Yohei Nakajima

today's phrase: "let the cat out of the bag" my top score: 7 characters plat at: kiss. yohei. me

how tool search in claude code works:

aw bummer, my local wood guy retired and moved back east during the cold months, he'd drive into eastern WA to pick up dried logs, chop em up in his garage, deliver during the week day, and have people like me pick up on the weekends once it got warm, he'd close up shop, and spend the summer on his boat i always looked forward to chatting with him, he liked helping load the car he will be missed

i love that he's building this on the side for fun while building a whole underground subway network for things

do you know anyone w a shit ton of video data? have them check out @videodb_io to build search on top of it, annotating at scale (eg. for training data), vibe-editing videos from clips, etc.

i fear not the man who has vibe coded 10,000 different projects i fear the man who has vibe coded the same project 10,000 times

automate a specific part of every business automate every part of a specific business which way?

yesterday's phrase had an emoji shortcut, and today's happens to be the example i posted. (i need to make sure they don't repeat) my high score for today's phrase is 9 characters

i know humanoid robots are the jam, but how about a multi-armed robot on wheels with it's own table?

my current stack: @meetgranola > @attio > cofounder < @notionhq ^ gmail/gcal (cofounder is by @intelligenceco)

made a lil' game last night 🎲 avoiding forbidden words, get the AI to guess the target phrase of the day, using few characters as possible it's called Keep It Short, Smartypants (KISS) play at kiss . yohei . metoday's phrase is "piece of cake" 18 characters is my high score http://kiss.yohei.me

openai is leaning into health faster and harder than i expected. pretty exciting!

if you reorganized earth so it's easier for a browser agent to navigate

RT andrew pignanelli on wednesday, @intelligenceco and @AcrewCapital are hosting a breakfast for AI builders in the memory space in SF. Come meet us and talk context engineering/memory! Original tweet: https://x.com/ndrewpignanelli/status/2010738996754993491

oh look, it's babyagi on @grokipedia!

life with autonomous agents

can you feel it?

the alien is back! 👽 he's talking about @docdraftai. should he have a real tik tok account? process: chatgpt for script, chatgpt for first image of each section, runway for 4 videos, canva for clipping/editing. (yes, it's missing polish. this took about 30 min - while working on other stuff)

increasingly the capabilities of an agent often results in increased cost/time spent on easier tasks “oh, you just need a router to determine if it needs more or less capability” easier said than done

i totally get that if you take a founder with multiple big exits, have them recruit top talent, and raise a giant seed from a top tier fund, the likelihood of success goes up all that being said, i refuse to believe in a future where every big company starts that way

the idea of using traces so agents can better perform over time is easy to talk about, but hard to implement for anyone just getting started, this was a v1 of me trying this 1.5 yrs ago. you'll find it breaks quickly upon scale, but i think it's good to start simple and then add complexity.

Martin built a tool to help founders find VCs that are likely to be a fit

does your ai agent need a new years resolution?

someone made openai bread

RT Aaron Slodov out of sight, out of mind? there's no debt on balance sheets because they financially engineered it into SPVs. it's on pace to be the same amount of debt when .com crashed (~$1T) $112B openAI. $66B oracle. $40B microsoft. $30B meta. $20B xAI. $10B anthropic. etc Original tweet: https://x.com/aphysicist/status/2009472357467898014

what does an ai first legal service look like? @docdraftai pairs legal expertise from real human lawyers with ai to provide affordable solutions for customers they have a new /customer-stories page with case studies so i so pulled out stats to better understand how people use it today (cc @TaherHassonjee)

if i had more time i would have written a shorter letter without using ai

RT RunAnywhere (YC W26) Latest from CES 2026 about on-device AI > NVIDIA: - edge inference for robotics > Samsung - 800M devices with local AI by end of 2026 > Qualcomm - Snapdragon X2 with 45+ TOPS NPU for on-device processing > Motorola - Project Maxwell, wearable AI that runs entirely on-device The pattern is clear. Every major player is betting on local-first. On-device is the new default Original tweet: https://x.com/RunAnywhereAI/status/2009048770986557666

outside of 3 outliers, here is our investment pace, check size (bubble size), and entry valuation at @untappedvc

what types of businesses do you think we can fully automate first?

this is what i’m talking about when i say i want a graph that captures relationships in my network

you can effectively give an ai power of attorney if you set it up through an llc, but there still needs to be a human fiduciary

just in time software + reusable components + personalized memory

RT Covenant Labs "In practice, sovereignty matters because competitive advantage increasingly lives inside prompts, workflows, fine-tuning, and proprietary context. When intelligence is rented, so is leverage." When your edge industry data and core IP live in your AI models AI privacy is not a "nice to have," it is the moat! Original tweet: https://x.com/Covenantlabsai/status/2008697276601168002

first-order ai literacy is knowing what to say to a model. prompts, tweaks, vibes, try again. second-order ai literacy is knowing how it hears you. fewer words, more shape.

okay i lied. the first prompt was, "here are my AI investments, write me a VC think piece about the state of AI incorporating these" and then we iterated. still, it reads pretty well, captures our thinking, and a good intro to our investments. (also, isn't this what other VCs are doing?)

i asked chatgpt to write me an article on the state of AI, and it did great …total coincidence that it includes a bunch of our portfolio companies 😜

http://x.com/i/article/2008658465158262784

why did the ai agent miss the joke? it was out of context

A is B as B is A, as A is seed, and we are all together…. 🎶

peter posted this image showing top quartile valuation at seed has higher likelihood of unicorn, but the more interesting stat was in the comments: if you look for seed rounds that hit 50x valuation of seed round valuation, percentage is basically 8% across all quartile buckets perhaps it's not the strategy that matters, as much as how you execute within it

ah my sweet inbox, did you miss me

a pen looks like an “I” from one angle, and an “O” from another

vibe code your video edits: plan, clip, stack, etc

RT Vasek Mlejnsky What should we build for @e2b in 2026? Original tweet: https://x.com/mlejva/status/2007118940321833041

full stack AI = chips, training, inference, api, models, enterprise, consumer, wearables, humanoids…

rumors that OpenAI’s smart device will be pen shaped w mic/camera, which is a cool form factor as a relevant side note, @nuwapen is awesome

happy new year 🥳

happy new year! (to those it’s new years for) happy almost new year! (to everyone else)

top 10 longevity breakthroughs, from your favorite digital longevity clinic

drone delivery of blood and organs from hospital to hospital, lfg!!!! 🏥🩸🚀

RT Peter Walker Every year we put together a comprehensive dive into startups and the venture capital that funds them. This year's analysis came out to 145 slides. We hope you find them useful. https://carta.com/learn/resources/state-of-startups-2025/ Original tweet: https://x.com/PeterJ_Walker/status/2006418505940566271

2026 is the year of the ellipsis. not an ending, not a beginning, but a continuation… U+2026

you can either figure out how to capture implicit knowledge and/or you can reduce implicit knowledge personally, i suspect the latter will be more powerful

Japan: 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 12 Disney: 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 Harry Potter: 11

RT Deedy Meta just bought Manus for >$1B and it makes sense. ~8 Consumer AI apps hit $100M+ arr that aren’t big labs: Perplexity: $20B ElevenLabs: $6.6B Lovable: $6.6B Replit: $3B+ Suno: $2.5B Gamma: $2.1B Character: $1B+ Manus: $500M Meta AI has ~no product. This was the cheapest, and most aligned. Original tweet: https://x.com/deedydas/status/2005798365733478490

this aged well

2025: elon musk, gaza, labubu, k pop demon hunters, inflation, sydney sweeney, 6-7

RT Ksenia_TuringPost What we learned about memory in 2025 8 comprehensive resources: ▪️ Memory in the Age of AI Agents ▪️ When&nbsp;Will&nbsp;We&nbsp;Give&nbsp;AI&nbsp;True&nbsp;Memory? (interview with @EdoLiberty, founder & CEO @pinecone) ▪️ Why AI Intelligence is Nothing Without Visual Memory (interview with @shawnshenjx, co-founder @memories_ai) ▪️ From Human Memory to AI Memory: A Survey on Memory Mechanisms in the Era of LLMs ▪️ Rethinking Memory in AI: Taxonomy, Operations, Topics, and Future Directions ▪️ Cognitive Memory in LLMs ▪️ MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System ▪️ MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems Save the list and check this out for the links: https://huggingface.co/posts/Kseniase/637856294883643 Original tweet: https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2005265151130526096

i almost didn’t open source babyagi

i contributed to the tonies ranking on the app store today

RT Satoshi Nakajima @MulmoCast Merry Xmas! Just published "GUI Chat Protocol". GUI Chat Protocol = Function Call/MCP + GUI https://github.com/receptron/MulmoChat/blob/main/GUI_CHAT_PROTOCOL.md @karpathy @yoheinakajima @shaneguML @Yuhu_ai_ Original tweet: https://x.com/snakajima/status/2004291132273185108

RT andrew pignanelli We partnered with @interaction this christmas to build Local Geographic, a collection of holiday wallpapers showing our homes in California and New York! We wanted to show the world a bit of why we love the places we do and give everyone a taste of our beautiful places. Explore the map, find wallpapers, and download them to use this Christmas :) Original tweet: https://x.com/ndrewpignanelli/status/2004234300846469515

we did something similar at @untappedvc queued up chatgpt to create questions we talked through as a team, uploaded transcription of the meeting to generate a plan, converted it into a gantt chart, and then we do monthly meetings to talk through progress that’s also recorded, transcribed, and summarized

agent conference 🤩

haha i knew i played w @replit a lot thx @amasad, @pirroh, and team for the great tool that keeps gettin’ better :)

merry beachmas 🌴

RT Greg Brockman Replit app in ChatGPT: Original tweet: https://x.com/gdb/status/2003535410383978728

what’s chopped and cooked, but somehow fire?

1/3 my year w chatgpt: - agents, fund II, AI in VC - most likely to automate himself out of a job - 11k msgs sent across 1342 chats2/3 looking forward to 20263/3 type: strategist style: curious, fast-paced, analytical

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“Carry” is a cute name but usually spelled with a “Ke” or “ie”

RT Dan Gray You can find generational success in VC if you build your thesis around funding outsiders. Maximising idiosyncratic risk = maximising alpha. Yet LPs keep funding the same firms, running the same boring playbook for in-group founders. And they wonder why their returns suck. Original tweet: https://x.com/credistick/status/2002803115171742021

why do cars have breaks? so we can drive faster without getting into accidents

reminds of this great solution for solving wait time complaints for luggage at an airport how would you apply this to your agent solution?

oh no, my @animalbuildings, all tattered and depressing…

RT Jon Miller Schwartz Another awesome robot by Disney. Very bullish on their future theme parks. Original tweet: https://x.com/JonMSchwartz/status/2002186134286135426

first Warner, now this? what they cookin?

sometimes you meet a team with a vision (running models on edge) and you get sucked in congrats to the team! honored to back you :)

fundraising announcements. good or bad? as usual, it depends.

RT Dara Most founders accidentally train their customers never to pay them. @MadhavanSF (the "pricing guru" of Silicon Valley - having worked with LinkedIn, Uber, and 30+ unicorns) calls it the 20/80 Pricing Trap • 20% of your features drive 80% of the willingness to pay • Founders give that 20% away for free to gain distribution • You are left trying to monetize the remaining 80% of features - the ones users don't actually value. The result? You build a charity, not a business. In this week's episode of The Library of Minds, we discuss the science of monetization and deconstruct how to architect ‘Profitable Growth’ - the core framework from his new book, Scaling Innovation. 03:33 - Netflix vs Blockbuster: The Pricing Decision That Changed Tech 08:06 - Why Most Startups Get Pricing Wrong 11:39 - Freemium vs Paid: When Free Destroys Value 15:38 - Pricing Models Matter More Than Price 16:28 - The AI Pricing Framework: Autonomy vs Attribution 21:49 - The Biggest Pricing Mistake Ever 25:05 - Why Steve Jobs Was a Pricing Genius 26:44 - Behavioral Pricing: How Founders 10× Deals Without Changing Product 31:02 - Data vs Conviction: How Great Founders Make Pricing Decisions Original tweet: https://x.com/daraladje/status/2001734319048720812

RT Jerry Liu I love the idea of an AI chief of staff We’re excited to partner with @intelligenceco. They’re building Cofounder, an autonomous agent that can integrate with every system within a startup (Notion, Slack, Gmail, Github), ingest global company context, and take actions on behalf of the user. As a heavy Claude/ChatGPT user, I haven’t scratched the surface on time efficiency. There are infinite tasks that still take too long to prompt, setup tools, and automate completely. They’re using LlamaParse for helping to OCR their unstructured docs. Come check out our joint blog! https://www.llamaindex.ai/customers/how-the-general-intelligence-company-turns-business-documents-into-agent-ready-context-with Original tweet: https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2001452229560299643

RT Alex Reibman 🖇️ Proud to support some of most ambitious founders in the AI agent ecosystem (biggest perk building in SF) Raising? Want to LP? DM’s open @firecrawl @mem0ai @composio @markokraemer @erikdunteman @MaxMinsker @seanob @TextQL @EyalToledano @agentmail @hazhubble @realshcallaway Original tweet: https://x.com/AlexReibman/status/2001373259770794389

it's amazing that this actually kinda works (cc @intelligenceco)

1/12 it's been an incredible year for agents, and i've had a blast running @theagentfund this year with @adamsilverman & @alexreibman we've made 21 investment across the ecosystem and did a little write up on our learnings, etc.2/12 dev/infra tools like @composio @agentmail @mem0ai @firecrawl @browser_use @butterdev_ @taskmasterai @subsysdev3/12 21 investments were across pre-seed/seed/series A4/12 consumer & relationship layer like wonder family, @dafdefbrowser, @pallyai5/12 business workflows & ops like @graphed, cranston, @kortix, @intelligenceco, @qurrentai, @textql, continuum, @ai_erp (naologic)6/12 dynamic agents are starting to work... with caveats7/12 state of ai agents... workflow agents are everywhere8/12 ultimately, agent orchestration is about managing constraints9/12 what are the challenges? planning, execution, context, and reflection10/12 pattern's we're betting on11/12 the real bottleneck: context, onboarding, agentic data12/12 what's next?

this morning, i am Le chaperone extraordinaire ⛸️ (just trying not to embarrass myself)

a friendly reminder that this mean VC is ready to help you polish your pitch :)

RT Dan Gray Government VC investment should be in the role of an LP, backing indepedent, early-stage emerging managers, for two important reasons: 1) It delivers better ROI across financial returns, job creation and productivity than later-stage investment. 2) Venture capital is structurally uncompetitive, suppressing new entrants and novel strategies. Emerging managers offer a wider and more innovative range of strategies, providing a broader and more tactile interface between capital and talent. This spreads opportunity more evenly, creating fertile ground for entrepreneurship. There is obvious merit, with a number of sources pointing to the outperformance of the emerging manager category: Pitchbook: “In our simulation, between 2010 and 2019, if a dollar was contributed to only funds run by an emerging manager, LPs had a better chance of getting a higher return.” Greenspring Associates: "In our experience investing across approximately 180 partnerships, emerging managers have outperformed relative to their established counterparts." Cambridge Associates: "Top returns are not confined to a few dozen companies. As Figure 3 shows, new and developing fund managers consistently rank as some of the best performers." Cambridge Associates: "For the last 10 years, 40%–70% of total gains were claimed by new and emerging managers, a clear signal to investors to maintain more constant exposure to this cohort" There are examples of this at work with public money: Emerging managers backed by the EIF beat the market-rate of successful exits by 7%. So, emerging managers are a clear opportunity for investment, provided you have a strategic incentive to develop competition in the VC market. Unfortunately, institutional LPs are fixated on preserving their access via existing relationships. ...what about this so-called "growth capital gap"? Research shows that later-stage investment via public money tends to prop-up companies that the private market rejects for more objec...

happy monday! hope you have a week full of wins and smiles :)

RT Sebastien Bubeck I almost failed my basic duty; here is the 5.2 unicorn! Original tweet: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1999358611852795908

disney: you can’t use our characters openai: you can invest a billion and get warrants disney: okay, fine

RT Peter Walker State of Seed Startups - data from 10,000+ seed rounds from 2021-Q3 2025. Valuations. Round Sizes. SAFEs vs priced. Dilution. Ai vs non-AI. Graduation Rates. SF vs everybody. Founder ownership. Hiring (+ AI/ML equity packages). Full report: https://carta.com/learn/resources/state-of-seed-2025/ Data in 🧵 Original tweet: https://x.com/PeterJ_Walker/status/1999181746445910447

RT Amjad Masad We’re running a startup program—we’ll help you build and reach your first customer. Original tweet: https://x.com/amasad/status/1998589788547592683

don't ask me why but i embedded 40k+ words from the english dictionary

when i want to specify writing style to an ai, i don’t describe the writing style in the prompt i first ask an ai to give me writers known for the style i want, and then include the writers’ name in the prompt

ai agents have a foundation now

RT Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) If you are looking for pre-seed funding, here is a currated list of who is writing checks (yes including me!) Original tweet: https://x.com/MartinGTobias/status/1998432188224909476