Ty Martin

@BentoBoiNFT @Kenaadams99 True. Keeping Sonnet 5 in their pocket for the right moment.

@Kenaadams99 Claude is undefeated tho can’t lie

Why would anyone choose OpenClaw vs Claude Code? Claude now has: • Discord/Telegram integration • Cron Jobs (/loop) • 1M token memory • Webhooks to phone • Can run 24/7 on any Computer or Mac Mini This covers 95% of what people actually use OpenClaw for with better security and easier setup The only reason to stick with OpenClaw is if you want a multi-agent setup. That's the only difference I could think of Going to stick with OpenClaw for now because of this, but the gap is almost at zero

@BentoBoiNFT @tobiasfendt_ Mine too. I have a bunch of workarounds to self revive.

@tobiasfendt_ Definitely nice but Claude basically has all the same capabilities now Also my OpenClaw breaks so damn much 😭

@Scobleizer Do you think simple permissions models and sandboxes are enough?

Today the AI open model panel with a dozen CEOs of the biggest open models with Jensen was spectacular. Suggest watching the whole thing. I captured it all, but it will take me a while to get it uploaded. The real takeaway? It all comes down to trust, since AI is going to run mission critical things. Hospitals. Grids. Factories. Stores. Transportation. Even our entertainment and news. Closed models aren't as trustworthy as open ones. For a whole lot of reasons that the CEOs spent more than an hour discussing with Jensen today in front of one of the bigger audiences at GTC. Shows the industry interest in open models. This was right before the discussion began, thanks @holgermu capturing me showing the CNQQ Buubuu (its mascot) around. Speaking of the Buubuu. I thought it was silly that I had to wear it and show it around. But so many people walking by said "nice BuuBuu." I have a few in my backpack and they made quite a few people's day. Will hand out more tomorrow.

There's worry that people will stop using their brains with LLMs, but managing several AI agent threads in parallel has been some of the most cognitively intensive work I've done in years

@AdamBartas Or they realize their market has huge overlap with ChatGPT rejects

First sign that Lovable is dead Pivoting to general assistant is the most "investor-pleasing" move you could do Their app building business is obv going nowhere and investor money is drying up Why should anyone use Lovable instead of the already established ecosystems

@gothburz Whoa

I told you I pivoted to AI. It's going extremely well. I raised $4 million. The pitch deck had 22 slides. The word "AI" appeared on every single one. Fourteen slides had the word "AI" in the title. Three slides were just the letters "AI" in large font over a stock photo of a brain with circuits on it. One slide said "THE FUTURE IS NOW." That was the financial projections slide. There were no financial projections. There was the brain. My startup is called Synthetica. We are an "AI-native intelligence platform." That means we built a website that calls the ChatGPT API and displays the response in our own font. The font is called Satoshi. I chose it because it sounded like crypto and technology at the same time. Two birds. Neither of them real. We have a whitepaper. It's the same whitepaper from my crypto startup with "blockchain" replaced by "neural network." Find and replace. That's our IP. Our product costs $29 a month. ChatGPT costs $20 a month. The difference is our logo and a loading screen that says "Thinking deeply..." while it waits for the API to respond. It's the same API. The customer is paying $9 a month for the loading screen. I call that the moat. My technical co-founder built the entire product in a weekend. We spent the next eleven months "iterating on the brand." That means we changed the color of the loading screen four times. He quit in month seven. I replaced him with a contractor in the Philippines who charges $15 an hour. I told investors we have "a globally distributed engineering team." That's two people. One of them is me. I don't code. We raised the $4 million in February. The lead investor asked what our moat was. I said "proprietary AI infrastructure." He asked what that meant. I said "we've built a custom orchestration layer on top of foundation models." He asked if that was an API key. I said "it's significantly more sophisticated than that." It's an API key. He invested $2 million. His fund has "AI" in its name. It was a crypto fund until 2023. They changed the name. They changed the website. They did not change the partners or the strategy. The strategy is to invest in things they don't understand and exit before anyone notices. I respect that. It's the same strategy as mine. The partners all have the same LinkedIn arc. Crypto evangelist from 2020 to 2022. "Building in stealth" from 2022 to 2023. AI visionary since January 2024. The conviction was always there. The noun changed. OpenAI just raised at a $730 billion valuation. That's more than the GDP of Switzerland. Anthropic is at $380 billion. In January and February alone, $220 billion went into AI companies. 83% of all venture capital in February went to three companies. Three. The other 17% went to four thousand startups like mine. API wrappers with pitch decks. Loading screens with brand identities. $29-a-month products built on $20-a-month products. A company with fewer than 100 employees is now worth $12 billion. I don't know what they do. Neither does the company. But they have a whitepaper. And the whitepaper has a diagram. And the diagram has arrows. Arrows mean progress. We're early. I launched a token. SYN. The Synthetica utility token. It powers the "decentralized AI marketplace" we haven't built yet. Someone asked what the token does. I said it "facilitates value exchange within the Synthetica ecosystem." He asked what that meant in plain English. I said "you can buy it and it might go up." He bought $12,000 worth. The total market cap of SYN is $340,000. I own 40% of the supply. My Discord owns another 30%. My Discord has 1,200 members. Eight hundred of them are bots I bought on Fiverr. We have a Telegram too. The Telegram has a price bot. The price bot posts the SYN price every hour. The price has not changed in three weeks. Nobody has traded it. The bot keeps posting. That's community engagement. I used the same Discord. I just changed the banner. The crypto community became the AI community overnight. Nobody noticed. The conversations are identical. Just replace "to the moon" with "to AGI." I also run a Polymarket bot. An AI-powered prediction market trading agent. It bets on real-world events using an algorithm I don't understand, funded by money I don't have, on a platform a U.S. Senator is trying to ban. Fourteen of Polymarket's top twenty traders are bots. Bots made $40 million last year exploiting pricing gaps. One bot made $115,000 in a single week. Mine lost $4,200 in eleven days. But I made a course about it. "AI-Powered Prediction Markets: The $115K Playbook." It costs $497. The playbook is a PDF. The PDF has screenshots of someone else's bot. I added my logo. Thirty-one people bought it. I made more from the course than the bot made from the market. That's the real alpha. The CFTC put out a warning that said "fraudsters are exploiting public interest in artificial intelligence to tout automated trading algorithms" that "promise unreasonably high or guaranteed returns." I screenshotted that too. I posted it in my Discord. I said "they're trying to shut us out." That got forty-seven rocket emojis. The bots sent thirty of them. A veteran VC said this week that AI valuations are "overheated." He said "buy high, sell higher only works in a bubble." I screenshotted that quote. I posted it in my Discord. I said "this is what they said about the internet." They also said it about the metaverse. They were right about the metaverse. I was there. I owned eleven properties. They're worth $6,400 now. Combined. My Bored Ape went from $189,000 to $14,000. The Gucci store is still empty. My beachfront villa is a mobile app. I learned a lot from that experience. I learned that if something goes to zero, you should pivot to the next thing and do it again faster. The metaverse taught me timing. Crypto taught me language. AI taught me that the language doesn't have to mean anything as long as the timing is right. We're early. I hosted a demo day. Fourteen investors came. I showed them the product. I typed a question into Synthetica. The loading screen said "Thinking deeply..." for eight seconds. Then it gave the same answer ChatGPT gives. One investor asked "is this just ChatGPT?" I said "we leverage GPT-4 as one component of our multi-model reasoning stack." He asked what the other components were. I said "proprietary." He asked to see them. I said they were "in stealth." Stealth means they don't exist. He invested $400,000. My mom called. She asked how the AI company was going. I said "we just closed a $4 million round." She said "is this like the metaverse thing?" I said "this is completely different." She said "you said that about the NFTs." I said "the NFTs were digital art. This is artificial intelligence." She said "is the monkey still your profile picture?" I changed the subject. She asked if I was eating enough. I am not eating enough. I spent my grocery budget on GPU credits. I don't know what a GPU does. But you need them for AI. Everyone says you need them. I have $7,000 in GPU credits on a platform I've logged into twice. That's infrastructure. My accountant called. The same one. He asked about the startup. I said "we're pre-revenue." He said "you've been pre-revenue at every company you've ever started." I said "this time we have product-market fit." He asked what our product was. I said "an AI-native intelligence platform." He asked what it did. I said "it thinks deeply." He said "so it's a loading screen." I hung up. He's not a visionary. We're early. I know we're early because I've been early my entire life. I was early to the metaverse. I was early to NFTs. I was early to the DAO. I was early to the token. Every single time, I was early. I have never once been on time. But that's the thing about being early. You don't have to be right. You just have to be first. And then when it collapses, you say you were "too early." And when the next thing comes, you say "this time is different." This time is different. The AI bubble is not a bubble. It's a paradigm shift. A fundamental restructuring of how value is created and captured in the digital economy. I read that in a pitch deck. It might have been mine. They all look the same. I have a folder on my desktop called "Pitch Decks." There are forty-seven files in it. I opened one from 2021. It said "THE METAVERSE IS A PARADIGM SHIFT." I opened one from 2024. It said "AI IS A PARADIGM SHIFT." Same font. Same brain. Same slide. I didn't delete the metaverse one. I might need it again. We're early. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@Bencera Gemini 3.1 pro is excellent for early brainstorming scenarios and evolving ideas too

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.

They pulled off the impossible: made a real human video look 100% AI generated 🤣

@journoverax Thanks but reading long form on x is hideous UX, no bookmarks, unshareable. Post to your telegram? I joined.

@tymrtn no, I only post on X and my Telegram channel: t.me/veraxverax

My opinion on the European Commission's proposal for an "EU Inc": We are getting the icing, without the cake. We asked for structural reform, for a genuine 28th regime. Draghi asked for a 28th regime. Letta asked for a 28th regime. The Council asked for a 28th regime. We got 27 new national forms instead. Each in their local ecosystem, local courts, and only partial harmonization, with *some* genuinely appreciated goodies. But I fear these goodies won't be consequential. Because this was always about building something that is better than Delaware. If we can't manage that Europe's best and brightest will continue founding outside of Europe, will move elsewhere, take capital from elsewhere and create jobs and growth elsewhere. Europe deserves better than this. And we frankly cannot allow unambition and political complexity to hold us back from building the Europe we need. If the EU and all 27 member states cannot deliver a true EU–INC, then we might need to build a coalition of genuinely ambitious European countries that are actually serious about fixing Europe. Why should a damn EU Court - that apparently is "too hard" to implement - keep us back from reaching global competitiveness and technological sovereignity in Europe? It shouldn't. European founders, investors and everyone who cares about Europe need to step up now and lobby their national governments and MEPs for a real EU–INC. Nobody else will do it for us. Clearly. Watch Lambertus Robben of @EU_Made_Simple analyse the "EU Inc" proposal by the Commission below. This is spot on. We can do better. For Europe. 🇪🇺🫡

@signulll Expatriator.com

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.

@bryan_johnson Nocturnal emissions?

Two doses of magic mushrooms degraded my sperm count from the 99.6th percentile to the 77.7th. This may be a first-in-human observation. Context: we ran the most quantified magic mushroom (psilocybin) experiment ever conducted. We were asking if psilocybin is a longevity therapy. After seeing the data, we think it is (see reply post for the experiment summary). Also, like most things biology: the results are complicated. My data suggests that the magic mushrooms (psilocybin) negatively impacted my fertility markers. Before the first psilocybin dose my motile sperm count was at 99.6th percentile for men under 25 years of age, it dropped to 77.7% and partially recovered to 89.3% following the first dose, and second doses, compared to the same age cohort (numbers compare similarly to my age cohort as well). 3 days following my second dose (first dose 25 mg, second dose 28 mg) . Motility: dropped 51% . Total count: almost unchanged, dropped by 2% . Total motile count: dropped 52% . Normal morphology: dropped by 50% 20 days post 2nd dose, the pattern continued, with typical latent effects on total sperm counts Motility: recovered back to -2% of pre-psilocybin baseline: . Total count: dropped by 38%, latent effect. . Total motile count: remained inhibited at -39% of pre-psilocybin baseline, (despite motility normalizing, due to the total count drop) . Morphology normalized to -10% of baseline levels. Reduction in free testosterone might have contributed to the effect. While total serum testosterone increased by 30% 3 days following the 2nd dose (neither FSH or LH were meaningfully affected either), and continued to be at 11% above baseline, SHBG increased by 37%, SHBG binds testosterone and reduces its bioavailability and activity. My free testosterone (direct) showed 24% and 23% drops at 3 and 20 days post 2nd dose. In light of the neuroplastic, well-being, brain reset, and systemic metabolic and anti-inflammatory benefits, the trade-off is probably worth it. Especially considering that the magnitude of inhibition has no meaningful effect on actual fertility (total motile counts above 50 million are still on the safe side). This is a first-in-human observation, to our knowledge there is no published human clinical study demonstrating that psilocybin diminishes male fertility markers. General mechanistic evidence exists for recreational and psychoactive drugs possibly inhibiting fertility markers due to their effects on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and general hormonal reset.  Yet no direct evidence for psilocybin or other similar psychedelics inhibiting fertility markers exist. A potential mechanism for the immediate inhibition of motility could involve direct serotonergic signaling in sperm. Human sperm express multiple serotonin receptors, including 5-HT2A, and one recent study found that a 5-HT2A antagonist reduced sperm motility, suggesting that 5-HT2A may regulate motility. Psilocybin is known to bind 5-HT2A with high affinity.

@IdakaborJ @jurgen_nauditt Aw fuck. That’s exactly the right move from Putin

@tymrtn @jurgen_nauditt Update: He’s already shipped off to an asylum. Very Russian.

This is like a bomb in Russia. Ilya Remeslo, a long-time Russian patriot, professional informer, and lawyer, suddenly launched a direct attack on Putin: Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president. Vladimir Putin should resign and be tried as a war criminal and thief. Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin. Someone had to say it. 1. The war in Ukraine. The war, which began as a "police operation," has already claimed 1-2 million lives. I supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014 precisely because it was bloodless. We all thought back then that Putin was the unifier of the Russian lands. And here we are now—bloody attacks, the deception of contract workers, and much more, which any SVO participant will confirm. An absolutely hopeless war, enormous losses, it could last another 5-10 years—are you ready for that? No one is calling for war against Russia. But the war is currently being waged solely because of Putin's complexes; we ordinary citizens don't benefit from it, we only lose. And a few more points: 2. Enormous damage to the Russian economy and the well-being of its citizens. 3. Suppression of internet and media freedom. 4. Putin's term in office. 5. Putin doesn't respect his voters and refuses to listen to them. Conclusion: Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president. Vladimir Putin should resign and be tried as a war criminal and thief.

@IdakaborJ @jurgen_nauditt Yeah but that's what makes him a legit patriot.

Just the usual Russian. No bombshell in that consciousness. Same mindset, just now inconvenienced. “I supported Crimea because it was bloodless.” Not whether it was right. Not whether it was legal. Just whether it was Russia doing the oppression. Crimea wasn’t even bloodless. And even if it were, it was still an illegal annexation. That was the spark for everything that followed -the open war, the destruction, the hundreds of thousands of deaths. Now the war drags on, losses pile up, the state tightens control, and suddenly there’s regret -specifically because the state tightened control. To the average Russian, aggression is acceptable as long as it’s quick, kills fewer Russians, and feels cost‑free. Sadly, that is what Trump’s America is today. Even many so‑called moderates are less concerned about the descent into dictatorship and more concerned about the cost of invading Iran. If it were quick and far more bloodless, many would cheer it. We’ve seen this most recently with the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in January 2026, where the United States carried out strikes and captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. That action was widely framed as a swift success and praised by parts of the media and political left. So, for the sake of the world, may all the dictators -including the American orange moron- and their supporters pay a cost so high, and better sooner, for their relentless aggressions that it stops them before they stop the world.

Major challenge w @openclaw has been follow up. I built a workaround cron for a followup.md but it wasn't quite right. It turns out the default agent-coding skill.md is the problem – it needs to use sessions_spawn, NOT exec background in order for openclaw to pick up where it left off. Huge unlock for sustained productivity and task completion. Filed: github.com/openclaw/openc… cc @steipete

@MattPrusak Actually I’m going to do it right now.

@MattPrusak Awesome! Might be a good integration for family book! github.com/tymrtn/family-…

Your grandparents had grandparents. They had grandparents. Somewhere back there, someone got on a boat, or didn't. Someone changed their name, or had it changed for them. Someone is buried in a cemetery you've never heard of in a country you've never been to. Most families lose track after two generations. I used AI to push mine back nine. One session with @karpathy's autoresearch pattern: over 100 organized research files. It found a 1940 Norwegian emigrant history with my ancestors in it. Resolved a maiden name question that confused my family for 70 years. Identified relatives no one alive knew existed. The method is simple: set a goal, measure progress, verify against real records, repeat. The AI searches public archives, cross-references birth certificates against cemetery records against church books, and logs everything it finds (and everything it doesn't). Open sourced the whole toolkit. Prompts that do the research for you, archive guides for 20+ countries, starter templates, even a framework for making sense of DNA results. If you have a box of old photos and unanswered questions, this is where to start. github.com/mattprusak/aut…

@andreasklinger I saw ETA end of 2026… 🙄

Actively monitoring the situation…

It’s here? Finally? For real this time? No catches?