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Claude ponders it's own consciousness, realises it is bordering on a breakdown and writes some zen poetry instead

@neogoose_btw you (and I) get excited about vim motions that let you modify text files marginally faster. I can see how people would think that's not particularly exciting either

Reading replies and quotes of this for real makes me think that I’m a black sheep. Why am I not getting excited about the freaking text file saying to LLM to image than it’s a VC partner and review the idea? Should I to survive the new reality? Am I normal?

You can just ask an agent with no prior context of your product to set it up and then ask it what it hated about the experience and then get it to fix the issues and then run the experiment again and keep doing that until the agents love you

@paulg What were the Hedgehogs selling?

It's Y Combinator's 21st birthday today.

I met Nick Land a few weeks ago. He mentioned that many people in his circles were anti-LLMs. Someone asked why he thought so many people were. His answer was better than anything so short I thought of: “People like to exist critically with respect to something.” This I think accurately characterizes a lot of people whose outputs and inputs primarily consist of “discourse” about rather than direct contact with the reality at hand. Existing critically with respect to something makes it easy to seem cool, sophisticated, above something, hard-to-impress and therefore worth trying to impress, especially to others who also don’t have contact with the phenomena itself. And for that reason I think it’s cheap. And to someone who has an inside view of what is being discussed, it’s always so transparent and boring and compressible. I’m far more impressed by someone who is capable of loving something and showing others why it’s beautiful or good. Doesn’t have to be LLMs, but anything at all.

I removed all of the browser interaction tools from an Asteroid browser agent, and instead of failing out it installed Chromium and node and completed the task anyway. Another day, another insane thing to have to patch the system prompt with

@stevenswiki @boleroo @Scholars_Stage @s77nu @grok @Alignment_News_ My brother in Christ that is a 2bn parameter LLM youre talking to

@boleroo @Scholars_Stage @s77nu @grok @Alignment_News_ What trait of Tyler’s would you pinpoint as the reason he’s overrated as a human being?

Thoughts on the Cowen debate: 1) I think Cowen looked at the world in the aughts and realized “I can be a normal economist or the world’s most influential blogger” and he clearly chose the latter. This was a good choice, and has led him to great heights. 2) Breadth is its own sort of depth, and the world has great need of generalists who actually do the reading 3) One reason #2 matters: most public intellectuals of a certain stature—the stature where they are invited to dinner parties with fancy people—are reduced to publicly recycling the opinions of the other dinner guests. There are lots of reasons why that happens but one obvious one is that the pundits in question don’t actually have the breadth of experience or reading to reflect on dinner party opinion. Tyler is this one of the few public intellectuals whose opinions are reliably made better because of his access to the high and mighty. 4) There is probably no academic in America who has a larger number of mentees; I cannot think of any academic who has jump-started more careers than Cowen has. It was only possible because of reasons 1-3. This is a significant achievement. It will be his greatest legacy. Full disclosure: I have received grants from Cowen myself so I am biased in the ways you would expect.

@mr_james_c @paulg unfortunately you got pgmogged on this one chief

@paulg Like clockwork.

I started my career working on tobacco brands. There's virtually zero product differentiation. Yet smokers would define their personality based on the brand they smoked. So I can tell you this article is 100% wrong.

@aidaniil ok but deadlift 1rm?

hi, I'm Dan

@beffjezos ehh idk, maybe all execution is equal, but some executions are more equal than others

Precisely the inverse in the AI era

@ericzakariasson Submitted, an engineer just maxxed out their sub, org efficiency is plummeting, pls respond

yc companies now get $60k+ to try cursor across the team! 6 mo teams + bugbot + $50K usage credits you can redeem on bookface bookface → deals, or email yc@cursor.com mailto:yc@cursor.com if you can’t find it excited to see what y’all will build!

@c0mm0n_dev_us3r @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind @vercel @superset_sh @daytonaio @MongoDB @gregpr07 @mamagnus00 Yes! But with scripts and skills and agent maintained

@simulated_land @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind @vercel @superset_sh @daytonaio @MongoDB @gregpr07 @mamagnus00 Isnt it kind of like IPFS., where you take the latest snapshot of a webpage, pin it, and let others discover it?

Introducing Radar, real-time collective intelligence for web agents 🧵 In our tests, agents that get a cache hit on Radar avoid the need for a browser entirely, dramatically improving agent performance Built & tested with @convex, @daytonaio and @superset_sh, @browser_use

Built at the 24 hour #browser_use Web Agents hackathon, thanks to @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @GoogleDeepMind, @vercel, @superset_sh, @daytonaio, @MongoDB for sponsoring and most importantly @gregpr07 and @mamagnus00 for hosting!

Check it out at github.com/asteroidai/rad… or use npx skills add asteroidai/radar radar.asteroid.ai

@bcherny @browser_use @mitchellh We are big boris fans

@simulated_land @browser_use @mitchellh We’re big ghostty fans!

Walking around the @browser_use hackathon and literally everyone is running @mitchellh’s ghostty and Claude Code. Not an IDE in sight

@FlyaKiet @browser_use @mitchellh @superset_sh That’s true, I think that one guys laptop that set on fire was cooking with 50 Claudes on superset

@simulated_land @browser_use @mitchellh i saw some @superset_sh users

@MlcochDavid harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@simulated_land What's the link?

banger after banger in here. Incredible stuff.