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JonDavis retweeted
A big Skill library shouldn’t make an agent harder to steer.
VibeSkills is a general-purpose Skill for AI agents that routes local Skills and organizes multi-step harness workflows.
It helps you take a task from defined requirements to a checked delivery by selecting relevant installed Skills, assigning work, and recording acceptance checks.
Key features:
• Requirement approval – confirms the goal, constraints, available material, and expected delivery before work begins
• L/XL planning – recommends a workflow level based on scope, dependencies, and opportunities for parallel work
• Local Skill selection – scans configured Skill folders and shortlists the capabilities that fit each task part
• Recorded execution – logs completed, failed, and blocked work so a later session can continue
• Delivery checks – compares the actual result with planned items and blocks acceptance when required work is incomplete
It’s open-source (Apache License 2.0).
Link in the reply 👇
JonDavis retweeted
Congratulations to the @bindwell_ai team on launching Atomwell, their foundation model for predicting experimental outcomes in molecular discovery.
Excellent virtuous loop: better extraction leads to better training data, which in teurn support better predictions about future experiments.
Excited to see what the team discover next, and to support them on this ambitious journey!
JonDavis retweeted
Why is exit planning important for VC backed companies??
Because only about one-third of them will return cash and have a shot at making the founders & investors money.
Only one-third!!
And I'd guess that only 10-15% of all VC-backed businesses yield good or great outcomes for founders & investors!
After 14 years in VC, I believe all founders should have an exit plan.
JonDavis retweeted
A financial firm doing biological research wasn't on my cards, but then we're in 2026!
Expect complete blurring of boundaries going forward.
Everything will unbundle - organizations, functions, roles, identity.
What is AI really capable of in bio?
To separate hype from reality, we spent 3 months working firsthand with @AnthropicAI's internal research model to see if it could create an experimental scorpion antivenom.
Introducing Citrini Therapeutics.
citriniresearch.com/p/citrin…
JonDavis retweeted
@facticityai / ArAIstotle
The award-winning multilingual multimedia fact-checker ; Le vérificateur de faits multimédia multilingue; 多语言多媒体事实检查器; Der mehrsprachige Multimedia-Factchecker; El verificador de hechos multimedia multilingüe; مدقق حقائق الوسائط مدقق حقائق الوسائط; 多言語マルチメディアファクトチェッカー; Pemeriksa fakta multimedia multibahasa; etc.
Thanks to our global community for using us; we are available in more than 100 languages and are benchmarked in 5 languages and growing ⤵️
✨We are watching history being made in real time🔥
Whether it’s decoding Mandarin, verifying French news, or confirming claims in Japanese, @ArAIstotle is shattering the language barrier for truth.
No matter the format video, text, or audio and no matter how tough the connectivity, this is the resilient tech we need to stay informed, globally.
The global truth-seeking revolution has officially started.🔥
JonDavis retweeted
What happens to proptech startups when their customers can build similar software themselves?
@fifthwallvc's @BrendanFWallace sees a growing opportunity in startups that use AI to own and operate real estate. I spoke with him about his firm's shifting investment thesis, which software businesses he believes remain defensible, and the housing problems still waiting to be solved.
Read the full interview in my article on @crunchbasenews linked in the comments below
JonDavis retweeted
JonDavis retweeted
"You've got to really fish where the fishes are."
Li Lu retelling Munger's fishing rule. The crowded water does not just lower your odds, the competition averages out your returns. The edge is in the markets, industries, and countries nobody is watching.
Source: "36th Annual Graham & Dodd Event with Li Lu '96, Founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital," Columbia Business School, October 15, 2026.
JonDavis retweeted
Charlie Songhurst on why "boring and complex" companies may offer the best returns
My second conversation with Christina Cacioppo (@christinacaci), Vanta's cofounder and CEO.
Charlie Songhurst says the best returns come from companies that are highly boring and highly complex, because fewer founders want to build them.
Vanta is one of those companies.
When we first talked five years ago, Christina told me about building the first version of Vanta in Excel.
Since then she has turned it into the category leader in security compliance. Now she is rebuilding it around AI.
We discuss:
- Why great software businesses got cheap
- Why Vanta eats the cost of AI instead of marking it up
- Why comp for top people is up 10X in five years
- What is over/under hyped in AI
- How AI attackers are changing security
- Vanta marketing + billboards
- Building trust in an era of low trust
Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
4:17 Surviving the SaaSpocalypse
9:40 The AI Pricing Trap
16:17 Rebuilding Software for AI
22:43 Silicon Valley's Talent Wars
31:57 What's Overhyped in AI
38:39 Security at Machine Speed
47:16 Reinventing Software
55:37 The Billboard War
60:38 Rebuilding Trust in Technology
JonDavis retweeted
TWO MORE DAYS TO OUR OCTOBER WEBINAR!
What will it take for Africa to build a green and globally competitive textile industry?
Join our webinar on Green Industrialisation and Sustainable Textile Manufacturing in Africa.
🔗Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
JonDavis retweeted
Did you or someone you know publish an outstanding privacy, AI governance, or youth online well-being focused academic paper this year? Be sure to nominate it for FPF's 17th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) Award. Deadline extended to Oct 23.
fpf.org/privacy-papers-for-p…
JonDavis retweeted
this is one hell of a run!
we worked with Yahia on context dev before it was called context dev, one off project for $1200 which turned into a signifiant engagement (website, marketing, product design) - he even refereed us to so many great YC founders
now he raised fking $9M!
so pumped and happy for you @mynameisyahia, a great founder and an amazing friend!
We raised $9M to give your agents the internet.
Led by @generalcatalyst, with @orangecollectv and Robinhood Ventures.
Search, scrape, crawl, monitor with one API trusted by 800+ customers.
We’re making it ridiculously easy to build with web data.
JonDavis retweeted
Field Guide to Lies — Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method: link.amazon/B0bbgAEa9
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How to Lie with Statistics [old classic, but entertaining, educational, and engaging]: link.amazon/B0cOaCLJd
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How to Lie with Maps: link.amazon/B03YSUTAW
JonDavis retweeted
Delta, Chase and Amazon are blocking AI agents.
The war on agents has begun, and here’s how it probably plays out:
Stage 1: Companies block agents because agents skip the ads and upsells.
Stage 2: Agents learn to act like humans, and it becomes an arms race.
Stage 3: The market splits. Companies that make money on sales let agents in, companies that make money on data charge for access, and the giants build their own agents.
Stage 4: A trusted middle layer for agent identity and payments becomes the standard way in.
Stage 5: Companies that welcome agents start winning customers from the ones that block them.
Stage 6: The agent blockers come back and let agents in on their own terms.
Stage 7: Everyone starts competing for agents with better prices, faster checkout and SEO built for agents.
Stage 8: The ads come back, and companies pay to be your agent’s first recommendation.
Stage 9: The agent war ends, and selling to agents becomes as normal as having a website.
notice..
> Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights
> JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts
> Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents
> Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents.
the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us
JonDavis retweeted
The harness must implement Code Mode and implement tool search
is anyone actually building "code mode" style MCP servers in production? Does it actually work?
Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com/code-mod…) swears by it but wondering how it works in practice.
JonDavis retweeted
Building an autonomous agent gets messy when its identity, memory, and workflow live in different places.
gptme-agent-template is a GitHub workspace template for builders creating a gptme-based agent with a persistent, version-controlled home.
It helps you create a named agent workspace faster by using the `gptme-agent` CLI to clone and customize the template, then loading its context through `gptme.toml`.
Key features:
• Fast setup path – `gptme-agent create` creates and customizes a new agent workspace
• Workspace health check – `gptme-agent doctor` checks core files, configuration, directories, tools, and submodules
• Durable agent state – identity, memory, tasks, lessons, journal, workflow, and audit history live in the repository
• Guided first task – a walkthrough includes a failing pytest task and commands to have the agent fix it
• Scheduled operation – documented systemd and launchd commands support running the agent on a schedule
Free public GitHub repo.
Link in the reply 👇
JonDavis retweeted
In This Week's Friday Reading List, curated by @CorixParetners Founder & CEO @Corix_JC - October 16th, 2026
📢 The biggest challenge in #cybersecurity and #AI isn’t #technology
📚 Top #leadership & #tech reads this week >> buff.ly/wd4apqO
#CISO #CIO #CTO #CEO
JonDavis retweeted
We have 150+ RSVPs for our private event next Tuesday in San Francisco.
We're hosting it alongside @raiseconference, so check out the details if you'll be there.
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JonDavis retweeted
Got a business idea in content creation? You could be one of 100 people receiving $10,000 from the UAE! 🇦🇪
The 100 Dreams initiative offers funding, expert mentorship and support to establish your company and turn your idea into a real business.
Applications open November 20, and all you need is a video presenting your idea and ambition.
💬 Comment "DREAM" and we'll send you the application link!
#UAE #Entrepreneurship #StartupFunding #100Dreams #UAEStartups
JonDavis retweeted
Instead of micromanaging, empower your executive director with a clear game plan. I used AI (Codex/ChatGPT) to generate a 5-step animation plan for my video project, and woke up to 22 finished clips. This is the power of GenCP! #AI #VideoProduction #GenCP