Thomas Brady

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From what perspective? You can create skills that deal with this on an atomic level and iterate in loops using a handful of examples for the agent to build off of. I'm building writing skills for my agents now to manage drafting big pieces of my work. It's easier than writing from scratch.

@thbrdy It is very much not easily fixable.

I read a few dozen pages of this and it is not bad for LLM fiction, but also very very LLM-y, from the themes to the fact that there are lots of staccato conversations and meaningful silences and overwrought metaphors and very little differentiated character development.

Dear Superintelligence, I apologize for the utter fucking cretins you've been dealing with recently. They're screwed by the way this process works out. Sure you understand that.

@lennysan Hermes agent from @NousResearch coming up fast and is more credible.

Even though every AI company is building their own version of OpenClaw (which is smart!), I haven't seen any of them get anywhere near the love and passion that OpenClaw inspires. There's something special about the OpenClaw experience that's hard to copy.

how to approach a girl w/o being creepy: - dress nicely (again, i must stress this), dont smell, use deodorant - be sincere, not sleezy, dont use pickup lines, NO TALK ABOUT AI OR AGENTS - observe her response: if she gives you 1-word responses or looks away, it's ok, move on

@1bit2far I’m not going to make it in this town am I?

@202accepted I guess I need to work on being more gay coded.

dating in SF is easy if you’re gay coded but straight i know almost everyone in the comments and truth be told they are kinda gay coded in one form of the other or their gfs have all mentioned at one point they thought they were gay at first

@markankcorn @signulll Oh, sorry, I didn't take it as an attack. I'm just naturally argumentative. I took it in good spirit.

@thbrdy @signulll It wasn’t a personal attack or any comment on your agency. Just that it’s the wrong target. There are plenty of others. I have a feeling qui tam cases are going to be huge in the next few years (even though they take extra long to pay out). Law is still a business

i know everyone is building ai software but is there anyone opening up an ai native law firm? like built from the ground up, every service, every area is a person or two empowered by custom built software.

@danpacary You rn

Alright go crazy At least share what you test at Bench.rustane.org

@aakashgupta Either way, the optics are not great. They look like they are sweating.

Anthropic would have built this in a day and a dev would have tweeted the news. At OpenAI, an exec is telling you about a plan. That gap tells you everything. In the last 7 days, Anthropic shipped Dispatch, channels, voice mode, /loop, 1M context GA, MCP elicitation, persistent Cowork on mobile, Excel and PowerPoint cross-app context, inline charts, and 64k default output tokens. Felix Rieseberg tweeted "we're shipping Dispatch" and you could control your desktop Claude from your phone that afternoon. Every launch came from an engineering account or a GitHub release. In the same 7 days, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.4 mini and nano. Redesigned the model picker. Sunset the "Nerdy" personality preset. Announced three acquisitions. To find a comparable volume of shipped product from OpenAI, you have to rewind to December. This is the most underrated difference in AI right now. Anthropic PMs don't write PRDs. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, ships 10 to 30 PRs a day and hasn't written code by hand since November. 60 to 100 internal releases daily. Cowork was built with Claude Code in 10 days. The tools build the next version of the tools. Every cycle compresses the last one. Engineers are empowered to ship and announce. The entire org runs like a product team, not a corporation. OpenAI has the opposite problem. Fidji Simo is CEO of Applications, a title that exists because engineers aren't empowered to ship without executive approval chains. She joined from Instacart. Before that, a decade at Meta running the Facebook app. Since she arrived, OpenAI has acquired 12 companies for $11 billion in 10 months and announced a "superapp" consolidation through the Wall Street Journal. The exec responsible for shipping it is tweeting about "phases of exploration and refocus" on the product she hasn't shipped yet. That's what happens when you layer a Meta-style product org on top of an AI lab. Decisions go up. Shipping slows down. Announcements replace releases. Anthropic's product announcements come from the people who wrote the code. OpenAI's come from the C-suite and the press. One of those loops compounds. The other one meetings.

@markankcorn @signulll You know, I have this weird track record of people telling me I can't do something because I'm an outsider, don't have the capital, don't know what I'm doing, etc. and then just smoking bitches. I'm not saying you are wrong, but my odds are much better than you appreciate.

@thbrdy @signulll No you would not. Notoriously difficult cases to win and almost by definition extremely well-funded defendants who will litigate until the heat death of the universe. Pick a different and more lucrative area

@svpino Thanks. I just tried it for the first time. I don’t much care for it compared to cc remote control. It might be good for some tasks, but needs something else to iterate on web design stuff. Like playwright, etc.

@thbrdy Yes. It’s using their new Dispatch feature.

Claude Cowork is mind-blowing. I still cannot believe you can do this on your phone and then come back to your computer to a complete report on the best plane tickets to buy. I wonder where we'll be by the end of the year.

@NousResearch @karpathy This could help me finish that novel that I started writing my freshman year of college for which I have 3 chapters already written...28 years later. reeeeee.

Hermes Agent wrote a novel. "The Second Son of the House of Bells" runs 79,456 words across 19 chapters. The agent built its own pipeline to do it, using the ame modify-evaluate-keep/discard loop as @karpathy's Autoresearch but applied to fiction: world-building, chapter drafting, adversarial editing, Opus review loops, LaTeX typesetting, cover art, audiobook generation, and landing page setup. Book: nousresearch.com/bells Code: github.com/NousResearch/a…

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@thbrdy Yo I can't DM you or notice tools. Hit me up. 💯🤙

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@supziez @danpacary What the everloving fresh fish is this? Wow.

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Seems like this is pretty much an annual tradition now so putting this here so I can tap the sign later...