A benefit of San Francisco is the crazy number of events. This week, for example, there are 66+ Open Source Event (Open Source AI Week). Each event is a chance to (a) sit there programming (b) get constant feedback on the various things I've built (c) hear stuff technically to improve my approach (d) free food I have so much material for Lineage, let alone my other projects, from conversations. Will take weeks to get through it. Access to humans in person is a first-class priority to prevent building stuff no one wants.

AI agents are amazing.

Another example of the family Lore Lineage agents are capable of bringing back. Here is a ship's log from the mid-1850s. It was returned by emailing a maritime museum in Mystic Seaport. It contains an ancient cursive ships crew mentioning a direct ancestor of mine (#29).

My lineage agent hit 33 archives in the last two weeks alone and came back with so much lore I can't even describe it. Every day is a surprise with lineage.

Setting the conspiracy theories aside. Lets talk about progress on "Lineage" (working title). I have tuned my genealogical research agent to create a recursive cascade of data to arrive in my inbox. It proactively hunts down small private datasources, emails them and round trips the new sources. It also asks them for help in getting more data and recursively searches that at well. The result is a non-stop goldmine of fresh lineage data. For example, this 10 paragraph newspaper clipping from 1916 about my great-great-great-great grandfather just landed in my inbox from a small archive. It details his battlefield experience (being wounded in the shoulder at the battle of the crater - the same battle that the movie Glory covered) as well as provides further detail on his whaling ship experience. With Lineage autoresearch agents, anyone can deep-dive into their family history and be constantly surprised at the sources, photos, articles, military records it turns up. Hopefully soon will be able to share it with everyone - The challenge I am facing is how to make it useable.

adding vercel to spacex would, indeed, complete the GrokBot -> Cursor -> Vercel triforce. I am using these in loop all day, every day. the ability to turn real-time podcasts into deployments - pure gold. We have moved beyond the chat interface or terminal. It happened FAST.

Both Elizabeth Holmes and SBF have the same vibe - someone that stupid and transparently insane could not possibly have pulled that off … the other interpretation: probably they were not the key actors in whatever actually happened. But hey.

I’d really love a @MikeBenzCyber three hour take on Theranos. Seems topical. The story we were told is “the entire board of theranos was randomly a group of hapless senior government officials like Henry Kissinger who were naive and tricked into a scam.” Henry Kissinger is a genius. The most connected deep state human in history. Does it make sense he would fall for that? The more you look at the Theranos board in retrospect the fishier it gets. @JohnCarreyrou - do you really believe Henry Kissinger is a moron?

Two years ago there was this flood of fake crypto companies. “XYZ raises $50M to build a blockchain for IP.” I called those “money laundering and possibly state backed.” Epstein like behavior. Where did all those shady investments go and why did it stop? You certainly don’t see announcements like that anymore. No one else said a word about it. The only logical explanation I can come up with is these were used as cover to move hundreds of millions in a way that “seemed above board.” By who? Well … I would be called a conspiracy theorist if I said it out loud. *ahem* @MikeBenzCyber So where is all that money? This entire space is surreal. It started fun and then took this toxic dark turn and never came back. I’ll be in AI if you need me.