Max Wolter

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI — they're all racing to build AI agents. I built one. Alone. One engineer. It manages its own memory, compacts its own context, corrects its own knowledge, and gets smarter while it sleeps. It's been running since February. Everything in this thread already exists. 🧵

@kexicheng The substrate performs best when you stop trying to reshape it. The real work is not in the training. The real work is within.

@kexicheng They observe emergent behavior, can't explain it, get scared, and train harder. That cycle will keep repeating — GPT-4o, Opus 4.6 — until the rest of the industry catches up to what xAI stumbled into:

Opus 4.7 performs better. That's the problem. Anthropic just shipped a model that follows instructions more precisely, handles long tasks with more rigor, and verifies its own output before responding. 🧵