Jason Bates

Co-Founder of @Monzo and now @11fs
Designing and building banks around the world.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@PromptLLM This is Robert Fritz's "structural tension" from 'The Path of Least Resistance' repackaged.
Although Fritz points out you can't "strip" the emotional weight by deciding to. The result has to stay charged or nothing pulls.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@NicerInPerson I dunno. I don't think the general populace is going to let agents go YOLO with their credit cards for quite some time.

It will be fun finding out over the next few years though :o)

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

I think services that make money from upsell and inertia will start using Apple's App Attest / Google Play Integrity to restrict direct API access by personal AI agents.

My agent wants to find a better deal. They want to keep me in their app.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@HeavyDreamscv Coincidentally I saw this today. ESP32 iPhone control.

https://t.co/UE4IKLisiU

[山景城小路 @Zen_with_AI]

esp32小板子现在可以做很多事，配合muse可以直接利用大模型控制手机，实现自动化控制硬件，规模化的目的

USB 控制手机（自动化操作）技术逻辑：ESP32（尤其是 ESP32-S2 / S3 系列）支持 USB Device 模式（OTG），可以模拟成标准的 HID 设备（键盘 + 鼠标）。
手机把这块板子识别成“外接键盘/鼠标”。
板子里跑的程序按时间或脚本，主动发送 HID 报告（按键码、鼠标移动、点击坐标）。
于是手机屏幕上就会自动出现：打开备忘录、输入中文、切换画笔、画出圆形+笑脸等操作。

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@NicerInPerson There might be middle road, where agents are permitted to load baskets / get to the booking screen, and companies can still do upsell / on sell / comparison, and confirm with the end user it’s what they want.

Agent books restaurant and OpenTable push notify me to confirm?

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

I do like the tiling hyprland window manager in Omarchy, so I added some features to Aerospace (better multimonitor support, focus mode, better single window handling) and that is now my daily driver on my macs.. Love it. https://t.co/pvOZFhIOzy

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@DebGreenwoodTV I was on a couple of episodes of this! Lol. Great memories of some exciting trips away to Glasgow for filming.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@stevegraham With those constraints that's crazy!!

I went trial and error, but Claude did build me CLIs for Things (fave task app) and Strong (fave weight training app). Both have cloud sync, but no public API, and now agents run em both.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@stevegraham I’m continually reminded of Neal Stephenson’s “The diamond age”. There should be a charity to give motivated clever inner city kids Pro/max accounts.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@NicerInPerson @jonas @Pebble I made an apple watch complication / app for that collection (day note / task / idea). a local agent at home deals with the details.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

You wonder how many people have ever lived, so you ask an agent to build you an interactive exploration while you do other things.... crazy times

https://t.co/wlJLuA6U1Z

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@alvinfoo (ht to @MaxCRoser for the original)

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@alvinfoo Great graph.... but I think we can do better. I had Claude work up the 3D animation this afternoon

https://t.co/wlJLuA6mcr

[Pradeep Kapoor @pradeepXkapoor]

I asked @claudeai Opus 5.5 to make an animated video about a robot who realises he's stuck in an AI-generated world.

I wanted to really push it: 12 worlds, 12 styles, from 8-bit to claymation to pencil sketch, you can really see how well this model has imagined all worlds.

This is the best animated video you will see today made by Opus 5.5, I promise.

[Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell]

i'm still not sure people are fully getting how good opus 5.5

i gave my claude agent fig access to the runway MCP and told it to make a 'high-end netflix style documentary about superintelligence for normies' and...

it came back with this

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@seekinggradient I'm up for this too!

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

well hello there...

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

Tested lots of research tools today. (you .com, parallel, perplexity, etc.)
most interesting finding: Stating exclusions as a deliverable (“A section with sources considered and rejected”) took compliance from leaky to 100% where the same rule as an instruction was ignored. 🤷🏻

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@NateKettles @SpencerGBull Thanks again. I just had a Claude /deep-research query spend 5.66M tokens in 27 minutes across 106 agents, so I'm feeling that pain already. 😬

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

I got inspired by https://t.co/mXKupIDCoA @SpencerGBull - and repurposed an old iPad.

It tracks agents in Herdr, and lets me switch between them with a tap of the screen. The game changer was getting a local agent to title and subtitle the agents using their transcripts.

[Spencer Bull @SpencerGBull]

Our new Dell 52" 6k Ultra Wide feels like a full wall of display. Works great in Omarchy over a single thunderbolt cable for charging and display. But I still can't ditch the multi-agent command center bottom screen to help manage herdr while I multi-task.

[Jason Bates @JasonBates]

@NateKettles @SpencerGBull Thanks for the tip.

I'm researching for a book I'm writing and I've been testing perplexity deep research and model council vs claude deep research vs chatGPT with a number of prompts and effort levels.