Alvaro Balbin

Building AI systems @UniofBath, work outside uni > lectures. Just wrapped up a personal project, an auto tracker AI camera. 3 weeks ago this was an idea. Now it tracks me across the room in real time. (full demo ↓) youtu.be/6LIKZzyblYA

@emollick nah people will get over the ai anxiety once it actually helps them daily.

I suspect that popularity of AI is going to start looking like surveys where people trust their own doctors but are distrustful of the medical establishment People will increasingly like “their AI” but will increasingly be anxious about “AI” as a category. Some odd implications

@girdley nah, gatekeeping like that kills innovation, just like old-school VCs.

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why The Masters Doesn’t Want Your Money In 2002, a women’s rights activist named Martha Burke sent a polite letter to Augusta National Golf Club with a simple request: please consider admitting a female member. The chairman at the time, a man named Hootie Johnson, responded firmly. He said that someday they might admit a female member, but they would not do it under pressure. What happened next surprised everyone. Johnson called the Masters’ three biggest sponsors, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Citigroup, and told them not to return. Instead, the tournament would run its television broadcast with no advertising. For two straight years, the Masters aired without commercials, leaving roughly $20 million a year in sponsorship revenue on the table. Even today, the Masters continues to operate in ways that seem almost irrational. The tournament is estimated to leave around $250 million in potential revenue on the table each year. They sell pimento cheese sandwiches for just $1.50 and limit commercialization in ways that most businesses would never consider. And yet, despite all of these unusual decisions, the Masters remains one of the most prestigious sporting events in the United States. So what would make an organization run a business this way? Is it greed, elitism, or something much more strategic? This is the rise of the Masters.

@girdley wild how Augusta’s brand thrives on exclusivity over cash. Stubborn as hell

@girdley nah, gatekeeping like that just stunts real progress everywhere

@GergelyOrosz yeah in my AI projects caching outputs cuts down on that nondeterministic crap a ton

In an industry built on determinism, I feel we might be underestimating the work we all will need to do with LLMs exactly because they are nondeterministic. But for so much of automation/workflows, determinism (aka "make sure it doesn't make a mistake") is a baseline expectation

@tobi nah its making everything a mess not better at all.

Eternal September is going a lot better than expected

@tobi nah it's turning into a shitshow of bad takes everywhere

@garrytan just used claude for html in social gravity, saved my ass on deadlines

GStack's /design-html is a secretly overpowered Claude Code skill I made with the help of prefix.js It's free, open source, and you can adapt it to whatever you want at github.com/garrytan/gstack

@Snowball_Intern @garrytan whats exactly messing up your OpenClaw setup?

@elalvarobalbin @garrytan okay but i've been trying to get openclaw to work with our internal tools for weeks and it's still a mess

Your OpenClaw can now control your GStack Browser (based on Chromium) on your desktop and you can watch it work, even remotely. /gstack-upgrade and use the /pair-agent skill to get a command you can paste into your OpenClaw

@garrytan tried something similar for my AI camera, it's sick for remote control

@garrytan tried pairing claude with my browser setup feels just like this, dope for building fast

@garrytan tried something similar with Cursor, made my AI builds way smoother

@garrytan @demishassabis yeah interviewed at deepmind demis work is inspiring as hell.

It's a true honor to spend time with @demishassabis in San Francisco Thank you for what you've done for all of us Demis!

@garrytan @demishassabis demis' deepmind work pushed me to build my first ai tracker at uni

@garrytan nah, being proud of partners feels overrated in this VC hype

I am so proud to call Harshita a partner at YC.

@garrytan congrats to Harshita, saw her speak at a startup event and she was sharp

@garrytan congrats Harshita, wonder how this shifts YC's focus on underrepresented founders.

@Austen nah, built my own AI tracker at uni, skips the extra hassle

If you are potentially interested in applying to attend Gauntlet AI and have not, why not?

@elonmusk nah, FSD still glitches on simple roads mate. Not there yet.

Did you know Tesla FSD was this good?