co-founder of https://teapaw.org/t.co/Tw4wVHkF9J and I work on Internet protocols, AI and fintech. Fmr software security @microsoft @amazon @google
Seattle, WA
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Jack Couch retweeted
I am talking to an LLM in a datacenter that’s reaching out over a few strands of copper to adjust firmware settings in a laptop here on my desk, firmware designed by an Apple engineer in California, installed on hardware assembled in a factory in China, shipped to my door in Texas so that I can get Linux running on it and unlock its full power for the global open source community.
In this case, the agent is tweaking the brightness of this amazing OLED screen, asking me if it’s getting brighter or dimmer.
I feel sorry for the folks in our industry that have taken an anti-LLM stance. They are missing out on a magical moment in computing history.
Jack Couch retweeted
Microsoft's diagnostic AI solved 83% of 304 complex New England Journal of Medicine cases. Generalist physicians with reference materials solved 36%. We need to get this technology into clinics safely and fast. We need to stop making people wait for the right answers.
Jack Couch retweeted
WHAT THE F*CK GROK BOT JUST DID
my dad was about to send $38,000 to "unlock" his retirement savings. the money was never there
he's 64. for 6 months he's been "investing" on a platform a woman he met online recommended
his dashboard showed $212,000. to withdraw, the platform asked for a $38,000 "withdrawal tax" first
he was going to the bank tomorrow
Grok Bot couldn't open the site. so I sent it UnblockGrok.com
no app, no signup. you just paste the link into Grok and it opens the site in a real browser
it went in and found:
→ domain registered 5 weeks ago
→ same template as 14 other "exchanges"
→ the license number belongs to a different company
→ not one successful withdrawal. ever
the $212,000 was just a number on a screen
I sat with him and showed him everything. he didn't go to the bank
I only use it for looking things up. I don't sign into accounts or pay through it
bookmark this. next time Grok says "I can't open that page", just paste UnblockGrok.com into the chat
prompt below 👇
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Jack Couch retweeted
Omarchy Mobile just passed 400 stars on GitHub. ⭐ We're now just 30 days old. Here's where we're at:
• 1,048 commits
• 791 pull requests opened, 547 merged
• 36 people have sent code
• 76 forks
Real Omarchy on your phone: Arch, Hyprland, a mainline kernel, no Android underneath. The first developer preview shipped this week for the Pixel 7 Pro, and it updates itself with `omarchy update`.
16 phones are in progress: Pixel 9a, 6 Pro, 7, 7a, 8 Pro, 8a, Fold, plus OnePlus and Xiaomi devices. On the 9a, calls and texts already work. Today the 9a's modem and the 6 Pro's display both landed.
Today alone: 46 pull requests reviewed, 25+ merged, every shared change tested on my own 7 Pro before it went in.
Next up: the installer. The core is now public, written in Rust: one codebase for a desktop app on Linux, Windows and macOS, and a web flasher. Plug in, click a few buttons, done. It's an early prototype, and there's more work coming on this soon.
Want in? Grab a supported Pixel, read the contributor guide, open an issue for your phone. Thank you to everyone who has starred, forked, tested and built. We're just getting started. 🙏 omamobile.org
Jack Couch retweeted
Local AI is getting really good. Omarchy 4.6 will make it trivial to get started by recommending the very best model that's available for your machine. This is Flash Next on the insane AMD 495 that @AnushElangovan gave me. Shockingly capable.
Jack Couch retweeted
thanks greg!
EVERYTHING you NEED to know about Jack Dorsey's AI agent "Slack killer" Buzz (set up, use-cases etc in 38 mins)
What we get into:
1. What Buzz actually is and should founders switch from Slack?
2. How to swap the model under any agent and keep all your context?
3. How to talk to your agents live with audio huddles?
4. How to get agents to build and deploy real apps for you, like a full CRM from one ask?
5. How to set up the context loop that feeds your live app data back to your agents?
6. How to share compute so a few people split one machine running a local model?
7. Who it's actually for right now, and what's still rough?
Full breakdown on the pod @startupideaspod. Thanks to @hot_town for jumping on and clearly explaining @jack and team's latest product.
My TLDR take is Buzz is a glimpse into the future of work. Some of you will roll your eyes at that, and I get it, it's alpha software and it's slow in places.
But the core idea, that your context is the foundation and agents build out from there, is right, and that's worth seeing early.
Watch
youtube.com/watch?v=_jGSgzBk…
Curious what you think
Jack Couch retweeted
Here are some big big problems:
1. In order to verify my face you need to store my face. But then you can also fake my face. You can verify my password or passkey without storing my password so this is a big step backwards in that way.
2. Other people can scan my face (Flock cameras. etc) and get the data needed to steal my account. I put my face in the public lot. I don’t walk around with my password on my forehead, but that’s basically what this is.
Jack Couch retweeted
we're launching BUZZ!
a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝
buzz.xyz
Jack Couch retweeted
Open weights simply reveal where the value actually is.
Nobody interacts with an LLM.
You interact with the harness around it: the RLHF, the RAG, the orchestration.
Interact directly with even the most advanced raw model and you'd be singularly unimpressed.
The layer that makes chatbots feel magical is proprietary, it's a trade secret, and no single architecture governs it, so it never commoditizes.
The weights were never the product.
Jack Couch retweeted
People who were mid before AI, got way worse with it. Comparatively speaking, people who were good before AI, got only marginally better. Not enough to compensate. That's why almost everything around you is becoming slop.
Jack Couch retweeted
How it feels when you vibecode something and have to explain to an actual developer how it works.
Jack Couch retweeted
Count Safari is now in Wild Atlas. Tap real animals. Hear the count. It's the 5th game in the app, and the first built around counting. Three levels, real animal narration, and a developmental progression that follows how kids actually learn numbers.
Jack Couch retweeted
We must ensure whatever digital identity system becomes widely adopted is self-sovereign and privacy preserving, b/c everything analog will be digitized, it's just a question of what form it takes, unless folks think people are going to use paper or plastic cards on the Moon/Mars
Jack Couch retweeted
Are you asking why a government has an interest in the ideas embraced by billions of people? Governments are competing with other governments for survival. If they, or their ideas, become unpopular, they will be destroyed.
YouTube’s algorithm is equivalent to a nuclear arsenal.
Jack Couch retweeted
*ping*
You have not completed watching your mandated allotment of state authorized content today. You MUST watch [48 minutes] of [BBC reels] by midnight or your watch privileges will be revoked.
🚨BREAKING: The British government is forcing YouTube to kill off independent journalism by pushing them down the algorithm and giving government approved media organisations (such as BBC, ITV, Channel 4) "privileged position."
This is unprecedented for a non-dictatorial country to pursue.
Especially considering we are now going to have a government that only 24,927 people from Makerfield voted for.
Jack Couch retweeted
JUNE 1, 2001
🚨MICROSOFT CEO: OPEN-SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEMS ARE DANGEROUS
$MSFT CEO Bill Gates told lawmakers that open-source operating systems such as Linux are "going down a very dangerous path." Transcript below ⬇️
"""
The scaling of open source operating systems, I think it's going down a very dangerous path. And again, if the path continues, I think we could get to a very dangerous place.
I think it's worth saying some things on Linux that are clear to all the experts, but I want to make sure is understood by this committee, which is when you control the operating system and you're shipping it, you have the ability to monitor its usage. It might be misused at one point, but then you can push an update. You can revoke a user's license. You can change what the system is willing to run.
When an operating system is released in an uncontrolled manner, by some guy compiling his own kernel in his basement, there's no ability to do that. It's entirely out of your hands. And so I think that should be attended to carefully.
There may be ways to release software open source so that it's harder to circumvent the licensing, but that's a much harder problem, and we should confront the advocates of this with that problem and challenge them to solve it.
Finally, I'd say open source is a little bit of a misnomer here, right? Open source normally refers to smaller developers who are iterating quickly, and I think that's a good thing. But here we're talking about something a little bit different, which is a more uncontrolled release of larger systems by, again, to your point, Senator Hawley, like much larger entities that pay tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to develop them. I think we should think of that in a little bit of a different category, and their obligations in a little bit of a different category.
"""
🚨ANTHROPIC CEO: OPEN SOURCE AI IS GETTING DANGEROUS
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source AI is moving down a “very dangerous path.”
His warns that once powerful models are released openly, companies lose the ability to monitor misuse, revoke access, or update safety guardrails.