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“Kimi K3 is insanely good. Chinese open source is taking over.” “It’s trash, American frontier models are always 6 months ahead. Have you even used it?” “No, have you?” “No”

@tenobrus ❤️

i am increasingly concerned this is pretty much correct. not necessarily on the six month timeline but maybe 6-12, and that this pushes dramatically towards race dynamics and away from any possibility of cooperation. china actually committing to the open source path means from anthropic's perspective their margin for error has shrunk dramatically, and slowdowns have much much more tangible and imminent costs.

@arvindv Unable to DM

@vasuman happy to help

Anyone at OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/other incredible companies able to refer someone I know? Absolutely cracked individual, for PM/PO roles.

@JaidevShah4 DMd, thank you!

@vasuman Happy to refer them

@EXM7777 Value

I’m a simple man. I see a Machina article and I click it. Worth it every time.

@greyluox Banger

praying my codex session finishes before the next desktop update hits

@greyluox Banger

why does matcha always make me sleepy

Are we still talking loops or did we shift to graphs yet?

@levie Based

@shouldntspeak @nikitabier shoot this man

Imagine joining Databricks in 2017 at their Series D thinking oh boy the IPO is just around the corner and then 9 years later you raise a Series M

Imagine joining Databricks in 2017 at their Series D thinking oh boy the IPO is just around the corner and then 9 years later you raise a Series M

"Staying up to date on the latest in AI requires you to be unemployed" - X user Most people's AI setup is frozen in time based on whatever month they first built it. If that's you, it's not your fault. You're not lazy, staying up to date is nearly impossible. Every week there's a new model, a new methodology behind a harness, a new 'agent-loops'-esque bombshell that makes you think you have it all wrong. And unfortunately the vast majority of it is noise. Benchmarks are faked, terminology is astro-turfed, and virality is engineered. In an effort to provide a space for only the stuff that you need, both protecting you from the noise but keeping you up to date on what really matters and moves the needle: we're restarting the Varick Agents newsletter (it's free). We had nearly 50,000 subscribers and then went quiet for months (sorry lol). But going forward we'll be sticking to a weekly digest of what tools deserve a spot in your stack, how to build a harness that fits your needs, and which models are worth using. Find it below:

@thecaseywoodard Congratulations man!

Did a thing last month 💍

@DrewVento PE firm

I’d sell my option to press the yellow button to a PE firm for $490,000 dollars

Every man has two lives. The second one begins when he finally admits he was wrong about OpenClaw and sells his Mac Minis.

@dkfromdk 👀

"Every time we lower the cost of frontier intelligence, the use-cases that enterprises can take on just go up. There’s a tremendous amount of workflows (...) that are only gated by the cost of tokens." 100%! Gated by the cost of tokens & the implementation of those workflows

Always bullish on new hardware for the AI age