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Last week we tested Differ on a to-do list. Today: a 400K+ line production codebase. Drop an app into Differ. The agent adapts the code to each user. Software improves where it runs. Ship an update as a developer and it propagates across every user's version, even if they've all diverged.

Personal software is going mainstream. Google announced "Create My Widget". Describe a weather app or meal planner, and it builds it. Everyone's a developer now.

@thinkymachines Excited to try this! Aligned with what we're building - infrastructure for software that adapts at runtime.

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way. We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interacti…

Join us tomorrow night in NYC with @aitinkerers to see Adaptive Software in action. Think generative UI, personalized software and self-healing systems.

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software open.substack.com/pub/adaptiveso…

GenUI hackathon this weekend by @CopilotKit @GeminiApp @AITinkerers "Build agents that don’t just return text, but render complete, interactive interfaces on the fly. Forms, dashboards, approval flows, entire applications - generated natively from agent output."

our multi-agent hackathon last week hosted with sky valley ambient computing

is this the ‘irl connection economy’?

"Coding agents have now gotten good enough to allow users to become their own forward deployed engineers and more radically customize the software they consume"

Media went from scarce & canonical to abundant & ephemeral. Software is on a similar trajectory: people ship apps the way they used to ship blog posts. Join us tomorrow for more w/ @danshipper @MJRawth @iristenteije and @Borthwick luma.com/m49iba7i

Our Multi-Agent Hackathon w/ Sky Valley Ambient Computing is THURSDAY 4/30 @betaworks Some Inspo: • Game where NPCs coordinate, no script • Society simulation • Customer support system where agents self-assign • Creative tool where agents build on top of each other ​• Social network w/ private + public spaces RSVP ↓

"If you could have a black box that could do anything, what would it do?" Musician Brian Eno described a system that encodes taste, not instructions, in 1995. A grower, not a player. The infrastructure to build it is only now arriving, and it isn't in music. adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/permanently-…

@Tocelot @speedrun Yes, like early iPhone era. First apps mimicked calculators, notepads instead of reimagining what was possible. Very excited to see how this category will shape up. Expect to see a lot of adaptive & generative UI.

a16z @speedrun request for startups: GUIs for Agents we’re still in the MS-DOS era of agents today - CLI, terminal sessions, file directories deleted by openclaw etc. while a small slice of silicon valley are power users, we're SO early for the rest of the world at Speedrun, we’re looking for bold founders excited to bring the power of agents to normies everywhere. there's a whole slew of products to be built here - from agent builders to marketplaces to managed infrastructure one broad idea we’re excited about are visual abstraction layers for agents. if you don't know exactly what you want, a command line / chat interface is paralyzing - you need to see options 1 example - think of a GUI or visual command center inspired by strategy games (ex. Factorio) where agents and workflows are represented graphically. skills, tools, MCP connections, background processes, etc could all be configured and shown visually in a workspace on UX, strategy games have long perfected agent management. zoom to get a birds-eye view of your agents, batch and queue orders via shortcuts, assign agents in multiplayer etc. a well-designed agent command center would make multi-agent orchestration for normies feel easy & intuitive most folks today still haven't moved beyond ChatGPT. the potential is enormous - just as Windows unlocked mass-market use of personal computers, the right visual abstraction layer could unlock agentic work for everyone - from individuals to enterprise teams if you share our vision, we'd love to chat!

Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of NYC’s art x tech scene ❤️ @lizwandersworld

We’re hosting a demo night on Adaptive Software with @AITinkerers NYC on May 13. We’re looking for projects that show how software adapts at runtime, for example: • UIs that restructure based on user behavior • Systems that detect failures and self-correct • Features that evolve based on live signals In-progress work & side projects very welcome 🙃 nyc.aitinkerers.org/p/demo-day-ada…

What agents can’t read, they can’t change. The industry is building agents that can navigate illegible software. A smaller group is asking a different question: what if the software described itself? adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/what-agents-…

Join us + Sky Valley for a Multi-Agent Hackathon. April 30th, 5pm-9pm @betaworks [RSVP below] Build swarms that self‑select, self‑assign, and evolve without a manager. Actually autonomous agents. Actually a good time.

People are mad that Medvi used AI doctors in ads. But more than 50% of real US doctors have accepted payments from industry. Isn't that way more problematic?

Why does NY have a reputation for being unfriendly? I feel people are really social, friendly, lots of random chats.

The orchestrator model works when you know the shape of the problem upfront. In adaptive systems, the work reveals itself as it proceeds. So we've been exploring a different agent coordination model. New post on what that looks like → open.substack.com/pub/adaptiveso…

@levelsio This. Intent goes in -> behavior comes out. Code in the middle is just a log.

I have no dog in this fight and unaffiliated with YC but agree completely Maybe because I've never seen myself as a real "proper" coder and just wanted to build things and that's what AI lets more people do now We're moving towards a time where AI just generates binary blobs as code and reading the source code will be a thing of the past So in a way the obsession over LOCs is irrelevant for both Garry but also the people hating him Where we're going LOCs don't exist anymore anyway!