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regular people use durable.com because their business actually matters to them. it pays their bills. humans are wired to create. if ai takes one job, they build the next thing. durable

Been heads down for months on this. the website builder, Studio, and a lot of the AI infrastructure under the hood. Really proud of what this team pulled off. Big things happening at Durable.

super stoked to introduce Durable 2.0 to the world! served 360+ billion tokens and going up every day 🚀

rust is a perfect language for agents, given that if it compiles it's ~correct

Everyone's freaking out about vibe coding. In the holiday spirit, allow me to share my anxiety on the wild west of robotics. 3 lessons I learned in 2025. 1. Hardware is ahead of software, but hardware reliability severely limits software iteration speed. We've seen exquisite engineering arts like Optimus, e-Atlas, Figure, Neo, G1, etc. Our best AI has not squeezed all the juice out of these frontier hardware. The body is more capable than what the brain can command. Yet babysitting these robots demands an entire operation team. Unlike humans, robots don't heal from bruises. Overheating, broken motors, bizarre firmware issues haunt us daily. Mistakes are irreversible and unforgiving. My patience was the only thing that scaled. 2. Benchmarking is still an epic disaster in robotics. LLM normies thought MMLU & SWE-Bench are common sense. Hold your 🍺 for robotics. No one agrees on anything: hardware platform, task definition, scoring rubrics, simulator, or real world setups. Everyone is SOTA, by definition, on the benchmark they define on the fly for each news announcement. Everyone cherry-picks the nicest looking demo out of 100 retries. We gotta do better as a field in 2026 and stop treating reproducibility and scientific discipline as second-class citizens. 3. VLM-based VLA feels wrong. VLA stands for "vision-language-action" model and has been the dominant approach for robot brains. Recipe is simple: take a pretrained VLM checkpoint and graft an action module on top. But if you think about it, VLMs are hyper-optimized to hill-climb benchmarks like visual question answering. This implies two problems: (1) most parameters in VLMs are for language & knowledge, not for physics; (2) visual encoders are actively tuned to *discard* low-level details, because Q&A only requires high-level understanding. But minute details matter a lot for dexterity. There's no reason for VLA's performance to scale as VLM parameters scale. Pretraining is misaligned. Video world model seems to be a much better pretraining objective for robot policy. I'm betting big on it.

rust brings me the same joy that python did back in the day. i worry less about libraries and can just use the batteries/stl to get shit done

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

RIP iRobot. That wasn’t just a vacuum cleaner— those were a bunch of crazy mother fuckers that paved the way in robotics for decades. Respect and love.

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@n2parko was always the case

PM of the future

@radbackwards robocup dream lives on

I would like to organize a soccer league between the engineers @ 1X, Optimus, Unitree, Sunday, Apptronik, and Agility Winner takes all IP Like, subscribe and bang that fuckin like button

@patriciamou_ where can i read more about this rabbit hole?

every shadow has a gift trauma isn't just pain frozen in time. it is potential energy awaiting expression until the time is right (when the wielder has the maturity to wield it well)

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nudge nudge cow is not full db backup. jus sayin

truly insane opportunity. setup for success day 1

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this life is an observer watching said observer. we're just measurement devices

@yacineMTB bro cooking more demo videos in yoga nidra

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