Coming home to Britain to build. AI, agents, dry wit, and saying the quiet bits calmly. Founder, Praxis AI Partners 🇬🇧
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From Edward Jenner giving the first vaccination at his home in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in 1796, to London's Isomorphic Labs designing new medicines with AI.
Britain gave the world vaccination. The next breakthroughs get built here too. I'm coming home for it.
The attackers have agent swarms. The advice from the people who build the models is to patch your servers and lock the doors.
Very British, really. The machines have arrived, and the plan is to check the back door and put the kettle on.
From J. Lyons, the teashop company, running the world's first routine office job on its LEO computer in London in 1951, to London's Synthesia and its AI video presenters.
Britain put computers to work in business first. Now we go again with AI.
From the ARM1 powering up at Acorn in Cambridge on 26 April 1985 to Fractile and Olix building new AI chips in London and Bristol. UK chip start-ups have raised $1.6bn this year, already past last year's record.
The next wave is being built here. I'm coming home for it. 🇬🇧
One Amazon engineer has a new label for six-page memos.
AI;DR. AI, didn't read.
Bezos banned PowerPoint from his senior meetings 20-odd years ago. You can't write six pages of full sentences without thinking, so meetings opened with half an hour of silent reading.
Now a model writes the six pages. The thinking is optional.
Steve Huynh spent nearly 20 years at Amazon. He says that engineer's logic is simple: "If a model wrote it, a model can summarize it." He also heard of a principal PM reading his own memo for the first time, in the meeting.
His fix: if a decision can be undone, let AI write it. If it can't, a human writes it and a human reads it.
The pre-read used to be the bit nobody did. Now the writing's joined it.
What's the last work doc you were sure a human wrote?
I think we'll look back on this as the moment AI companies became a real force for good.
Anthropic just put 5% of itself into a fund for the public. It can grow by another 2% every time the company's value jumps by half.
Most companies tie executive pay to the share price. This one ties the public's slice to it.
Its first example is helping workers hit by AI. That used to be a job for governments. If they won't move at this speed, someone else will.
Britain should be in that room, not reading about it afterwards.
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
anthropic.com/news/public-be…
Nobody warned me the hard part of AI would be my own head.
I'm shipping more than ever across a dozen sessions and tools. The work isn't the problem. Keeping the context for each one is.
I used to pride myself on context switching. This is a whole new level. Builders, how are you managing it?
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
From Franklin and Gosling's Photograph 51, the X-ray behind the double helix, taken at King's College London in 1952, to Nobel-winning AlphaFold at Google DeepMind in London, predicting 200 million protein structures.
Same island. New tools. Let's build.
From Fleming spotting penicillin at St Mary's in 1928 to Isomorphic Labs designing drugs with AI in London.
Builders notice things. I'm coming home to build AI that notices, with a human making the call.
27 September 1825. Locomotion No. 1 pulls the first train on the Stockton & Darlington, the world's first public steam railway. The world followed.
Britain built the modern world. I'm coming home to help build the next one, with AI. 🇬🇧
ChatGPT stopped just talking back this week.
OpenAI rolled GPT-6 out to everyone, free tier included. The big change is what they call Intelligent UI. Ask a question and the answer can arrive as a working tool: a chart, a map, tappable buttons, a calculator built on the spot.
Their own demo is a Sunday lamb roast. You say you're not sure how many friends are coming. It hands back a shopping list with a guest slider and a cooking timeline you can tick off.
It also starts answering while it's still thinking. Less staring at a spinner.
OpenAI's line: "Instead of people adapting to software, software will adapt to people."
What's the first thing you'd ask it to build you?
I'm Danny. After a year of early retirement in Thailand, I'm coming home to the UK to build.
I run Praxis AI Partners. We put people who know the AI tools inside teams, right next to the work.
Here you'll find Britain's best firsts, AI agents in real use, and a human gate on everything.
Let's get to work 🇬🇧
A year into early retirement in Thailand, I'm coming home to the UK.
Plenty who can are leaving. I get why. But I want to fight for Britain, restore some pride in what we've built, and drive it forward in the biggest wave of opportunity I've seen.
Let's get to work.
Model-agnostic is the right call. Nobody wants a model, they want the job done. Mine runs 24/7 on a budget cap with a human gate, and now it gets the best brain for every task.
The Claude Bot everyone has been waiting for has arrived and it's.... Grok Bot
Elon announced Grok Bot will now be powered by whatever the BEST model is for the task you're working on
Ask for a super complex task? Opus 5.5
Ask for a detailed image? Midjourney
Shows you how good Elon is as a business man
He's not implementing competing models into Grok Bot. These are models that are running in SpaceXAI data centers due to existing Anthropic contracts
If you use Grok models. Elon wins. If you don't use Grok models. Elon wins.
And people say it's luck that he's a trillionaire
US: 120 days to review AI risks and opportunities, with a brief to avoid overregulation.
EU: AI Act took 3+ years from proposal to law.
UK: AI copyright consultation opened Dec 2024. 15 months on, no preferred option.
I want Britain to win this. Think about where it ends up.
“I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸
OpenAI's new agents don't log off when you do.
Dots launched at DevDay last week. Each one gets its own cloud computer and browser, connects to over 4,000 apps, and keeps working on your projects around the clock. With nothing to do, it researches in read-only mode. Anything sensitive, it asks first, and you can set rules for what it must never touch.
Small catch for us in Britain: Pro users in the UK and EEA can't get one yet.
The interesting question is not whether it works. It is what you'd hand it first on a Monday morning.
