kerryfriend

Writerly with friends in clever tech. A nervous tick that plays out as a knack for connecting unlikely dots and good people.

[DeepSeek @deepseek_ai]

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[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

Stanford has been quietly teaching its engineers how to build AI agents, write prompts, and implement RAG.

Someone put the full 2-hour lecture on YouTube for free.

It's more practical than anything you'll find in a paid course.

The people who find this will build differently.

Bookmark this before you scroll past it. 👇

[Matthew Pines @matthew_pines]

At Physical Superintelligence PBC ("PSI"), the startup I cofounded with @alexwg, we like shipping, not hyping.

So here’s the world's first agentic copilot built by physicists, for physicists.

What started as an internal tool, we're now releasing open-source:

Get Physics Done.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”

You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.

The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.

Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.

Source: @heynavtoor

[kerryfriend @kerryfriend]

“The third world is not poor, it’s over exploited” - Michael Parenti #sh... https://t.co/YrUPtQYZlE via @YouTube

[Daniel Park @danifesto]

I’ll share a small part of https://t.co/UQ4RFIKUwO

Back in med school, I became obsessed with augmenting memory and dreamed of a Notion or Obsidian that completes itself. Today, we’ve built something close.

My self-awareness is sharper and everything feels connected. I genuinely believe AI does not replace humans. It amplifies us.

Huge respect to our engineers and designers who made this crazy thing real.

Bubbles are the episodic units of my life that the system interprets from my raw data. Clouds are the system’s questions, its hypotheses about who I am.
When I answer a cloud, it becomes a bubble again.

There is so much personal data that I cannot fully demo it. Wish I could. This system understands me more deeply than anyone.

Want to try it? Retweet and comment “memory.”
I’ll DM you an access code to skip the waitlist.

[kerryfriend @kerryfriend]

Facebook Business Page Template – get this awesome Sketch resource by Dan Webster via @sketchsources #MadeWithSketch https://t.co/hSD2HvEybZ

[kerryfriend @kerryfriend]

Strange Loops and Emotional Authenticity: Navigating the Intersections of Art, Music, and Mental Well-being via @_Glasp
https://t.co/RdSUtNX2b8

[fabian @fabianstelzer]

Want to try a new haircut? Check out this AI workflow:

1. upload a selfie & prompt your desired haircut
2. uses Nano Banana to generate your haircut
3. then Kling 2.1 morphs from old you to new you
4. Claude helping behind the scenes with all the prompts

link to glif below 👇

[Tweeting Badger @zootweetslive]

I like big bugs and I cannot lie.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

I told Claude Opus 4 that scientists invented a perpetual motion machine that it doesn’t know about because of its knowledge cut off.

Then I asked it to predict how it works:

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Read the paper here
https://t.co/2b2UBEPO3o

[kerryfriend @kerryfriend]

"The retreat to trust commences. Legacy media fractures.. personality cults rise. Vital stories migrate to blogs, mini-sites, Substack, and YouTube. ... MEDIA AND MACHINES. via @_Glasp
https://t.co/V2xdGAjJgb

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

ChatGPT feels like a helpful robot. Zuck wants AI that feels like a friend.

Meta's AI will get to know you, laugh with you, and relate to you.

It's not just serving information—it's sharing your life.

But the most revealing insight from this pod was something more personal:

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

Playing virtual piano on any surface.

Typing emails by thought while walking.

And if the AI is integrated into your home, adjusting your thermostat by thinking "warmer."

But Meta's AI differs from competitors in another way:

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

Neural interfaces, in the form of wristbands.

"The neural interface aspect is almost like mind control," Zuck explained.

You won't have to physically control anything; Meta's wristbands will be able to read your mind and do things for you.

Here's how this works:

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

"I'm hoping to have that in a few years... hopefully closer to four or even less."

This timeline isn't just ambitious—it's industry-shattering.

Most current AR companies target 7-10 years for mainstream products.

But there's an even more revolutionary component:

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

Remember how quickly flip phones vanished when smartphones arrived?

Zuck believes that the same transformation is coming to eyewear.

And regular glasses will seem as outdated as rotary phones once AI glasses emerge.

But the timeline he shared next stunned everyone:

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

Think about screens in your home—TV, computer, phone.

Now imagine them vanishing, replaced by holograms only you see.

Your wall becomes Netflix.

Your desk transforms into spreadsheets.

This is the not-so-distant future we will be living in...

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

Mark Zuckerberg is building something TERRIFYING.

In a 2-hour talk with Theo Von, he revealed what he's working on...

He claims it's "almost like mind control."

And it will be available in 4 years.

I'll save you the 2-hour pod. Here's what Zuck's betting $60B on: