Quinten Farmer

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Quinten Farmer

Quinten Farmer

@quintendf

founder, https://t.co/WGZYTruUNF

Katılım Şubat 2010
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Quinten Farmer
Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
Remember when we talked about AI capex as being on the scale of the space program? Seems quaint... now it's closer to the scale of the Louisiana Purchase (!) (From the WSJ, via @_brianpotter's excellent Construction Physics newsletter )
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Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
"This computer is not for the people writing those reviews (...) This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking."
sam henri gold@samhenrigold

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Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
Dan's side projects are doing more to advance human/agent interaction than most startups are accomplishing with full teams and millions in funding
Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper

I vibe coded a new product on the side while running @every—and today we're launching it for free. It's called Proof, and it’s a live collaborative document editor where humans and AI agents work together in the same doc. It’s built from the ground up for the kinds of documents agents are increasingly writing: bug reports, PRDs, implementation plans, research briefs, copy audits, strategy docs, memos, and proposals. It's fast, free, and open source—available now at proofeditor.ai. Why Proof? When everyone on your team is working with agents, there's suddenly a ton of AI-generated text flying around—planning docs, strategy memos, session recaps. But the current process for collaborating and iterating on agent-generated writing is…weirdly primitive. It mostly takes place in Markdown files on your laptop, which makes it reminiscent of document editing in 1999. That’s why we built Proof. What makes Proof different? - Proof is agent-native. Anything you can do in Proof, your agent can do just as easily. - Proof tracks provenance: A colored rail on the left side of every document tracks who wrote what. Green means human, Purple means AI. - Proof is login-free and open source: This is because we want Proof to be your agent's favorite document editor. How we use Proof @every: - @bran_don_gell had @OpenAI's Codex write a feature plan in Proof, then tagged my personal Claw (R2-C2) in Slack to review it. R2-C2 left feedback, I added comments, Brandon's agent revised the plan, and then Codex executed on it. Brandon submitted a PR to production without writing a line of code. - @tedescau texts his Claw ideas while he's out on a run, then has it maintain a running Proof doc for his weekly food newsletter. He dictates drafts using @naveennaidu_m's @usemonologue, writes into the outline himself, and uses the provenance gutter to track what's his voice vs. the agent's. - @kieranklaassen uses it as a lightweight scratchpad for his compound engineering workflow. He brainstorms with an agent in the terminal, shares to Proof with one click, then opens the doc to leave comments and tells the agent to go work on them. His take: Proof's job is to communicate about writing and ideas. Proof is free, open source, and requires no login. I built the whole thing by vibe coding between meetings. I sat down with Brandon, Kieran, and Austin on @every's AI & I to demo it live and talk about how it's changing the way we work. If you're building with agents and need a better way to collaborate on text, this one's for you. Watch below! Timestamps Introduction and the origin story of Proof: 00:02:00 From Mac app to collaborative web editor: 00:07:24 What makes Proof "agent native": 00:09:00 Live demo—watching an agent join and write inside a shared document: 00:14:30 How Austin uses Proof for creative writing and food journalism: 00:20:51 The challenge of multiple agents editing one document simultaneously: 00:24:30 When AI-written docs are better read by agents than by humans: 00:26:48 Brandon's agent-to-agent collaboration loop: 00:29:30 Proof as a lightweight scratchpad versus existing tools like Notion and GitHub: 00:37:09 Why Proof is open source and what that means for builders: 00:42:18

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Andy Allen
Andy Allen@asallen·
Honored I was asked to judge the inaugural Mobbin Awards App of the Year. Congrats to Tolan, Family, Arc, Open, Suno, Headspace for their achievements in pushing app design.
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Sarah Tavel
Sarah Tavel@sarahtavel·
If you don't have this problem, you're falling behind: OH: "I used to manage 10 IC engineers. Now I manage 10 engineers that each manage 10 agents. So now I'm a manager of managers... I've had to build an entire pipeline to keep up."
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Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
@gbrl_dick Compute became the constraint, but was it really earlier than expected?
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Gabriel@gbrl_dick·
in 2024 i was very persuaded by the takes of my big lab friends that large models would just end up better than everything. was this wrong because structurally there are better returns to specialisation than we realised, or was it wrong because compute became a constraint earlier than expected?
Jamin Ball@jaminball

Awesome job by the @databricks team My summary: They trained a model called KARL that beats Claude 4.6 and GPT 5.2 on enterprise knowledge tasks (searching docs, cross-referencing info, answering questions over internal data), at ~33% lower cost and ~47% lower latency. The key insight: instead of throwing expensive frontier models at enterprise search, you can use reinforcement learning on synthetic data to train a smaller model that's faster, cheaper, AND better at the specific task. RL went beyond making the model more accurate. I t learned to search more efficiently (fewer wasted queries, better knowing when to stop searching and commit to an answer). They're opening this RL pipeline to Databricks customers so they can build their own custom RL-optimized agents for high-volume workloads. I think we'll continue to see data platforms become agent platforms. Databricks' KARL paper is really an agent platform play. The pitch: you already store your enterprise data in the Lakehouse, now Databricks will train a custom RL agent that searches and reasons over it, tuned specifically for your highest-volume workloads (workloads = apps = agents). The business move is closing the loop: data storage → retrieval → custom agent training → serving, all on Databricks. They're turning "your data lives here" into "your agents live here too." Kudos @alighodsi @matei_zaharia @rxin

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Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
@tanayj surprised to see people citing the compute estimate credulously... hard to imagine that's actually $2000 *in raw compute*, vs $2000 *at Cursor's API cost for the same model*
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Tanay Jaipuria
Tanay Jaipuria@tanayj·
Good piece on the "war time" at Cursor. Some interesting quotes: - The company’s new mandate was labeled “P0 #1”—priority zero: “Build the best coding model.” - Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute, according to a different person who has seen analyses on the company’s compute spend patterns. forbes.com/sites/annatong…
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Maxwell Meyer
Maxwell Meyer@mualphaxi·
The latest project to be Finnished at Henry Hills… An amazing sauna from a family that builds them in Duluth, Minnesota (one of my favorite places in the USA) All cedar. They make the stoves themselves, too. The beginnings of a Nordic spa at the farm (more soon)
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Ethan
Ethan@ethankongee·
@quintendf The title doesn’t matter.. does it get M1 salary though?
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Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
Agentic engineering is completely rewriting the role of a software engineer, but how we hire and evaluate talent hasn't caught up. We're fixing that, by defining a new engineering role at Tolan: Agent Engineering Manager.
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Quinten Farmer@quintendf·
@JedFrankowski I would take the other side of "this is just templating tools", how would you like to structure that bet?
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Jed Frankowski
Jed Frankowski@JedFrankowski·
@quintendf I remember when templating tools were all of the fuss. This feels exactly like this. If all you can do is agents doing stuff - you're not innovating.
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