Rob Gabel 🇺🇸

@polak_jasper If you use AI to automate a process, you will get bureaucracy. If you use AI to create a system with feedback loops that makes decisions 24/7, then you'll succeed.

McKinsey published a piece this week on "The Agentic Organization." They claim most companies are stuck in pilot mode because the work itself hasn't changed. What "pilot mode" looks like at a 75-person consulting firm I've seen inside: - One analyst running Claude for market research. - A few associates using Gemini to draft deck sections. - A partner who built a private GPT for proposal writing and didn't tell anyone. All real. But none of them changes the firm's throughput, win rate, or margin. The pilots aren't failing because the tools are wrong. They're failing because nobody redesigned the workflow around them. Going from pilot to production means picking one full workflow, rebuilding it agent-first, measuring it against the old one, then rolling it out across the firm. That's the step McKinsey's framing is pointing at. Most firms skip it because it's harder than adding more tools. Link: mckinsey.com/capabilities/p…

@mbwsims Love it!

Teach Claude Code to think systematically. I got tired of having the same conversation with Claude Code. Review this for security. Are these tests sufficient? Can you find patterns in my codebase and update the instruction files? The answers were ok but inconsistent: no clear methodology, no memory between sessions, no systematic depth. So I built one Claude Code plugin, then another. Before I knew it I had five, covering instruction files, test coverage, security, codebase analysis, and code evolution. I decided to merge them into one integrated plugin. Claude universe was available so I figured why not… The Claude Universe plugin: teach Claude Code to think systematically Github link (entirely open source): github.com/mbwsims/claude… More at claudeuniverse.com

Introducing Impeccable 2.0. • data-driven skill rewrite (evals across 7 niches) → better font/color diversity • /critique: subagent de-bias + deterministic anti-pattern detection • visual mode: /critique, CLI, (soon) Chrome • npx impeccable detect (files + URLs) Demo:

impeccable.style by @pbakaus is the best skill i've used this year. Can't believe it's free

Ok who is building the Paperclip Conglomerate manager? This is a bit tongue in cheek:not technically correct Claude l, vendor for agents OpenClaw, employee agent, hires Claude Paperclip, business system for 0 person biz, hires OpenClaws So what runs 5 paperclips?

You just can’t sleep anymore

@balajis If you're Iran, why are you giving up the Strait of Hormuz right now?

This could be the offramp the world needs. You can think of it as the best outcome for everyone, under the circumstances. (1) From MAGA’s perspective, if Trump declares victory here and moves on, the US won’t waste yet more blood and treasure in the Middle East. It won’t invade Iran. It also won’t take all the blame for the ongoing global supply chain crisis. It just pulls out and lets everyone work out the regional security equation for themselves. Trump can say he’s fulfilled both his campaign promises: stop Iran from getting a nuke, but also no endless Middle Eastern wars. (2) From Israel’s perspective, Iran has now been shown to be quite hostile to its neighbors, and its military has been substantially degraded. Stopping now is good. Otherwise there’s a danger of overreacting to Oct 7 as Americans overreacted to Sept 11. Israel can stand back and call it a win, because after a US pullout, Iran will have much less excuse for holding the Strait hostage. (3) From the Iranian diaspora’s perspective, it’s unfortunately clear that the current war isn’t going to result in liberalization. Further attacks would push Iran further into fundamentalism, making it even harder to eventually do a liberal reformation. (4) From the long-suffering Iranian people’s perspective, ending the war now would also save countless lives. Otherwise they’ll get hit by friendly fire and drafted by the regime to fight for fundamentalism. (5) Finally, from the world’s perspective, once the US declares victory and goes home, substantial diplomatic pressure will be applied to Iran to simply open the Strait of Hormuz and allow ships through. Iran’s leadership has shown, perhaps surprisingly, that they care about global public opinion…and they would be on the hook for the suffering of billions of people if the Strait remains blocked. TLDR: if Trump declares victory and leaves, Iran no longer has any excuse for blocking the Strait and holding the global economy hostage. Let the matter be worked out diplomatically with pressure from all the 100+ affected countries on Iran. America shouldn’t have to spend a single cent more, or send a single soldier more, to the Middle East.

@gavin_gee @balajis How is it not that?

@balajis very reasonable, unfortunately MSM won't spin it that way and Trump will be blamed nonetheless. it will be a "you started something you didnt finish and look at the mess we have to clean up on your behalf"

@balajis But it seems like if Iran is now going to be the gatekeeper of the Strait of Hormuz, that ultimately means China will rapidly become the gatekeeper of the Strait of Hormuz, right? How is that good? If that happens, does the petrodollar fall apart?

I think Claude Cowork is AGI Not the country of experts in a data center but AGI When it is properly personalized and given the right information, tools and skills, running on Opus 4.6 how is it not superior to most if not all humans for most things?

@Jason Claude Cowork does really seem to be AGI

Here’s the truth: we’ve already reached AGI — we just haven’t implemented it broadly. Millions of jobs are being lost as we speak. Entire careers will be retired. The rich and powerful investors and founders who implement AGI will get bizarrely rich beyond what makes sense. It will break people's brains on both sides. It’s gonna suck for a lot of our friends and family, who aren’t obsessed with their careers, because things are moving so fast they won’t have even left the starting gate by the time the awards are handed out. We’re gonna have to solve for a lot of second- and third-order effects, some of which will suck (job loss) and some of which will be awesome. AI will create free/cheap energy, free education, cheaper and better food, homes that build themselves and medicine that makes you as healthy as a 30-year-old when you’re 100. … change is hard, but humans are the most adaptable species nature has ever created. We can figure it out.

@toddandmeg17 @Polymarket @jokilema It costs $10/bbl and 60 days to move WTI to anywhere in the world

@Polymarket @jokilema Our oil will never go to $200 We get only 2% from Middle East And Saudi Arabia is already pumping oil from the other side of the country through a pipeline So this is just a quick bait story

BREAKING: U.S. officials & Wall Street analysts are now reportedly preparing for the possibility of $200 oil.

@soyrichlira Yes yes yes. I built a workaround in Supabase for this where I keep copies of key markdown files in Supabase, and it's frustrating.

Claude Chat, Cowork, and Code don't share state. You add a task in Chat. Open Cowork. It has no idea. Open Code. Same thing — blank slate. So I built Compass MCP — an open source MCP server that bridges all three surfaces through shared markdown files. 6 tools. 2 files. Zero database. → add_task in Chat → get_tasks in Code — same task is there → complete_task in Cowork — updated everywhere The missing operational layer for Claude power users. 🧭 github.com/richlira/compa… #MCP #Claude #OpenSource #AI #DevTools #Anthropic

@pbakaus Oh interesting

@robgabel yep! surprisingly some folks really liked in ScreenX. I really wanted to see it at the aspect ratio it was shot at, hence IMAX 70mm (1.43/1, at least for all space scenes). ScreenX is wide screen, so top and bottom will be cropped.

Project Hail Mary is everything I wanted (needed?) it to be and more. Must watch. See it in 70mm IMAX if you can.

@MatthewBerman They shipped iMessage support in the 6h since you posted this Slow takeoff? Fast takeoff?

Anthropic's shipping speed is a meme at this point. This is just mean to other teams now...

@HughJanus1960 Same!!

The sad part about this is the fact that I can’t fully enjoy it without remembering what happened 2 nights after it. Saw both games in person. One of the best nights of my life to one of the worst, just 2 days later.

@MichaelAluya3 @OfficialLoganK @GoogleAIStudio Yes and furthermore there is a virtuous cycle - distribution is users, users are usage, usage creates unique data, and unique data is everything We obviously have already seen this virtuous cycle with Google search, Facebook, YouTube, etc

Google has the distribution advantage nobody talks about enough in this space. AI Studio sits inside the same ecosystem as Gmail, Drive, Workspace, and a billion Android devices. A genuinely good vibe coding experience with that distribution doesn't need to beat Cursor on features. It needs to be good enough for the person who already lives in Google's ecosystem and has never heard of Cursor. That's an enormous addressable population.

Tomorrow we will unveil the all new vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio, the team has spent 4 months rebuilding it all from scratch and smoothing out rough edges to help everyone bring their ideas to life. This is a big step forward, but just the start : )

@balajis As a big fan of Zeihan, I also really appreciate this. One of his biggest misses he doesn’t try to forecast impact of technology (ai, robots etc) If you remove that of course China is a declining power. But add that back and you can get a very very different picture

@pbakaus Sick!

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