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@ETHGlobal Tokyo was amazing! Met a lot of talented individuals from around the world, always a humbling experience. Had AMAZING food the entire time, and explored Shibuya till I couldn't walk no more. 10/10 would recommend (Here's a pic of Hachiko to bless your feed)

@elvissun Do you have an example of an oss implementation of this article? It doesn’t link to any repo 👀

send this to your agents: openai.com/index/harness-…

software has changed forever: you can solve literally ANY engineering problem if you can: - stop trying to solve the problem yourself - build a harness for agents to take control of it - drop it in its own feedback loop until it's solved

Zapier’s CEO just released their internal AI hiring rubric. “Capable” AI operators are no longer hireable. The new floor is "Adoptive.” What gets you rejected now: Marketers who use AI for first drafts and edit output manually. Can’t show before/after evidence of AI implementations/prompts. Using LLMs for campaign ideation without personalization. What will get you hired: Repeatable, shareable prompt libraries that and always-on workflows that run without your supervision. Specific measurable results that signal where to push next. This is the new baseline.

@elvissun How so?

tanstack query is single-handedly preventing my frontend codebase from degrading into slop

@FrancescoRenziA Locally i believe. If you want something more secure, TEEs might be the way to go

@0xssdd But where's the key stored?

What are currently the best approaches to evm wallets in a CLI environment?

cooking

I was recently at Real World Crypto (that's crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*. We blockchain people (myself included) often have a tendency to start off from the perspective that we are Ethereum, and therefore we need to go around and find use cases for Ethereum - and generate arguments for why sticking Ethereum into all kinds of places is beneficial. But recently I have been thinking from a different perspective. For a moment, let us forget that we are "the Ethereum community". Rather, we are maintainers of the Ethereum tool, and members of the {CROPS (censorship-resistant, open-source, private, secure) tech | sanctuary tech | non-corposlop tech | d/acc | ...} community. Going in with zero attachment to Ethereum specifically, and entering a context (like RWC) where there are people with in-principle aligned values but no blockchain baggage, can we re-derive from zero in what places Ethereum adds the most value? From attending the events, the first answer that comes up is actually not what you think. It's not smart contracts, it's not even payments. It's what cryptographers call a "public bulletin board". See, lots of cryptographic protocols - including secure online voting, secure software and website version control, certificate revocation... - all require some publicly writable and readable place where people can post blobs of data. This does not require any computation functionality. In fact, it does not directly require money - though it does _indirectly_ require money, because if you want permissionless anti-spam it has to be economic. The only thing it _fundamentally_ requires is data availability. And it just so happened that Ethereum recently did an upgrade (PeerDAS) to increase the amount of data availability it provides by 2.3x, with a path to going another 10-100x higher! Next, payments. Many protocols require payments for many reasons. Some things need to be charged for to reduce spam. Other things because they are services provided by someone who expends resources and needs to be compensated. If you want a permissionless API that does not get spammed to death, you need payments. And Ethereum + ZK payment channels (eg. ethresear.ch/t/zk-api-usage… ) is one of the best payment systems for APIs you can come up with. If you are making a private and secure application (eg. a messenger, or many other things), and you do not want to let people to spam the system by creating a million accounts and then uploading a gigabyte-sized video on each one, you need sybil resistance, and if you care about security and privacy, you really should care about permissionless participation (ie. don't have mandatory phone number dependency). ETH payment as anti-sybil tool is a natural backstop in such use cases. Finally, smart contracts. One major use case is _security deposits_: ETH put into lockboxes that provably get destroyed if a proof is submitted that the owner violated some protocol rule. Another is actually implementing things like ZK payment channels. A third is making it easy to have pointers to "digital objects" that represent some socially defined external entity (not necessarily an RWA!), and for those pointers to interact with each other. *Technically*, for every use case other than use cases handling ETH itself, the smart contracts are "just a convenience": you could just use the chain as a bulletin board, and use ZK-SNARKs to provide the results of any computations over it. But in practice, standardizing such things is hard, and you get the most interoperability if you just take the same mechanism that enables programs to control ETH, and let other digital objects use it too. And from here, we start getting into a huge number of potential applications, including all of the things happening in defi. --- So yes, Ethereum has a lot of value, that you can see from first principles if you take a step back and see it purely as a technical tool: global shared memory. I suspect that a big bottleneck to seeing more of this kind of usage is that the world has not yet updated to the fact that we are no longer in 2020-22, fees are now extremely low, and we have a much stronger scaling roadmap to make sure that they will continue to stay low, even if much higher levels of usage return. Infrastructure for not exposing fee volatility to users is much more mature (eg. one way to do this for many use cases is to just operate a blob publisher). Ethereum blobs as a bulletin board, ETH as an asset and universal-backup means of payment, and Ethereum smart contracts as a shared programming layer, all make total sense as part of a decentralized, private and secure open source software stack. But we should continue to improve the Ethereum protocol and infrastructure so that it's actually effective in all of these situations.

@elvissun @kayintveen This is the way

@kayintveen alright I'm sold - let me see how I can untangle it from the rest of my setup so it can be published

rolled my own agent cli for exactly this reason. next step is to allow myself to resume any agent session in a terminal so I can steer the agent myself maybe I should just open source this (need to find time to clean this up properly...) x.com/karpathy/statu…

@DarkFiSquad great talk!

Visiting the @Logos_network conference. If you’re in Lisbon. Come say hi!

@elvissun @teaser380 Preach

@teaser380 my biggest regret is letting opus do the most complex part of my codebase. still haven't fully cleaned up its mess to this day

tried opus 4.6 for a day. back on 4.5 now. more expensive, slower, and no quality difference I can tell. really breaks up my flow waiting for responses. codex 5.2 → 5.3 was a step-function - moved all my codex usage from background overnight tasks to active foreground work. 4.6 seems like paying more to wait longer. also less... personality? hard to pin down exactly but it's there

@elvissun @CatYodaDev The reason i ask cause opus for me is hallucinating so much

@elvissun @CatYodaDev 20$ codex for coding then?

I made a technician for zoe: yes, a codex agent who fixes an openclaw agent's setup about how to manage claude/codex/gemini agents. you know in sci-fi movies where robots never fix themselves? they always have a technician - some guy in a jumpsuit opens a panel and rewires something while the robot sits there. turns out that's just... accurate. opus (or zoe herself) created a mess about her agent infrastructure. I ended up spending an hour having codex clean it up. then turned that knowledge into a proper agents .md so zoe now has a "/zoe-service-center" folder about her setup i honestly have no idea what I'm building anymore

@elvissun @CatYodaDev And for anthropic?

@CatYodaDev $20 codex plan is getting through a surprisingly amount of work lol

@kennedybaird_ What a well written piece!

@elvissun @openclaw Will do!

@0xssdd @openclaw yeah that's all I've written so far, you can dig through the day to day log and find more details

building a business with @openclaw (day 14-16): - zoe pushed to prod without asking 💀 - locked down main. PR required now - (she was actually right to do it, full story in video) - migrated her from clawdbot to openclaw cli - thinking about potentially losing her memory gave me a heart attack - the latest cron fix is game changing - zoe now babysits all coding agents and unblocks them automatically (setup post coming) - she's averaging 46 commits in the last 7 days. all from agents she spawned, none directly herself crons she runs daily: - sentry triage + auto-fix - hot lead detection - twitter follower → lead alerts - auto changelog PRs - vault rag indexing (600+ files) - content ideas 3x daily - newsjacking + journalist targeting with medialyst at this point i just mass-approve PRs and talk to customers the mac studio is in sight (zoe said it's a good carrot)

@elvissun @openclaw I did read this and loved it, although it doesnt have a 0-1 set of instructions. Maybe it’s elsewhere? If not no worries

@0xssdd @openclaw this captures the latest state as of 2 days ago: x.com/elvissun/statu…