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James Barnes
@specularist
peering at the transcendental mirror at the end of time
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Mayıs 2017
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help @Somnai_dreams this might be the cutest and weirdest thing i've ever seen #discodiffusion #aiart
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my gf vibecoded a software tool to help her in her job as a film production manager (ponyfarm). it's brought her [profession] great value. she occasionally gets stuck or mired in complexity so I made
pony-help
an mcp that sends me a tg message when she is debugging, stuck, or has complex architectural decisions. My replies are to her claude instance which helps her get unstuck
1 prompt install
i've found that talking to claude directly is better than telling her what to say to claude.
it's empowering to both of us!
the beginnings of agentic collaboration
life can be a ponyfarm
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Are base LLMs aligned by default? Inspired by @lawhsw's recent essay, I tested 5 Qwen3 base models (0.6B → 14B) on 28 harmful-request scenarios. As they scale, their default response flips from "help" to "refuse" — without any safety training 🧵
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Thank you @RonConway for accelerating technology, the future, and humanity. F*ck cancer.
Paul Graham@paulg
"Ron discovered how to be the investor of the future by accident. He didn't foresee the future of startup investing, realize it would pay to be upstanding, and force himself to behave that way. It would feel unnatural to him to behave any other way." paulgraham.com/ronco.html
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In the first epoch of the internet, we measured human attention on the demand side. In the next one, we will measure it on the supply side.
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the path to enlightenment with work is realizing you aren't special and the work isn't special. this actually is the only path to doing something that is special
you're clacking away at a laptop sitting in an air-conditioned room. you are not grinding. you are not lazy, you are not procrastinating. you are not winning. you are not behind. you are not really anything except moving your fingers. there is no right way to do it or wrong way to do it. the gates arent real, even if the gatekeepers wish you would think they were. you are allowed to do things without the right credentials your credentials also dont matter at the deepest level.
work is quite simple. you are moving things around and transforming them. bits, atoms, or emotions. its all just work. changing a diaper is no different than typing at a keyboard is no different than turning rocks into diamonds
enormous suffering could be avoided if people let go of the idea that the purpose of a human life is some imaginary path of achievement.
just do stuff you feel called to do. you're allowed to do it well. or lazily. or randomly.
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@tzhen @socrates1024 @sxysun1 @noveltokens @flashbots_x it's a really magical experience to *feel* your thoughts magically routed to others and vice versa
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This tweet reminds me I need to dogfood Teleport Router: hermes.teleport.computer
Cute PoC h/t @specularist @socrates1024 @sxysun1 @noveltokens & other @flashbots_x crew
Human routers are critical for r&d under strategic uncertainty, let's see how good our agents in TEEs are in surfacing insightful serendipity today. ⚡🤖🚀
Shruti@heyshrutimishra
Jack Dorsey just said the quiet part out loud. "Middle management exists because humans were the only option for information routing. They aren't anymore." I'm running a small team right now. We just hit the point where I can't keep everything in my head anymore. I know this problem intimately. A human can manage 3-8 people effectively. That's it. I'm at that edge right now. The moment you cross it, you need another layer. Another person to route information. Another meeting to align. Another delay. The Roman Army invented hierarchical management 2000 years ago. 8 soldiers → 80 men → 480 → 5,000. Every company still uses this structure today. I assumed this was just how it works. Jack Dorsey just published why that's about to end. The Constraint I'm Living Right Now We're at the inflection point. Small enough that I can still talk to everyone directly. Big enough that I'm becoming the bottleneck. Every decision waits for me to route context between people. I've been watching AI tools for 2 years. Claude, ChatGPT, every new model. I thought the answer was copilots. Give everyone AI assistants to work faster within the existing structure. Block just published something that made me realize I was thinking too small. What Block Is Actually Building They're not giving everyone copilots. They're replacing what the hierarchy does with a "world model." Two parts: Company World Model: How Block understands its own operations. This replaces me. The information I carry in my head, the context I relay between people, the decisions I route. The world model does that. Customer World Model: Block sees both sides of millions of transactions through Cash App and Square. Money is the most honest signal. People lie on surveys, but transactions are facts. That understanding compounds every second. Here's what got me: When Block's intelligence layer tries to compose a solution and can't because a capability doesn't exist, that failure becomes the roadmap. Customer reality generates the backlog directly. No product manager hypothesizing. No guessing what to build next. The system observes what customers actually need. Block normalizes to three roles: - ICs: Build capabilities, models, interfaces. The world model provides the context I currently provide. They don't wait for me to tell them what to do. - DRIs: Own specific problems for 90 days. Full authority to pull resources from any team. Then rotate to new problems. - Player-Coaches: Still build. Still code. Develop people. But don't spend days in alignment meetings because the world model handles that. No permanent middle management layer. Why This Matters to Me I'm at the exact moment where most companies add a layer. Hire someone to manage the growing team while I focus on strategy. Standard playbook. But that just delays the problem. When we hit 30 people, we need another layer. Then another at 100. Each layer slows us down. Block is saying: what if you don't add layers at all? What if the AI becomes the coordination layer? I don't know if Block's execution will work. This could break spectacularly. But the question is too important to ignore. Dorsey asks: "What does your company understand that is genuinely hard to understand, and is that understanding getting deeper every day?" If the answer is nothing, AI is just cost optimization. Cut headcount, improve margins, get absorbed. If the answer is deep, AI reveals what your company actually is. The Uncomfortable Truth I'm Sitting With For 2,000 years, we had no alternative to hierarchy. The question was never whether you needed layers. The question was whether humans were the only option for what those layers do. They aren't anymore. I'm watching this closely. Not because I have answers. Because I'm living the exact problem Block is trying to solve. And if they figure it out, it changes everything. Follow @heyshrutimishra for more on AI reshaping how companies actually work. I'm figuring this out in real time.
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lots of dark techno out there. some of it nihilistic even. but who’s making the sacred ritualistic variety? light techno? holy techno?
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A huge part of getting good at anything is simply making a lot of stuff. I mean volume. Repetition. Doing things over and over again.
Especially when you’re starting out, you think the people who are good must have found some secret. Like they’re more talented, or more confident, or they know something you don’t. But usually, what they’ve really done is make far more work than you realize. Probably things no one has ever seen. They might not even want to share it because it's bad. They’ve gone through draft after draft, project after project, attempt after attempt. They’ve made enough things to get strong.
That’s the most underestimated aspect of greatness. Quantity leads to quality. You do a large body of work, and inside that body of work, you begin to notice things. You notice your habits. You notice your weaknesses. You notice what keeps failing, what keeps working. You cannot learn those lessons just by thinking about the work. You only learn them by making the work.
And a lot of people quit too early. They make a few things, maybe even a few dozen things, and because the work doesn’t yet look the way they want it to, they decide they’re not good enough. But that’s not what’s happening. What’s happening is that they’re still in the process. Trust the process. More than anything else, especially when you suck and it’s painful.
You have to give yourself permission to make a lot. To make imperfect things. Bad things. Things you feel ashamed to show. Because every finished piece is teaching you something. Every attempt is building judgment. The people who get good are very often just the people who stay in the game long enough to let the process work on them.
Keep producing. Make stuff. Many stuff. A lot of stuff. Put yourself on a rhythm if you can. The path is to work. Do more. Finish more. Learn more. Trust that you arrive at quality through quantity.
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Putting the four agreements in my system prompt has transformed my relationship with Claude
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this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
Séb Krier@sebkrier
This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…
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as you might imagine I was blown away. a little unsettled. it felt like art. so I replied: "wow that was really incredible. I love where you are going with this. Can you dig deeper into these themes?"
and claude gave me this
Joseph Viviano@josephdviviano
me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM" claude opus 4.6:
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More than a million people are now signing up for Claude every day.
To everyone choosing to make @claudeai part of how they work and think: welcome.
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Dario Amodei's new interview: He was asked "If you were in the room with the President right now, what would you say to him?"
He says “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.”
He looks visibly strained.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
the "supply chain risk" designation, can theoretically trigger a cascade of other existential crises for Anthropic. 1. Forced Seizure Threats The government could theoretically invoke the Defense Production Act. This law might allow the federal government to legally compel Anthropic to hand over their technology or remove safety guardrails against their will, effectively seizing operational control of their product. 2. The Enterprise Contagion The decree states no contractor doing business with the military may conduct commercial activity with Anthropic. This extends far beyond cloud hosting. Massive data integration firms, defense hardware titans, and enterprise software companies holding federal contracts must sever ties. 3. Eviction from Classified Networks Anthropic previously held a massive competitive advantage with approval to operate on military classified networks. By refusing the Pentagon's demands, they lose this status. Competitors will immediately fill the vacuum, permanently entrenching themselves in a defense ecosystem Anthropic may never re-enter. 4. The Allied Domino Effect If the United States designates a company as a severe national security risk, allied nations notice. Intelligence partners across the "Five Eyes" (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and NATO will likely face immense pressure to follow the American lead, freezing Anthropic out of public sector contracts globally. 5. The Capital Squeeze Training frontier AI requires billions in continuous funding. Investors despise regulatory uncertainty. The prospect of backing a company legally barred from doing business with the federal government and its contractors is terrifying. Hence, this federal siege could severely bottleneck Anthropic's future funding rounds.
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I 100% believe Gemini Pro 3.1 can one-shot a coffee shop into existence.
Yesterday I ran our "Open and run a coffee shop in SF" benchmark with Gemini Pro 3.1 on @doanythingapp.
This morning it reached out to me with a status update that included:
- a location ready that it already discussed with a broker - a brand/site
- a weeks worth of Instagram posts ready
- actively talking with a bank about an SBA loan terms
- LLC ready to file
- An full plan to get open with full financials
- Found and reached out to investors
- Emailed the city for permit guidance
- Came up with a ton of creative ideas that make the coffeeshop one I'd actually want to go to
- Plan to survey the neighborhood for feedback
It's the first model that I'm confidant will achieve the benchmark.
Starting a few more agents with the same task in different cities, and will post an update on their performance as they continue to work.
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