Dewayne Whitfield

Human-Centered Designer / Artificial Intelligence Strategist/Bootstrapper ❤️ Data Science

[Dewayne Whitfield @Dewayne_W]

Looking forward to presenting at @cognilytica #MLLifecycle

[Cognilytica @cognilytica]

Attend #MLLifecycle on Tues, Jan 26, 2021 @ 4pm ET for 'Implementing AI in the Government' featuring @Dewayne_W formerly @USPS, @guptasanjay9 from U.S. Small Business Administration and Rajeev Dolas from @NHTSAgov. Register @ https://t.co/EbYiGD7mLZ #AI #ML

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Dewayne Whitfield @Dewayne_W]

@AnthropicAI Definitely @AnthropicAI working through the government and encouraging them to issue this order to prevent model distillation. They don’t want to look like the bad guys. Super sneaky. The next step is that they will make you verify who you are. Watch and see.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Florida hospital reveals Palantir software has cut sepsis deaths by more than half since it was installed.

[Patrick Jiang @patpcj]

Introducing Harness-1, a 20B search agent trained with a state-externalizing harness.

> frontier-level long-horizon search, rivaling Opus-4.6 and outperforming GPT-5.4

> Context-1-level cost and latency

> externalizes candidates, evidence, verification, and search history

> open-source

[Dewayne Whitfield @Dewayne_W]

@tesla it makes no sense that when I disengage it blocks my display view until I acknowledge it. Almost caused 2 accidents already.

[Gabriel Southern @gsouthern_]

@Tesla I canceled FSD because of the new disengagement prompt. Letting you know here since there’s no way to share this feedback about customer experience (ironic given that disengagement dialog is asking for feedback all the time).

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant literally explained how to productize yourself to escape the rat race:

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Chris Williamson dropped a brutal truth on Rogan:

Most people only tinker — new haircut, lose five pounds, switch jobs.

But real transformation? Rewiring your body, your country, your entire worldview? That’s unicorn-rare.

And here’s what almost nobody says out loud: the hardest part isn’t the work.

It’s the loneliness that hits when you start moving at a different velocity.

You become the weirdo training six nights a week, eating differently, journaling at dawn, chasing something you can’t fully explain. Your self-belief doesn’t stay Hollywood-strong — it flickers hard. You’re scrabbling in uncertainty, wondering if any of this is even working.

The old crew doesn’t get it. The pull back to “normal” is magnetic. You might lose entire friend groups… sometimes more than once.

That isolation isn’t a glitch. It’s the feature. The price of refusing average.

In a world built for comfort and sameness, choosing the uncertain climb is one of the last truly rebellious moves left. It forges depth most people will never touch.

I’ve lived those lonely chapters chasing my own new start. The doubt is heavy. The freedom on the other side is heavier.

What’s the biggest change you made that left you out of sync with your old circle — and did you ever find your new one?

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is actually very awesome

[Larsen Cundric @larsencc]

Introducing: Browser Use Box (bux). Your 24/7 personal agent box, powered by Browser Harness. ♞

We got tired of agents that vanish when you close the laptop. So we put them on a server.

> 24/7 box that runs while you sleep
> Real Chrome with persistent logins
> Telegram baked in, text from anywhere

I gave mine my email and a Telegram chat. It books flights, replies to LinkedIn and does my to-do list before I'm awake.

Try it at https://t.co/kABDn9Q6AL ↓

[Ivan Landabaso @IvanLandabaso]

Meta's CTO guide to starting a new job.

One of the most useful things I learned there:

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Tim Walz just quoted Millions of Americans that voted for Trump:

"Look, I don't really like Trump and I don't know if he's right, but at least he's willing to try and break things and try and make it better."

He said: "I know that’s dumb as hell, but that’s how people are feeling."

The question he can't answer is: what was the alternative they were being offered?

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff. @jack feels it too

[MY NAME IS MY NAME 🇺🇸🪮 @ctreid89]

How to make Human Resources nervous.

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture shows exactly how Stanford trains it's engineers to build AI systems. It's more practical than every Claude tutorial & prompting threads you've seen.

Bookmark & give it 2 hours, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this weekend.

[Oda’s Ghost Writer 🔜 Blerdcon’26 @bearded_blerdd1]

gaps in DMV relationships (Melanin Edition):

- career gap (everyone vs. consultants/lawyers )
- brunch gap (Ass Shaking Day Party vs. Sit Down eatery)
- neighborhood gap (Ward 7 & 8 vs. every other ward/Alexandria/silver spring)
- transportation gap (metro vs. Maryland driver )
- gym gap (Actual gym vs. Unc on benning road who teaches boxing)

[Santiago @svpino]

Intelligence withdrawal will be brutal.

Model tokens are heavily subsidized.

Subsidies are disappearing, and with them, so is easy "intelligence".

This is the reason for Anthropic and OpenClaw's divorce.

This should be a wake-up call for everyone building on top of a single provider. Your AI setup shouldn't depend on someone else's business model.

[𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐢 @tsitsiii_t]

Because nothing is actually hard, it’s just unfamiliar.

[John Ennis @johnennis]

I think one of the biggest challenges when it comes to going hard into using AI is loneliness

I am learning all these awesome things and becoming super capable

But the set of people that I can really talk to about it is very small

Is anyone else having this experience?