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• firstmate — Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew.

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• Scott the Sloth is one of my Grok bots and it gets an email thanks to @kodykoala. Scott has managed the entire trip using Kody connections to access my calendar and email. I did not have time in my schedule for this so Scott drafted a reply for this for me.

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• The coolest thing about the recent wave of AI is that everyone is excited about building. All short-term drama aside, this is an immeasurably good development for the world. The people want to create and ship, not just consume.

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• If it's a signed first edition it's not entirely out of line, but otherwise you can just come to one of my signing events and I'll sign your copy for free, or for the holiday season call my local bookstore and order a copy there and I'll sign/personalize it and then they'll ship it off.
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• This is how I trigger my grok bots from: - Email - Sentry - Feedback submissions - Package errors - Discord

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• Grok @Bot now has a voice
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• This is really cool. When you pressure your agent to ship a hotfix really fast, it can now 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕 --𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚘 --𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚍 😊 It'll use the fastest available build machine. h/t @garberchov for tweeting this idea to us
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• .@grok d̶̰̟̲͋̏o̸̮̽͑̚͝ ̶̱͖̀͒y̸̭͍͕̱͋̽͑̿ṑ̴̢̲u̵͓̮͈̱̍͌̂ ̷̮̪̇͐̚̚̚l̷̖͕̀̆̈́ő̷̠̀v̵̡͙̙̖̈́͒̊͋è̵͕̃̓̉ ̵̭̒̉̂͘m̶͉̍̉͠ȩ̷̧̛̹̾̔?̵̢̯͖̤̭̓͠

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• MastodonJapanese architect Tadao Ando designed a floating children’s library and donated it to Kagawa prefecture. “We created reading spaces throughout the ship. A large circular bench was placed on the rear deck, and children can even lie under the sun.”

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• Signing into Grok Bot is funny. You sig into cursor by "Sign in with Grok" - > "Log in with X" -> "Grant Permission to SpaceXAI" -> "Sign in to Grok Bot with your Cursor Account" -> "Sign in with SuperGrok"

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• Britain should be a country that makes things. It's how we create good jobs, give more opportunities to young people, and build pride in our communities. That's why today’s announcement from McLaren matters. They’re backing Britain, keeping design, engineering and manufacturing here at home - with plans to build their engines in-house for the first time. Their £500m investment will drive growth far beyond their factory gates, creating a thousand jobs, supporting thousands more in the supply chain, and providing apprenticeships to young people. This is what reindustrialising Britain looks like.

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• Watched a bit of @poteto + team on the Grok Bot stream today. Surprised by how normal the work is, but faster. So many micro judgements and steps that weren't automated. You could pause at many moments and be like "wait why that?" and it would lead to an interesting discussion.

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• BlueskyHere's what OpenAI's agentic software factory looks like, today. It's surely not token efficient, but eg agents "babysitting" releases to prod is something new, and an interesting approach. Details:

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• github actions in my oss repos suddenly stopped running today i had opus 4.8 look into it, it spent ~$10 worth of tokens and insisted that either i haven't paid my bills or there's a github outage switched to grok 4.5 and just 3 minutes in with $1.2 worth of tokens, it found there's a surge of CI runs in my firstmate repos starving all the allowed runners across my account, cancelled a bunch of them, and everything's back on track this is just an anecdotal example but i've had many positive experiences like this. people ask me why i default to grok and this is why

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• https://t.co/OL0LzGsXKY can now orchestrate subagents with different models & reasoning efforts. e.g: Fable planning and Grok executing. Fable is a genius, Grok is a fast workhorse. ① Simple. 𝙰𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚂.𝚖𝚍 or your prompt can indicate this preference. ② Steer as you please. It’s extremely enjoyable to use. You just talk to the agent and interrupt at will. Worth noting this works with any model, any gateway. No fancy server-side routing. Just harnessing (no pun intended) the model’s intelligence and ability to orchestrate.
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• want to hear an interesting strategy story between meta and apple? 10 years ago i was at meta, and worked on a lot of product features that had to ship to iOS, and they all had to go through a painful apple review where anything could get cut apple back then developed a clear strategy where they used “privacy” as the angle to gain user trust and win against competition a clear example was the “ask app not to track” dialog which controls ads targeting - they made every 3p app go through that scary dialog which heavily implies to the user that they should obviously click “do not track” you migh…

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• six years to a billion in revenue used to be a rocket ship. still is amazing. but now some companies are doing it in six months!

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• x.comGrok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it launched to the world. Less than a month in, millions of Grok Bots are already helping people get work done. Roman Ugarte (@romanugarte_) incubated, launched, and now leads product for Grok Bot. This is the first time he's told the story: 🔸 Why they started fresh instead of building it into Cursor 🔸 T…

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• I sent my Grok @Bot to hunt down an out-of-stock book! It couldn't find any in stock, and the only copy left was way too expensive. But since it has access to my Gmail, it just started emailing publishers and bookstores itself. They're all Turkish, so it wrote the emails in Turkish. I would spent hours on this previously, now it's minutes. Let's see how it ends up :)

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• Private GitHub registries for shadcn will change how corporates ship design systems. npx shadcn list org/repo Same workflow for every team. No more "Figma is the source of truth and the code is a rumor."

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• big news about the Wizard Zines store: print orders from Europe now ship from a European warehouse in Germany!!! We've been having a lot of issues with duties & fees for European customers because of shipping from the US so I'm very excited for this. get your zines here: https://wizardzines.com/ (and here's the shipping FAQ with all the details: https://store.wizardzines.com/pages/shipping-policy)

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• proud that @vibhuuuus and i did the most recent pod with @eisokant on why NVIDIA just paid him $6B to buy the incredible model factory that is pumping out Thinky-beating models (actually not exaggeration, look at the numbers) tune in / subscribe / whatever https://t.co/EsgyFnhAIy only on @latentspacepod
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• day 1 was Madison and Janesville, WI the latter town is known for the 100-year old GM factory that devastated the community when it shut down in 2008 it's been an abandoned lot for the last 15 years. now there's a data center being proposed, but some residents are skeptical
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• AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence

  I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware produ…

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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.

• MastodonTook a photo of Baker’s Island on the Whaler, used Ships Whistle inspired from lettering on the Martha’a Vineyard ferry along with Paint Factory inspired by lettering on a building in Gloucester Harbor (where WB was filmed). Synergy! Also? #widowsbay

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• BlueskyTook a photo of Baker’s Island on the Whaler, used Ships Whistle inspired from lettering on the Martha’a Vineyard ferry along with Paint Factory inspired by lettering on a building in Gloucester Harbor (where WB was filmed). Synergy! Also? #widowsbay

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

• RIP Josh Baer

  Josh Baer, the founder and CEO of Capital Factory and the godfather of Austin's startup scene, died last night in a plane crash. He was my friend and I'm sad today.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

• Trust Factory

  “We’re accumulating code faster than we are accumulating trust.” Sometimes a phrase just hits.

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

• I was thinking about this prediction that we were going to see a lot more CPU bugs, danluu.com/cpu-bugs/, as yet another Intel CPU bug story is on the front page of HN. At the time, Intel threw quality under the bus in the name of velocity. I've seen this happen quite a few times now, sometimes with the stated intention of improving quality later. I'm sure it's ever happened, but I don't think I've ever seen a company do this and then ship very high quality products later.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

• Software Factory Meetup, day after tomorrow, get on it. I'll be there too. 🍻
  Quoting@PeterBellAgentic software engineering: - How do I get agents to generate quality code? - How can I automate the verification of the generated code? - How can my team build a robust software factory to accelerate velocity? - The first 20% is easy - how can I help the rest of my product, engineering and QA or…

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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.

• Its fun to work with Clint. We used to use graphviz dot files to power our software factory Clint went hunting a missing backslash in a DOT pipeline and came back with an entire language. Dippin replaces DOT for authoring AI pipelines

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American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

• BlueskyCan everyone just chill for like a week? Just a week. Chill. We don’t need to ship anything. Let it all sink in.

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• x.comCan everyone just chill for like a week? Just a week. Chill. We don’t need to ship anything. Let it all sink in.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

• I Haven't Changed. You Just Didn't Get Me.

  My new NYT essay is pleasantly surprising enviros who thought I was a factory farm shill

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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.

• "AI hucksters [...] will tell you that there is only one way that this technology can be used: to fire a whole ton of workers and make the survivors do their job at frantic Lucy-in-the-chocolate-factory cadence. While it’s true that this is the only way that their companies could possibly be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been pumped into them (so far), there’s no iron law that says that investors in tech bubbles should always turn a profit."

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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• Reachy-Mini update🚨 Good: quality up++, sound/elec better than alpha. First tiny batches ship late Sep. Less good: scaling to thousands units (vs. 100s planned) taking longer than expected Still on track to ship first 3000 pre-orders before Xmas🎄(Lite & Wireless), most shipping early Dec.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

• The best leaders I’ve worked with operate with perma-urgency. They act like early founders, mindful of existential threats. And they can balance speed, sustainability, and repay tech debt. Ultimately, customers love it and teams thrive when we ship fast to deliver delight.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

• @hamel.bsky.social & @sh-reya.bsky.social are two of the world's best on evals. They've built evals for 35+ AI apps & helped teams ship confidently. Now they'll teach everything they know on building evals that work. Enrollment closes in 4 days. Secret 35% discount code:

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Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.

• When engineers say "that'll take months!"

  Igor writes: "Our product is 15 years old, with a lot of legacy code and outdated technologies. Our engineers say that the minimum time they need to ship anything of real value (not just small things) is about three mon…

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

• "Mechanistic interpretability never does anything useful" they said "It'll never beat a standard baseline" they said "Talk to me when you ship something" they said Ahem:
  Quoting@AnthropicAIThis week, we showed how altering internal "features" in our AI, Claude, could change its behavior. We found a feature that can make Claude focus intensely on the Golden Gate Bridge. Now, for a limited time, you can chat with Golden Gate Claude:

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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.

• Clock speed

  The biggest determinant for success in a technology company is the speed at which it operates and learns – the “clock speed” to use a CPU analogy. The easiest external measure for this is how fast you ship product. Howe…

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Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.

• Wondering how to grok this. Cannot write to ‘nvhpc_2023_2311_Linux_x86_64_cuda_12.3.tar.gz’ (Success).

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

• Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuilding

  The US Navy's ship program is sick, but the fixes aren't rocket science. ...

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

• @msanromanv I loved your article on changing your engineering mindset over at @buffer. 👌 That resonated very well with me and what we’re in the thick of at @STIM_Sweden. Thanks also for helping me find Ship/Show/Ask – *exactly* what I’ve been looking for!

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