Co-founder @sonia_health (YC W24). Prev AI research @MIT @ETH.
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Lukas Wolf retweeted
The mental health system in the US is broken by design. Because the format doesn't match when and how people actually need support.
#mentalhealth #healthcareinnovation #digitalhealth #AIinHealthcare #behavioralhealth
Lukas Wolf retweeted
I built TOMS, sold it, had the money, the success, the family, and I still felt completely empty.
Here are four things I learned about not feeling enough:
Lukas Wolf retweeted
introducing 🐺 AlphaClaw, the ultimate setup harness for @openclaw. open-source, self-managed, free-to-use, with no lock-in.
AlphaClaw makes OpenClaw setup and maintenance easier by providing an elegant GUI that wraps OpenClaw's CLI.
📅 Google Workspace OAuth & pubsub built in w/ gog-cli
🔄 Auto-backup to GitHub
🧱 Prompt hardening reduces agent drift
🩺 Drift Doctor analyzes your prompts and workspace for drift
💬 Telegram multi-topic workspace setup wizard
📂 Full file browser and editor, no SSH needed
🐕 Watchdog auto-detects crashes, self-heals gateway
🛠️ Manage env vars from the UI
🔑 Manage model keys & OAuth visually
🪝 Webhook creator & inspector with replay & debug
📊 Token usage & cost analytics built in
⬆️ One-click updates, no redeploy needed
📦 Import existing setup from GitHub
i didn't build alphaclaw to replace openclaw or compete with it. openclaw is the best user-owned AI agent framework out there and more people should be able to use it without wrestling a CLI for two hours.
there are so many managed "deploy your AI in seconds" product. but they lock you into their platform. if they pivot, shut down, or jack up pricing, your agent goes with it.
alphaclaw gives you that same one-click simplicity, but everything runs on your infra with your data. no proprietary backend. no config hostage. if railway disappears tomorrow, you still have a standard openclaw instance backed up to your own github repo.
everything alphaclaw does, you could do manually. it's just automation and UI on top of the real thing. outgrow it? disagree with its opinions? eject. your openclaw instance is still a standard openclaw instance.
to make it convenient, i’ve created both a one-click deploy template on railway and render to start quickly. make sure you have 8GB of ram on your instance.
look forward to your feedback and to building this out with the @openclaw community! 🦞
github.com/chrysb/alphaclaw
feature deep-dive in the 🧵
Lukas Wolf retweeted
~80% of my team now has their own @openclaw agent
We had a Sunday jam session, and we’re now up to ~16 of 20 folks
I’m considering racking everyone into two Mac studios at this point, so we’re unconstrained with tokens and the ability to simulate (spoof?) human behavior on an actual desktop.
Many services are going to ban OpenCLAW, and some already limit you (Reddit, X, LinkedIn, etc.), so having a computer that acts exactly like a human feels like an edge on those services, which keeps pushing folks to their APIs
Discuss
Lukas Wolf retweeted
the best AI therapy apps won't just sound calming, they'll feel calming. haptic feedback, 3D interaction, tactile grounding.
the interface is the intervention. one app exploring this: @sonia_health by @lukaswolf_ @chrisaeberli @DustinKlebe.
eventually all of this therapy money will flow to ai.
in some ways with therapy ppl are basically renting empathy. $200/hr for someone to remember context, mirror affect, & maybe give structured feedback. that’s a system problem, not a human one.
ai can do that at infinite scale:
- infinitely available (no scheduling friction)
- infinitely patient (no emotional fatigue)
- infinitely consistent (memory never decays, context persists)
- infinitely adaptive (voice, tone, depth tuned per session)
Lukas Wolf retweeted
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”
Lukas Wolf retweeted
The @karpathy interview
0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away
0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits
0:40:53 – RL is terrible
0:50:26 – How do humans learn?
1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth
1:18:24 – ASI
1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture
1:43:43 - Why self driving took so long
1:57:08 - Future of education
Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!
Lukas Wolf retweeted
Quick thread on the recent IMO results and the relationship between symbol manipulation, reasoning, and intelligence in machines and humans:
Lukas Wolf retweeted
Tokenization has been the final barrier to truly end-to-end language models.
We developed the H-Net: a hierarchical network that replaces tokenization with a dynamic chunking process directly inside the model, automatically discovering and operating over meaningful units of data
Lukas Wolf retweeted
THE WAY OF CODE, a project by @rickrubin in collaboration with Anthropic:
ALT Title cover for "The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding" showing the title, subtitle, two interlocking circles, and credits "Based on Lao Tzu, Adapted by Rick Rubin"
ALT The first chapter's text with a flowing wireframe illustration by Claude on the left side.
ALT ASCII art rendering of Rick Rubin vibe coding with Claude.
Lukas Wolf retweeted
I deleted the earlier tweet on whistleblowing as it was being pulled out of context.
TBC: This isn't a new Claude feature and it's not possible in normal usage. It shows up in testing environments where we give it unusually free access to tools and very unusual instructions.
Lukas Wolf retweeted
Giving your models more time to think before prediction, like via smart decoding, chain-of-thoughts reasoning, latent thoughts, etc, turns out to be quite effective for unblocking the next level of intelligence.
New post is here :)
“Why we think”: lilianweng.github.io/posts/2…
Lukas Wolf retweeted
Cursor writes almost 1 billion lines of accepted code a day.
To put it in perspective, the entire world produces just a few billion lines a day.
Lukas Wolf retweeted
✨We introduce SuperDec, a new method which allows to create compact 3D scene representations via decomposition into superquadric primitives!
Webpage: super-dec.github.io
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.00992
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