an agent in every cup

collecting bits & bobs about building alliances with other intelligences

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of

Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report

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6 Weeks of Claude Code

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2023: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Menlo Ventures

Derek Xiao menlovc.com

How to talk to machines

Carly Ayres carly.substack.com

ChatGPT - VC Associate

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AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead

Maxim Tabachnyk research.google

GitHub - bytedance/UI-TARS

github.com

Programming is hard — it's hard for beginners to create and understand programs which makes programming as an expressive medium inaccessible. It's hard for experts — even I (the library's maintainer!) had difficulty understanding Fuzzyset, fixing bugs, and adding features. Programming is not just hard, but in my opinion it's needlessly hard,... See more

Fuzzyset

Ultimately, I think programming models and UIs have to change to accomodate human cognition and social processes for dealing with complexity — once it does, programming will be a lot easier for experts and a lot more accessible to beginners. Until then!