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Today, we kill the AI agent and introduce the AI employee: Lindy Teammate.
It’s just like working with a real employee.
Everyone on your team can simply hit it up on Slack and get 10x more done.
Lindy also keeps learning, and becomes the self-updating brain of the whole business.
Live now: lindy.ai
Lived in this building for 5y after arriving in SF in my early 20s. $700 / mo, not bad for a 1 bedroom (just have to share kitchen and bathrooms with old Chinese ladies). Stayed there well after I started earning mid 6 figures. Good for the soul.
A Microsoft AI scientist chose to live in a tiny room in San Francisco’s Chinatown for less than $1,000 a month.
@annakook gives us a rare look inside a single-room occupancy building, where residents have private rooms but share kitchens and bathrooms.
Can confirm -- most of my friends in Paris have already bought or are in the process of buying a weapon
Les Français ont commencé à s'équiper, les armuriers se font des c. en or. J'en connais qui ont eu la peur de leur vie quand ils ont entendu les émeutiers pénétrer dans leur immeuble et courir dans leurs couloirs. Il ne restait plus qu'une porte avant qu'ils pénètrent dans leur logement, là où ils s'étaient abrités avec femme et enfants. Ils avaient encore en tête les massacres du 7 octobre en Israël. Nous avons les mêmes prédateurs dans notre pays.
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We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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To make it through this alive and happy we have to dodge:
• Severe human misuse (esp bioweapons from states / terrorists)
• Severe human concentration of power (AI lab or gov)
• Rogue AI (including for decades after AIs clearly no longer need humans to survive)
• A US-China or other war prompted by AI disruption
• Severe economic disempowerment, or the world just generally being unpleasant and unfulfiling
Many difficult gates to pass through, none of which we've made massive progress on so far.
(On top of that to avoid a moral catastrophe we also have to make sure we never accidentally make our AIs into moral patients who are enslaved or suffering.)
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ANTHROPIC's DEPUTY CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER: "as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better."
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In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.
A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.
So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.
The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.
I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.
Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
Announcing Smooth Brain
Type with a smooth brain, hit triple return, a fast LLM will fix your shit
I use it 50x a day -- has changed how I use my computer
flocrivello.com/smooth-brain…
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I think Duet and Dots are the wrong form factor for the enterprise because they aren't AGI-pilled enough.
The major agent releases today (Grok Bot, Duet, Dots, Muse, Instinct) all act as an "AI Chief of Staff." This allows each employee to get their work done faster, but it doesn't always make a company move faster. Executing is no longer the bottleneck, so even proactivity on individual tasks isn't necessarily a big win.
Models need to understand organizations and align with the overall mission to truly move the needle. They have demonstrated goal-directed strategic behavior in simulations: alignment.anthropic.com/2026…. The missing skill is aligning the models to the right goals. Until then, humans have to continue solving coordination.
Anecdotally, I've heard "in the high MTS circles" that a lot more time for frontier researchers is now spent on meetings for coordination since agents are doing most of the implementation and execution. The rest of the industry will soon face this bottleneck.
The AGI-pilled form factor is a model with autonomy that acts at the same level as other employees. A true collaborator rather than someone to manage.
ME: when I was your age, we thought about things with our own brains
GRANDKID: oh wow! and you didn't fuck up?
ME: oh no we fucked up all the time
"Now we see that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all."
Absolutely stunning essay by @DouglasKMurray about the crisis in France. It includes this quote.
thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-f…
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I've come to believe that it's a lack of self-reflection, not being conniving or manipulative, that makes someone a bad person.
Everyone engages in occasional behavior that is harmful. A "good person" takes that feedback to heart, takes responsibility for their actions, and tries to do better next time. A "bad person" pushes the thought away and refuses to reflect on their behavior.
Over time, doing that repeatedly - refusing to be morally accountable - is what makes someone a bad person. It doesn't mean they don't have the capacity for redemption, but it's impossible to collaborate with people who refuse to learn from iterated moral games.
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Plus que jamais, mon conseil la mort dans l’âme aux jeunes qui veulent s’en sortir :
- soyez internationaux, mobiles, capables de travailler à l’étranger. Et allez-y.
- Si vous avez des actifs, mieux vaut autant que possible en avoir une part substantielle hors de France.
- Idéalement ayez deux passeports.
En toute lucidité, et même si on espère naturellement se tromper et que l’on veut se battre, à ce stade il y a peu de scénarios optimistes très réalistes pour notre pays. On va vers des moments très difficiles.
I think about this constantly. People assume that backsliding into barbarism is an unthinkable aberration, but it's actually the historical norm, and it's our current run that's unusual. Don't take it for granted!
We hugely underestimate the utter fragility of modernity.
Many times in history, we've turned the clock back to a much tougher & rougher past.
For centuries after Rome fell, Europeans couldn't even dream of things like hot piped water, luxurious baths & central heating.
We think that the real is rational, that the "system" will deliver the goods. The truth is that modern systems are like spiderwebs: break one part & the edifice gets exponentially weaker. Romans who lived through the fall must have been shocked at how quickly things fell apart.
Another period when we turned back the clock was when globalization was reversed right after an assassination in Sarajevo sparked WW1.
Keynes writes about this period eloquently. Things were hunky dory & considered permanently so, and then suddenly everything went wrong.
When we blithely mock our own systems with tribal glee, when we knock down institutions, when we take political pleasure in zero-sum fights, when we take war less than seriously, just remember that the cave, starvation & the tribal club are never too far away from modern life.
Even the most cynical, jaded and corrupt Romans of Nero's era must have been horrified at what they had unleashed once it was clear they were going way back in time. And once they went back, the only way forward was centuries of deprivation & painfully slow invention.
It's hard to correlate these events with our own era but just remember that Rome saw itself & its progress as eternal, ditto pre war Europe.
Modernity is God's greatest gift to us. Cherish it, cultivate it, protect it. Don't let systems get vandalized, institutions get wrecked.
Protecting modernity means protecting systems, institutions & norms of civilization. This is not some idle musing: these things stand between you & your family & chaos. Without truth, systems & objective laws, you don't get science. Without science, you don't get antibiotics.
As Rome fell, it's interesting to note that truth & facts became subordinated to pleasure, corruption, luxury & belief in magic.
It's worth thinking about that as you look at our civilization.
Modernity, technology, civilization are all very fragile things.
Seeing this in my circles -- several founder friends have told me they've started getting hit with a huge amount of frivolous lawsuits
France is now at Part III of Atlas Shrugged ("Their Brothers' Keeper" / "The Concerto of Deliverance"). When economic and political decay escalate into uncontrolled physical violence. You won't believe what happens next!
