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SpaceX has just released a new blog about Starship's upcoming 15th flight planned for Nov 13 with more info about what to expect, the significance of this flight, and their approach to safety: "Starship is preparing to take a major step towards full reusability: bringing the Starship upper stage back to the launch site for a catch by the tower at Starbase. To return Starship to Starbase, the spacecraft must now fly a safe trajectory that will take it over inhabited areas in northern Mexico and southern Texas to reach its launch site for catch. Like previous flight testing and the first successful mission to orbit, Starship’s flight profile for this ambitious mission is being designed with opportunities to safely end the mission early if necessary and will follow strict criteria before committing to the final phases of flight. OUR APPROACH TO A SAFE RETURN: On Flight 15, Starship will initially launch to a passively safe suborbital trajectory. This is the same flight profile used on Starship’s first orbital mission and ensures that any issues encountered during ascent or shortly thereafter will result in Starship reentering over a cleared area of the Indian Ocean. After this initial ascent, flight controllers will assess the health of Starship’s systems before giving a “go” or “no-go” for orbit. If “go”, Starship will then perform an orbital insertion burn with a single Raptor sea-level engine, increasing its speed and achieving orbit around Earth. Once on orbit, Starship will deploy its payload of Starlink V3 satellites. Three of these satellites have been modified to acquire imagery of Starship’s heatshield. This method of analyzing Starship’s heatshield has been tested on previous flights and is one of several data sources to help inform Starship’s readiness to return to the launch site on Flight 15. After deploying its payload, Starship will then coast in orbit for another ~21 hours until its orbit aligns with Starbase for a return. During this multi-hour orbital coast, flight controllers will continuously perform manual and automated checks of Starship systems which, similar to the first orbital flight, will be intentionally conservative. They include Raptor engine health, loss of power or communications, the health of the flight computers and navigation sensors, the structural integrity of the propellant tanks and feedlines, the ability to hold tank pressure, and Starship’s ability to control its attitude. During this prolonged coast phase, flight control teams have several options to end the mission early and return Starship to precleared areas of the Pacific Ocean if needed. These locations include early- and late-mission splashdown options around Hawaii and a mid-mission splashdown opportunity several hundred kilometers off the coast of Chile. These precleared areas, which were also used during Flight 14, provide a safe place to land Starship if any conditions arise that may preclude the ability to perform a safe reentry. WHAT SHIP CATCH WILL LOOK (AND SOUND) LIKE: Flight controllers will only permit Starship to return to Starbase if the vehicle’s status meets our internally developed, and FAA-approved, conditions for a return to launch site and catch. If these requirements are met, Starship will perform a deorbit burn with a single Raptor 3 engine. This deorbit burn will alter Starship’s path to place the vehicle on a course to reenter Earth’s atmosphere at a specific point over the Pacific Ocean, thousands of kilometers uprange from Starbase. During reentry, Starship can alter its flight path by moving its four control flaps. This will permit Starship to maintain a safe and known trajectory while guiding itself with high precision control toward Starbase. This control will also allow Starship to carry out a series of small turns in its trajectory to intentionally fly over sparsely populated areas of northern Mexico and southern Texas. As Starship approaches Starbase from the west, the vehicle will weave its way around the major cities in the Rio Grande Valley, passing to the north of South Padre Island and out over the Gulf of America as it makes its final turn south towards Starbase. This banking maneuver has been demonstrated several times on previous Starship flight tests. During this phase, residents of Cameron County and those in the nearby area may hear one or more sonic booms as Starship approaches the launch site. A sonic boom is a brief, thunder-like noise a person on the ground hears when an aircraft or other vehicle in the area flies faster than the speed of sound. The sonic boom does not present a health risk and what people experience will depend on weather and other conditions. As Starship arrives over Starbase, it will perform the final bellyflop maneuver down towards the tower at Pad 2. This bellyflop was proven during a series of high-altitude test hops and during numerous suborbital flight tests. Shortly before reaching the tower, Starship will ignite its three sea-level Raptor engines and flip itself vertical while stowing its flaps. After the flip is complete, Starship will down-select to two Raptor engines and maneuver between the tower's mechanical arms, before down-selecting to a single engine as it comes to a near hover. The arms will close rapidly to catch Starship on its two catch fittings just below the forward flaps. Once Starship registers contact with the tower arms, it will shut down its final Raptor engine. During reentry, flight controllers will have several options to end the reentry early and safely by intentionally tumbling Starship to ensure that it breaks up in the atmosphere before reaching land. There is also a late-reentry option to send Starship into the Gulf of America if any of its systems or the tower itself encounter an issue after reentry that would preclude a safe catch at Starbase. THE HOLY GRAIL OF ROCKETRY: Recovering an entire orbital launch system has never been done, and Starship has always been designed change that. This full recovery is often referred to as the Holy Grail of rocketry as it enables full and rapid reuse of a rocket – opening the door to airplane-like cadence where a vehicle flies again rapidly. Reaching this milestone with Starship will allow SpaceX to unlock the true capability of Starship and will enable future missions to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, expand the worldwide Starlink network, launch our Starmind supercompute constellation, extend the light of consciousness to the stars, and make life multiplanetary." Video below of the what flight 15's mission profile is:

i'm sure you're all better than me at this but just some of what we've seen if it helps - they're not going to stop. it's going to get increasingly sophisticated and they're going to go after every surface of your system and all of your employees any old projects you've long forgotten about will be found and used against you the only reason we're surviving is because we have agents going 24/7. we're still barely sleeping good luck, sorry you're dealing with this, but really it's a collective problem we're all facing together

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I’ve really been enjoying Instinct, a personal AI agent. The simplest description for it is: OpenClaw for normal people. It feels like magic. And contrary to what some people have said, I don’t think the appeal is limited to Silicon Valley types, we are setting my dad up with it too. I’ve exchanged 677 messages with Instinct in the past five days. Here are some of the things it has done for me: 1) I asked who I should see about fixing my flat feet. It recommended starting with a podiatrist, found a well-reviewed one who takes my insurance, and filled out all the paperwork for me. I HATE finding in-network doctors, so this is a great use case for me. 2) It helped decrease my Comcast bill from $100/month to $60/month. It hit a wall on this one but gave me a number to call and an exact script. The call took three minutes. 3) We’re ordering custom merch for my brother’s wedding. It found vendors and is messaging several of them on WhatsApp- asking questions, comparing options, and negotiating prices while I’m asleep because the vendors are in India. 4) I’m planning his bachelor party. Everyone posted their arrival details in a WhatsApp group, so I asked Instinct to organize everything in a spreadsheet. It has access to my WhatsApp, so there was nothing for me to copy and paste. 5) My wife and I are going a wellness retreat (Miraval) in a couple of weeks, where many of the activities need to be booked in advance. After some back-and-forth about what we’d enjoy, Instinct researched the highest-rated activities and booked them for us. Massage slots appeared to be unavailable online, so it emailed the hotel from my account, found times that worked for us, and booked those too. 6) It did something similar for a girls’ trip my wife is taking with a friend, but booked very different activities for the two of them than it did for us. 7) It booked a DMV appointment for my new driver’s license. 8) It canceled all my Amazon Subscribe & Save subscriptions. 9) It activated all the free offers on my credit cards, just in case. I can't be bothered with those but if it's no work on my end there is no harm 10) It price-shopped my car insurance and concluded that I already have the best rate through Tesla. 11) My wife and I are traveling on the same United flight but booked on separate tickets. Instinct contacted United and linked our itineraries, a task that requires chatting with the airline and can’t be done through self-service. 12) It found and booked a factory tour at an Amazon fulfillment center that I'd been meaning to do, at a time that fit my calendar. 13) It suggested topics for a podcast I was appearing on. I didn’t end up using all of them, but they were pretty good. 14) It reminded me about a bunch of unused gift cards I had forgotten about. 15) I sent it a photo of a toll notice. It paid the toll, discovered another outstanding one, and paid that too. None of these things is individually life-changing. Some of these things can be done via their own apps... But together, they represent hours of annoying life admin I didn’t have to do, and I have one easy place (imessage!) to do them. There’s an obvious question: why doesn’t ChatGPT, or, Meta or Google already do all of this? The underlying technology clearly exists- to use tools and complete multi-step tasks. But they haven't packaged it as a persistent personal operator with this level of access to your accounts and communications. The other AI's are also more cautious about purchases, cancellations, messages, and other external actions, so they will often stop for confirmation, which kills the vibe tbh! Note: I haven't been playing with Grok Bot yet, which I think does a lot of this. A year ago I thought memory was the killer feature and it was awesome that ChatGPT had it, but Meta and Google had even more context / a natural advantage that they could ride on to be your personal AI agent. Meta's data with WhatsApp, etc...; Google with Gmail, Calendar, Chrome, and Android. But I've found the data that Instinct gets from being connected to your email to be pretty sufficient to get started and it can fill in the gaps. And the amount of context Google/Meta have that could make their assistants incredibly useful would also create enormous privacy, compliance, and trust problems for them. Plenty of people are uncomfortable giving those companies this much visibility into their lives, lawyers and lawmakers would come after them like crazy... not to mention there are probably all sorts of T&C's that Instinct is breaking. It is a bit scary how much information Instinct has and what it can do. We're going to start to see a new excuse: "I didn't send that email, it was my AI assistant" Anyway, good opening for Instinct. Much less about having a uniquely capable model and more about the product harness around it: integrations, permissions, context, persistence, willingness to keep working until the task is finished. Something like: ChatGPT/Claude still feel like assistants that you operate, but Instinct is an assistant you employ. Very cool product. It has the potential to make life easier for a lot of people. Excited to see more develop here. And if you want to sign up go here: app.instinct.co/ currently on waitlist. I don't have any more invites. I gave out 100+ invites on here and they were taken in 2 mins. If I get more I'll post them!

The first company I ever joined was @rubrikInc, @Jainarvind's previous company. It's where I learned how to build systems and engineering teams. Years later, when we started @composio, @glean became one of our first customers, one of the first to believe in what we were building. So sitting down with Arvind felt like closing a loop. In this episode: •How Glean brought transformers to enterprise search before "semantic search" had a name •Glean's partner-first strategy and why they chose Composio for actions •Why Arvind has never worried about competing with OpenAI or Anthropic •GLM 5.2 as the open-source inflection: 90%+ of enterprise AI tasks, majority of inference within 12–18 months •Measuring real ROI: the US telco that cut case-resolution time by 48% •Why agents built on MCP alone act like day-one employees and how context graphs make them tenured CHAPTERS: (00:00) – Rubrik days: how Arvind and Karan met (01:05) – Glean's origin story: transformers before "generative AI" existed (03:04) – What Glean is today: superset of ChatGPT and Claude (05:39) – From embedding search to agents: was it a pivot? (11:39) – The Composio partnership and why actions are hard (14:43) – Why competition doesn't matter yet (20:11) – The open-source inflection point (GLM 5.2) (24:41) – Contracts and model risk: who absorbs the volatility? (26:57) – Enterprise ROI: cost, tokens, and what to measure (39:57) – Measuring value team by team (44:11) – Day-one employees vs. tenured agents (46:09) – Closing thoughts

The Quick desktop app is here, and it’s compelling. Connects to your email, calendar, Slack, local files, and several other apps to flag important communications, retrieve and summarize info, make recommendations, send communications, and create agents that do work you used to have to do yourself. Gets smarter and more personalized the more you use it. Been using it a lot recently and is changing how I work. It’s allowing me to use applications like my inbox more like an archive, and Quick as my personalized, prioritized, productivity hub that can multi-task various needs. Still early days, and a lot more coming, but excited for folks to start using it to make the undifferentiated work so much less complicated. aboutamazon.com/news/aws/ama…

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Okay, @gdb is team CLI all the way. @garrytan thinks MCPs suck. So we hit the streets of SF to see if the city agreed. We posed a simple question: MCP or CLI? - Basically everyone under the age of 35 said CLI - One person said MCP was as bloated as Java - & unsurprisingly, numerous people told us to touch grass Final score- MCP: 3 vs CLI: 17 SF has spoken, and @composio listened. Our universal CLI is now live! Drop your best CLI vs MCP hot take in the comments and we'll send the best ones some very sick gear 👀 Link to try our CLI in the next thread ⬇️