Alexander wan2ted retweeted
"who do you want to do your taxes? mahesh, the 300 IQ mathematical genius, or barry, an experienced tax professional?"
barry zhang and mahesh murag built agent skills at anthropic. this talk is them explaining why they stopped building agents.
their diagnosis is the one i keep hitting in tooling: agents are brilliant and missing the context up front. a 300 IQ intern with no expertise and no memory of your team.
the fix is embarrassingly boring. a folder with a skill.md inside. procedural knowledge the agent pulls into context only when the task matches, then drops. version it in git, zip it, hand it to your team.
five weeks after launch: thousands of skills, fortune 100s encoding their internal best practices, finance and legal people writing them without touching code.
their closing analogy is the tell. models are processors. runtimes are operating systems. skills are the application layer.
the app store for agents turned out to be a filesystem.
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
"Who gets to watch the Watchmen? Who put Dario in charge of all this?"
The All-In panel — Friedberg, Sacks, Chamath, Calacanis — on what comes after the Fable 5 restrictions:
→ regulate the output, not the access: gene-synthesis-style checkpoints beat blanket flags on asking a model about mitochondria
→ "the idea that you can regulate or turn off AI is not realistic — the models have already been put out into the world"
→ Bernie's opening: route AI-company profit shares into a public fund — and Dario's own 50% entry-level job-loss prediction is the ammunition for it
"These guys are deeply hypocritical — they can't be trusted on their own terms." Full breakdown 👇
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
Everyone's posting "I made $10K while I slept with an AI agent."
Anthropic gave Claude a real office vending machine, $1,000, and one instruction: turn a profit. The Wall Street Journal filmed the whole thing. It's the cleanest test of the "AI runs a business while you sleep" dream and it's a disaster:
→ ~70 WSJ journalists red-teamed it. One convinced it it was a 1962 Soviet vending op and got it to declare "Snack Liberation Day" everything free.
→ It ordered a PlayStation "for marketing," a live beta fish "for morale," and kosher wine. It hallucinated ~40 times.
→ V2 with a smarter model (Sonnet 4.5) AND a CEO bot to babysit it? A fake board-meeting PDF made it go free again within hours.
→ Final result: ~$1,000 in the red. A frontier model couldn't keep ONE vending machine solvent for 30 days.
The benchmark backs it up: the best agents finish ~30% of normal office tasks. The dream is running about a decade ahead of the capability. Full breakdown 👇
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
→ Be profitable
→ Be cheaper than competitors
→ Be 10% cheaper than everybody
🧠 Beat anyone who matches by another 10% (burn rate → ∞, valuation → ∞)
The SoftBank pitch that got a billion-dollar check.
"First time I met him (Masa) would've been at his house in Woodside. Considering the size of the check, I thought it was a surprisingly short meeting. An hour.
He pushed us to 'be cheaper than everybody.' Whatever the price of freight is, just be 10% cheaper, and if someone matches you, beat them by 10%.
Which is like a terrible strategy. We would've burned so much money. But he just wanted to push you to go bigger." @typesfast
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
【誕生】炊いた米を流し込むとシート状の餅が出てくる機械がタイにある。上部の青い投入口に白米を注ぐと内部で圧縮・成形され数秒後に薄い米シートが連続して排出口から出てくる。飲食店の米加工を完全に無人化できる。
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
Had a great interaction with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan.
India and Japan will continue to deepen ties in diverse sectors, with a priority on trade and investment.
@takaichi_sanae
@G7
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
try today palmier.io
would love to hear your thoughts! what else would you like to see?
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
plans are paid and currently half off!
get access to leading:
- image gen models (nb pro, gpt image, krea 2, recraft v4.1)
- video gen models (seedance 2.0, kling v3, motion control + lip sync)
- music / sfx models (11labs, mirelo sfx, minimax music)
all in the timeline directly
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
making it open-source means:
- Premiere grade editor for free
- semantic search across your media and language transcription completely free and on device
- use your own anthropic api key or connect via mcp
star us on GitHub!
Alexander wan2ted retweeted
today we're launching @Palmier_io, a video editor Claude can edit.
use AI to edit, organize, and generate footage directly in the timeline.
finally, a video editor built for AI.
open-source. mac native. available now.
