COO/EP at Latitude (AI Dungeon, Voyage). Managing people and agents (different undo buttons). Father of five. Star Wars, LOTR, BYU. Here for the stories.
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This reaction reminds me of traditional photographers scoffing at digital cameras.
And AI for gaming is going to get better WAY faster than digital cameras did.
Hyperbole isn't helping the AI industry right now.
This is an example of a cool demo (like, really cool, definitely an improvement on the Manila process of listing a home)…but a demo does not a production-ready product make. Getting something productionized and adopted is 80-90% of the work.
And that said, the virtual is only one part of the home purchase process. - You want to see something in person.
- You want to stand in the rooms.
- You want to check things out.
- You want to talk with your spouse about what you would use each room for.
- You want to get the feel of the neighborhood.
- You want to see it again with your kids.
- You want to open drawers and turn showers on.
Once you've decided, you have to figure out what offer to put on, how to craft it, and what other things to ask for. If you're responsible you will get an inspection done. You have to line up the paperwork. You have to negotiate over it, a really big thing that most people really have no experience negotiating over. A virtual demo is of maybe 1/20 to 1/50 of the home-buying process but saying, "Hey we're on the path to making one part of this industry a little bit better," is not as exciting as saying, "We killed the industry."
I just sold a home and bought a home this past year. While this would have been nice for looking at homes and will improve things, if you think all real estate agents do is take pictures and show you inside a house (that a virtual tour would handle just fine), you haven't bought a home recently.
And I say that as a real estate agent skeptic who thinks real estate agents are mostly a scam…but if you're being honest, it's a huge decision with a really complicated process. It's easy to leave money on the table or lose money and having someone who deals with things regularly is quite nice. @beccasmmrs is an agent I actually trust and have used multiple times. Just sharing what’s worked for me.
One critical lesson I've worked hard to teach my kids is to recognize when you're being marketed to. Recognize what the person telling you something wants. 90% of the internet is just trying to sell you something or get you to follow them. Why do they do that? Because they want money. If you can find people who aren't selling you things, follow them. Selling things doesn't mean someone's not trustworthy but it definitely makes it trickier to know.
🚨 SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.
Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.
Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.
The numbers are insane:
- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok
The science is wild too:
It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.
AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.
The grift opportunity is even wilder:
Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.
One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.
100% Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.
Ryan Seamons retweeted
Introducing Voyage, the first platform to fulfill the promise of AI games.
Voyage lets you one-shot an entire world with characters that feel alive, memory that lasts forever, and the structure and challenge needed to make an actually fun game.
From the creators of AI Dungeon, the next generation of AI games is here.
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I would trade all the money I have and start over if I had to choose between wealth and my kids.
No one wishes they spent more time working for others or had more stuff at the end of their lives.
Friend of mine is 35 years old, married and doesn’t want kids.
His household income is roughly $300k/yearly and his house is nearly paid off.
They invest a good portion of their income for retirement, take multiple yearly vacations and live a nice life.
I think people like this are going to regret not having kids in their future.
One day when he’s old all he will have to look back on is the random stuff he bought and wasted money on.
Instead of putting that money towards having kids and building a family he’s choosing consumerism.
This just seems so wasteful and boring to me.
The illusion of control is a powerful drug.
Unilever makes 250,000 job applicants play video games before they’ll even look at a resume.
For their Future Leaders program, instead of reading cover letters, they run candidates through 12 neuroscience-based games built by Pymetrics (now owned by Harver) that measure how you make decisions under pressure, how you handle risk, and how fast you learn. The games cut their hiring time from four months to four weeks and saved over 50,000 hours of recruiter time. JPMorgan, BCG, Accenture, Mastercard, and McDonald’s all use the same platform.
There’s real science behind this. Researchers at three European universities put 40 business students through Sid Meier’s Civilization, then ran them through a Fortune 500-style management assessment center. Published in the Review of Managerial Science in 2020, the results were clear: students who scored highest in the game scored highest on problem-solving, organizing, and planning. They also had better grades.
A 2013 study at Queen Mary University of London found the same pattern with StarCraft. 72 volunteers got 40 hours of training. The StarCraft group showed a significant improvement in cognitive flexibility (your brain’s ability to switch between tasks and think on your feet) compared to a control group that played The Sims. The statistical evidence was 40 times stronger than what you’d expect from chance.
SimCity specifically has been used in university urban planning courses since 1994, when a professor named John Gaber started assigning it to teach systems thinking. A 2025 study found students who played it showed a 26% improvement in understanding sustainable city design, and 81% applied what they learned in the game to real projects.
The Civilization study was a proof-of-concept with 40 students, not a 10,000-person trial. But the pattern across multiple studies, multiple games, and a $20 billion gamification industry keeps pointing the same direction. The meme is a joke. The science behind it isn’t.
AI doesn’t need abstractions like humans do. If you have an API, you’re good. Bonus points for well documented.
The cofounder and CTO of Perplexity, @denisyarats just said internally at Perplexity they’re moving away from MCPs and instead using APIs and CLIs 👀
Eventually efficiency gains will hit consumers.
But there’s a frustrating, messy middle where traditional companies just gorge on the improved efficiency, especially in more regulated industries where it’s harder for new entrants.
Mortgage lender Better has teamed up with OpenAI to "fully underwrite a mortgage loan" in as little as 47 seconds.
This sounds like great news for borrowers, especially if costs are cut and passed to consumers.
It doesn't paint a bright future for underwriters and LOs though.
Initially, LOs feed consumer application data and documents into the Tinman AI app.
How long before consumers just do it all themselves?
The Matrix, but for a fly.
…they left out the part in The Matrix where we set it up for the machines! 😜 At least give them a challenge.
There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born.
@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do.
Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is.
A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?
Production product surface area is always bigger than you think.
Getting to the "WHOA! We did it! Look! It works!" moment is often 5% of the real work of productionizing. 🫠
AI accelerates things dramatically, but this is still a painful part of building delightful products.
It's been so helpful to have great AI partners as we've continued to scale our platform @aidungeon. Really appreciate them. 🙏
Thanks @NVIDIAAI and @DeepInfra.
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Waking up to see what my OpenClaw bot worked on overnight is magical.
Hit or miss on usability. But it’s getting more useful every day.
Briefs for meetings. Research on people I met or am meeting. Prototypes of ideas we talked through yesterday. Clean review of PRs waiting for my review or approved for merging. Suggestions on new ai model or approaches to check out.
If you haven’t explored OpenClaw, I highly suggest you do. Start playing.
The craziest part is it keeps getting better each day. It’s clear the way work happens is changing. Now it’s just a question of how quickly.
Getting a Max account on Claude feels like a no-brainer at this point.
Employees not using a decent chunk of tokens are likely wasting time and costing money compared to their AI productive counterparts.
Rick Rubin says taste isn't something you're born with. You tune it like an antenna.
How? Pay attention to what's happening inside you. What lights you up? What feels off? And why.
The best product people I know aren't the most analytical. They've just built the muscle of noticing.
Jamming with OpenClaw (Clawdbot) is like raising a child (for now). 🦞👶
You have to teach it not to talk to Strangers (or, for now, don't give strangers access). Help it learn to write things down. Teach it what you care about as a normal adult. And a million other little things.
In 6 months, it will be insanely more mature, but being in the infant stage of claw raising is a lot of fun.
