Faculty Member & PhD, ISE || Game Studio Founder/Director/CEO (1994-2016) || Prod Dev, AI, XR, Python/R, SW Carpentry & Tooling || Terminally Curious
Auburn, AL
Joined July 2019
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The game dev studio I co-founded in 1994 built all of its own tooling (engine, renderer, exporters, etc.) for 15+ yrs before commercial options were mature enough to bet on.
Imagine "threatening" to do the same. As if it's a radical new idea.
Dan O’Leary retweeted
Ya know we are just beating ourselves.
We had a really physical and emotional game last week to knock off Georgia.
LSU winning is just a fluke.
(If you read this without the slightest hint of sarcasm 😑)
Always take the high road. Some will take advantage of you. That is THEIR problem.
Another takeaway after three years of building a company is that the returns to just "being a good person", and not acting transactionally, are higher than I expected.
There are so many transactional, boring, and at times immoral people in the tech industry that if you act with sustained warmth, authenticity, humor, and integrity, great gifts will be laid before you. White pill.
Layers. Capture everything. Review sessions to develop reusable skills. Iterate on skills to improve processes. Develop scripts to automate mechanisms. LLMs run them, interpret, orchestrate work using them. Roll up your biggest tasks into more sophisticated software. Abstraction.
Today I coined the term “jibberification” for the process that models use to convert a clear, connected explanation into compressed, jargon-heavy language that sounds meaningful but makes the underlying concepts harder to understand.
Your most durable moats are your community and your operating costs. That has always been the case, it’s just more obvious now.
I'm in the top 5% of something!
The top 1% of AI spenders now outspend the bottom 50% combined
They spend an average of $903/month, while the median customer spends just $25
More charts in our Top 100 Consumer AI Apps breakdown: a16z.news/p/top-100-consumer…
the fire started in the math department
will it burn down the whole world?
Mathematical reasoning will transfer to any area that requires reasoning and building intuition over a complex domain. It might be that AI will not have all the necessary data to make the right conclusions in some cases, but it will be filling in all the necessary holes in data with high sample efficiency, just like humans.
Superhuman intelligence is here, and the same model that solved all these problems will be great at all other scientific and reasoning-bound tasks.
there is literally no end to the appetite for tokens. the more we use, the more we need
“AI will become our interface to the world.” 💯
We fully open sourced Nautilo because personal AI should be personal.
If you agent is just another SaaS app, you can't trust it with your personal and professional lives. A SaaS app is just a surveillance app in sheep's clothing.
With Nautilo you own the server, the desktop and mobile apps completely. Trust it completely.
Site: nautilo.ai
Github: github.com/agentsea/nautilo
Why open source all this hard work?
Because AI will become our interface to the world.
And what we share with AI will be much more personal and much more intimate. That means we have to control the harness or we're in for a dark tomorrow.
When someone can shut off your access to intelligence or change the ToS overnight, you're not an owner, you're a serf. Nautilo is open source and MIT licensed. Run your own server. Choose your models. Decide who joins. Inspect the code. Change it.
Your family, your company, your community should own the place where their intelligence grows together.
I have long bemoaned the tragic truth: "you can do anything, but not everything." Today it is more true, and more painful than ever.
Dan O’Leary retweeted
If you are rational you know that it is very unlikely that the most decisive moment of human history is unfolding before your eyes. This being said, it really looks like it.
Godspeed everyone. To the stars!
