Poet who ships infrastructure Senior Principal Engineer @metamask Cofounder @apocene Prev: Founding Engineer @airswap, Data @spotify, Poetry @Iowawriterswksp
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I think we need an AI slowdown because I cannot keep integrating what everyone is shipping it’s a literal explosion of utility. Just hold your users close and care for them, that’s all one can do
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Yes, Rob,
But that's an irrational position to take.
The Doomers have:
1) a poor track record of positive predictions (things they said would happen, didn't)
2) a poor track record of missed predictions (things that happened, which they had no prescience about)
What you're reacting to is not in the real world. What you're reacting to is a primate ability to imagine and worry about the future.
Humans can *always* imagine worst case scenarios. But given how egregiously wrong the safetyists have been, it's actually negative EV to listen to them, because they distract from the real ontologies... You know... The real world
Instead of shadow boxing with your anxiety, maybe it's time to engage with reality.
You all understand that we're worried about extinction from *future* AI systems, right? Not the ones we have now?
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I'm not worried about evil AI.
I'm very worried about evil humans using AI.
The only way to defend against it, is for good humans to use the most advanced AI, and improve and accelerate it as fast as possible.
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If we are doing tech regulation for public safety, let’s float a few heavy-handed state solutions to curtail phone addiction.
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love when I get a chance to link up with @francescoswiss
A lot of people were asking, so I finally finished editing Episode 2!
This one covers the evolution of wallets, and honestly it's SO deep that I'm still learning from @cloudonshore every time I rewatch the footage.
Wallets started as simple key storage. Then they became browser extensions, the front door to everything onchain. Then smart accounts made them programmable.
But every version had one thing in common: they were designed for a human, sitting in front of a screen, clicking approve.
That assumption is changing FAST. Agents don't click buttons. And that's exactly why wallets need to evolve again.
Episode 2 👇 8 more to go. S/H to @ethconf for the room.
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Our very own @cloudonshore with ERC7710 repping @MetaMask at @Google Web3 and AI summit.
s/o to the builders @danfinlay @McOso_ .
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your ability is going parabolic but your attention is getting smashed to pieces
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Sam just responded with what an agent wallet is, but the real question is how to actually use an agent wallet!
Check out @cloudonshore responding while he’s working out
happy friday ☀️
Still wondering what an agent wallet is? well… now you don’t have any excuse anymore @cloudonshore just explained it 👇
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I was at a party at a friends house last weekend, full of designers and artists, and they all code now. A fashion designer I know built a dashboard for managing her depop reselling that uses AI vision for reading vintage clothing tag labels and suggesting fair market value. A model I know built a streaming platform for witches to teach witchcraft to each other. I used to have to keep my technical side hidden from all my hot friends, but now all they want to talk about is coding. Honestly I'm in heaven, my culture is everyone's culture now.
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An interesting counterpoint is frameworks. No one is using an LLM to write the next three.js, but thousands of agents are using three.js to build websites. No one is trying to disrupt Vite, or GSAP. In fact I’m sure installs of all of them are through the roof. I do wonder what is going to happen to this layer of software in the next 10 years, I don’t feel like there are new engineers entering the field who are excited to build these kinds of frameworks.
The models are getting to the point where they are so good, almost no one will read source code in a year or two. There may be exceptions in industries like HFT or super hard tech, but when it comes to consumer products it will be the equivalent of reading a binary today.
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I hate Opus 5 so much, and 4.8 has started to behave like Opus 5. I’ve run a weekly report using 4.8 for months and it always outputs a paragraph or two. Opus 5 returns *pages* of slop for that same workflow. And today Opus 4.8 started returning pages of slop too 😭 literally I have to use fable now or I’m stuck with a lying slop machine monster who refuses to follow my instructions
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Building my first custom harness, and it’s more fun than just about anything I’ve built in a decade. That feeling of surprise and thrill I first got when using Claude Code, I get new versions of that every 10 minutes.
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