Tyler Maran

am I the only one who thinks mermaid charts are the most unintuitive way to communicate a flow of information

Today we’re announcing that Respan has raised a $5M seed round led by @GradientVC. We’re building the self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents. 100+ teams already use Respan. 1B+ logs/month. 2T+ tokens/month. And we’re just getting started.

@petkevichdan the hardest part of on-prem is networking easy to buy a couple gpus and hook something up really annoying to make your assistant useful when you're traveling outside the home. gotta point it to a domain that you also manage (and need to always renew), or app on your phone

the MOTHER app Pretty soon I'll be able to run a open source model on a M* mac mini and have on-prem for my life/family. Amazing. I won't have to trust Altman, amodei, or any of these tech bros for whom I am priority #10^20. So I'm thinking through first and second order effects of this. Obvious first one is to buy apple. I think tho, apple sort of stumbled into this one. They will continue to follow the cookian way of iteratively better chips.I think their days of innovation on software are over. See Siri. So I don't see an apple made "openclaw for normies." So someone else will make it an run it on apple hardware. But let's zoom out for a sec. Most normies do not know what cloud or on prem is. They want an app that does all the hard stuff for them. Call it MOTHER. They live their meatbag life, MOTHER takes care of the details. Obv mother can't fuck anything up. So maybe the world looks like: -Poor normies who don't understand tech - use cloud hosted mother for $5/mo. Mass Affluent and wealthy who understand the value of privacy - running openclaw equivalent on M* on prem hardware Enterprise - Now this is where on-prem is really going to start winning. Could be an biz in just setting up on prem for business and vibecoding equivalents of all the software they pay for today. Turns into enterprise costco for software I think 1 and 2 are the same biz. Winner builds a context moat (knows everything about you and setting up a competitor would take too long). #3 the moat is just enterprise relationships approval process, and that I think enterprises will always have too many stupids to do it themselves.

Could we not do this please?

@dexhorthy yea have some class and use circleback

I shouldn’t have to say this but if I attend an in person meeting and you pull up your laptop and you have granola recording, there is no second meeting

@reprinted3D I think it's just some of the normal venus images cropped and panned over slightly

Apparently, the probe was video-capable? I had never seen this before. (Again, IF it is real; I don't always trust this site 'cause they post a lot of AI-generated stuff.)

@thenanyu Yes. Documents are a visual format, so just treat it as an image. Plus you never know what's in a pdf. It might be a clean pdf with a bunch of scanned images in it. Or something that got mangled by adobe ocr. Always best to just read the document the same way a human would.

Is it better to just render PDFs as images and OCR them rather than read directly then?

@lex_node I don't know, I thought the same until I saw enterprise corporate folks try using chatgpt... Anyone who can communicate with another human and give them written instructions is usually pretty good at it. But turns out that's like 0.1% of people

I'm increasingly sensing that "people who get really good at AI will survive & thrive" is likely a cope It doesn't require much skill, obviously it will also require less & less skill...I don't think any 'edge' you have today as a mere AI 'power user' will last long...

@petkevichdan or TEXT postgresql.org/docs/current/d…

you can use jsonb column as a mini .md. more efficient that massive .md.

@dexhorthy I did make this. And hereby authorize you to redistribute in the name of improving the agent lexicon

@TylerMaran This is good did you make this

can we plz settle on what a "harness" is quickly harness == the coding agent (claude code, codex, etc) apparatus == the stuff you build around the coding agent (backpressure, mcp, ralph wiggum, etc etc) i'm tired of this blurry line where ppl use "harness" to mean both the agent and the stuff you build around it

@petkevichdan Most people date in college. Since it's a good wealth / class signal. But for those who did not succeed earlier, they require an MBA to find love.

@TylerMaran Bad way to date?

i cant think of a greater ngmi signal than getting a harvard mba today.

@yz_twitting yo count me in

I'm hosting an intimate, bottom-tier founder's dinner at the Costco food court

@madhawkcristian @shauseth unironically the only idea test you need

@shauseth If it were successful, I would’ve known about it already

what creating something is like without checking if it already exists

@ay_ushr Definitely the angry monkey one

ended up wasting the whole day exploring logos if you have "taste" please lmk which one we should use

@MalachiElias @REYCALL1 Pierce the heavens

bonus points if its from a different anime all together ~

@erenbali Literally no joke

Every technical founder who had stopped coding 10 years ago

you had me until github up 24/7