#51: EVERYBODY DID A WRAPPED

LinkedIn just reminded me that I’ve been using their service a lot. They understand a lot about retention. My Wrapped is mostly about Vibecoding and my relationship with AI in 2025

341 days of the year in Linkedin. They understand a lot about retention. There’s a great post about retention it in the links down below. But probably I did more days coding or talking with LLMs about how to use technology for research and projects.

The main idea this week: let’s review a bit of what’s happening with vibecoding. I’ve been reading through posts I’ve shared since December of last year, and I realized that understanding the models was my priority at the beginning of the year. I was fascinated about whether we were going to commit to Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini, or another platform. They all did their best to improve, but what really changed was how I made coding not only a thing to build new products, but the way I use my computer. Now I have servers providing information and doing stuff for me. My whole relationship with technology changed because of AI. It’s fascinating that a lot of people still don’t see this change coming, and it’s definitely redesigning how they work and how technology is getting into their offices and projects.

Links that caught my attention:

• Me sentí en México esta semana gracias a Instagram y esta crónica de Bea sobre el concierto masivo de Bad Bunny. Es increíble cómo las redes sociales te conectan con momentos culturales enormes incluso cuando estás a miles de kilómetros.

• Coursera merging with Udemy. Consolidation with AI as a challenge to big EdTechs.

• San Francisco rapper commenting on the new mayor spending on drones for city security. Very SF - solving public safety with surveillance tech.

• Went to the Gemini Tree event after their off-site and saw some really cool implementations of their MCP server for Google Maps. Really cool practical applications.

• American Airlines debuting the A321XLR on the NYC-LAX route with Flagship Suites. Big deal for premium transcontinental routes.

• Telo, a small electric truck designed in the Bay Area by Yves Behar. Innovation in EVs from San Francisco.

• Netflix is investing in retail - Dallas, Philadelphia, and soon Vegas. I could use some Netflix in the mall. They’re doing a Disney plan without the theme parks. Video of Netflix House Dallas.

• We are going to start having a lot of predictions for 2026. This is the one from A16z. I might add others the following two weeks.

• Dyson and its rotating farm. I really want to try these strawberries.

• Good post about transformer architecture and how Waymo and Tesla are using this for their systems.

• Very long post and very worth it, about Retention. If you work in growth or care about it in your startup, read this.

• Chris Messina and a long post about his evolution as a user and observer of ChatGPT.

• Amazon wants to invest serious money in OpenAI. Remember that they already have an important stake in Anthropic.

• The DeepMind CEO is worried about a correction in the AI market.

Written this week from Home in SF. Claude helped me organize the links. It’s more like a weekly conversation that ends up in this post. Hope you like it.