Alex Goddijn

starcraft in the browser built from the ground up for agent harnesses to hook into and operate

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We only do a tiny fraction of the interesting, valuable things there are to do in the world. We're limited by time, by energy, by how much context we can keep in our brains. We do what we can, but the world has much more capacity for beauty and for craft. To me, this is what the manifest destiny of technology is about: unleashing humanity's potential by increasing our leverage to do our work. Our hands must reach further and do more. The current AI era has given us cognitive leverage. We can now pay perfect attention to every problem we can explain to an LLM. Last week, every engineer on our team shipped a billion tokens per day. That's 8,000 novels' worth of tokens per person, every day. We aren't slop cannons. We aren't lost to cyberpsychosis (although I now dream in neuralese). We got here by pushing the limits of cognition inside Yak Labs. Meanwhile, I have old coworkers who call autocomplete in their IDE slop. The average knowledge worker is using LLMs as a fancy Google. They can't get a consistently good PowerPoint out of an LLM. The gap between pioneers and these users is growing. It worries me. We have in our hands the most powerful contribution to human flourishing we've ever created. But all of that leverage is being left on the table. It requires you to become a pioneer to use it. No one should have to learn how to become a pioneer. Instead of mastering agent swarms, they should be mastering their craft and finding their own opportunities for leverage. That's why we're building Bonsai. Bonsai lives on your computer and learns every corner of your role, your team and your company. It's like having a little me at your desk, figuring out every night how to change your AI setup so you have more leverage tomorrow. You don't need your entire team on Bonsai for it to work. Our goal is to make YOU better, TODAY. We've learned from running AI enablement for hundreds of employees: top-down mandates don't work. "Use more tokens" !== "Use tokens well". Your top performers will zoom ahead to the frontier and leave everyone else behind. Instead, Bonsai starts with one person. The frontier will spread one desk at a time. Bonsai will help you keep the work you love and do more of it. Hand the swarm everything below your bar. Go find the rest of those interesting, valuable things to do. Cultivate your craft; Bonsai will cultivate your swarm. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you.

Excited to finally get to share what we’ve been working on! This is only the beginning, we hope you enjoy.