Tom Ross
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Tom Ross
@umpox
Simulating Worlds @RunwayML Prev: @AmpCode / @Sourcegraph
United Kingdom Beigetreten Ocak 2013
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so fast it feels surreal, like peering into a different world
Runway@runwayml
A breakthrough in real-time video generation. As a research preview developed with @NVIDIA and shared at @NVIDIAGTC this week, we trained a new real-time video model running on Vera Rubin. HD videos generate instantly, with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Unlocking an entirely new creative paradigm and bolstering the foundations of our General World Model, GWM-1. Real-time generation opens a fundamentally different design space for video models and world simulation. We're investing in co-designing our models alongside advances in hardware to keep pushing this frontier.
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Hey, some personal news:
Slowly but surely, pizza is being dethroned as my favorite food by half a roast chicken.
Thank you.
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so this is amazing, and definitely one of the most surreal experiences I’ve had on the internet. video changes everything and makes it so much more personal (and kinda awkward sometimes!)
also my 3yo loves it… and that’s awesome :)
Runway@runwayml
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Yes. One of the biggest lessons for me in past few months:
Many problems disappear when you assume that the models just get smarter, a lot.
Extreme example: you don't need constant feedback loops, when you never make mistakes.
Simon Willison@simonw
A short note that the predictions that LLMs would favor "boring technology" that's over-represented in the training data don't appear to be playing out as expected with the latest models - once you attach them to a good coding agent harness at least simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/9/not…
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@chrisalbon @conductor_build I can recommend checking out @emdashsh too. Embedded terminal so any terminal agents work right out of the box
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I have been experimenting with dedicated agent orchestrators, specifically @xsuperset_sh and @conductor_build.
Some thoughts.
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there’s a version of this… where agents automatically build feature requests, review them and then automatically merge and deploy them.
wild to think about
Charlie Holtz@charlieholtz
New in Conductor — submit a prompt! Instead of giving us feedback, submit a prompt for the changes you'd like to see in the app. If it's good we'll run them and merge it into prod!
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lots of bad vibes from Anthropic lately, reminds me of Microsoft/Copilot in 2023/24.
Neglect the builders… and the builders will neglect you
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Huh. So Anthropic doesn’t want an ecosystem built on top of their SDK. Message received. Between them banning OpenCode, their hostile stance for OpenClaw, and now this: Anthropic make it they don’t want 3rd parties to build on them. Bug win for eg Codex, MinMax and others…
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@leerob @BenjaminDEKR I think the point is that this should be the default
I tried Cursor _properly_ for the first time a few weeks ago and I felt the UX was really poor out of the box. I’m sure you can tweak it to work, but right now it tries to be both an agent-manager and an IDE - and its too much
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@BenjaminDEKR If you want to use Cursor agent-first, you can!
Agree we can make it more simple though.
x.com/cursor_ai/stat…
Cursor@cursor_ai
Cursor now uses subagents to complete parts of a task in parallel. Subagents lead to faster overall execution and better context usage. They also let agents work on longer-running tasks. Also new: Cursor can generate images, ask clarifying questions, and more.
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I have to respectfully disagree with Beff here.
Cursor and all VSCode-like IDEs are the old way.
We need the new way, agentic first, code several layers down and not prominent.
xAI doesn't need Cursor. They need to build what's next.
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
I really hope Cursor joins forces with xAI. Seems like this is the only way they can compete. Elon has the compute and capital, Cursor the UI / user base / dataset / flywheel.
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@mitsuhiko @thorstenball we have always been the bottleneck to be fair. I think we will look back and realise how terrible humans were (on average!) at building software
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Today @thorstenball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/the-…
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The way we develop software has completely and permanently changed
This is a good insight into what is really important right now (…and it is not code review)
Philipp Spiess@PhilippSpiess
Wrote about software collaboration in the age of AI agents and why I built AgentLogs in the past few weeks. Some quotes: - “GitHub is dying” - “Nobody knows where this is heading” - “It's time to really rethink best practices” spiess.dev/blog/software-…
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@charlieholtz @linuz90 please let the PR titles wrap onto the next line!
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CanvasKit is very good and AI Agents love it. This is also how we built Amp Tab in VS Code - generating transparent images of diffs that can be rendered anywhere
kabir@KabirGoel
this would've been overkill 1y ago but @vercel/og (lib for generating rich social previews for webpages) doesn't allow custom font features, which we use in our brand so i had Claude write a custom renderer using canvaskit-wasm @vercel/og left, Claude right (note the a's)
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Tom Ross retweetet
World models are the most transformative technology of our time. Our mission at Runway is to accelerate their development and ensure they have a positive impact on the world. Today we're announcing $315 million in Series E funding to help advance this work.
Learn more at the link below.
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