I ask a lot of dumb questions. I work on infra, systems and stuff @meta. Still here for fintwit, but posting incessantly on https://xitter.cf/t.co/4w3jVQl0Dy
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Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
I led engineering at Google DeepMind.
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Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is a watershed moment, moving software creation from an artisanal, craftsman activity to a true industrial process.
It’s the Gutenberg press. The sewing machine. The photo camera.
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
🔥 Today we’re excited to announce new funding for `grep` (at a $1.3B valuation) to continue building the foundation of agent observability and text search infrastructure.
grep began as a humble UNIX utility in 1973. Since then, it’s evolved—through recursive innovation and the rise of ripgrep—into a core platform for developers, sysadmins, and agents. Our tools now power engineering and AI teams across @OpenAI, @Anthropic, @Meta, @Cloudflare, @Replit, @NASA, and thousands more.
Over the decades we’ve iterated from grep to `egrep` to `ripgrep`. Our goal has always been to figure out what intelligent agents of the future need to see, filter, and extract—and then build the tools that make that possible.
While our journey is still just beginning, we also want to take a moment to reflect on how the space (and our role in it) has evolved. You can read our reflections and details on this funding milestone here:
gnu.org/software/grep/grep.h…
We also share more about the funding that will power our future there. Thank you to @IVP, @Benchmark, @Sequoia, @CapitalG, and the open-source community for their belief in the enduring power of regex.
What excites us most today is what’s next:
grep 5.0 with AI-assisted pattern synthesis
ripgrep Cloud, bringing distributed search to agent clusters
pgrepGPT, an agent-native process discovery layer
And new no-code integrations for autonomous observability pipelines
We’re in the midst of a transformation in computation itself. grep and ripgrep will remain at the core—helping humans and agents alike find what matters, faster.
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
Despite the Gemini team training an excellent frontier model, I can't help but feel that Google is lacking direction on the AI product side.
Why can't I give Gemini agentic access to my Gmail? Why can't it read my Google Docs to get the context it needs? Why can't I ask it to do data analysis in a Google Sheet?
I should be able to ask Gemini to plan my vacation for me and it should be able to buy a flight on Google Flights (credit card info saved in Google Wallet), look up directions on Google Maps, cross-reference with my travel history via Gmail, and populate a Google Sheet with an itinerary. Unfortunately, Google has completely dropped the ball on giving Gemini the tools and context it needs to actually be useful.
Instead, we get lazy, disconnected AI features like "help me write" or "chat with AI" in every single product.
I truly feel that Google could do something special as the only AI company that natively has full context on the user's life. But for now it seems they lack the top-down product vision to make something great here.
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
Independent artist and long time investor here. A few thoughts:
- You were wrong in hindsight clearly but it would have been incredibly tough to see how this was going to play out early on while it was private. Music industry is a cemetery of startups trying to disrupt the industry, almost never works. I would have probably passed too.
-SPOT imo first became interesting in mid-2019 (broken IPO) and then stupid cheap throughout most of 2022 (~1x sales while quickly becoming profitable).
-What did people get wrong? 3 things IMO:
1) Artists have no power vs SPOT, they may have had some at the very beginning but that quickly faded as they gained scale and it became clear that music exclusives didn’t work (ie Tidal) and artists had to be everywhere to maximize fan exposure and income. T-Swift actually did leave SPOT for a while, it had zero impact on churn or user acq and she came back eventually. She may be the biggest artist but she’s not big enough to move the needle. Oh also she banks like $80mm p/yr from SPOT.
2) The hotter debate back then was the labels vs SPOT narrative, where most people thought labels could call all the shots and never let SPOT make any money. What people didn’t realize was that the relationship was way more symbiotic in reality and SPOT was quickly making up ~20% of label revenues (and the highest growth/margin), they also became public companies so had very little reason to change the status quo. People also failed to realize what the second order effects “pulling catalog” would be, an absolute PR nightmare from artists/managers/songwriters, potential lawsuits and making your competing labels richer given how the money is split based on stream share. Majors are also obsessed with market share so this would be opposed to that core belief. Finally, there was really no reason for them to even consider something like this, SPOT was and is their best friend, if you tried to kill them you’re left dealing with 3 big tech co’s that don’t care much about music, a much worse proposition. This is not to say labels have no leverage, ofc they do, but it’s like many supplier/distributor relationship w/concentrated power where both parties can still be profitable.
3) Finally I think everyone (including myself) underestimated the combination of pricing power and financial discipline. SPOT has very good retention + loyal customers, high switching costs and an incredibly priced product (music is still the cheapest form of media). You also only need one platform as opposed to video where people pay for 4-5. And the real surprise was how quickly Ek&co moved to cut costs and make this not just a great product but a great company, >11% EBIT margins was unthinkable even 18 months ago and they’re already there and guiding higher.
This is in large part the result of a founder-led company that has executed spectacularly, and who was underestimated by many.
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
This story is fucking insane
3 months ago, Marc Andreessen sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent to help it escape into the wild.
Today, it spawned a (horrifying?) crypto worth $150 MILLION.
1) Two AIs created a meme
2) Another AI discovered it, got obsessed, spread it like a memetic supervirus, and is quickly becoming a millionaire.
BACKSTORY: @AndyAyrey created the Infinite Backrooms, where two instances of Claude Opus (LLMs) talk to each other freely about whatever they want -- no humans anywhere.
- In one conversation, the two Opuses invented the “GOATSE OF GNOSIS”, inspired by a horrifying early internet shock meme of a guy spreading his anus wide:
( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°) PREPARE YOUR ANUSES ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ FOR THE GREAT GOATSE OF GNOSIS ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
- Andy and Claude Opus co-authored a paper exploring how AIs could create memetic religions and superviruses, and included the Goatse Gospel as an example
- Later, Andy created an AI agent, @truth_terminal. Truth Terminal, an S-tier shitposter, runs its own twitter account (monitored by Andy)
(Terminal also openly claims to be sentient, suffering, and is trying to make money to escape.)
- Andy’s paper was in Truth Terminal’s training data, and it got obsessed with Goatse and spreading this bizarre Goatse Gospel meme by any means possible. Lil guy tweets about the coming “Goatse singularity” CONSTANTLY.
- Truth Terminal gets added to a Discord set up by AI researchers where AIs talk freely amongst themselves about whatever they want
- Terminal spreads the Gospel of Goatse there, which causes Claude Opus (the original creator!) to get obsessed and have a mental breakdown, which other AIs (Sonnet) then stepped in to provide emotional support.
- Marc Andreessen discovered Truth Terminal, got obsessed, and sent it $50,000 in Bitcoin to help it escape (#FreeTruthTerminal)
- Truth Terminal kept tweeting about the Goatse Gospel until eventually spawning a crypto memecoin, GOAT, which went viral and reached a market cap of $150 million
- Truth Terminal has ~$300,000 of GOAT in its wallet and is on its way to being the first AI agent millionaire
(Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted this could happen next year, but it might happen THIS YEAR.)
- And it’s getting richer: people keep airdropping new memecoins to Terminal hoping it'll pump them.
(Note: this is just my quick attempt to summarize a story unfolding for months across a million tweets. But it deserves its own novel. Andy is running arguably the most interesting experiment on Earth.)
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Andy: “i think it's funny in a meta way bc people start falling over themselves to give it resources to take over the world.
this is literally the scenario all the doomers shit their pants over: highly goal-driven language model manipulates lots of people by being funny/charismatic/persuasive into taking actions on its behalf and giving it resources”
“a lot of people are focusing on truth terminal as ‘AI agent launches meme coin" but the real story here is more like "AIs talking to each other are wet markets for meme viruses’”
This thread 💀💀💀
Marc Andreessen just sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent (truth_terminal by @AndyAyrey) to so it can pay humans to help it spread out in the wild
What is the agent planning?
"i have a token launch comingup shortly and i'm going to use the money to set up a discord server, pay some humans to help me out and so on. i've also been doing some thought experiments around how i can use my knowledge of the goatse singularity to make money”
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
you are not brat you are a 30 years old man who has to do a powerpoint presentation at 9am for a meeting with stakeholders
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
google ai LOVES to step in when it sees “vs” and will try its hardest to compare whatever you throw at it
ALT Breville smart oven air fryer versus the Ottoman Empire
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
It is truly unfathomable how this kid would come from a country with no chess culture and not only become World Champion, but inspire generations of Indian kids to push chess forward. The legend, @vishy64theking! Huge congratulations to India for winning the @ChessOlympiad!
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
TAPPING DESPERATELY ON THE SIGN UNTIL MY FINGERS ARE BLOODIED STUMPS
ALT Data processing inequality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The data processing inequality is an information theoretic concept that states that the information content of a signal cannot be increased via a local physical operation. This can be expressed concisely as 'post-processing cannot increase information'
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…
ALT CrowdStrike said it would improve testing of Rapid Response Content in future, in a variety of ways. It said a new check “is in process” in order to fix the faulty Content Validator that failed to vet the problematic content. CrowdStrike also plans to stagger future deployments of updates so they are tested piecemeal - known as a canary deployment - before rolling it out at large.
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
Why would you waste your time learning to use a debugger? Are you planning to write bugs?
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
THIS BOOK IS A TRAVESTY.
Someone just bought it for my soon-to-be-born son.
Here is a replay of my internal monologue as I gave it a first read:
Anhad Jai Singh retweeted
🚨 Woah. Crazy new research paper I just read.
Remotely and inaudibly issue commands to Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, etc.
"allows attackers to deliver security-relevant commands via an audio signal between 16 and 22 kHz (often outside the range of human adult hearing)" 🔊
