Vitus Larrieu
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I’m 99% sure I’m talking to Claude.
Who uses em dashes on Hinge?
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Stop trying to wrangle your agents into machines that they don't fit into.
Most are forced to choose between speed, persistence, and flexibility.
Dedalus Machines gives you all three.
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Idk why but every time an AI responds like this makes me feel icky...
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Today we're proud to announce @copperlaneai $4.1M seed.
From couch-surfing and redeye flights to pitching on the sales floors of the banks we're now building for. From pivot hell to a product lenders actually run on. Building this with @briannajlin has truly tested me in ways nothing else ever has.
Building an autonomous agent for the most regulated financial industry isn't easy. We have to stay on the forefront of AI Safety and Research, and work to deliver that to one of the most traditional industries in the world.
Labs can build the models but don't know the domain. Incumbents know the loan but can't ship an agent.
Copperlane is both the research and the relationships. And we will continue to pioneer.
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RT @itsCathyDi: from day one, @dedaluslabs has been developer-first.
we’ve always understood the role merch plays in dev culture, so when…
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I think this hits at exactly why @taste_ai_ was able to raise as much as they did.
Investors desperately want taste to be a skill we can automate because if it can, the slop becomes indistinguishable from real work, the value of ai increases, and we can automate our way into increased profits with less and less human input.
The thing about ai and this non-specific idea of "taste" is that the thing that makes AI useful is taste itself. Having good taste to identify what to create and how to make it human, using AI as a tool to assist in that process.
Trying to automate taste is an attempt to solve the wrong problem. If you as an individual lack taste, that is on you. That isn't something AI can solve. If you want taste, work on yourself or hire someone who already has.
John Mauriello.@john_mauriello
This highlights a fundamental misunderstanding in tech. Not everything can be codified and analyzed. Even if you can make AI imitate "taste" (whatever that means), it still won't MEAN anything. Taste emerges from craft, context, meaning, subjectivity, and genuine care.
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replugging my essay, “taste is not scalable” where I had the audacity to quote Kant on taste coz this is getting a bit ridiculous. taste in what? art assets? typography? writing? static design? video editing? cinematography? UI? interaction design? UX? taxonomies? copy? TASTE IN WHAT? WHOSE TASTE? AND THEIR TASTE IN WHAT? AND WHAT WILL THAT BEING FORMULISED DO FOR ANYONE?
tech industry didn’t have the vocabulary to discuss human art and creativity so it’s created a new binary definition: taste vs slop. naturally, there were going to be models and companies “solving” for taste. it started with “context”. I don’t mean to diss on this company, I know others too in this space and it’s been the most soulless work to watch which is really something if you’re going to turn “taste” into your category.
you know what’s the real slop? these catchphrases and whoever keeps coming up with them.
ghibli’s work is BEYOND “tasteful”. AI generated ghiblislop is bottom of the trash pile. go figure.
TASTE IS NOT SCALABLE.
sugandha.substack.com/p/taste-is-not…
Thais Castello Branco@thaiscbranco_
We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design. There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer: - We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments. - We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs. We want a future where AI feels right. If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!
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New Corgi merch alert.
Let’s settle the debate now who has the best merch.
I’m hosting a startup fashion show where founders can show off their merch and we can vote on who has the best one (+ free professional pics from a photographer)
laura@lauradang0
Which startup do you think has the best merch?
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To do this, I spent the weekend biking to every second hand store I could find in SF looking for vases that matched people’s vibe, or their very specific requests 🤏
Vitus Larrieu@VitusDoesThings
Fulfilling my end of the bargain 💐
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Fulfilling my end of the bargain 💐
Cathy Di@itsCathyDi
perks aren’t culture. people leave when they don’t feel valued. at dedalus, every employee gets one thing they want written into their contract 🍅
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For ~0.5 second, I DJ in this 🎧
Cathy Di@itsCathyDi
thank you nyc, tech week was a blast running it back in sf soon
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Shoutout our photographer @44ron44 for capturing me at this event pre-coffee
Dedalus Labs@dedaluslabs
Last week at NY Tech Week, founders and builders filled the room for our BYOA (Bring Your Own Agents) workshop. Everyone brought new ideas and their own agents to showcase and try new tools from us and our partners. Big thank you to our co-host @Mercury, and to @paysponge and @subsysdev for joining us!
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Most amount of work I have ever put into an event (and I have hosted a 24 hour rave), really proud of what my team and I was able to accomplish at New York Tech Week!
Dedalus Labs@dedaluslabs
NY Tech Week is a wrap! Dedalus closed out the week with Run(way)time, a fashion show celebrating the launch of our merch line and the future we are building with Dedalus Machines. We brought together founders, builders, artists, designers, and investors to explore creative use cases for AI agents while celebrating a staple of dev communities: merch, reimagined through an elevated runway-ready lens. Guests received personal agents through @AgentPhoneHQ to play a live game, watched our new merch collection on the runway surrounded by visuals from @fuserstudio and other creative technologists, and enjoyed art and music throughout the night. Thank you to everyone for the overwhelming interest and support. We’re grateful to everyone who helped make this event possible.
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