Michael Sylvester

Marketing Al in 2026 took a left turn. Everyone and their dog is shipping "Al agents." Half of them are held together with API calls and hopium. But underneath, something actually interesting is happening. Hermes builds memory across every task. The ICP gets sharper every month because it remembers what closed. Competitor surveillance runs on a schedule and nobody has to check manually. The teams building this now won't just be faster. They'll have institutional knowledge their competitors can't replicate. We mapped the full stack on the research page. circlstdio.io/blog/ai-market…

@petergyang Session archive first entire.io

Declaring bankruptcy on my Codex threads, too many to archive manually

@keven_ink I like it but I would agree that their harness output need consolidation over everything.

I'm REALLY not trying to be a hater... but why is this a priority over building more robust agents/tools/skills?

@romxdev Does the button work fast? That’s all the end user cars about.

I still cannot believe how bloated modern web development has become You open a random website and see megabytes of javascript garbage loading in the background just to render a basic static button I think we're completely overcomplicating everything and pretending it is progress

@it_unprofession Great post. Please keep him on you. You’re teaching him skills that will last his whole life.

HR forced me to hire a junior systems administrator last week. He's 23 years old and showed up on day 1 carrying a physical notebook. He spent his first morning looking at our backend and realized my automation scripts were written in 2008. He asked me why we're running deprecated code that relies on an unpatched version of Windows 7. I told him we employ a strategy of chronological obfuscation. I explained that modern malware is designed to attack modern architecture. By keeping our infrastructure trapped in the Bush administration, we're immune to zero-day exploits. You can't hack what you can't interface with. He looked at me like I was insane and asked about data compliance. I leaned back in my chair and whispered the phrase "asynchronous legacy tunneling". He immediately closed his notebook and apologized for questioning my vision. I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a 4-hour documentary about the Roman Empire at my desk. Next week I'm going to make him untangle category 5 cables for character development.

@elonmusk So true. It’s like you have to throw productivity out the window and just focus on surviving when it gets too hot 🥵 lol

Lee Kuan Yew was a genius

@per_simmons_ Unreal engine dropping a Ai MCP server before Star Citizen dropping a beta test is wild.

Claude just became a craacked video game designer. With the launch of Unreal Engine's MCP server last week, you can now build entire video games just by talking to Claude. I spent the past few days building with it, and I'm telling you, this is going to forever change how video games get made and who gets to make them. In this video I show you exactly how to set up the Unreal Engine MCP yourself and run through three demos: building a full playable city, cloning a real city from Google Earth, and creating custom buildings in Blender. Here's the agent harness I mention too: github.com/per-simmons/un… Intro What I built in a few hours Setting up the Unreal MCP server Fixing the port 8000 connection issue The agent harness that avoids the pitfalls Demo 1: Building a city with City Sample Demo 2: Cloning a real city from Google Earth with Cesium Demo 3: Custom buildings with Blender headless Outro

@DomJoLuna @blader Clutch 😭😭😭

@blader Sweet…

something happened an hour ago that made fable 5's chances of coming back next week go from 15% to 60%

@JPoehnelt This is why I don’t use Google for anything except the free emails. They hired top innovators year after year just to shelve them from doing anything spectacular.

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories. I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming. I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing. Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.

@StevBuilds Waypath.app/agents

The SaaS which truly solves distribution for founders will be one of the next unicorns. You have one in mind?

@liutauras_liu @pizzaboy 😭

@pizzaboy James Baker won't be happy

90% of my Claude use-cases

@ryanstellar I agree.

YC is advising startups to do in-person sales, go to trade shows, and travel to see prospects. After a decade of advising that this was a waste of money

@rackSpreader1 Creates marketing revenue or risk being fired.

What does a gtm egineer actually do?

@JsonBasedman 😭😂😭

2TB of VRAM would fix me

@rezoundous 5 seems to be the magic number

It's sad that Gemini 3.5 Pro release has 0 hype

@packyM 🤣

claude is down writing quality across the internet is up

Seed. Angel. Series A. Series B Every round you took, you sold a piece of your freedom. By the time you hit the big number, the big number isn't yours. The billion-dollar exit is one of the most misunderstood status symbols in tech. How many founders actually run the math before signing the term sheet? linkedin.com/posts/guillerm…

'how much did you raise for your startup?' sick and tired of all these SF tech bros asking this apparently being bootstrapped (and profitable) is not considered attractive in the great city of san francisco even if there is a chance to bootstrap, i see so many early stage founders jump to raise the biggest rounds without considering the strings attached even tho we all know there are so many bootstrapped founders who have built great businesses, without the politics and those strings attached to raising most often they only raised once they had booming recurring rev, and raising was the obvious answer to reaching the next step current trend in sf (especially among super green early stage founders) is to start raising talked with a lot of em and most dont understand the full economics of venture capital even, it's like getting sucked into a bet you dunno about i think being bootstrapped is beautiful, you learn the ins and out of the biz everything from biz operations, how to delegate and hire correctly, doing things that dont scale, distribution, fuffilment, etc being VC backed as a inexperienced early stage founder automatically makes your instinct to hire whoever fits a task you aren't the best at and are too lazy to get better at knowledge compounds tldr if u get 500K as a green early stage founder how do you know you're spending on the right ppl/things? typical 'f around and find out' until you get reminded if you fail to plan you plan to fail type stuff dont get me wrong tho, if raising is the obvious answer, by all means i wanna see you raise the fattest seed round ever good investors can compound so much, they are not only atms, they can be mentors, advisors, and the relationships you build will compound 100% for some companies in particular industry, bootstrapping wouldn't be an option but just the general trend of me being in sf and observing other companies and talking with other founders, ppl jump to talk about raising before even considering if they really needed to as jcole said there is beauty in the struggle beauty in bootstrapping. theres also a lot of fun! beauty in raising too (aura and stuff) but dont let that make bootstrapping NOT an option for your biz. consider that and feed the streets!

@aryanlabde Waypath.app/agents

Why is nobody building a SaaS that helps with marketing? that’s what most people here would pay for.

@forgebitz Once none builders got the ability to be apart of the conversation they realized that they have nothing to say.

"everyone can now build anything" - people who never built anything

Imagine this is real.. and everyone just assumes it's fake 💀

@HarryStebbings @typesfast This is what it looks like when you don’t make boundaries at home. Probably struggles to take a shower in peace, let alone get work done.

Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud. "I have a three-year-old and a five-year-old. The idea that I could do any work at my house is like a total fantasy. The kids come home at 3pm, your work day needs to keep going. I'm highly against it." @typesfast