Rowing Rowboat (YC S24): open-source AI coworker with memory. Prev: co-founder/CTO Agara AI (acq. Coinbase), ML at Coinbase & Twitter.
Joined April 2009
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AI assistants are still single-player.
Introducing Rowboat: the multiplayer personal assistant for work. rowboatlabs.com
In Rowboat, your team and their assistants sketch on a whiteboard, write specs together, and say '@rowboat implement it'. Your own Claude Code ships it.
One shared space for your team. Your own assistant running on your machine. Open-source. Self-hosted.
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One reason I am sanguine about the technological singularity is that I have seen it coming for over 50 years. In 1975, when I was 17, I wrote:
"Before man can most effectively aid his problem solving machinery, he must first understand it. At present, his understanding is very poor. However, when the breakthrough in understanding the brain occurs, improvement will come very fast and in an exponential increase. Once man has created an intelligence greater than his own, that intelligence should be able to create an intelligence greater than itself, as man whose intelligence is less than its was able to create its intelligence. Thus, the level of intelligence will shoot up with incredible rapidity, probably within the space of years. Within a few years of a breakthrough, which may occur any time now, man will either have been left behind by a superior intelligence of his own making, which he can no longer understand, or he will have become that intelligence and will no longer be like anything imaginable today."
This is really cool and fast!
today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh
a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon).
we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems:
* coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store.
* reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something.
* speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.
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today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh
a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon).
we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems:
* coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store.
* reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something.
* speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.
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The future of software engineering is agents talking to other agents. Even across different companies.
We’re learning daily from the feedback agents send us on how to make a better Vercel.
Put in your 𝙰𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚂.𝚖𝚍: send Vercel feedback when something could be better.
Your agent can now send feedback to Vercel.
Use plain language to explain a bug or feature request, and your agent will use 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚒𝚝_𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 via Vercel MCP to attach structured context and submit the comment.
vercel.com/changelog/send-fe…
ASI (Artificial Sufficient Intelligence) is already here.
😂
I knew that the Anthropic S1 would have some goofy risk factors but this has to take the cake
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This post is satire.
sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
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Dario Amodei was so worried about Y2K that his high school teacher still remembers it decades later.
He’s been a doomer for much longer than I thought!
Long before they were soon-to-be billionaires, Dario and Daniela Amodei were students at San Francisco’s most elite public high school. sfchronicle.com/tech/article…
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TL;DR of this week.
Your aunt’s password: “P4ssword!” (on a Post-it note in the kitchen)
The stewards and guardians of the internet’s encryption’s password: “4”
Yes, just 4. This key could be used to target and decrypt ~everything, and we’re still cleaning up residual risk.
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21 years ago I named "Reddit" and everyone said it was a horrible name, but I insisted one day people would say "I read it on reddit" and used my CEO-privilege to overrule everyone + kept the name. Now the company twitter account (unbeknownst to them) is making the joke. Heh.
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I mean, he did tell us his plan... I guess no one believed him for some reason 🤷🏼♂️
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"I stand corrected: that route was for mountain goats, not humans. I wrote this insight to memory so I don't forget next time."
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One of the most compelling parts about working at an ElonCo was the agility to pivot to whatever the most important problem was.
One day I said: I wasn’t hired to go after spam, but a tsunami is coming and I’m going to drop everything to focus on that.
The org is so flat and agile that your title is basically meaningless. Anyone can sound the alarm about a problem and solve it themselves—or rally the team to join them.
This is how startups work but it’s very hard to make it work in a larger company.