Ivan Vanderbyl retweeted
This guy built a simulation with GPT-Astra and now the people in his simulation have built their own simulation, and the original people are watching the new simulated people on a simulated computer screen. Which is hilarious, because that's probably exactly what we're doing.
I'm just waiting for the meme where people in Silicon Valley start talking like Claude to each other.
The discrediting of Chinese models, part of America’s new playbook on AI, has begun. nist.gov/news-events/news/20…
Selling Skills is just the prompt marketplace era again, except now the prompt has a folder structure so it costs $200.
I've been automating payroll for my company using Claude, but one thing continually got in the way:
going from Xero to Airwallex to upload batch transfers so that I don't have to input each employee 1 by 1.
Xero outputs a CSV file for this purpose, but Airwallex expects a special Excel template to be used.
So I built a CLI that you can use locally or give to your agent: github.com/ivanvanderbyl/xer…
Instantly converts from Xero to Airwallex batch payment file formats.
Thank me later.
One thing I love about Hermes Agent, I only had to ask it to send me a daily email with the best flights to Bali - it also takes into account how agonising the flight will be by layovers, duration, airline etc.
Jetstar is scaled up here because it’s the most direct option.
Ivan Vanderbyl retweeted
This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.
From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.
0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.
Bonus points if you get your blood checked.
Start here, it will change your life.
Cornell study just dropped a nuke on corporate jargon lovers:
People who get inspired by “synergizing paradigms” and “growth-hacking synergistic leadership” are worse at actual decision-making, lower in analytic thinking, and help promote the worst bosses.
Corporate BS isn't a skill—it's a red flag.
Bonus: they’re also happiest at their jobs 😭
Link: news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
Who's the biggest paradigm-synergizer in your office? 👀
On a flight to Tokyo with barely functional wifi. Too slow for Claude/Amp, didn't pack a big enough local model to be productive.
Solution: spun up a GCP VM in Sydney, connected via mosh (mosh.org) which handles insane latency and packet loss. Now I can run multiple Amp instances over SSH, close my laptop, change connections, check back later. Everything just keeps running.
Additional level up: run this in tmux and ask amp to create some friendly aliases for you to remember.
ps: Don't forget to security harden your VM. The mikr13/secure-server-setup-skills skill is a valid choice here.
Amp Code (@AmpCode) is easily the most underrated coding agent right now. Forget Claude, Amp can single shot whole features. It's incredible.
My least favourite type of Webhook to work with is one that expires, especially after some annoyingly short period of time. 👋 Hello Microsoft.
Software is eating the world, and AI is eating software.
2026 will be the year companies realise they can vibe-code most services they pay >$50k/year for, and do it for <$5,000 in time and tokens.
Contrary to @roddrury telling founders to get off shore and go to America, I’m building in Queenstown. While I don’t disagree on centres of thought be higher in other areas, this has fundamentally levelled off in recent years.
Ivan Vanderbyl retweeted
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”
I’ve taken so many flights in Australia and NZ that I’m almost always on an aircraft I’ve flown on before
Ivan Vanderbyl retweeted
Legendary use case for Claude Code I’ve just heard:
“It managed to uninstall all Adobe products from my Mac by telling Claude Code to do this. Took a bunch of tokens but was worth it.”
(Iykyk)
Claude Code is a tool, and like any craftsman will tell you in the right hands with the right practice, you can do great things, and poor craftsman always blame their tools.
My @claude_code setup is to run "air traffic control mode", that is: 6 terminal splits on a 40 inch monitor, using git worktree to work on different features concurrently.
I work from left to right giving it instructions, then review code, and start again. It commits and pushes automatically until the feature is complete, has passing tests, and no failing actions on GH.
Next is to integrate with Linear so that the rest of the team has visibility.