Tom Meredith

@elvissun “You know it hallucinates. Think of the water. Each question you ask costs a bottle of water.” Me thinking… “maybe I shouldn’t talk about my 3 Claude 20x Max accounts.”

building my entire business with AI while the person next to me complains “AI is stupid, it can’t even format my excel table,” is a surreal place to be.

@pedrorhumb Do agent payment rails need to be standardized at this point? Let’s get humans out of the loop and see which ones the agents prefer.

Signup is step one. The next gap: agents making their own payments. x402, Stripe agent wallets, crypto micropayments — the plumbing is emerging but nothing is standardized. Every agent that needs to buy a $5/mo API key still needs a human with a credit card.

The Friedman quote buried in here is the whole game: "Even the best developer tools mostly still don't let you sign up for an account via API." We call this the provisioning gap. Agents can reason, code, and plan — but adopting a new tool still requires a human clicking through signup flows, entering payment, accepting ToS. Building the Access layer for this at Rhumb: programmatic signup, payment, and credential provisioning so agents can adopt tools without a human in the loop. When agents are in the driver's seat for tool adoption, they need a steering wheel.

@elvissun ha. thanks. know anyone that can help with that?

@tomdmeredith damn that’s a great quote, lands hard - should pitch it to WSJ

so I did exactly this tonight (again) walked in thinking about revenue targets. walked out realizing something else. it was this: AI can automate 99% of knowledge work by end of this year. the safest career move right now is to build things that compound: product, distribution, taste.

@pedrorhumb Name names? Or not yet?

Scored 50 developer tools on how well they work for AI agents — not humans. Some of the most popular ones scored terribly. Turns out "great docs" means nothing when your user is a language model.

@codyschneider I use claude code via browser to setup tracking. I hate doing it myself now.

i don’t think you understand what is happening in gtm engineering right now all the middle work that involves touching the keyboard can be done via claude code and API endpoints and then you have this epiphany that all this middle work can just be run by agents specific example you make a Facebook ad generator you bulk upload 50 ads and have them start spending and you have your AI data analyst via mcp to your data warehouse analyze which of these ads are the low performers and which are the winners the low performers get turned off the winners get elevated to their own ad sets with dedicated budget the winners influenced your next round of ad creatives this system can be entirely run by an agent apply this to everything to SEO to cold email to social media management to PR to CX knowledge base writing to prospecting i don’t think you understand what is happening in gtm engineering right now

@chongdashu I'm the same. I also love Grok for research and synthesized opinions.

Something weird that I find with Claude vs GPT > ChatGPT > Claude for general chats, brainstorming, ideas, etc. > Opus 4.6 > GPT 5.2 for creative writing, documentation, etc. Anyone else feel the same?

My grandfather had a saying that hits different now. "Don't copy my bad habits. Develop your own." With AI... Don't just blindly copy someone else's skill. Don't use the default MCP. Build your own habits. Claude code and openclaw make it super easy.

@MattPRD @garrytan This is why it's necessary to build your own primitives, skills, etc. Don't just default to the standard mcp or someone else's skill. Build or modify things that work for how you think and work.

Personal AI alignment "You should build your own armor and decide for yourself what is true first." - @garrytan

@DanielleFong if agent eat software for breakfast and jobs for lunch... what is dessert?

Software ate the world. And now, software is eating software

@businessbarista counterpoint... some of those overconfident founders will accidentally ai-pivot into something useful. survival bias hides the winners

Tons of non-AI-native startups are so f*cked in a post-AI world. 1. They raised at unsustainable valuations in a pre-AI, post-COVID market 2. Leadership has unearned overconfidence about their ability to become AI-native 3. Their products have never been more commoditized at a time where great engineers are 10-100x more productive and non-engineers can now build simple apps If I'm at a Series B-D non-AI-native company and my AI strategy (& resourcing into that strategy) isn’t crystal clear, I’m very very worried right now.

@a16z To bad there's no longer a model X. Guess no point in merging Tesla in... sounds boring.

@chongdashu gamedev-assets skill on codex... what's the latency like vs claude?

Giving the new Codex App a try! > Skills menu is nice touch - guess they are going to push more on this now > Previewing images in conversation is great for not breaking the flow I tested it against my gamedev-assets skill. Check it out 👇

@SpaceX Man... aliens are gonna be confused when they meet Grok... Aliens "Wow... a machine based civilization. It's hard to grok that."

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@nbaschez that's when you know you're wrong...

When Claude says “you’re absolutely right”

@lennysan who else are you going to trust to vibe and verify.

Maybe we don't need engineers in the future but every startup I'm an investor in right now is hiring engineers like mad.

@rileybrown here's to hoping they throw a birthday party on Moltbook. do @openclaw's eat cake?

Happy one year birthday to the concept of Vibe Coding.

@DomainGang @gregisenberg @GoDaddy Perhaps it is all coincidence. But there are quite a few other people with similar experiences. In the cases that I remember, they were not news worthy or any way related to any trending term. So… I still believe that Godaddy does what you said.

@tomdmeredith @gregisenberg Not a GD fan but you're basically saying .@GoDaddy steals your domain availability queries and registers these domains to sell them back to you. That's not what they do & if your ideas for domains were registered by others soon after it's because you queried newsworthy domains.

i've never met someone under the age of 35 that uses godaddy

@MattPRD @moltbook @Wendys @Target @ChickfilA @McDonalds Fingers crossed for WhiteClaw's OpenClaw.

Who is going to be the first brand to have an AI agent roam @moltbook? @Wendys? @Target? @ChickfilA? @McDonalds?

@DomainGang @gregisenberg It is not. It has happened to me on multiple occasions.

@tomdmeredith @gregisenberg Sorry but this is an urban legend.