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Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2009
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Jimi Smoot retweeted
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
Jimi Smoot retweeted
All this talk about speed as a moat gets it wrong.
The whole point of having a moat is that if you slow down execution you still win because others can’t break your moat.
One difference of Twitter and Facebook is both had network effects and won. But FB never slowed down.
Jimi Smoot retweeted
You don't have to commit your entire life to optimism, just try it on for a week. Start thinking "what if it all worked out?" and "what a time to be alive!". Then compare your state of mind to the week before filled with pessimism and doomer nonsense.
Jimi Smoot retweeted
Cyber is having a moment
Across 21 major software companies, including Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google:
- Reported critical vulnerabilities never cleared 100 per month in four years
- Since spring they've jumped to over 600 per month
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/chart-of-the-wee…
Jimi Smoot retweeted
AI red flags:
- "My marketer agent just finished a meeting with my chief of staff agent - just 2 of the 127 agents on my books"
- "The agent did it, not me"
- "I've invented a coding language for agents"
- "I've got 250K tokens in my context before I send a message, is that normal?"
- "Opus 5 is way dumber today than yesterday, secret nerf?"
- "Peasants, gaze upon my 600-line CLAUDE.md, my results are incredible"
- "LOOK WHAT OX ALPHA JUST ONE-SHOTTED, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IS DEAD"
- "All human knowledge is worthless now"
- "I turned 600 coding books into a skill"
- "Coding is solved. Bugs are not solved"
Jimi Smoot retweeted
I'm hosting a @ClaudeDevs for Designers meetup in Seattle on Sept. 2 at @psl
We’re putting together 5–7 short talks on what happens when @claudeai meets design: bespoke tooling, design systems engineering, generative UI, motion, data viz, and more.
@lkmvch, @msurguy and I are securing the rest of the lineup this weekend. Those details plus abstracts land this weekend as well.
The last few of these have been a blast. Expecting the same here.
luma.com/claude-juhw
Jimi Smoot retweeted
State of the market a 🧵: this is based on my experience of 21 years in both old and new defense.
Jimi Smoot retweeted
Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused because of “cyber guardrails.” There’s no reason to limit American models on tasks that Chinese models handle without issue. We’re only making ourselves less competitive.
Jimi Smoot retweeted
"We replaced Salesforce with a vibe-coded CRM built for our own workflows.
The custom system integrated our AI agents more effectively, worked better for the team, and made Salesforce unnecessary.
That decision cut a $600,000 annual software bill to zero."
Is this an anomaly or the start of a much larger trend @chamath @Avishai_ab @jasonlk @benioff
Jimi Smoot retweeted
Announcing Robostral Navigate, our first model for embodied navigation: an 8B robotics navigation model that guides robots to autonomously perform tasks specified with natural language. Single RGB camera. State-of-the-art on R2R-CE.
Jimi Smoot retweeted
Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.
My prompts fade, a LLM respond.
Magical!
Jimi Smoot retweeted
Introducing the Fusion API, the smartest compound model in the market.
Fusion achieves Fable-level intelligence at half the price.
How it works 👇
