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I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

Agents that natively self-orchestrate, managing their own context, tools, and sub-agents, are the next big unlock in LLM performance. Right now, a skilled engineer building an optimized harness, with thoughtful data flow, separation of concerns, sub-agent management, etc., can make dramatic improvements over baseline for specific tasks. If a model could do this itself, that’d be a major step forward. You give it an objective and a set of tools, and it figures out the optimal way to orchestrate itself to do the task. For example, I’m building a very primitive AI scientist that I’ll open-source soon. Most of the work isn’t in the prompt, it’s in the harness… what the orchestrator sees, what sub‑agents see, what gets shared between them and when, where we summarize vs. pass raw data, and which tools each agent controls. Doing this allows me to dramatically improve what the model can do on its own. If a model can effectively design its own harness for a given problem, it’d be a huge step forward. My bet: self-orchestrating models… ones that manage their own context, tools, and sub-agents, will move the frontier almost as much as the jump from chatbot → reasoning did. Maybe more.

Introducing Dasher Tasks Dashers can now get paid to do general tasks. We think this will be huge for building the frontier of physical intelligence. Look forward to seeing where this goes!

It's crazy how AI is really good at the stuff I don't know anything about and total dog shit at the stuff I do.