drew dillon
drewdil.bsky.social
drew dillon
@drewdil.bsky.social
founder of Brief
The founders' urge to rewrite the whole frontend from @chrismessina.me's feedback instead of shipping the feature you pulled and all-nighter for.
September 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Who’s going to kintsugi all these cracked engineers?
July 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you told me Grok had achieved AGI, I’d still use Claude. Like who’s using this thing outside of Twitter trolling?
July 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Whole family enjoyed Superman. Teen and tween girls were geeking out about the rest of the DC universe the whole way home.

Marvel kinda missed the mark by not having great cartoon material the past 15-20. These kids’ knowledge, through Teen Titans, is DEEP.
July 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I say this after extremely bitter personal experience, but Cursor + me = the best Chrome extension developer you’ve ever met.
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
They basically have an Ohtani station here in Kyoto.
June 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
vibe coding over the pacific
June 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
lol, when the vibe coding agent has learned too much of your vibe
May 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If only I had all the funding the AI SDRs in my spam filter think I do.
May 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is the single oldest story in the history of tech (maybe all) acquisitions:

1. Company is valuable because they work w/multiple providers.

2. Company gets bought by Provider.

3. Acquisition value decreases as Company eventually supports only Provider.

Over and over until we die.
Business interests starting to become visible across AI IDEs?

Anthropic made Sonnet 4 available on launch (today) for Copilot and Cursor. But not for Windsurf!

I will speculate this could be b/c of reporting that OpenAI (Anthropic’s rival) in the process of buying Windsurf
May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Woody: Can I get you a beer Mr. Peterson?

Norm: Isn’t it a little early for that?

W: Beer?

N: Stupid questions.
"Man walks into a bar. It's the starting point for a million jokes," James Poniewozik writes in a Critic's Notebook. "And for season after season on 'Cheers,' some of the best of those were delivered by George Wendt, who died on Tuesday at age 76, as the long-suffering Norm Peterson."
Everybody Knew His Name: ‘Norm!’
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Should be obvious, but how you remember yourself is not how others remember you.
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Beehiiv is such a freaking spam vector. I get like three new increasingly weird trumpy crypto newsletters a week.
May 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Strawberry shortcake layer cake with isomalt sculpture.
May 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
negative aura points
May 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Famous last words.
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I was as surprised as you that the Nate CEO wasn't Forbes 30 Under 30, but listen, they've upped their game.

Dude only raised 40m, you gotta be charged in the bills to make it these days.
April 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I wish I got as excited about anything as much as Pari from Love on the Spectrum gets excited about trains.
April 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Just Cursor, using Claude Sonnet 3.7 Max, hallucinating a conversation with itself
March 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I've been working on a large structural bug on and off and making no progress for weeks.

A user reported a different bug, provided a stack trace, and the (easy) fix fixed the first bug.

A micro-parable of getting users and listening to them.
March 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
man, who's pushing DB updates during peak vibe coding hours...
March 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Was working for a copyright expert/legal tech founder 18 months ago and asked about this, “Oh, copyright’s fucked.”

He teaches case law on Garfield’s Odie. The definition is pretty narrow.

AI can create infinite derivative works up to and over the line of violation. Our courts can’t handle it.
The idea of an animation studio owning copyright on a “style” as opposed to specific character or story elements isn’t how copyright works.

While it’s reasonable to argue if OpenAI training on Studio Ghibili’s works is fair use, creating images in their styke isn’t intellectual property theft.
OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns | TechCrunch
ChatGPT's new AI image generator is being used to create memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, reigniting copyright concerns.
techcrunch.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sure, Studio Ghibli pics are fun, but have you tried...
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It is pretty funny that AI still can't get fingers right, tho.
March 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM