Co-founder @Britebot70: AI agents that do real work. Founder @ThinkForesight: See around corners in tech & money. President @TennesseeBTC. ✍️ Forbes + elsewhere

Tennessee, USA
Joined September 2021
Most "AI agents" are demos. We build the boring kind that actually ships. At Britebot, agents answer support requests, follow up on leads, book appointments and move data between systems, on our infrastructure or yours, with local models when data can't leave. brite.bot
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We know single individuals can now run entire software companies. What about construction sites? Imagine buying some land and vibe-building the family compound of your dreams…
Today we’re announcing a $600M Series C, co-led by @CapitalG and @emergencecap, to bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S. We want autonomous equipment to become beautifully unremarkable, as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
Stop trying to "lock in" and start seeing work as play. The results will follow.
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Replying to @jack
bitcoin is the moat
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Apollo deniers always use this flawed logic. The simple answer is, landing people on the moon is not as hard as it sounds. Hermetically sealed containers are everywhere. Do you deny soda cans and scuba tanks? If not, you concede it’s possible to seal off some dudes in a metal can filled with air from oxygen tanks. Rockets are everywhere. You can buy a model rocket and watch it fly. You can shoot a gun. (You can also watch rocket launches, which your own eyes would tell you are real, at least until the rocket disappears into the sky.) Do you deny that a chemical reaction could accelerate a projectile? If not, then you concede large rockets are possible; just scale up what you experience when you go shooting. Newtonian mechanics are visible everywhere. Throw a football with controlled power and aim, and the football will always land in the same place. Do you deny that a quarterback can predict how to throw a football so that it intersects with a particular time and place? If not, then you concede you can use simple math to make a projectile collide with the moon. The devil is in the details, of course – it’s hard to make the whole thing work with 99% chance of success. But there’s nothing about visiting the moon that pushes the limits of science.
Replying to @NASA
Tell me again how we landed on the moon over and over with less data than what I have in my cell phone. But it is taking us literally years to figure out how to go back.
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A hole on the Moon just turned out to be the front door to a 50 km tunnel. Japan’s Kaguya orbiter first spotted it. A pit about 50 metres wide and 50 metres deep, sitting in the Marius Hills on the Moon’s near side. Then JAXA pointed the probe’s radar underground. The echoes came back with something huge: a lava tube roughly 100 metres wide, running about 50 km, and still intact. No collapse. Scientists think it was carved by volcanic activity around 3.5 billion years ago. There may even be ice or water locked in the rocks inside. That’s why JAXA thinks it could become a lunar base. Shelter from radiation, micrometeorites and brutal temperature swings, all built in. Source: JAXA / ISAS, Geophysical Research Letters
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The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it’s actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
You've gotta patch your dependencies super fast because they're full of vulns (PHP, Node, eMudhra, etc), but not _too_ fast because they're full of backdoors (LiteLLM). Good luck!
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it’s been an honor using the computer with you all
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Next year, I will assign one of my jira tickets to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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The pushback on this is interesting. The statement seems obvious to me but I realized it’s because I think of humans and the superintelligent machines we create as part of the same meta-society. Turns out a lot of people feel differently.
If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.
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If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.
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The UK is a husk. It spent most of its centuries-accumulated capital (monetary and cultural) by 1918 and then socialists got in and nibbled away at the rest. Now they are… this.
This is the BBC’s reporting of the roadster So negative. The UK establishment HATE innovation.
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I fucking hate this Friday morning commute
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GPU spinning up suddenly with no intentional queued job. thinking -- this is it
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This poster belongs on the bedroom wall of every kid in America.
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Right there with you. The concept hardware signing devices – the designs, business models, supply chains – has been mortally wounded. Time to start over from first principles.
We are so close to never recommending using a hardware wallet ever again. Almost there. Are seed phrases a net negative for Bitcoin adoption? I'm not afraid to ask this question. Curious to hear your response. Think about what I mean in my phrasing. "Net negative for Bitcoin Adoption."
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I no longer see any compelling reason to believe that taste is some permanent boundary LLMs won’t cross. It’s already happening.
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glad I never learned regex. really dodged a bullet there.
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Technical moats are over. The only moats now are: - Rich parents - Being good-looking enough for people to watch you make content for money - Being funny
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
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