Eric Norman retweeted
Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.
a friend sent me the Bitter Lesson recently. i feel like it's more obvious; I'd call it why I hated grammar in school
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People talking about the cold war analogy to AI agents.
But the trick there is to have nukes, and have everyone know you have them and what they're capable of, without using them.
For LLMs the value is realized from usage
The @METR_Evals OpenAI agent hacking report is fascinating
metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-ope…
Eric Norman retweeted
3 big Circleback updates this month:
• a free plan with unlimited meetings
• import your past meetings from other apps
• an API for all your Circleback data
here's what's new from our team retreat on a ranch
New model emerging. Get paid by the labs to learn something; the trick is to pick something where you can survive them also doing the thing
Remember mobile first? Now it's AI first. Before: build a tight, usable UI that works great on a mobile phone; optional: expand for browser. Now: build functions, skills, mcp for agents; optional: also build a nice UI or dev ops for human direct use.