Braid

every time i get a glimpse of the agent runtimes outside of Braid i’m shocked you all live like this still wrapping automation frameworks huh 😏

Adam most software you and I use will be written by other people, mostly by volunteers creating public goods It’s not out of line to ask for basic consideration like not being entitled and dunking on people doing the work devs know their work is a gift & not something they owe

grinding doesn't work when there are paradigmatic issues to be solved you must pursue moonshots there's no safety on the frontier

Sober sincere competent judgement is rare. This must be celebrated.

if you’re in your 20s in tech right now, a couple of years spent handing the biggest ass whooping anyone has ever seen to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any known AI startup will give you 10x the career juice of any MBA or graduate degree (you’ll build the post-llm intelligence paradigm)

I feel like language models use space more than time for representation that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case intuitively I’d want the space heavy vs. time heavy trade off to be dynamic at runtime doesn’t make sense for intelligence to have a fixed resource tradeoff

sometimes people reveal gaps in their world model Think of software at three levels: surface, function, and value Think of the ideal distribution between novelty and stability at each level Do you want the surface to be high novelty or high stability?

first principle: intelligence is sample efficiency more compute does not compensate for lack of sample efficiency you misunderstand the bitter lesson

When the multiplayer browser demo went viral, I realized it's easy to create charismatic moments. It was not even a launch. I made it in iMovie in 20 minutes. But those moments are mostly a distraction from the technological imagination and invention I have in mind. They certainly don't change the difficulty of the paradigmatic problems. So, I decided Braid must choose a worthwhile mission: multiplying human agency. Our allegiance must be to building technology and solving problems that multiply human agency. Everything else is secondary.

what is your timeline for AGI as in an intelligence that can solve ill defined out of distribution problems?

I have great affection for these fringe subcultures in computing, but as I get older, I'm becoming more demanding. I want the philosophy to be effective out in the world; otherwise, it's meaningless. Just a bunch of technologists talking to each other. Feckless.

consensus is opportunity

prompting is compromising, hence @braidbrowser

The killer app model fails for intelligence because it assumes problems can be modeled and hardcoded into software. Intelligence enables the modeling of problems in real time. Traditional software relies on pre-modeled problems: the creator anticipates a user's need, builds it, and distributes. With intelligence, software can model problems dynamically, including ones the authors never envisioned. The value is no longer in the hardcoded features. Surface, function, and value are becoming decoupled.

imagine hundreds of thousands of knowledge workers start delegating bits and pieces of their work to agents significant enough quantities to change the kind of projects they can take on how does this change the nature of the firm

not to rub it in, but this is low taste poor problem selection and doing it six months after Google steelman: there’s some strategic advantage but it’s a product miss if new ai os, what can I do I couldn’t do before?

redesigning the world wide web

prompts are charismatic but a poor middle ground: easy but not durable we really want an interaction model that gives people the power to apply intelligence to new problems as they work model making / theory building in the vein of Excel, visicalc, etc. but for all work

no one aspires to be a cheater cluely gives you a way to cope. fine. maybe necessary. apple promised power and agency. good. evokes deep wanting.