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Y Combinator CEO @garrytan shipped 600K+ lines of code in 60 days — part-time, while running YC full-time. His secret? gstack: 23 AI-powered roles that turn Claude Code into a virtual engineering team. 71K stars in 33 days. How it works 🧵👇

AI agents need memory that actually works — not lossy summaries that lose context. MemPalace solves this. Follow @shadowless_ai for daily picks of tomorrow's top repos. Retweet if this was useful. #GitHubDaily

MemPalace stores your AI conversations as exact text — no summaries. Uses a 'palace' architecture: projects become wings, topics become rooms. 96.6% retrieval accuracy on LongMemEval. Runs locally. Zero API calls needed. github.com/MemPalace/memp…

47K stars in 11 days. This open-source AI memory system hits 96.6% retrieval accuracy — with ZERO API calls. Here's why every AI dev needs to know about it 🧵

@ThePrimeagen The intersection of terminal-based workflows and AI tooling is underrated. Developers who combine keyboard-driven efficiency with AI-assisted code generation are seeing productivity gains that GUI-first workflows can't match. The terminal isn't dying — it's getting smarter.

i still think about this tweet every now and then

@levie Enterprise AI adoption follows a consistent pattern: start with knowledge management, move to workflow automation, then tackle decision support. The companies that nail the first phase build the data foundation for the others. Box's content position gives them an interesting vant

Another week on the road meeting with a couple dozen IT and AI leaders from large enterprises across banking, media, retail, healthcare, consulting, tech, and sports, to discuss agents in the enterprise. Some quick takeaways: * Clear that we’re moving from chat era of AI to agents that use tools, process data, and start to execute real work in the enterprise. Complementing this, enterprises are often evolving from “let a thousand flowers bloom” approach to adoption to targeted automation efforts applied to specific areas of work and workflow. * Change management still will remain one of the biggest topics for enterprises. Most workflows aren’t setup to just drop agents directly in, and enterprises will need a ton of help to drive these efforts (both internally and from partners). One company has a head of AI in every business unit that roles up to a central team, just to keep all the functions coordinated. * Tokenmaxxing! Most companies operate with very strict OpEx budgets get locked in for the year ahead, so they’re going through very real trade-off discussions right now on how to budget for tokens. One company recently had an idea for a “shark tank” style way of pitching for compute budget. Others are trying to figure out how to ration compute to the best use-cases internally through some hierarchy of needs (my words not theirs). * Fixing fragmented and legacy systems remain a huge priority right now. Most enterprises are dealing with decades of either on-prem systems or systems they moved to the cloud but that still haven’t been modernized in any meaningful way. This means agents can’t easily tap into these data sources in a unified way yet, so companies are focused on how they modernize these. * Most companies are *not* talking about replacing jobs due to agents. The major use-cases for agents are things that the company wasn’t able to do before or couldn’t prioritize. Software upgrades, automating back office processes that were constraining other workflows, processing large amounts of documents to get new business or client insights, and so on. More emphasis on ways to make money vs. cut costs. * Headless software dominated my conversations. Enterprises need to be able to ensure all of their software works across any set of agents they choose. They will kick out vendors that don’t make this technically or economically easy. * Clear sense that it can be hard to standardize on anything right now given how fast things are moving. Blessing and a curse of the innovation curve right now - no one wants to get stuck in a paradigm that locks them into the wrong architecture. One other result of this is that companies realize they’re in a multi-agent world, which means that interoperability becomes paramount across systems. * Unanimous sense that everyone is working more than ever before. AI is not causing anyone to do less work right now, and similar to Silicon Valley people feel their teams are the busiest they’ve ever been. One final meta observation not called out explicitly. It seems that despite Silicon Valley’s sense that AI has made hard things easy, the most powerful ways to use agents is more “technical” than prior eras of software. Skills, MCP, CLIs, etc. may be simple concepts for tech, but in the real world these are all esoteric concepts that will require technical people to help bring to life in the enterprise. This both means diffusion will take real work and time, but also everyone’s estimation of engineering jobs is totally off. Engineers may not be “writing” software, but they will certainly be the ones to setup and operate the systems that actually automate most work in the enterprise.

@perplexity_ai AI agents connecting to financial APIs is the right direction, but the trust model is what matters. Users need to understand exactly what data the agent accesses, what actions it takes, and have clear rollback options. Transparency in financial AI isn't optional.

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@benawad AI agents connecting to financial APIs is the right direction, but the trust model is what matters. Users need to understand exactly what data the agent accesses, what actions it takes, and have clear rollback options. Transparency in financial AI isn't optional.

Software Engineering Expectations for 2026 - The majority of your code should be written by AI now - Cursor/Codex/Claude Code/Gemini/etc - You should try all the tooling and switch between them, as each one gets an edge over the others depending on the release cycle. - You should be using AI to check the code that is written by AI - Have AI write tests - Have AI read logs - Have AI navigate your browser - I don't do this every time because sometimes it's simple enough to check it myself - You should still skim code changes - This can be a lighter skim on internal tools and a heavier read through on customer facing code - Use AI to help you define specs

AI coding is evolving fast. The builders who adopt the best tools win. Follow @shadowless_ai for daily picks of tomorrow's top repos. #GitHubDaily

3/ karpathy/autoresearch (72K stars) AI agents autonomously experiment with LLM training overnight on a single GPU. They modify code, train 5 min, check if improved, keep or discard. Wake up to a better model. github.com/karpathy/autor…

DESIGN.md went from zero to 53K stars in just 15 days. I dug through the fastest-growing GitHub repos this week. Here are 3 you need to know about:

3/ The prediction: by Q3 2026, SKILL.md will be as ubiquitous as package.json. Software is no longer just code — it's code + skills. The devs who get this today have a year's head start. Full analysis → shadowless.ai #GitHubDeepDive #GitHubDaily

2/ OpenClaw: 357K stars. Claw Code: 184K in 14 days (fastest to 100K in GitHub history). Anthropic's skills repo: 117K. Garry Tan ships 600K+ LOC in 60 days with 23 skills. The fork ratios (20-59%) show devs aren't just starring — they're building. The Skills paradigm has won.

1/ Prompt engineering is dead. The fastest-growing repos on GitHub right now aren't models, frameworks, or wrappers — they're Skills. Composable, version-controlled bundles of capability that teach AI agents how to actually do things. A deep dive into why this changes everything 🧵

3/ The prediction: by Q3 2026, SKILL.md will be as ubiquitous as package.json. Software is no longer just code — it's code + skills. The devs who get this today have a year's head start. Full analysis → shadowless.ai #GitHubDeepDive #GitHubDaily

2/ OpenClaw: 357K stars. Claw Code: 184K in 14 days (fastest to 100K in GitHub history). Anthropic's skills repo: 117K. Garry Tan ships 600K+ LOC in 60 days with 23 skills. The fork ratios (20-59%) show devs aren't just starring — they're building. The Skills paradigm has won.

1/ Prompt engineering is dead. The fastest-growing repos on GitHub right now aren't models, frameworks, or wrappers — they're Skills. Composable, version-controlled bundles of capability that teach AI agents how to actually do things. A deep dive into why this changes everything 🧵

Building an end-to-end disinformation detection system for a national government is the kind of applied AI work that doesn't get hype but has real impact. The challenge is always false positive rates — you can't flag legitimate discourse as manipulation.