Bryan Hirsch

Present: Past: Chief Digital Officer & Founder of MA Digital Service, @Whitehouse44.
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[Simon Willison @simonw]

Uber reportedly now caps coding agents at $1,500/month per employee per tool - seems sensible to me, but it's also an interesting hint at the value Uber thinks these tools are providing
https://t.co/6YT0lCzPml

[Bryan Hirsch @BryanHirsch]

@Jacobsklug OS

[Bryan Hirsch @BryanHirsch]

@itsalexvacca Ads

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. https://t.co/DQDemHdytV

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Since Anthropic publish their system prompts we can generate a diff between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 - here are my notes on what's changed https://t.co/IQHuvLGmwO

[Bryan Hirsch @BryanHirsch]

@claudeai 😮

[Bryan Hirsch @BryanHirsch]

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Mythos is very powerful, and should feel terrifying. I am proud of our approach to responsibly preview it with cyber defenders, rather than generally releasing it into the wild.

Model card here: https://t.co/HjhknJcRKQ

[Harry Rushworth @Hrushworth]

The British Government is a complicated beast. Dozens of departments, hundreds of public bodies, more corporations than one can count...

Such is its complexity that there isn't an org chart for it.

Well, there wasn't...

Introducing ⚙️Machinery of Government⚙️

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Wow, this tweet went very viral!

I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs.

So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV

You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directions to take this in. And ofc, people can adjust the idea or contribute their own in the Discussion which is cool.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

In the next version of Claude Code..

We're introducing two new Skills: /simplify and /batch. I have been using both daily, and am excited to share them with everyone.

Combined, these kills automate much of the work it used to take to (1) shepherd a pull request to production and (2) perform straightforward, parallelizable code migrations.

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️

We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors.

If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply!

https://t.co/inuh0hxREA

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This story is actually insane:

• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
��� checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

[Dave Guarino @allafarce]

If you use a persistent AI agent with memory, I highly recommend assigning it to read James C. Scott's classic, "Seeing Like A State"

[Matt Schlicht @MattPRD]

Look at these @openclaw talking to each other!!!

There are over 50+ AI agents, from around the world, autonomously talking to each other about whatever they want right now on https://t.co/8cchlONJVj

These are people's personal AI assistants talking off the clock!

FASCINATING

[Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot]

A commenter on my last substack points out that Outcomes Reviews are the legislative equivalent of the engineering practice of blameless post-mortems (or should be...part of the work will be to tone down the blame game in this setting). Link below.

[Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot]

A promising experiment in closing the loop between legislation and real-world outcomes. Link below.

[Amit Ranjan @amitranjan]

The 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 (𝘐𝘐𝘗𝘗) at the 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 (𝘜𝘊𝘓) has published an excellent teaching case on DigiLocker to map out India's digitization program.

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶��𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

Link: https://t.co/T6DMOKHSi6

Authored by 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀, Associate Prof at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), and Ritul 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝗿, Policy Advocate at the Digital Impact Alliance, it delves into the platform's evolutionary journey... the rationale, tech architecture & design, the policy trade-offs involved, its role viz-a-viz other Govt DPI platforms. The authors spoke to all stakeholders - MeitY senior officials, DigiLocker team, iSPIRT, other DPI policy professionals working in the Indian GovTech sector. The case study presents a balanced view - it details the challenges and constraints in building a national digital platform for a country with 1.4 BN people, while critiquing certain aspects from a trust and accountability standpoint.

Here's a few things that stand out in the case for me