Eugenia Kuyda
@ekuyda
building something new ✨ founder at @myreplika - ai friendships uplifting lives
I’m blown away by the lack of any long term vision, mission or actually any narrative behind ai companions that are now popping up. The level of thinking is literally “well men are lonely and can’t get laid so we will make an ai gf” or as Zuckerberg put it “people have demand for…
Elon knows his audience. He hit both the gooners and the furries, capturing 99% of the top 1% of software engineers worldwide.
What concerns me the most about Windsurf is the fact that they call their updates “waves”. Like do they think you need waves for windsurfing? Have they ever seen windsurfing?
Day 2 of Wave 10 is here! Introducing the Windsurf Browser, a fully functional browser that integrates with Cascade. You can use it like a normal browser while also selecting components, diagrams, text, logs, or anything else on the page and send it back to Cascade as context.
Waymo should offer therapy services while you’re riding. Turns every Waymo into a confession booth!
getting in the waymo after 3 drinks and asking the waymo how long its been waymoing
Never mind, seems like this one is actually different and employees are getting a ghost co. Sad if true!
Here is most of what I’ve gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group, along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money…
I don’t understand how even after Inflection, Character, Adept etc people still think Google just hired Windurf CEO and left everyone holding the bag
Someone just sent me a fun interview we did with @CBSNews about @MyReplika for CBS Saturday Morning. It's pretty wild that people STILL can't tell apart 2 completely distinct use cases: products like Character that are mostly for teens roleplaying fan fiction and Replika that…
Back in 2013, the movie "Her" imagined what would happen if humans formed intimate relationships with computers. Now, in 2025, that movie plot has become reality for a growing number of people finding emotional connections with their AI companions. @Brook Silva-Braga met with…
It's not enough to have a firm grasp of the industry you're building in. If your product doesn’t speak to core human impulses, it probably won’t scale. Here's why builders need to have a strong theory of human nature:
found this explanation of founder mode in a 2015 issue of @kholetrends sucks that we don't have something like k-hole in 2025, wish someone started it!
Liquid glass turning car lights into rainbow is actually incredible
“work 7 days a week”, “work 5 days but 80hrs a week”, “hard stop at 4pm family time” etc etc - all these prescriptive takes are a waste of time. everyone has their own flow. some people can just go for days non-stop. some can do their best work in 2 hours. some types of work…
My hot startup take is that you should almost never work weekends My even hotter take is that if you are working weekends, you didn't go hard enough during the week or you suck at planning
so excited to finally see my work from apple ship. i was the head of design for the wwdc app notifications. they're still a work in progress, we've only had the last year to work on them! stay tuned.
if it’s all about agency and taste now, @cluely is 100 in agency and 0 in taste
genuinely today is like the series finale of twitter x.com/kanyewest/stat…