Yoko (@stuffyokodraws) / X

Yoko

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Yoko

@stuffyokodraws

Cartoonist, Engineer, PM, Partner @a16z investing in infra & AI Prev Product lead @HashiCorp, Founding Eng/PM @Transposit. Eng @AppDynamics. Opinions = own.

San Francisco

Joined April 2020

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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Jun 2
[New blog] The Next Frontier of Visual AI Is Code For many visual problems, we will learn to reframe the visual generation task to a coding task, and get efficient improvement from solving a well-defined & validatable coding problem Design and creative work IS code 👇
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Mar 26, 2025
Can ChatGPT turn the most horrible UI into a less horrible version in the ghibli universe? Here I present to you the Ghibli CRM 🙈🙈
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@stuffyokodraws
Mar 20, 2025
[New post] 🔥A Deep Dive Into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling APIs were the internet’s first great unifier but AI models lack an equivalent. What are the use cases of MCPs today? Where are the challenges? Here's a technical deep dive & map of the current ecosystem 👇
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Jun 21, 2023
0/ Today we are launching ✨The Getting Started with AI JS Stack✨ github.com/a16z-infra/ai-… - 🔒@clerk for auth - 💻@pinecone / @supabase pgvector for vector database - 🎨@replicatehq for image model - 🤖@OpenAI for text model - 🌐@flydotio for deployment .... 🧵
GitHub - a16z-infra/ai-getting-started: A Javascript AI getting started stack for weekend projects,...
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
May 16, 2025
Trying out Codex How is it supposed to work if it doesn't have access to the internet? Like i can't install npm packages or upgrade things in my project
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@stuffyokodraws
Jul 11, 2023
0/ NEW LAUNCH: **AI Companion Starter Kit**:🧠 AI companion w/ long term memory github.com/a16z-infra/com… - 🔒User mgmt: @clerk - 🧠 Memory(vectordb): @pinecone / @supabase pgvector - ❤️ Personality: @OpenAI/@replicatehq vicuna13b - 💬 Chat history: @upstash - 📱Texting:
GitHub - a16z-infra/companion-app: AI companions with memory: a lightweight stack to create and...
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Feb 25, 2025
After yesterday's Cursor update (ty @ericzakariasson), I wrote a @resend MCP server so that you can now use @cursor_ai as an email drafting & sending client. Create an email.md, hit cmd+k for Cursor to auto complete, and tell @cursor_ai agent to send the email 👇
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@stuffyokodraws
Aug 14, 2023
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@stuffyokodraws
Apr 10, 2025
MCP looks like an engineer wrote it, A2A looks like an exec at a big co wrote it
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Oct 24, 2025
The photo studio is now a prompt Photography as an art form has always been about access-to expensive equipments, space, time & skills. If you didn't have access, you were outside looking in AI doesn't replace the craft, but it expands who gets to have access to the craft
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@stuffyokodraws
Apr 30, 2024
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Dec 8, 2023
[NEW LAUNCH] 0/ ✨AI-tamago🐣: A local-ready LLM-generated and LLM-driven tamagotchi with thoughts and feelings. 100% Javascript and costs $0 to run. 🧵github.com/ykhli/AI-tamago Stack: - 🎮 Game state & reliable AI calls: @inngest - 🦙 Inference: @Ollama_ai (local), @OpenAI,
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Aug 21, 2024
Used @ideogram_ai 's 2.0 model to animate @a16z 's logo yesterday: Ideogram is re-making the new workflow for every designer. - Image & concepts @ideogram_ai - Motion @LumaLabsAI @runwayml - Sound effect @elevenlabs - Music @udiomusic SOUND ON 🔊
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Yoko
@stuffyokodraws
Sep 16, 2025
🚨 [New investment] We @a16z are leading the seed round in @PhotaLabs: founded by ex-Adobe researchers @ceciliazhang77 @zhihao_x96: they’ve solved one of the hardest problems in GenAI: generating truthful identity & context in photos Some wild @PhotaLabs generated examples 🧵
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