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Tyler Willis

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Tyler Willis

@tylerwillis

Building AI tools. Co-founder of unsupervised.com (Agentic Analytics). Helped create deepwork.md (oss) & dabench.com.

Seattle / SF

Joined April 2007

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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
May 15
Replying to @steipete
I think a lot of people don't get that this will become accessible as the cost of intelligence continues to fall. Only a few organizations can do this today, but the frontier will move and this style of automation will be commonly available to most in a few years.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Feb 18, 2025
first impressions on grok3 — obviously, everyone is a little breathless on how fast grok was able to catch-up and compete as a SOTA model. That's a huge deal and it should be the lede for anyone covering it.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Mar 8, 2025
This is a really deep "understanding how VC works" tweet. The headline is: Cursor raises hundreds of millions at $10B, are these investors visionary or crazy?!?! That is because we intuitively assume that those investors lose money if Cursor's ultimately worth less than $10B.
Leo Polovets
@lpolovets
Mar 8, 2025
My guess is this is easy to underwrite given how preference stacks work. If a company has raised very little and has $150m ARR, then an investment at $10b has good upside and very low downside risk (unless revenue literally goes to $0).
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Mar 9, 2025
Replying to @hyprturing
Highly recommend A Half-Built Garden (and I wish there was a well done movie with a similar vibe)
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Feb 14, 2025
A lot of the vertical agents where AI is "not there yet" on just need 100-1000x more compute. The problem is that very few people will pay 1000x today. But: the costs are going to drop a lot. There are a lot of things that don't make sense today but that will in 18mo.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Nov 17, 2023
Timely reminder: 99% of the hot takes that flood your timeline in the next few days about Sam / OpenAI will be deeply uninformed guesses.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Sep 11, 2024
I built an internal tool in the car while taking my kid to daycare today — with bad Siri dictation to boot. I deployed it when I got back home in ~3 clicks. So far: working flawlessly. The future is incredibly awesome.
Amjad Masad
@amasad
Oct 1, 2022
In the next 2 years you’ll be able to talk to your @Replit mobile app and it will instantly generate software for you. It’s what Siri *should* have been!
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Mar 20, 2025
o1 Pro is in the API — can't wait to play with it tomorrow. It's expensive, but I think people will pay for it. Here's why: First, it's 2x the input cost of GPT4.5 and 4x the output cost.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Sep 8, 2022
Replying to @tylerwillis and @ankurnagpal
To answer your Q though: - @FirstpartyHQ (analytics) - @MightyApp and @Superhuman (pers. productivity) - @useMotion (time/task/proj management) - @mercury (banking) - @pantherhr (hiring) - @dynaboard (internal tools) - @wander (team offsites) - @around_hq (virtual meetings)
Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Sep 11, 2024
Big News: AT&T has found over $100M using Unsupervised's AI Agents. This makes them one of the first companies to show bottom-line success with AI Agents and we are proud to be a part of it! Check the thread: I'll share a bit about how we're doing this + a link to see more.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Apr 16, 2025
Replying to @MadelineNotes
SF fundamentally changes every decade or two. The defining characteristic of SF (and California generally) is change.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Mar 20, 2025
The o1 Pro cost debate reminded me of this great video where @reidhoffman interviews @sama. Sam posed the question: what happens when the cost drops 1M times and someone is still willing to spend 1000x more? Why would they do that? Because it's worth it to them at that time...
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Apr 7, 2025
Replying to @signulll
The mundane is far more rewarding than people generally give it credit for.
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Tyler Willis
@tylerwillis
Mar 1, 2025
Replying to @devonzuegel
I'm going for early adoption on the middle dot.
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