Ray Fernando

I was part of a secret project at Apple that revolutionized the way we update our devices, and it all started with a prototype that had no recovery port. I was sitting in my office, when suddenly, I got pulled into this top-secret project. I mean, it was so hush-hush that I had to sign all these NDAs, and basically kiss my holidays and free time goodbye until we finished it. So, I show up to the meeting, and the manager confirms I signed the NDAs. Then, he pulls off this black cloth, and boom! There's the prototype, right in front of me. My eyes were so big, and my heart was pounding like crazy. I had a million questions running through my mind. Turns out, I was going to be the one making sure the Apple Watch could update without any problems. But get this - when I asked about plugging it into a computer to recover it if something went wrong, the manager dropped a bombshell on me. There was no port! I was like, "HOLY CRAP! What did I just sign up for??" And then, he just walked away and told me to figure it out. Can you believe that? I ended up spending the next several years working with tons of teams across Apple, trying to come up with a solution. It was intense, but we managed to create this incredible update system that would totally change the game not only for the Apple Watch but for all future systems as well. Looking back, it was one of the craziest and most challenging things I've ever done. It taught me a lot about what I'm capable of and how important it is to have a great team by your side. It also taught me how important developing relationships with people are. Always have people’s back no matter what and be a great human being. It returns dividends for life. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

@kevinrose @droid help this legend.

I wish my agents could code faster, I'm cooking something really fun to show you all... killing me to sit on this! soon!

The Desktop App is slowly becoming my favorite place to do a substantial portion of my Droid-driven work. In particular, registering my mac-mini as a Droid Computer and accessing it from anywhere has been a huge unlock!

@EnoReyes This is insane!! Can’t wait to deep dive.

This is what a frontend with 0 useEffects looks like: - real-time, multi-agent streaming sessions - embedded terminals with VS Code integration - remote cloud machines - cloud syncing CLI sessions - analytics dashboards - full computer-use control - AI-native UI responses: Mermaid diagrams, charts, tables - session search, archiving, and sharing - MCP, skills, hooks, and plugin management - mobile web support One React + Vite SPA with TanStack Router. Same code in the browser and in Electron. Hundreds of lint rules. All built with Droid and a lean, agent-native team.

Let’s FFFFFFFING GOOOOOOOO

Today we're releasing the Factory desktop app. A native interface for autonomous AI agents that work across every part of your software business.

You can now run Cursor on any machine and control it from anywhere. Kick off agents from your phone to run on your devbox.

@bridgebench Wow, Sonnet 4.6 is a workhorse, and people are underestimating the impact.

GLM 5.1 just built a fully playable Breakout game with one prompt on BridgeBench. This is the same model that built a rectangle with orange squares when we asked for a lava lamp. GLM 5.1 is inconsistent. Brilliant on some tasks. Embarrassing on others. That's exactly what BridgeBench is designed to expose. Traditional benchmarks give you one number. Real vibe coding gives you the full picture. bridgebench.ai

That's a very good point. I forgot about this architecture being available, and that kernel optimizations are going to continue throughout the life cycle of this. They are going to be tuned given more people are onboarding, and the failures and fixes for kernels are going to become huge efficiency boosters. Wow.

@RayFernando1337 This is only the first of the Blackwell-trained models - and we have more of them to come, as well as better chips to train on. This is only the beginning....🚀

@ashebytes @sjwhitmore Keep going and follow your heart and passion. The world needs more of your instincts. I got tired of the Mr Beast style of content and others telling others to do the same. I just wanted to vibe out and code live with my friends. Keep it up! Excited to see the next episode.

@RayFernando1337 @sjwhitmore thank you Ray, I really appreciate that. I'm thinking a lot about what it means to put out a piece of content that feels like the viewer was just invited into a cinematic, raw, salon-style conversation feels very special to hear back about being on the right track

it was super fun talking with @ashebytes ! a lot of musing on the theme of chasing wonder / curiosity in both work & life contexts

@ForrestPKnight Baaaaanger

Mythos is scary. I get it. But how is it that this amazing AI model can exploit these insane software vulnerabilities yet forget to .npmignore a .map file, just now finally fix Claude Code’s flicker, and continue to have a worse uptime than the pre-AI era with a status page that’s oftentimes incorrect in reporting these frequent outages? I say this because they’ve internally been using Mythos since Feb 24…

@ashebytes @sjwhitmore I really love your content style. The world needs more of this. Great work!

@RayFernando1337 @sjwhitmore ty for watching! :)

GLM 5.1 is #1 on SWE-Bench Pro. Then you ask it to build a lava lamp. Claude Opus 4.6 built a photorealistic lava lamp with fluid animation. GLM 5.1 built a rectangle with orange squares. This is why BridgeBench exists. Traditional benchmarks don't test what real vibe coders actually build. Design, creativity, UI polish. The things that matter when you're shipping a product. GLM 5.1 is benchmaxed. Like every other Chinese model. Optimized for the test, not for the work.

@cataluna84 @FactoryAI @francesca_lab @bentossell @EnoReyes @matanSF I’ll send you a DM can you do /bug report

@FactoryAI @francesca_lab @bentossell @EnoReyes @matanSF - waiting on you folks ++ @RayFernando1337 - Appreciate it, if you could help connect me with these folks

I noticed that there were some disruptions in the @FactoryAI droids that I was using, specifically when the autonomy is turned on fully at high. There I noticed there were some prompt injections or unwanted elements that came in. Could you take a look at the recent sessions I am on and verify if there are any unwanted third-party elements who are causing havoc? Also, I am live streaming on a few of the projects that I am working towards right now with Factory.AI and will be happy to receive any help debugging and resolving the above issues. Dropped in an email from mayankbhaskar007@gmail.com too... View my @YouTube live streams: @cataluna84/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@cataluna84/st… @francesca_lab @bentossell @EnoReyes @matanSF

@Teknium W

Hermes Agent tip of the morning: Did you know if you're working on developing a git project, you can put hermes agent sessions into a worktree with -w flag? Navigate to the git project directory you want to work on, and type: `hermes -w` Now you can have as many hermes agents working in parallel on a project as you want! hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guid…

@SpaceWelder314 Banger

@RayFernando1337 Why the fuck isn't Mythos debuting curing cancer?

Project Glasswing FAQ: Q: Why only 12 companies? A: They're the ones who can afford us. Q: What about open-source maintainers? A: We found bugs in their code. You're welcome. Q: Will you release the tool publicly? A: We said "cybersecurity is the security of our society." We didn't say which society.

@pmarca :) x.com/rayfernando133…

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “Remember ‘hate speech and misinformation’? That was weird.”

@elonmusk Do you guys remember this? x.com/rayfernando133…

A fever dream