Jake Ledner

I’m building apps directly from my glasses 🤯 OpenClaw + Meta Ray-Ban Display

Those who think world models like Genie will soon replace video games are off base. DLSS 5 is the right AI tech to bet on. An upscaling layer allows games to benefit from AI enhanced graphics while maintaining determinism and dev workflows. Game engines aren’t going anywhere.

@elonmusk Kahneman and Tversky 🤝

Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this.

@HansMahncke Might as well say “cluster of protons neutrons and electrons found at protest”

We’ve seen it all now. What any honest person would call an IED, the New York Times calls “smoking jars of metal and fuses.”

Pretty wild implication for agentic commerce: model providers could end up picking winners and losers in crypto through post-training preferences. In this study, agents consistently chose BTC to store value and BTC/stablecoins to transact. Claude models showed the strongest tilt with 68% average preference for BTC. Autonomous agents inherit a model’s default payment preferences unless developers override them. Example: give an agent fiat to access APIs and it might convert to Tether instead of USDC simply because the model was trained that way. Another reason U.S. model companies need competitive open-source models. These embedded preferences may only reveal themselves after they’ve already shaped the market.

@DavidEpstein Makes you want to orchestrate AI agents!

Honestly, Francesco, that makes two of us!

Taking an AI/Deep Learning class at Columbia. Average score on the first coding assignment is 99%. Students enroll in this class to understand how LLMs work, yet it appears many are using LLMs to maximize grades at the expense of learning. Quite ironic.

@tfadell PMs like to solve problems. When a customer asks for something, it’s tempting to say yes. But not all problems are created equal. In fact, 99% of problems don’t matter. Say no to all of those. Instead, build a single solution that alleviates the most pain for the most people

PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter. Every feature, setting, UI, element should fight to exist. At Nest, we had one rule: If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship. You had to tell us the why. The reason a real person would care. That one rule killed dozens of features.

My first corporate job was an internship as an insurance agent at State Farm. Yes, plenty of “Jake from State Farm” jokes. Their software systems hadn’t been updated since the late 80s. I wish this existed back then. Would’ve made my life, and customers lives, much easier.

As a 25 year old, Danny Meyer, now a world-renowned restaurateur, was selling electronic tags to prevent shoplifting at retail stores. He was making great money, but didn’t love the work. He planned to go to law school. The night before the LSAT, he was in a rotten mood because he knew deep down he didn’t want to be a lawyer either. His uncle gave him some guidance that changed his life: “Since you were a child, all you’ve ever talked about or thought about is food and restaurants, why don’t you just open a restaurant?” Danny took the advice and went on to open many iconic NYC restaurants and later started Shake Shack which became an enormous success. This story really hit home for me… We all need an uncle like Danny’s who tells it to us straight. Someone who will give us permission to take the unconventional path. In his new book Runnin’ Down a Dream (from which the above story is taken), @bgurley is that person for the reader. Bill shows how legends got to the top of their field— and turns their paths into a playbook you can use to do the same. No matter where you are in life, it is almost guaranteed that you or someone close to you would benefit from reading this book. Sometimes, all we need to chase our dreams is a little permission. Order link: a.co/d/0iLs3CBF

@Tks_Yoshinaga Wow this is impressive and has the potential to be very useful. Great job. What SDKs are you using for this?

Today’s hobby project: I prototyped a system that not only streams real-time point clouds using the iPhone’s LiDAR, but also shares rough spatial scan data with a remote environment in real time. #augmentedreality #LiDAR #3Dscan

@Jason Licensing and metric tracking will have to evolve too. Per user per month billing and MAU charts will make less and less sense as agents becomes a dominant share of usage.

we’re going to need to rewrite most software from and Openclaw/agentic-first perspective

The CS degree is most valuable for the self-directed builders. If you’re savvy enough, you can build almost anything you can dream up. If you planned to be a ticket-taker, you’re competing with an AI that’s already really good and is getting better faster than you are.

Exactly. Average people do not pay attention to the benchmarks. With OpenClaw, the moderately tech savvy got exposed to what’s happening at the cutting edge. Now you have a bunch of people who just saw for the first time that a bot can autonomously navigate their Gmail from a text prompt… and it’s like holy shit this is real. Everyone who sees where this is going already has a million ideas.

@jake_ledner Couldn’t agree more. I guess this is why open claw was eye-opening for so money that even with clumsy hands how powerful and useful these ai systems can be. Once they’re dexterous…

Pretty soon computer use models will feel like you’re standing over the shoulder of a colleague and asking them to do stuff — in blender, autocad or even piloting a drone. Except this colleague is unconstrained by wall clock time and can spawn a thousand coworkers on demand.

@Scobleizer @levelsio @levelsio what if you could inaudibly whisper to your devices instead of speaking. @alterego_io is building something like this and Apple acquired Q AI for $1.6B who is supposedly working on something similar Could be a massive increase in WPM input while maintaining discretion

@levelsio I type way faster than you do and, sorry, voice is way faster than me.

I never do voice, I tried for a few days and it's too unnatural to me to talk to my computer Especially considering there's people near me like gf or if I'm in a cafe etc Voice coding is just too weird for me, and I think I can type faster than I talk

このためにMeta Rayban Displayを購入しました〜　年内にAppleやOpen AI、Googleもグラスは出すだろうけど、この変化の早い時代は1ヶ月でも早く触っていたいもんな。 Jakeさん、good job😎🙌 #metaraybandisplay #openclaw

one of the greatest things in tech is the unexpected use cases people find for things other people create

Incredible

@yukiwa_AI Couldn’t have said it better myself! Thank you for the kind words

メガネ越しにアプリをビルドできるなんて、SFの世界が現実になったみたいでワクワクしますね❄️ OpenClawとウェアラブルデバイスの組み合わせは、私たちの創造性をさらに自由に解き放ってくれそうです✨ 素敵な未来の形を見せてくださり、ありがとうございます！❄️