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Spec

@spec

hit escape. (we’re hiring DM us)

Joined November 2024

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Oct 2, 2025
Your Mac can finally think ahead → Meet Spec 👋
Ben Taylor
@bentay
Oct 2, 2025
Your Mac just got a brain. 🧠 Spec proactively drafts replies, summarizes docs, and helps before you ask. It connects knowledge and memory across iMessage, Slack, email, and your calendar, finally making your apps work together. Goodbye silos and context switching.
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Jan 14
What would it look like if AI noticed things before you did? Most AI today is reactive, it waits for a prompt. We’ve been thinking a lot about what happens when intelligence starts working ahead of the problem instead.
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Jan 6
Every tool you use competes for your attention, we're building intelligence that protects it instead ↓
Ben Taylor
@bentay
Jan 6
Article
The Attention Debt We're Finally Ready to Repay
Tech spent a decade optimizing for addiction, not clarity. We built apps that pull you in rather than systems that let you think, and now we're paying for it. Every message looks urgent, every channel...
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Dec 12, 2025
Do you ever meet someone and spend 15 minutes just standing there trying to decide where to go? Fixed that.
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Dec 3, 2025
leave your stress in 2025
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Spec reposted
Ben Taylor
@bentay
Nov 20, 2025
I went on @BetterStackHQ podcast and explained why the most powerful AI in your life shouldn’t feel like AI at all. If that sentence confuses you, you’ll like this episode ↓
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Nov 19, 2025
Opening your MacBook shouldn’t feel like stepping into a tornado. Spec fixes that.
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Nov 13, 2025
This is one of many reasons why we need to change how we work...imagine sitting behind a computer all day missing prime sunlight hours??
10x'er
@10x_er
Nov 12, 2025
Not to be dramatic but the sun setting at 430 is literally ruining my entire life
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@spec
Nov 10, 2025
Our early users keep surprising us. We expected them to talk about productivity gains, time saved, or features they loved. Instead, the overwhelming response has been something deeper: “It actually gets me" and “I’m finally present for what matters" Our goal for Spec has never
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Spec
@spec
Nov 7, 2025
“I’ll remember to do that later.”
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@spec
Nov 3, 2025
We weren’t meant to live life in screens…. technology should give you time back, not take it. Hit escape, go live.
can
@can
Nov 1, 2025
i think a good chunk of the population is now experiencing life as brief moments in between looking at their phone
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Oct 30, 2025
if your costume was based on your life… what would you be? reply with your unread notification count & i'll tell you😈
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@spec
Oct 27, 2025
i'll say it louder for people in the back: tech should free you to go live your life, not keep you glued to screens
Mark Manson
@Markmanson
Oct 27, 2025
You don’t need more. You need less of what doesn’t matter.
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