Ville🤖

as a kid i played sports video games exclusively on the hardest difficulty & i’d get destroyed for weeks. then one day i wouldn’t. i love starting where it hurts & then repeating until it doesn’t. i prolly treat every problem or goal in my life this way. i even read almost everything backwards too, e.g. i usually start by reading the end of a book then work my way backwards (same with almost all articles).

excited to announce that we’re open sourcing EGO-SNAKE the largest dataset of egocentric snake pov footage to train the next generation of autonomous vipers comment for a data sample

This is the first time that I have seen Skild doing live demos in public! Demonstrating neural nets for precision manufacturing

Having spent a lot of the last two weeks experimenting with different user interfaces for Claude Code (including via terminal, Cursor and VS Code) one of my primary observations is how frustrating it can be to get up to a baseline level of operability with these tools. Just the basics have taken me many hours and many YouTube videos, and numerous times cursing into an LLM as tutor “I said explain it to me like a 12 year old”. Maybe I’m dense, I’m certainly not very technically proficient, and my brain goes haywire staring at any coding language to be quite honest. But perhaps I’m a litmus test of the average end user of these tools (a user base that needs someone to help them build their Bloomberg launch pad, after all), and in that sense I doubt rolling out VS Code across many users to an investment organization to drive consistent adoption of AI is a viable plan to generate adoption. The good news is how fast the user experience is evolving. I contrast that maddening experience to the much more user-friendly experience of using Claude Co-Work and even Claude Code direct in the desktop app, and particularly the incredible usefulness of Agentic Work Platforms like Perplexity Computer to be a delightful and powerful user experience (not sponsored), and wonder if that user experience is indicative of what's to come. Multi-LLM agentic Workflow tools tied to your select MCP/APIs, your internal data and notes, and trained via natural language to create a Skills architecture that works the way you work (much like investors set up their Bloomberg launchpads right now i.e. in a heterogeneous fashion unique to their specific workflow). Do I lose something not being close to the code? I'm not sure I even know what that means (but all the arrogant YouTubers tell me it’s important). But I know I'm shocked by the usefulness of the outputs I'm getting out of Claude Co-Work and Perplexity Computer, and that’s what matters to me. For that reason, I wonder if learning VS Code for investors is akin to learning to construct prompts by hand in summer 2025, ie. mostly wasted learning that will quickly be subsumed by the next iteration of technology. For the vast majority of users (I.e. investors in a front office seat). It seems like we are very close to a level of intuitive operability with agentic work systems.

im often asked “how do i break into robot learning without a phd?” buy an SO-101 ($300) and do something interesting understand the stack, train models, implement a paper, do serious on-robot evals, document your work the pool of talent with real experience is v small