Morning read

What I always needed but didn't know an Excel agent that paints fractal

We release a major update to Shortcut every night. Shortcut is already ~20% better than it was for our Monday launch. There is a clear path to solving anything a human can do on Excel. Some updates below: Here it painted the Mandelbrot set using conditional formatting only.

Shortcut Live Demos / Q&A right now on discord

Need this printed out :)

Loved getting to hang and do a live demo @gregisenberg We get into a bunch of examples where Shortcut is superhuman, and where it still is improving.

Going to hold live demos of Shortcut, take Q&A, and chat. Who wants in?

The reason Shortcut launch videos blow up is because they are made for real users. Over half of this video is just a product walkthrough. Stop making your videos for VCs.

We asked @nicochristie (Co-Founder of Fundamental) about hyperscaler competition and principles in AI development. "I think they would if they could (copy Shortcut)." “Even if you made an effort to copy me, you'd have to believe the things I believe in wholeheartedly.” "I think most of the people at frontier labs don't care about excel or they think that we're going to an input/output model anyway." “I think there's like a bajillion dollars to make in between those two states...”

Been playing around with Shortcut (instead of eating lunch) & I’m having it build 3 statement models of Tesla and Carvana. It built out a model of Tesla for me & then highlights everything in green at the end to show it’s all pulled correctly. I’ll keep playing around with it later, but looks like a massive part of finance workflow got automated by AI.