Exploring technology, philosophy, and business while navigating life as a dad of 3. Currently building at https://nitter.gq/t.co/CGGEKxC3Ti
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If you're like me, you bookmark 100+ posts a week on X and never look at them ever again.
So now I have Grok Bot run a weekly scan of my X account for a few pennies and then send each saved post to the appropriate agent every monday morning.
Pretty cool to see my agents get inspired by my daily doom scrolling...
Overheard at a Barcelona coworking space this morning: "How's work going?"
"They laid off half the company."
"Oh man, what about you?
"They gave me unlimited tokens."
"But do you still have your same position?"
"Yes, but now I have no team."
"Sorry to hear that."
"It's better than losing my job, I guess..."
Perfection 😂
Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics.
“Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….”
The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.
AI will only get better, but we’ll still need task-specific agents and workflows. It’s not just about raw power, it’s also about injecting your knowledge and experience.
Imagine having a 100 polymaths that have access to your own domain expertise helping you achieve multiple goals simultaneously. That’s where we’re heading.
OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the AGI future looks less like a monolith - and more like a menagerie of specialized agents. Models that call other models.
“We're heading to a world where the economy is fundamentally powered by AI.”
The goal is to unlock 10x more activity, output, and opportunity. AI lowers the barrier to entry. Domain expertise becomes leverage.
Electricity seems to be slowly coming back in Barcelona city center #SpainBlackout
"Complex futures require complex minds."
If you've ever felt like an imposter as a generalist in an industry full of specialists, you're not alone.
Don't worry, your time is coming. With AI, today's generalists will be tomorrow's superheroes.
@matt_gray_ #90DayContentChallenge
We’re starting to see practical applications offering personalized healthcare available to all. This trillion dollar industry is about to get massively disrupted 👀
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Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser.
When evaluated on the SWE-Bench benchmark, which asks an AI to resolve GitHub issues found in real-world open-source projects, Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues unassisted, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art model performance of 1.96% unassisted and 4.80% assisted.
Check out what Devin can do in the thread below.
Inspiring talks in the rain at #IHMRECHARGE in Barcelona. #futureofwork #mobility #RealEstate #coliving
Any Ruby devs interested in collaborating with a fast-growing company? lnkd.in/eNa3u5g
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At Palau Paulet for @BarcelonaGlobal #HolaBcn2018 w/ @ScottJMackin @htorras @HolaBwom @t_herrero @bcntechcity let’s start the Party!
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At Palau Paulet for @BarcelonaGlobal #HolaBcn2018 w/ @ScottJMackin in a no stop talk! @Barcinno growing!
Barcelona will host the EU Startup Summit for the first time next week lnkd.in/drCy-rG lnkd.in/dWGa_wz
The latest batch of Barcelona startups to keep an eye on: Boxmotions, Wisar by Talent Revolution, S.L., COCOOKING - Meet people sharing meals, Manzaning, and DNA FAMILY BOOK lnkd.in/e3m_sbn