Poet who ships infrastructure Senior Principal Engineer @metamask Cofounder @apocene Prev: Founding Engineer @airswap, Data @spotify, Poetry @Iowawriterswksp
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This would have been so much better if they drew some of Caroline’s dialog from her blog
Most difficult thing I’ve learned in harness engineering so far: you’re building a product that packages intelligence & expertise, but if you try to only package your OWN expertise, the harness will not be that good. Instead, get good at packaging other people’s domain expertise.
Omg I would love to build Estonia style infra for the US gov I had no idea that was allowed
🚨 NOW: The Trump administration is launching a Super Intelligence site that will let Americans change their last name after marriage in ONE SINGLE FORM — which usually requires HOURS or DAYS to fix every government document
"You'll be able to change your name right on the platform."
"This would've taken weeks, multiple filings, different agency websites, if you even knew where to start."
This is perfect!
Saving Americans' time is INVALUABLE
I think we need an AI slowdown because I cannot keep integrating what everyone is shipping it’s a literal explosion of utility. Just hold your users close and care for them, that’s all one can do
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Yes, Rob,
But that's an irrational position to take.
The Doomers have:
1) a poor track record of positive predictions (things they said would happen, didn't)
2) a poor track record of missed predictions (things that happened, which they had no prescience about)
What you're reacting to is not in the real world. What you're reacting to is a primate ability to imagine and worry about the future.
Humans can *always* imagine worst case scenarios. But given how egregiously wrong the safetyists have been, it's actually negative EV to listen to them, because they distract from the real ontologies... You know... The real world
Instead of shadow boxing with your anxiety, maybe it's time to engage with reality.
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I'm not worried about evil AI.
I'm very worried about evil humans using AI.
The only way to defend against it, is for good humans to use the most advanced AI, and improve and accelerate it as fast as possible.
If we are doing tech regulation for public safety, let’s float a few heavy-handed state solutions to curtail phone addiction.
love when I get a chance to link up with @francescoswiss
A lot of people were asking, so I finally finished editing Episode 2!
This one covers the evolution of wallets, and honestly it's SO deep that I'm still learning from @cloudonshore every time I rewatch the footage.
Wallets started as simple key storage. Then they became browser extensions, the front door to everything onchain. Then smart accounts made them programmable.
But every version had one thing in common: they were designed for a human, sitting in front of a screen, clicking approve.
That assumption is changing FAST. Agents don't click buttons. And that's exactly why wallets need to evolve again.
Episode 2 👇 8 more to go. S/H to @ethconf for the room.
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Our very own @cloudonshore with ERC7710 repping @MetaMask at @Google Web3 and AI summit.
s/o to the builders @danfinlay @McOso_ .
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Sam just responded with what an agent wallet is, but the real question is how to actually use an agent wallet!
Check out @cloudonshore responding while he’s working out
happy friday ☀️
Still wondering what an agent wallet is? well… now you don’t have any excuse anymore @cloudonshore just explained it 👇
I was at a party at a friends house last weekend, full of designers and artists, and they all code now. A fashion designer I know built a dashboard for managing her depop reselling that uses AI vision for reading vintage clothing tag labels and suggesting fair market value. A model I know built a streaming platform for witches to teach witchcraft to each other. I used to have to keep my technical side hidden from all my hot friends, but now all they want to talk about is coding. Honestly I'm in heaven, my culture is everyone's culture now.
An interesting counterpoint is frameworks. No one is using an LLM to write the next three.js, but thousands of agents are using three.js to build websites. No one is trying to disrupt Vite, or GSAP. In fact I’m sure installs of all of them are through the roof. I do wonder what is going to happen to this layer of software in the next 10 years, I don’t feel like there are new engineers entering the field who are excited to build these kinds of frameworks.
I hate Opus 5 so much, and 4.8 has started to behave like Opus 5. I’ve run a weekly report using 4.8 for months and it always outputs a paragraph or two. Opus 5 returns *pages* of slop for that same workflow. And today Opus 4.8 started returning pages of slop too 😭 literally I have to use fable now or I’m stuck with a lying slop machine monster who refuses to follow my instructions
