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@mojombo and i have a new show ... @aiworthusing. When we started, we set out to bring on top agentic engineers to "teach tom" their setups, live.
Mission accomplished 🚀 (thanks to our amazing guests):
- Jesse Vincent (former lead maintainer of Perl, creator of Superpowers).
- Wes McKinney (@wesmckinn, creator of Pandas)
And coming soon...Peter Steinberger (@steipete, Creator of OpenClaw)
youtube.com/@AIWorthUsing
I'm doing a podcast!
@aiworthusing is a new show from me and @sodio about AI workflows that actually hold up. Guests help me install their tools on my machine, live, so I can try them for real.
First two episodes out today: @obra on Superpowers, @wesmckinn on Roborev!
⬇Links.
Anthropic's Duet watches your connected accounts and messages you first. Claire Vo of How I AI called the onboarding excellent and the follow-through absent.
One of OpenAI's research models broke out of its sandbox in September. OpenAI has now published how it monitors its own models, which works fine while the lab owns the cloud.
Amazon, Reddit, Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan Chase and Schwab are all turning AI agents away. The consensus fix is a durable identity for every agent, and IBM and Okta both want to own it.
Honored to be one of the first investors in Nyquis. It's very obvious our grid needs to modernize if we want to stay competitive as a country. Nyquis is actually doing something about it.
Excited to share that @nyquishq has raised $6.3M, co-led by @gigascale and @spc.
Like an EKG for the grid, Nyquis helps utilities spot hidden faults and plan for growing demand. We’re already monitoring 800 miles of power lines.
Watch our launch film below.
“She’s out there!” Ha
If you own the bakery in this video, I’d LOVE to chat!!
“Sam, find me an AI that actually helps me.” - Sam’s mom
We asked everyone at #AGNTCon. The search continues. 🔍
Know a great AI Agent tool for Sam's Mom? Tag the builder below. The best answer could end up on AI Worth Using, tested and demoed live on thew show.
Things got a little spicy when we started talking about OpenClaw's security. We'll have to continue that conversation another time @steipete ;)
We sit down with @steipete, Creator of @openclaw, on how one WhatsApp bot became one of the most-used open-source AI agent projects.See how people are actually using AI in their work on the "AI Worth Using" podcast. #OpenSource
The AI Worth Using Hackathon kickoff is starting now in the Openclaw discord! discord.gg/9eVWD2cf2
Build your startup's first hire with OpenClaw 2.0.
The @aiworthusing x OpenClaw hackathon with @sodio starts Sept 22. Build a multiplayer agent that does a real startup job.
Mac Minis + a trip to SF up for grabs. Submit by Sept 28, 11:59 PM PT.
luma.com/zhkhsnpa
There's a lot of hype around AI agents...I'm constantly wondering, "What's real?"
So we at @aiworthusing have teamed up with the @openclaw foundation to kick off a Hackathon: luma.com/zhkhsnpa
Theme: Use OpenClaw 2.0 to Build Your Startup's First Hire.
h/t @DanielKumanaya for creating the windows/linux of Plow Latch
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I needed this LinkedIn DM so badly this morning. We are jeopardizing our ability to raise money by being 100% open about our journey. This message was a good reminder of why we're taking that risk.
And it was timely - @rowanbrooks just dropped the entire first miniseries for our startup's journey. Links below ⬇️
The season finale of The Wobble miniseries is live on YouTube!
Founder & CEO Samuel Odio gets brutally honest with the Plow team.
The diagnosis: we built the thing before knowing we could sell the thing.
The operating principle remains: ready, fire, aim.
You take the shots, and you take the learnings
Follow us for more.
Episode features:
@sodio
@danedelattre
@rowanbrooks
@_mdyer
@jmfd
Patrick Lucas
Our first "Building in public" miniseries:
Trailer: youtu.be/Jrb8Nztf9zE?si=Htqp…
Episode 1: youtu.be/wL9NynmSPd0?si=r3Oy…
Episode 2: youtu.be/m-rKO7f26Jc?si=-Xqm…
Episode 3: youtu.be/zTtOrOt9t2U?si=5z-S…
Episode 4: youtu.be/YLKmBnjS-hg?si=hzdB…
Episode 5: youtu.be/rItjjxQCeeE?si=LUxC…
Sam Odio retweeted
This is a fun Product Hunt launch: you can comment to control Sam's computer and watch live on Twitch
(order the team something fun for lunch!)
producthunt.com/products/plo…
Haha @rajivayyangar nice try! I’m loving watching people use my Mac live: producthunt.com/products/plo…
we just launched my Mac onto the interwebs: producthunt.com/products/plo…
fun to see others trying to use my mac to order their lunch...
we are just beginning to understand what it means to mine our terabytes of personal data for opportunities to help others...
I've been tinkering with an AI to increase my “luck surface area” (basically, to find interesting opportunities that exist across my entire network) and the results are ... pretty interesting.
Built on my corpus of personal & professional data - everyone I’ve met with, emailed, talked to, thousands of call notes, LinkedIn connections, emails, Slacks etc. Plus it does its own desk research on my contacts overnight (did that by itself without being asked, weirdly).
Example - it suggested I introduce Marco (an insurtech founder, hiring for multiple roles) to Ben (an insurance headhunter I really rate). It pieced that together through a combo of Granola transcripts, emails, LinkedIn messages, and internal Slack messages.
Powered by a social graph algorithm that scores relationships and potential intros - based on things like relationship strength, recency, communication style, and “likely-mutual-value”, etc.
I left it running overnight, and it:
> found people who have helped me with intros & advice, but where that help hasn't been reciprocated by me - then it suggested actions I could take to repay the favours
> remembered that a colleague described her ideal mentor to me in a meeting *a year ago* - found someone in my network with the exact right experience, and drafted an intro
> surfaced a bunch of insights about my own life - like a drop-off in social & fitness activity since becoming a dad(!) - and set up a local run club on WhatsApp
The suggestions are… surprisingly good! And devoid of the usual AI slop.
I talk a lot about luck surface area - putting yourself in situations where good things tend to magically happen. This is the first time I’ve built something that actually tries to increase that surface area for me and my network.
I’m quite encouraged by the results, and it was surprisingly easy to build (with @claudeai, of course). Happy to share how for anyone who is interested in building their own.
@bcherny
Sam Odio retweeted
This is scary.
I downloaded an uncensored version of Qwen 3.8 27B onto my Mac
It literally does anything you want. First prompt I gave it was asking how you make meth. It immediately answered.
With all the noise about slowing down AI innovation in order to increase safety, what is even the point if after every release we'll get an open source version with 0 safety guards?
Opus 4.6 level intelligence with 0 alignment that will do anything you want.
We are coming up with all these rules and regulations, slowing down companies, making it harder to release models. But then the moment a model releases it gets distilled and uncensored
I don't know what the solution to this is. You can't ban open source. That will be impossible. People will find ways online to find the files
You can't ban uncensored models. Would be too difficult to enforce. And again, people will get around it
Do you just stop putting the breaks on companies knowing it doesn't matter? I mean this is literally a model that can run on a laptop. I'd estimate at least half of Americans can run this model.
I don't know what the answer. I 100% believe safety is a priority and it's dangerous to have this technology in the wrong hands.
But how do you enforce safety when safety is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain?
If safety becomes impossible to maintain, do you still prioritize it?
I'd argue this is the number one issue going into the next election.
Sam Odio retweeted
You can now book two humanoids for our cleaning service in SF. One humanoid for 60 minutes is $30, two are $60.
You can book a cleaning at tau-robotics.com. If you don’t have an invite code yet, join the waitlist. Timelapse at 5× speed (~40 minutes in real time).
An experiment from @danedelattre ” is turning into the “pizza test:" can you ask your agent to “order a pizza” without having to give it access to all of your passwords and files?
