also somehow feels more agentic. stuff that Codex and Claude Code get stuck on, Grok Bot just seems to handle with much less friction. just a joy to use

everyone is so uncertain right now what is still worth building but the worst thing you can do rn is to freeze and to do nothing don't forget: times of uncertainty have ALWAYS always brought the biggest opportunities but you need to keep trying

SF sounds like an exhausting place to have a personal life tbh imagine finally closing your laptop, going on a date, just to get evaluated like a cofounder i don't usually watch reality tv but i think people would be shocked at the status games and social weirdness inside tech their "startup brains" just completely take over their personal lives, it's actually fascinating to watch

people misunderstood what my point was I don't think everyone will start vibecoding their own SaaS but when I saw Marc post I was thinking: damn, I pay 3k for beehiiv too, I wonder if there's someone building a cheaper alternative now I think it's a bigger factor for saas that people will start heavily undercutting in price offering a similari-ish product if marc would offer me 70% of beehiivs features at 80% off i'll most likely take it and that same thing will happen to a lot of companies SaaS had an insane business model for a long time, and these times (at least for incumbents) are over imo

then you are simply not paying attention. robots are already doing more dirty work than you can imagine and nobody is mentally prepared for the tens of millions of robots that will flood everyday life and our physical world over the next 10 years. Caterpillar alone already has 820+ driverless trucks working in mines right now, and they’ve hauled over 11 billion tons of material without a driver. in oil fields, Nabors’ AI drilling automation runs on 157 rigs across 3 continents and has drilled over 90 million feet. Shell and Phillips 66 send robots to scrape toxic sludge out of their oil tanks so nobody has to climb inside. in the UK, robot dogs are swabbing radioactive rooms at Sellafield, the country’s most hazardous nuclear site. The Ocean Cleanup uses AI cameras and solar-powered robot barges to pull plastic out of rivers and the ocean, with a plan to remove 90% of the plastic floating in the ocean by 2040. and it’s still *extremely* early for robotics. autonomous firefighting helicopters, bricklaying robots, driverless bulldozers, robots that take apart old nuclear reactors, laser weeding robots, sewer-crawling robots, landmine-clearing robots and window-washing robots for skyscrapers are all being built at scale right now. and to top it all off, Tesla is designing a production line in Texas to eventually build 10 million humanoid robots a year which is literally like printing a country the size of the Czech Republic every single year just to do dirty work 24/7.

ok this is pretty insane if it works out right now, every new tiny machine needs its own custom tooling and months of setup before you can make a single one atomic machines says their system skips that and it's not a 3d printer making a shape. it builds working machines with moving parts, straight from code the same machine using different code can build completely different products, like: > a motor the size of a grain of sand > cooling built directly into AI chips > a power switch for data centers that flips ~1,000x faster than the normal kind their stated mission is "universal command of matter" we're very early, but it's just another example of how wild the next couple of years might get

ok this is pretty insane if it works out right now, every new tiny machine needs its own custom tooling and months of setup before you can make a single one atomic machines says their system skips that and it's not a 3d printer making a shape. it builds working machines with moving parts, straight from code the same machine using different code can build completely different products, like: > a motor the size of a grain of sand > cooling built directly into AI chips > a power switch for data centers that flips ~1,000x faster than the normal kind their stated mission is "universal command of matter" we're very early, but it's just another example of how wild the next couple of years might get

it's funny how just 1-2 years ago you had to be so specific and deliberate with your prompting to achieve a certain look/style but now you can just casually say “make it look like our other videos” lol

brain-computer interfaces in 2026 feel like AI in 2019 to me. and i think it's OBVIOUS the winners will be non-invasive (like Sabi). nobody's gonna wanna have chips surgically implanted in their brains (just look at how much the public already hates AI) so a cap you can easily put on/take off makes the jump to "thought-prompting" AI much easier to sell. and when that AI can operate your devices and robots, you can imagine an extremely sci-fi future: > control the lights, blinds, temperature and music in your home just by thinking > summon your car to the front door while you're putting your shoes on > think “get the house ready, friends are coming over” and have your humanoid tidy up and set the table before you even get home extremely bullish on Sabi and brain-computer interfaces

i literally keep up with AI and robotics for a living and still regularly feel like i'm falling behind the curse of knowledge is extremely real on this app your X timeline is basically a group chat with the smartest, most obsessive tech people in the world you open it to catch up and end up comparing yourself to all of them. So of course you're gonna feel behind lol but then you zoom out and realize that a workflow you consider embarrassingly basic would completely change how someone else does their job this chart is actually such a breath of fresh air even after everything that's happened over the past few years, we're somehow still so early

robots are advancing so fast that some hater will start sweating soon it's a obvious trend we are seeing more and more continuous robotic work demos on the timeline rn first hours (everyone still making fun) , soon days (hm, this is kinda working...), then forever (holy fak robots are building in space?!) robotbullmarketacceleration.exe