Dave Overton

@andrewyates744 @Dropbox @joshclemm @devopsdaysdex @GeoffreyHuntley exciting! You got my attention, and I hope you got those Christmas ornaments back in their boxes. :D

I’m the Director of AI labs at @Dropbox . I’ve been running a “Ralph loop” Dark Factory since October (here’s my set up from mid December). Here’s the story and how Dropbox is the dark horse leading AI that you’ve never heard of.

I like it, but I went for the here's to the crazy ones edition.

@grabph why do I have to click through this repeatedly:

@addyosmani You just made my day. Thanks @JPoehnelt

Introducing the Google Workspace CLI: github.com/googleworkspac… - built for humans and agents. Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API. 40+ agent skills included.

@ankurnagpal Was just thinking about this and planning to add an @openclaw to a WhatsApp group to handle 1 and 3.

A big new consumer category will be an AI house manager for the entire family Can live in a group chat and can handle tasks like: - Manage groceries - Plug into home security - Scheduling maintenance & cleaning - Smart home controls and automations Who's building this?

@AravSrinivas Loving it! I would love to have a way to interface with it on mobile. I am sure you are on this, so sign me up for beta :D

it was a good idea to give computers to humans. it’s a better idea to give computers to computers so that they can create the same outputs we do on a computer for our work. that’s the core idea of perplexity computer in a nutshell.

@DavidOndrej1 Stay safe

@agrimsingh @cursor_ai that's the vibe.

cloud agents by @cursor_ai ripping codex + whisky at a small bar in osaka. this is the future we were promised.

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

@patrickc So true. Phone and the instant information streams have replaced this. I remember this from my childhood.

@steipete Go! Go! Go! I’m so clawppy!! 🦞🦞🦞

We're not slowing down. 70 Clatributors!

New @openclaw beta is up, supporting Sonnet 4.6, 1Mio context window and a truckload of fixes. 🦞 github.com/openclaw/openc…

16 years ago, Albert and I started @symphco in a small room in Cebu. We began with coffee meetings and one question: “What’s not working?” 2,000+ products later, 2 of our original customers are still with us. That’s not luck. That’s care. Today we found a way to build custom software at scale. Same Symph. New door. If your software feels like a compromise, DM me. theagency.symph.ai

Vector is customizable to your workflow. Not the other way around. Project management shouldn’t slow builders down. It should disappear. Stop waiting. Start shipping. vectorpm.io

We’ve been building software for 16 years at Symph. We’ve used every PM tool you can name. And every single one forced a compromise. • Too slow • Too rigid • Too bloated • Built for reporting, not shipping So we stopped adapting to tools. We built one that adapts to us.

@keithwhor @bentossell @super_user_app Very interested. We have been building with agents in a discord, and would love to compare notes.

hey! might as well start talking about this we are building Superuser / @super_user_app which is kinda like if OpenAI had built Slack - but more focused on the dev platform. i had this idea before I joined OpenAI & really wanted to see it through. we call it “the social hub for agent tools”: our focus is on the developer platform for agents + tools + sharing. it’s just me + @threesided and very WIP. actually very fully featured - team chat, channels (public / private), friends, developer platform for agents and tools, command line tools - but we haven’t built a lot of tools yet to show off! docs are also outdated. our agent harness is also super simple rn, just basic function calling. we were planning a launch in a few weeks but… maybe better to just put it out there? will share progress as we make it.

@jimduey @GeoffreyHuntley @latentpatterns Ironically, same thought and outcome. Looking forward to the content and how I can deploy it in the Philippines.

@GeoffreyHuntley @latentpatterns Clicked on that profile and saw the goat head. First thought was "nope, not gonna follow any satanic crap". Then remembered you kept goats. Sometimes goats are just goats. 😀

spent the last week hanging out with the teachers who are behind the science curriculum in australia accelerating em tit for tat. they had some great ideas that have been able to incorporate into @latentpatterns. getting nearer to launching. 🔜😎🫡

@lindaxie Wow, good realizations and excited to see what you launch! Go!

I spent 8 years running my own businesses and the past 1 year joining a team. Pros and cons to each but hardest adjustment for me was ultimately not determining major decisions like a pivot or acquisition. Learned I missed being a founder so plan is to start something again

I contend that there has never been a better time to be a startup founder or venture builder.

Today hit differently. It didn't happen all at once, but the rate of change we are seeing on the capacity of AI to develop is really fast. Today there was a deep realization that what we've been trying to build at @symphco is now possible. Get ready for a new season!