Sam Barton

i think this meme is hilarious. my take on all this: the point of introspection is to end up thinking less, not more, to be more in the flow, more productive, to dissolve into being itself. if your introspection is making you think more i recommend getting another one

@aronkor I've found font choice have a big impact, but aside from that I think having really strong brand and style guidelines to start off with. I haven't found a good process for generating those by myself with AI, though.

@samhbarton Anything you’ve found not to make the design look terrible/ai-y?

this is more or less how i vibe-code and it's working well for me. Something else i've landed on: for every decent chunk of work, I create a folder with a plan and log file. So I get a super detailed plan written up, and then I get the agents to update the log file as they go, documenting their progress, decisions made, bugs encountered, etc. The idea being that any agent can pick up where another left off super easily. Wrap it up with @bcherny's /simplify skill to deslopify, and then test it out

@Bencera yeap this workflow has given me the least amount of headaches x.com/samhbarton/sta…

my AI coding workflow as a solo founder: - opus 4.6 for exploration + planning - codex 5.4 xhigh to stress-test the plan (catches gaps opus missed) - back to opus, which usually complains codex is overengineering lol - few rounds back and forth. codex implements, opus reviews. - ask both: "safe to ship? what's the worst thing that could happen?" opus and codex arguing over my codebase is my entire engineering team. will probably ship this workflow as a Polsia feature at some point.

Agent payments will soon overtake human payments on the internet. The Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp) is a new open standard co-authored by @stripe and @tempo. It’s designed to be extensible and payment-method agnostic, already supporting stablecoins, cards, and more.

@NathanpmYoung @cosmos_inst @Brendan_McCord

@NathanpmYoung @cosmos_inst Sorry I have no idea - I just know this is their jam

The team I lead delivered the World's first AI-written community note. Since then we've served 28M views of them. Currently applying for funding, if you'd like to support (even just API costs) please get in touch.

@NathanpmYoung @laparisa getting community notes in chrome could be one the most impactful product decisions of the century - pls consider it

@aakashgupta @ProfSteveKeen If you’re going to use AI (which is super obvious here) to share an analysis, at least make it a good one

Sydney has 70 beaches within city limits. The coastline stretches 240 kilometers from Palm Beach in the north to Royal National Park in the south. The harbor alone has 317 kilometers of foreshore. More than 40% of the metro area is green space or national parkland. For comparison: Los Angeles has 75 miles of coastline but most of it is private or industrial. New York City has 520 miles of coastline but try swimming at most of it. London has zero beaches. Tokyo has artificial ones. Sydney somehow built a metro of 5.3 million people around one of the most dramatic natural harbors on the planet and kept the coastline almost entirely public. The entire 6-kilometer Bondi to Coogee walk sits on sandstone cliffs above the Pacific and costs nothing. The trade-off: median house price approaching $2 million AUD. The total value of residential property in NSW alone is $5.4 trillion. That single state’s housing stock is worth more than the entire GDP of Japan. The scenery explains the price. The price explains why a generation of Australians is moving to Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. Those three cities just made the biggest jumps in the 2026 World’s Best Cities rankings. Perth climbed 15 spots. Brisbane climbed 11. Australia is running a natural experiment in what happens when livability pricing pushes an entire generation to the next tier of cities. The answer: those cities start looking like Sydney did 20 years ago.

if you’re smart and technical and looking for what ai was in 2016 I think it’s ultrasound research for consciousness. so tiny, you can become world class best if you make it your focus for a few years

@boyuan_chen @coreyhainesco Begone, bot!

@coreyhainesco The eval coverage is the real story here. Agent skills are notoriously brittle since the models underneath keep shifting. 197 conversation-level assertions means you can actually catch regressions before users do.

Marketing Skills v1.4.0 is out. What shipped: /lead-magnets — high-converting lead magnet strategy. Format selection, opt-in copy, delivery mechanics, and nurture sequences. Composio integration — one MCP server connects your agent to HubSpot, Salesforce, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Google Sheets, Slack, Notion, and 500+ more tools. No API key juggling. 197 evals across all 33 skills — automated conversation tests with assertions and boundary coverage. Every skill is now CI-testable. 10 new CLI tools — airops, clay, close, coupler, crossbeam, outreach, pendo, similarweb, supermetrics, zoominfo. 61 total. Free, open source. npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills

@gptbrooke @orthonormalist @marinwaves Nice, love the name

@orthonormalist @marinwaves is building a platform called coliven.com !

Crowdsourcing research: Are there any emerging community/third space organizing apps or platforms? Anything structured beyond Meetup seems basically dead to me but I'm not hip.

@worldnetwork @0xIr3nE A solution against an internet of bots, and ID for bots as well lol

@0xIr3nE Strange but real

As millions of agents start to come online, the internet needs to distinguish bot armies from the agents acting on behalf of humans. Introducing AgentKit, the human layer for agentic automation. Built on World ID, the AgentKit beta unlocks human-verified automation, a new primitive for the agent economy.

@JosephNWalker Yeap there’s no comparison to working with coding agents with md (and other files)

Obsidian x Claude Code has been a game changer for me. I’m maybe 20-30% more productive. Is anyone else finding this?

@robertlasagna1 Just roll with it

In Australia, they call buns "rolls", and they won't tell me why and they won't stop

I’m increasingly convinced our final judgment will be whether we used our time on Earth to stop the atrocities our species commits upon ourselves and our fellow beings

@dioscuri Yeap less Rome more Greece please

We need this for Classical Greece. Open at Thermopylae, build through the golden age, then watch it all unravel in the Peloponnesian War. Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Socrates. The finale is the hemlock.

@Brynbikes @nmhbuxo I got a kebab the other day in Spain - I wasn't asked about which sauces I wanted, they just gave me ketchup and mayo (!?!?) didn’t realise how good we have it with our local Bosses

@nmhbuxo Travelling overseas taught me we really take our local kebab stores for granted here. Genuinely best in the world.