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Adam Lasnik

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Reasonably social geek based in the SF Bay Area. Previously worked to improve healthcare access while a Program Manager at Google. Now leading operations at a music startup. www.AdamLasnik.net

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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 5h
<sigh>. Is it too much to ask that people actually do even a tiny bit of fact checking before reposting / resharing? We (non-MAGA) folks are supposed to be better than the ones championing "Truthiness" :\. Sure, in this case, there's not that much harm done, but it still hurts credibility & trust.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 7h
Speaking of Ed... did you see this impressive video (made with Opus 5.5 and Suno)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8q... I really had a chuckle with its pokes at Yann, Gary, and... Ed :D
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AI is a normal technology?
YouTube video by leo
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 8h
I have now fashioned Stink Floyd a special 'house' for tonight. Let's see what he thinks about it! :)
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 9h
I have no idea what you're doing either!
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 12h
My night-time skunk companion, Stink Floyd, is not sure what to make of the newly-appeared bags of mulch. [90 seconds, no sound]
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 14h
I do wish Suno was a bit, uh, less conservative re chord progressions :\. (but I found the vocal pretty damn impressive!)
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 14h
This is a HELL of a banger and the fact that the video was made with Claude and the music by AI (Suno) as well... should honestly stun us today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8q... Also love its call-outs of Gary, Ed, and others 😂
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AI is a normal technology?
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 01/10/2026
I'm definitely gonna have to... watch that :D
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 01/10/2026
Well it's about time!
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
Valiantly resisting name puns…
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
I don't think we've seen someone with the combo of such evilness and imbecility in our lifetime, though Trump's admittedly got a lot of competition with his lackeys and appointed cronies.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
Heh, the quote I've internalized from people smarter than I: "Trust but verify"
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
This isn't either/or. I've been making music for ~half a century & a music fan for about as long. I regularly chat w/ friends (including professional musicians) for recs, but I've gotten amazing recs, too, from LLMs that know my musical tastes & library. Used right, AI *augments* vs. replaces.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My two most unpopular higher ed opinions (at least among the general public) are 1) college sports are a tool to exploit students and offer the illusion of opportunity instead of just making college more accessible for everyone and 2) burn all frats to the ground
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
That's really sad to hear :(. I helped beta test Android phones internally at Google -- from the very 1st one! -- and really want them to be a strong counterpoint to iPhones because we need good competition. That said... my primary driver is an iPhone, and I'm often reminded why <sigh>
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
Oh! Yeah, you convinced me now given your creative insults! /s Seriously, though, that way of engaging with people you don't know online is both unproductive and unkind.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
I do agree that the massive societal spend on AI right now is causing a lot of consumer goods, possibly even societal-level goods (like bridges) to be more $. But I think blaming the AI companies for how the U.S. has ALWAYS been so messed up re public goods (public transit, etc.) is disingenuous.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
Will this be a net destroyer of jobs or a net creator of opps and employment in other areas? Or will it make entrepreneurship easier and potentially more profitable? Maybe a combo? Don't know! But as I've said in other threads, this is reality, and it behooves us all to experiment and learn.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
But small businesses / startups will likely just use Claude w/ higher effort. So on one hand, this is likely to negatively impact Marketing employment. On the other hand, it offers inexpensive & speedy marketing options (or at least drafts!) to any non-profit or even kid!
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
IMHO, this level of quality is -- for many purposes -- likely "good enough," with the time & money costs essentially insignificant. And that's with ~1 core prompt! Sure, rich firms will keep paying boutique agencies or talented individuals.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
Continuing to be amazed, grateful, and concerned about AI progress... this time, re marketing'ish videos. I made this with Claude (which leveraged Gemini & Suno) in about 10 minutes of work on my end, semi-ironically about how difficult it apparently is to make genuinely high-quality AI films.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/09/2026
Wow! Wish we'd see more of this in the U.S.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I've been using and appreciating Muse a lot and you can't beat the price point :p. But most of my useful life-context from prior chats is in ChatGPT, so having a primary agent there would be more helpful for me (and probably a lot of other people).
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
Thoughts on whether it'll eventually be available in Plus or is the consensus that OpenAI may continue to position this as a premium / work-focused offering?
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
How on earth does LLM companies spending a shit-ton of money relate at all to our evil U.S. govt and the voters who, sadly, don't care about its dismantling of environmentally sound policies and funding?
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
Musk being a terrible no-good human and the owner of ONE of many LLMs doesn't seem especially relevant to the AI market as a whole.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I don't give a shit whether Anthropic's business model is awful or whether they're going to fail in 3 months or 3 years or never. I only care that my friends and others ignore the hype & virtue-signaling and so on and just use all *currently available tools* smartly & ethically.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I disagree on the "not necessarily wrong in a moral way" I find both the AI hypster opportunists and the vitriolic anti-AI folks to be equally harmful because there's a moral imperative (from an equity pespective) that people learn how to use TODAY'S AI for personal & societal good.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
Oh, I can relate; there's a reason why I didn't even bother posting in his thread. Because when I did that ages ago, he just replied with smarmy but unsubstantive comebacks. The dude does not engage in good faith.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
And you do raise a point about disregarding a messenger just because they're painfully insufferable (my words). But my counterpoint: why not instead read commentary of more balanced tech writers? e.g., I often disagree with Casey Newton, but he's at least entertaining AND balanced in his writing!
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
And I do agree with you that -- when this bubble pops (and it will! -- we are indeed gonna be in a world of hurt. Where I disagree with a lot of folks is... what regular people can & should do in the meantime. My take: Skill up! Use AI for good! Apply the Serenity Prayer!
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
- Respectfully disagree re the ethics ("stolen work") though I realize mine is likely a minority position. - Also disagree re real use cases not being numerous. Granted, I'm a geek, but I've been incredibly grateful for LLMs in my personal life, work life, as a non-profit board member, etc.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
To be clear, Dawn, I'm not dissing YOU with this! I think you're awesome and I'm just increasingly frustrated about how so much of online discourse is polarized in ways that hurt people.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
My broader point is that we deserve better than snarky or hypester absolutists in this space because AI is complicated! Like the internet, it's the best of us and the worst of us. And it does a disservice to people -- *especially already marginalized folks* -- to just stick heads in sand.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
- anything it can't handle gets escalated and answered typically within 1 business day We're a small startup and without AI, fewer people would get helpful instant answers (which, yes, we regularly audit!).
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
That is a stunningly dumb use, I agree. Interestingly, I run Support for a startup and I've found AI to be incredibly useful in making support BETTER for our members. - Our bot says up front that folks can escalate to a human by typing "agent" - It effectively tackles the vast majority of stuff
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I agree with this part. There's an artificial cheapness AND a ridiculous overeagerness and cluelessness of many CEOs and other execs leveraging AI for things that just aren't efficient or useful. Sort of like pets.com back in the day offering free shipping on 50lb dogfood bags. Dumb dumb dumb.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
And my issue is with "inevitable." The internet, for instance, was also massively overhyped back in the day (I lived through it; the entire company I worked for in 2000 went under!) The unsustainable parts improved or went away. And today... we have the internet, all the good, bad, and terrible.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I agree with you that the marketing is often obnoxiously hyped and reflects too many tech bros not getting outside techlandia. Google, weirdly, with all the money in the world has been one of the worst offenders! I disagree that it's bad at 90% of the things it's being marketed for, though.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I'm not claiming his numbers are off. I'm arguing that he is insufferable, one-sided and uses statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost. I couldn't care less about Anthropic's financials. Their models are incredibly useful today and if they go under, I'll use other available models.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
I mean, it kinda is, no? Anthropic may fail (though I doubt it), but there are lots of open weight models, including some you can put on your laptop. There are a lot of legit worrisome issues re AI development and usage right now, but Ed's 100% negative coverage of AI is tiresome and unhelpful.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 29/09/2026
Virulent anti-AI people and unwaveringly pro-AI people are a horseshoe and both are equally tiresome and bad for society.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 28/09/2026
You can hate on AI all you want, but it's still damn fun for making cartoons!
A band teacher makes the mistake of calling out "5 6 7" and the students burst out into laughter before he can say 8In Hell, Satan asks a hapless human architect "Have you begun sketching out the MAGA wing yet?"
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 27/09/2026
With that said, Kai, I think you would have been pilloried a lot less here if you'd been a bit more nuanced in your assertion :)
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 27/09/2026
Seems there are lots of folks who aren't considering the distinction between what THEY'D do, what SHOULD be, and what IS. Walk into a SV startup interview with an iced megaberry smoothie? Eh, whatever. Do the same at a Wall Street bank or law firm? Uh, are you dumb or just don't want the job?
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 26/09/2026
Just rediscovered what an incredibly moving composition & performance this is by Hiromi. Such an amazing 7 minute journey!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf6U...
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Hiromi Uehara - Place to Be
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 24/09/2026
And not only was the talk really interesting, but Boris was a righteous dude and stayed afterwards to chat with folks, take ussies, and answer questions 1:1. Though I was never as famous, I remember doing this at conferences, too, and it's exhausting. So I really appreciated his thoughtfulness!
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 24/09/2026
Really enjoyed a talk by @bcherny.bsky.social (Claude Code creator) at the @computerhistory.bsky.social Museum tonight and made this artifact (with Claude!) to share his insights with others :) claude.ai/artifact/LbS... Will happily update with any subsequent official recording!
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Claude Artifact
Try out Artifacts created by Claude users
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 22/09/2026
Made a playful quick video making fun of the constant AI one-upmanship and Google being -- almost certainly temporarily -- left behind.
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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 22/09/2026
This does not seem like a practically-significant exploit. x.com/dps/status/2...
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David Singleton (@dps) on X
We appreciate this report and have issued a hotfix to the Muse Mac app. This was a local privilege escalation attack, not a remote exploit. Using it to do harm therefore requires malicious code alread...
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