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I know a few people inside Big Tech, and I'm sorry to report but Token Psychosis is real. Their bosses are hyperfixated on AI usage and tracking who uses the most tokens, so they're essentially running agents 24/7 on do-nothing tasks just to use more tokens. Incredible stuff.

Finally killed Asana by rebuilding my to-do list as a live artifact in Claude then using scheduled tasks to scan my slacks, email and calendar each day to propose to-dos Infinitely, unbelievably better and more effective More and more workflows being sucked into Claude

sweet baby jesus

This is Farzapedia. I had an LLM take 2,500 entries from my diary, Apple Notes, and some iMessage convos to create a personal Wikipedia for me. It made 400 detailed articles for my friends, my startups, research areas, and even my favorite animes and their impact on me complete with backlinks. But, this Wiki was not built for me! I built it for my agent! The structure of the wiki files and how it's all backlinked is very easily crawlable by any agent + makes it a truly useful knowledge base. I can spin up Claude Code on the wiki and starting at index.md (a catalog of all my articles) the agent does a really good job at drilling into the specific pages on my wiki it needs context on when I have a query. For example, when trying to cook up a new landing page I may ask: "I'm trying to design this landing page for a new idea I have. Please look into the images and films that inspired me recently and give me ideas for new copy and aesthetics". In my diary I kept track of everything from: learnings, people, inspo, interesting links, images. So the agent reads my wiki and pulls up my "Philosophy" articles from notes on a Studio Ghibli documentary, "Competitor" articles with YC companies whose landing pages I screenshotted, and pics of 1970s Beatles merch I saved years ago. And it delivers a great answer. I built a similar system to this a year ago with RAG but it was ass. A knowledge base that lets an agent find what it needs via a file system it actually understands just works better. The most magical thing now is as I add new things to my wiki (articles, images of inspo, meeting notes) the system will likely update 2-3 different articles where it feels that context belongs, or, just creates a new article. It's like this super genius librarian for your brain that's always filing stuff for your perfectly and also let's you easily query the knowledge for tasks useful to you (ex. design, product, writing, etc) and it never gets tired. I might spend next week productizing this, if that's of interest to you DM me + tell me your usecase!

Starting to appreciate AI’s so-called “jagged frontier.” It’s obviously really powerful for coding, accounting, graphic design, economics, trip planning, reviewing legal documents, DIY projects marketing, advertising, etc. Yet somehow still terrible at writing and interviewing.

it can be tricky to share skills between harnesses since the features of those harnesses can be quite different like you said (e.g. does it have subagents, does it have askuserquestion, what is the frontmatter, etc) but I do think skills as a concept will still be a winning move in the end, the harness can create skills for you and the progressive disclosure of skills is a killer use case. your slash commands are already quite close to that, maybe if you let them live in a folder?

don't make me tap the sign

Embarassing thing to tweet. Here's a non-exhaustive list of state-led initiatives that made life better for the weak + poor: - Deposit insurance - Clean Air Act - Ending leaded gasoline - Child labor laws - Child vaccination programs - OSHA - Rural electrification - GI Bill