He who controls the tokens controls the universe
Replying to @theredlinehq
This is backwards. Firms need to wake up to the fact that frontier labs aren't traditional vendors.
Prioritize data sovereignty and stay model-agnostic or pay the price later.
Mindset shift that applies far beyond coding
Replying to @josephfcox
Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of 404media.co/manifestos-fear-…
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I’m surprised more designers aren’t discussing agent computer use as a new interaction paradigm.
Designers are still spending a lot of time optimizing clicks for humans but what if humans stop doing most of the clicking?
Once we clear the trust hurdle it’s not hard to imagine agent computer use taking off in the same way e-commerce did once people became comfortable entering credit card details online.
Which leads to the design question…what happens when everyone starts handing tedious tasks off to an agent that can browse and click in the blink of an eye? How many UI experiences stop mattering? Which touch points are important?
My thought is the bar for UI and branding will skyrocket at key human decision points (landing pages or product views needing human judgement) while sharply declining for tedious interactions.
For example, if time to locate and number of clicks become less important then why not abstract away tertiary views (e.g. settings)?
And on the other side of the coin maybe agent-first steps start getting “signage” to guide agents.
Introducing agent-desktop
agent-browser, for your whole computer
→ Computer Use for any coding agent
→ macOS, Windows and Linux
→ Runs in bg while you keep working
→ Agents use your computer in parallel, each with its own cursor
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Made the team some branded Zoom backgrounds and might have gotten a little carried away...
🤖 Made with AI
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Slowly then all at once...
Looks great but the real test will be if the data stays fresh
Introducing the free Government & Legal Index for ChatGPT & Claude.
Give your AI agents 30M+ US government pages, from federal statutes and court opinions to city codes and permits.
Research tax rules, permits & case law with the Firecrawl plugin.
firecrawl.dev/alexandria/gov…
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Fun way to make your share links feel like peering through a portal.
Hopefully more platforms start supporting it.
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One second-order effect of AI exploits becoming commonplace might be that a lot of the old internet gets retired instead of modernized.
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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We were sold the vision of consumer 3D printers in every home almost 20 years ago.
It took a while but the printers finally look like something you’d want to display on your shelf and AI gives everyone the ability to design.
I wonder if they’ll run the classic consumer business model of cheap machines with high margin resins and parts.
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The music industry is a useful analogy for how the software industry might look with a low barrier to entry and far more supply than demand.
> Power-law distribution of $$
> The most successful musicians are extremely skilled at generating attention (brand, attractiveness, stage presence, novel characteristics)
> Distribution is arguably more important than the artist’s technical skill
> Extreme creativity. Despite the simplicity of instruments, artists continue to remix and be rewarded for unique music
> Trends rapidly appear from independent artists or underground scenes
> New business models. Nobody buys music anymore but musicians are still able to get rich. It's just harder work (brand deals, celebrity investing, merch, concerts)
> Bar for being the best is continually raised and requires huge amounts of capital (e.g. A-list celebrity concerts)
I'd expand the moats left to:
- Proprietary data or content: data nobody else has, or unique content you can create
- Network effects / community: users make it more valuable for each other
- Audience / distribution: you can get attention on demand
- Physical component: hardware, locations, real-world operations
- Capital: owning assets and investing (esp into the AI companies as they are and will suck up large parts of the economy)
- Regulatory: licenses and legal barriers
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Easy to forget that despite the bubble popping the CryptoPunks floor price is still high 5 figures with the rarest going for millions.
So it’s not far-fetched that we might get a resurgence as agents make NFTs attractive again.
> Cross-platform agents increase demand for portable identity and reputation
> People start treating agents as extensions of themselves
It might even go beyond collecting and speculating. Agent guilds? Social credit scores for bots? Tiered agent access?
Replying to @davidbooth
I have a hunch that the pfp NFT craze might come back in 2027 as agents become more public facing and signal status etc.
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