Tobin South

This was a genuinely fantastic (and hilarious) panel at ICML. Great takes on AI, security, liability, standards, and governance.

@kvtepov @bcherny lmk if you get any feedback on it!

@TobinSouth @bcherny Thx mate 💫 Appreciate all your and team's work!

looks like there are currently issues with the #GitHub MCP access via #CoWork. Custom #MCP connect and the native ones don't help. @bcherny I'm using @TobinSouth's connector. Ending up with the stdio binary install as my last resort.

github not showing any PRs, it's a PR crisis

@vivekkairi @dsp_ any in the meantime you can share a custom connector deep link: #custom-connectors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">claude.com/docs/connector…

it's terrible! (and it's my fault) — we're trying to maintain a super high bar for quality & safety, which makes scaling the operational, QA, & review workload to the long tail of startups and projects really hard. we're working on Claude automations and better tooling, but it all takes time. hopefully we can scale to every surface of knowledge work safely soon :)

@dsp_ Anthropic mcp directory listing process seems quite slow. It's been more than month we have submitted the form for FunnelStory but no update till now. Any help?

BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares. That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months. Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2 hours after. Daly City saved 109. Balboa Park saved 75. Across the system, 961 hours of cleanup work disappeared. Corrective maintenance is the term BART uses for graffiti, heavy soiling, vandalism, the damage that needs a crew not a janitor. At several stations it dropped to zero. Crime fell 41% year over year. Riders who reported seeing fare evasion on their trip dropped from 22% to 10%. Citations issued by BART police went from 2,200 in January to under 1,000 in July, because there was nothing to cite. The gates were a filtering project disguised as a revenue project. Old BART gates were waist-high orange fins designed in the 1970s. You could hop them in under a second. That made the station effectively a public space, and the rider mix reflected that. The new gates are 72 inches of polycarbonate with 3D sensors that detect tailgating. You either pay or you don't enter. Once you don't enter, you also don't smoke on the platform, sleep in the elevator, or harass other riders. BART tried hiring more police for years. Blitz operations at high-traffic stations. Increased patrols. Dedicated transit cops. None of it moved the numbers the way six feet of polycarbonate did. The $10 million in recovered fares is the smallest line in the return. Fare revenue used to cover 70% of BART operations. After the pandemic it collapsed to 22%. The gates won't fix that gap directly. They fix the precondition for fixing it: a system that office workers, families, and tourists are willing to use again. Ridership growth at stations with new gates outpaced ungated ones before the rollout finished. A $400 million annual deficit is heading to voters in November as a sales tax measure. Voters don't approve sales taxes for transit agencies they don't feel safe in. The $90 million on gates is buying BART the right to ask the public for more money. That's the real return on six feet of polycarbonate.

I still am not over the fact that I have an app on my phone that can just answer any question from all of human knowledge and talk it through with me. wild.

@RobertJBye always fun working with you @RobertJBye

Claude can now work with more connectors! This means Claude can use AllTrails to find the perfect hike for you, Spotify to create a playlist of new artists you’ll love, or Audible to find audiobooks in your favourite genre. Try it out, and let me know your thoughts!

@PoliNesterova @zebriez auuuuhhhh naaauuuhhh

@zebriez @TobinSouth I vote you haha

Do I know any Australian’s with a nice voice? I have a project for you!

To add context here in case anyone is interested in passing by — the Official Github MCP (which has been out for a while) is a good compliment to the Claude Github Integrations we already offer! (You can use it yourself api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/) It requires a Github OAuth App to connect. You can make one yourself and install it in Claude. This was a [dev] test App to test out functionality of the App.

an add on to the mythos debacle, I present @claudeai’s official github adapter. i wonder what dev means and why the multibillion dollar company is shipping its sensitive git connector from @TobinSouth’s gh account. this is on the $200/mo plan btw.

@BlockChainJimbo @claudeai that's not an official adaptor dw

We're expanding our collaboration with Amazon to secure up to 5 gigawatts of compute for training and deploying Claude. Capacity begins coming online this quarter, with nearly 1 gigawatt expected by the end of 2026.

@dkwon98 U gotta go to the salad bar

sad to report that anthropic cafeteria food is legit bad

mcp is objectively one of the most consequential oss projects to come out of the llm-powered software boom - secure agent access to external tools and systems was critical to get right. epic video too! @dsp_

mum: we have AGI at home the AGI at home:

you can run a claude code remote session w/ a pinned chat. add sessions & MCP and you've got openclaw without any work!

No company in American history has ever grown like Anthropic trib.al/e29kZOt

unblocked (you and others) it honestly just sucks to be getting tagged like this when you're literally working on a Saturday trying to debug things for users- I've done so many calls this week trying to understand peoples usage the post itself wasnt bad but it leads to a lot of people piling on and feels personal but feedback taken, blocks are too broad given my role

your claude subscription pays for itself if you just ask it to file your taxes for you

@PaulNeverovsky we're just deeply understaffed, @RobertJBye should we say hi?

btw openai reached out to me and these guys aren’t