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Builders’ Picks | 2026-04-24

2026-04-24 · Historical edition

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Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro’s official API availability. He concluded, “It’s been a great week, the team is amazing, go have fun building,” and thanked a release with a heart emoji, in high spirits.

Amjad Masad, Replit CEO

Replit CEO Amjad Masad announced DeepSeek v4’s release, commenting that while US politicians and lobbyists stoke fear about “Chinese distillation,” Chinese scientists publicly publish genuine AI breakthroughs unrelated to training data that benefit everyone, including small and open models. He also announced one-click import of Vercel or Lovable apps into Replit and criticized Safari’s absurd decision to bury “find on page” three menus deep.

Aaron Levie, Box CEO

Box CEO Aaron Levie admitted AI does not reduce work; it enables more exploration, leading people to do more, with seemingly small tasks becoming hours of effort. He also explained his changed view of employment effects: if AI makes workers more productive, companies want as many productive human units as possible—the core logic of the Jevons paradox.

Nan Yu, Linear Product Lead

Linear product lead Nan Yu argued that design’s core is understanding, not output. Design is intent, not an image or prototype; output without intent is hallucination. As examples, he called the countless pre-AI weather-app interfaces and dashboards on Behance and Dribbble “hallucinations”—pure output without awareness of a real problem.

Ryo Lu, Cursor Designer

Cursor designer Ryo Lu reminded users that /multitask bypasses queue limitations, allowing multiple tasks to proceed in parallel.

Garry Tan, Y Combinator CEO

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan continued building GBrain infrastructure, moving more OpenClaw cron jobs and subagents to GBrain Minions and creating an evaluation system. He demonstrated substantial gains on knowledge-wiki queries by combining graph search, vector search, and grep as three retrieval layers.

Peter Yang, Builder (AI Tutorial Creator)

Peter Yang used GPT-5.5 plus Codex to build a working F-Zero racing game in one shot, automatically generating multiple bot competitors. Of the new models he tested, it was the first to succeed. He also shared a full experiential review of GPT-5.5 and ChatGPT Images 2.

Dan Shipper, Every CEO

Every CEO Dan Shipper tried NotebookLM’s one-click podcast generation from a book he was reading and found the result astonishing. He also shared a philosophical observation: “Any AI knows more than any individual human, but any individual human learns faster than any AI.”

Josh Woodward, Google Labs VP

Google Labs VP Josh Woodward announced automatic source tagging in NotebookLM, further improving knowledge-management efficiency.

Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw Founder

Peter Steinberger released discrawl 0.6.0, adding Discord DM reading without custom login tricks to avoid account bans. He explained that writing is unsupported because sending AI-generated content to real people is inappropriate.

Matt Turck, FirstMark Capital VC

FirstMark Capital VC Matt Turck commented on the Cohere-Aleph Alpha merger: outside the US, resistance to outsourcing intelligence to a handful of American platforms is extremely strong, especially amid geopolitical turmoil. The merger reflects Europe’s urgent search for an independent AI path.