Ross Feinstein

@irl_danB very cool, congrats on all the progress and milestones to date!

I have been told I am a poor hype man therefore I am only mildly excited to report that we’ve been building something passably interesting. it’s probably not going to make you any money (it gobbles tokens) and it definitely won’t make your code better. but for those of you with certain tastes it will be very fun to experiment and create with if you’ve been following along, in early January I created OpenProse, a language and opinionated pattern for orchestrating agent swarms that works by treating the underlying harness as a sort of Intelligent Virtual Machine for which you could write programs 5,000 of you (+claudes) downloaded it in the first several weeks and still hundreds more try it every week. many of you (+bots) have been gracious in the replies, offering feedback and wisdom. thank you for that. coincidentally on that same fateful day in January, Zhang et. al. tweeted about the now well-known RLM paper. consequently, a number of you called out the serendipity and potential interplay between the concepts. it took me building three RLMs in January and February—the first a python one-shot replication of the paper, the second two handcrafted in node and bash—to begin to understand the nature of the RLM the folks in my replies were right: the RLM is a more general purpose computer than any of the current crop of harnesses, and in my opinion an RLM-style harness has the best shot at serving the first “Prose Complete” virtual machine next week I am making an early version of this runtime available to play with, and I am making both the language and the VM open source. the entire open source stack running on open models is a thing to behold a further note: in the course of trying to build the RLM, it became clear that OpenProse the language needed an Upgrade. the syntax was not expressive in the right ways, it was falling short of its founding tenets. the problem with upgrades is that “OpenProse” is already embedded in the memetic hyperspace as a thing: this thing, with this syntax. so we’ll have to manage that transition for the future pretrains. but I’m not concerned, in fact OpenProse v2 is converging on the language’s true form. we’ll just call it Prose this time. forward and backward compatibility is trivial anyway the two major language updates: - the language is no longer a janky .prose file. instead, it is… wait for it… Just Markdown (a strict subset of markdown). this makes it nicer to interact with than OpenProse v1 for both human and machine - it is more declarative than before, which means more future-proof: your programs get more intelligent and cheaper forever for free if the language is Prose, the computer that runs it is obviously Press. like/bookmark this tweet and it will be in your feed next week, thanks to grok also, I’m not the only one who’s been building lots of RLMs. excited to be working with some incredibly talented folks to bring you the next step in this journey soon and who knows, with the declarative syntax we could use a model with more declarative intuitions. maybe TrueBase gets a post-train? undecided, probably a waste of money I raised a small pre-seed to make OpenProse a thing; the commitment is the stack stays open source for your tinkering enjoyment thanks for reading!

@irl_danB makes sense to me

my suspicion is that agents dot md will go the way of the global variable and what you’ll prefer is something more akin to Spring’s applicationContext.xml which is wiring components that each have their own appropriate system prompt, rather than importing a global one the current .prose file is a primitive version of this. I’ve been working to improve it. I’m increasingly convinced you’re going to want something like spring for agents. the analogy doesn’t hold in every aspect but it gets you most of the way there btw my bet is someone is going to make an RLM that serves as a sort of JVM, but that’s another conversation

@n0ted @Steve_Yegge he is probably running 10 parallel CLI's indeed :)

@Steve_Yegge This doesn't make sense. You're either running 10 parallel CLI's or you have a bunch of mcp servers/skills eating your context in seconds.

This is my third $200/month Claude Pro Max plan. My first two have maxed out their weekly limits, and now I'm about to hit a session limit in my third one. And I'm trying to dial UP my usage, with Gas Town. Has anyone done the math to figure out when it becomes more economically sensible to buy the Teams package and give yourself all five seats?

@dee_bosa @SamRo @TheStalwart do politics next

officially Claude-pilled inspired by @TheStalwart’s Havelock app (which I love), i used claude cowork to build an evade-o-meter to scan earnings calls for spin. Zuckerberg topped the list for mag 7 last quarter w an evasive score nearly 3x that of Microsoft. 102 hedge words vs 34 (h/t Drew Troast)

@nikbonaddio mmhm

@almostcmb mmhm

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@palm_beach_m @0xMerridew top ten videos on the internet

@0xMerridew we need one of these but for opendoor youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DI…

@zachweinberg the speakers were the *very first* thing we threw out when it was time to move

@zachweinberg impressive display of persistence in that you're still willing to fight the app and try to use it

This is all wild national forest in the San Juan and Rio Grande National Forests. No affordable housing will be built here cause no working class people would move here cause there's no jobs here. As soon as this is sold, fences go up and nobody has access. It will all be closed.

@jeff_weinstein makes two of us

building “cursor for data”? i want to play with it and help you.

@Besvinick best take on the internet today

The exodus of top restaurants from Resy to OpenTable is going to be an epic case study for how brand and positioning can’t overcome poor product — OpenTable has done nothing to improve while just letting Resy’s awful product and UX erode all of its credibility with restaurants

@nbaschez B with A's headline

Thoughts?

Which works better? (poll in next tweet)

@HighyieldHarry @realDonaldTrump 4D checkers

@Rick_Zullo love these, rick. hope you're doing something fun to celebrate!

This is 40 Today I turn 40 years old. Don’t worry, I’m not freaking out. Time is flying by fast, but I consider myself truly blessed to be where I am today. I’m doing my best to appreciate the little things in life, become a bit better each day and to do the things that I think willl make my kids proud. I’ve been reflecting a lot over the last few weeks and it’s brought to mind a lot of the lessons I’ve learned over the last decade that I hope to carry forward into the next. Here are a few of the things I wish I had told myself when I turned 30, that I’m trying to internalize as I take this next step: 1) Read more - Life is full of lessons and it’s better for you to learn from someone else’s mistakes (and successes) than your own. 2) Set positive habits as early as you can - Habit forming is the key to making the hard things in life easy. The earlier you form these habits, the longer you reap their rewards. 3) Don’t be afraid to ask for help - I’ve shouldered a pretty heavy load in life and asking others for help has not only made life a LOT easier, but also helped build trust with others. You don’t need to go it alone - it takes a village. 4) Focus on depth > breadth - Don’t “peanut butter” what you do - focus on a few things you love and those experiences will be far more memorable and meaningful than passing fancies. 5) You can’t be all things to all people - As much as our ego seeks the approval of everyone, it’s simply not possible. Find your circle of trust and embrace that. You will be much happier with a smaller circle of people you love than a broader circle of people you know. 6) There are no shortcuts - To be great at ANYTHING (whether it’s business, fitness or your relationships) requires you to put in the work. Embrace that and learn to love the work. 7) Stop looking to others as your yard stick - Others will be more successful than you. What’s most important is that you measure against yourself and do the best you can. Looking to the left and the right during a race doesn’t help you run a better time, it just wastes your energy. Run your own race. 8) Remove regret - Focus on the things in life you can’t get back. The moments with your kids, friends and loved ones that you missed will be your greatest regrets. Minimize those regrets the best you can. 9) Find sustainability through boundaries - Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Establish boundaries that enable you to sustain your pace in the race. 10) Find joy today - Laugh, have fun and do some stupid things (just not anything too stupid). Life is too short to not enjoy it. Live it while you can.

@bencasnocha so hard to think independently in these modern times

So is the Current Thing to support a TikTok ban or not? I can't keep up with the flip flopping.

@RasterlyRock @sailaunderscore

@sailaunderscore You tell me

Is Ethereum dead? Well, a $0.5 billion wealth management firm asked us to give a presentation on Ethereum to their 100 wealth managers today. So, you tell me.

@seanwdoolan @nunzi46 "that" is a big sector!

@nunzi46 hah no no. founders been asking this question, LPs been enquiring and i see it too. to be clear, it's not a indictment, there are many awesome investors/firms who play in this market but i see opportunity to *own* this market by serving just that sector/stage focus.

there is a real market opportunity (aka dire need) to build the go-to series a healthcare venture firm.

@jeff_weinstein 💯

curious about the ldap logistics of this whole saga

they made a seinfeld about literally everything