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Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve

19 Apr 2026 26 published claims 2 attributable people
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recommendation 8belief 8preference 3uncertainty 2commitment 2evaluation 2prediction 1

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02 / recommendation

Likes Twitter.

“This is the payload for the Twitter integration. So it's just a feed reader with just like a bunch of little details, like deduping, retweets, and other things, like just to make it, and like, it auto-expands, like instead of only showing the first 140 or 280 characters, it like auto-expands everything, so just like little fit and finish things that I prefer relative to the default behavior of the Twitter app.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

05 / uncertainty

Like, everything-- I have no staging environment, everything-- like, whatever automated tests my exhortations have caused Claude to build, which I don't know. It says it has a lot of tests and it says it runs them, and I kind of believe it, but I just push to production all the time because I keep the stakes low on all this stuff.

“Like, everything-- I have no staging environment, everything-- like, whatever automated tests my exhortations have caused Claude to build, which I don't know. It says it has a lot of tests and it says it runs them, and I kind of believe it, but I just push to production all the time because I keep the stakes low on all this stuff.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

06 / belief

I think I'm following a fairly similar pattern, although probably in keeping with my generally less structured personality, I kind of start with everything in one repo, but then over time, especially if I want to share something, then I'll split it out into a separate repo.

“I think I'm following a fairly similar pattern, although probably in keeping with my generally less structured personality, I kind of start with everything in one repo, but then over time, especially if I want to share something, then I'll split it out into a separate repo.”
Speaker
Nathan Labenz
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

07 / belief

Obviously, I don't want to share my entire e-mail history, not because I don't trust anyone, but just because that's what the people who've sent me those emails I think would want me to do.

“Obviously, I don't want to share my entire e-mail history, not because I don't trust anyone, but just because that's what the people who've sent me those emails I think would want me to do.”
Speaker
Nathan Labenz
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

09 / commitment

I don't want to have to build 50 features, so I have to come up with some conceptual framework for how I can get to the point where I just sort of say one or two sentences about each one to Claude, and Claude can figure out what to do with it in a way that I will trust that I'm still seeing the information I need to see, and I just haven't motivated to take a step back, and I probably need to dive in and fumble around and do it wrong the first time, and then eventually I'll settle in on a good way of doing that.

“I don't want to have to build 50 features, so I have to come up with some conceptual framework for how I can get to the point where I just sort of say one or two sentences about each one to Claude, and Claude can figure out what to do with it in a way that I will trust that I'm still seeing the information I need to see, and I just haven't motivated to take a step back, and I probably need to dive in and fumble around and do it wrong the first time, and then eventually I'll settle in on a good way of doing that.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

10 / belief

Chrome extension also is another one that jumps out at me as like, mine's probably different than yours, but there's definitely got to be. And I took this note from Zvi, too, but I still haven't acted on it because he's also got a Chrome extension that he uses to, I think, also collect notes and reformat and move things around.

“Chrome extension also is another one that jumps out at me as like, mine's probably different than yours, but there's definitely got to be. And I took this note from Zvi, too, but I still haven't acted on it because he's also got a Chrome extension that he uses to, I think, also collect notes and reformat and move things around.”
Speaker
Nathan Labenz
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

11 / commitment

What I do these days often is when I see something that people are excited about or, you know, whatever, that's the viral thing of the moment, I will ask clawed to dig into it and see what about it or what ideas in it might be useful to us.

“What I do these days often is when I see something that people are excited about or, you know, whatever, that's the viral thing of the moment, I will ask clawed to dig into it and see what about it or what ideas in it might be useful to us.”
Speaker
Nathan Labenz
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

13 / belief

You can also just have sort of overeager bot problems. And I think probably part of it is the model developers and the tool developers are working, they're adding classifiers and whatever.

“You can also just have sort of overeager bot problems. And I think probably part of it is the model developers and the tool developers are working, they're adding classifiers and whatever.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

14 / belief

I would say that won't settle down for a long time, except, of course, actually it will never settle down because by the time it would, there will have been the five new inputs and we'll be in the next round of chaos.

“I would say that won't settle down for a long time, except, of course, actually it will never settle down because by the time it would, there will have been the five new inputs and we'll be in the next round of chaos.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

16 / belief

I think you put your finger on something there that is like, I very much associate this style of thinking with you of kind of coming at it's and the, you know, it's in the title of the, of the Substack second thoughts as well, coming at these core questions from both perspectives.

“I think you put your finger on something there that is like, I very much associate this style of thinking with you of kind of coming at it's and the, you know, it's in the title of the, of the Substack second thoughts as well, coming at these core questions from both perspectives.”
Speaker
Nathan Labenz
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

17 / preference

I go out for a walk so I can be in a different headspace. And so what I've settled into that I really like is what I will do that's sort of work-ish while I'm out walking is I'll have some project I'm working on.

“I go out for a walk so I can be in a different headspace. And so what I've settled into that I really like is what I will do that's sort of work-ish while I'm out walking is I'll have some project I'm working on.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

18 / preference

I don't like to use a tool unless I really know I can trust it and I understand what it's going to do. So that does feel like that's a pool I feel like it's going to be so worthwhile to jump into that I will eventually find myself forced to, but I haven't gone there yet.

“I don't like to use a tool unless I really know I can trust it and I understand what it's going to do. So that does feel like that's a pool I feel like it's going to be so worthwhile to jump into that I will eventually find myself forced to, but I haven't gone there yet.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

19 / prediction

There are definitely systematic bad things that happen on the internet, and going back decades, I think the statistic was like, if you just took an unpatched installation of Microsoft Windows and connected it directly to the internet, it would be owned within five minutes or something, that goes way, way, way back.

“There are definitely systematic bad things that happen on the internet, and going back decades, I think the statistic was like, if you just took an unpatched installation of Microsoft Windows and connected it directly to the internet, it would be owned within five minutes or something, that goes way, way, way back.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

20 / preference

generating all these summaries and stuff. And I'm really profligate, like I'm using Opus to generate these dumb little summaries and whatever, because like, why not?

“generating all these summaries and stuff. And I'm really profligate, like I'm using Opus to generate these dumb little summaries and whatever, because like, why not?”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

21 / evaluation

not because that was the day that the, you know, the scaling curve crossed some threshold, but because that was the contingent moment when capabilities had gotten far enough and there was a little bit of an overhang and then someone happened to do something and they happened to do it in a way that caught people's attention.

“not because that was the day that the, you know, the scaling curve crossed some threshold, but because that was the contingent moment when capabilities had gotten far enough and there was a little bit of an overhang and then someone happened to do something and they happened to do it in a way that caught people's attention.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

22 / evaluation

So, yeah, being able to think outside the box, being comfortable navigating without a map, I think, is really important. And then, this I'm just guessing, is that communication skills are really important because, you know, one thing, I'm not, I don't know what it feels like to be doing, you know, professional production, running a software company today, 'cause I'm not doing that right now, but what I hear from the people who are is that, What used to be a team is now a person, and what used to be three teams is now three people.

“So, yeah, being able to think outside the box, being comfortable navigating without a map, I think, is really important. And then, this I'm just guessing, is that communication skills are really important because, you know, one thing, I'm not, I don't know what it feels like to be doing, you know, professional production, running a software company today, 'cause I'm not doing that right now, but what I hear from the people who are is that, What used to be a team is now a person, and what used to be three teams is now three people.”
Speaker
Steve Newman
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution
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