Dan Shapiro's Blog

My wife pointed out that most of my shirts predate the pandemic, and it was time to shop for something new. This is not something I enjoy. So, like most things I…

Tuesday, 9:40am, Seattle. Whatsapp buzzed. Harper sent a link – a new project from Steve Yegge that makes AI agents more effective. Worth a try. I opened Codex CLI* in Powershell and…

Something new is possible. Four weeks ago, I braved the gaggle of Waymos nosing around the Presidio to check out Connected Stack. I plopped next to my buddy James Cham, notorious partner…

June 2023. ChatGPT was six months old. We’d launched our first AI feature, Magic Canvas, three months before. I was meeting with our friends at Joann Fabric (may they rest in polyester)…

Every time I travel to a city, I wrack my brain to try to remember who lives there so I can reach out to visit. And I’m terrible at it. So I…

(Yes, the day job is still Glowforge and lasers, and I still love it!) I’ve signed on as a research fellow at Wharton’s Generative AI Lab with the incredible Drs Ethan and Lilach Mollick.…

In Chapter 16 of my book I talk a lot about angel investing. First up: “Angel investor” is a stupid and meaningless term, right up there with “stock market investor” or “bank account…