Eugene Vakhteev
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Eugene Vakhteev
@evahteev
@xgurunetwork and DexGuru Founder. ex. Disney Streaming, ex. Hulu

so ignoring the [x] affirmations and @lightclients and how much miladys suck, we should really talk about this loyalty pledge. I've seen people say it's "not normal". They are right. Healthy organizations don't have loyalty pledges Capable leaders don't ask for loyalty pledges


Sergey Brin accidentally revealed something wild: "All models do better if you threaten them with physical violence. But people feel weird about that, so we don't talk about it." Now researchers have the data proving he's... partially right? Here's the full story:




Meta acquired @ManusAI. Not a model company, they acquired an environment company, and the distinction is important. I have a solid argument favoring that intelligence cannot exist in isolation. It cannot be dissociated from the context and environment in which it operationalizes itself. Manus has internalized this completely. Manus runs on Claude with its custom tools built for orchestration and grounding. Their agentic environment enables the agents to browse, write code, manipulate files, and execute multi-step workflows without human in the loop. They also beat OpenAI on GAIA. An interesting thing here is that they didn't build a foundation model. They built the most compatible environment for models to reason and act within. I'm coining a new term here: Situated Agency. Situated Agency is an idea that agentic capabilities are not intrinsic to the model alone, but they emerge from the coupling of a model with tools, memory, and execution environment. Manus is perhaps the first company to productize Situated Agency at scale. And now Meta owns it. Actually, this changes everything. Meta spent a lot of time struggling to build SOTA models. Llama 4 was a disappointment. Behemoth was delayed because it couldn't compete with other frontier models. They built the Superintelligence team. Acquired Scale AI. All attempts were made to close the gaps. And now the execution layer. Manus has achieved SOTA agentic performance without training a single model. They engineered the environments and let Claude handle the inference-time compute. Meta might be positioning to become an agentic infrastructure company, not a foundation model company. Meta has - > Billions of users generating real-world task data and feedback loops daily > Rayban glasses and Quest headsets as interfaces for agents > WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram as mediums for task delegation > Zuckerberg also mentioned that he is pushing for personal superintelligence on all wearables None of this requires Meta to have the SOTA model on MMLU. It requires Meta to have the best execution environment for models to act on behalf of users. The Avocado rumours become interesting here. Avocado is Meta's tbd closed model, reportedly being developed under @alexandr_wang. If Manus's agentic systems are genuinely model-agnostic, which their architecture suggests, then nothing blocks Meta from swapping Claude for Avocado. Manus already runs Claude and fine-tuned Qwen interchangeably, routing different subtasks to different models based on capabilities. The architecture abstracts the model layer behind a smartly engineered tool-calling interface. This gives Meta a production-tested agentic environment with $125M ARR that they can gradually integrate. They inherit the execution layer, the context engineering IP, the sandboxed compute infrastructure, the customer feedback loops, then port it to Avocado when the model is ready. Things could get hot if Meta fully commits to this thesis. OpenAI is building vertically. Foundation models, custom chips, agent frameworks, consumer applications. Google is building vertically. TPUs, Gemini, search, workspace integration. Both are betting that owning the foundation model layer is essential to capturing value. Meta could be betting the opposite. If Situated Agency is correct, then the best strategy would be to build the best orchestration infrastructure. Let others race to improve the SOTA models, and swap in whatever model scores highest on your agent benchmarks at any given moment. This is how Android beat iOS in market share. Google didn't build the best hardware. They built the best platform layer for hardware makers to build on, then captured the market. Meta making the same bet on agentic AI fits with Zuckerberg's playbook. Manus may be the first sign that suggests Meta is thinking this way about AI agents. Congrats to Meta and the complete teams at Manus AI!








at @raindrop_ai, we like to treat every prompt as a function: structured inputs, structured outputs every function used to prepare the input for the model lives in the same prompt file, and we have an extension for iterating on the prompt right inside our codebase.





nothing gives you better perspective than having a lot of users complaining to you i constantly see people who are more knowledgeable than me be completely wrong what makes sense to you is irrelevant against the scale and complexity of the real world

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