Lucas Dickey

Dad, husband, @stripe @atlas, dog lover, hacker | Founder Fernish | Day 1 @amazon MP3

[Rami Banna @mrramibanna]

guiding agents to use the best path for purchasing, tool calling, and provisioning is a Directory-sized challenge

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

Just finished Dario's essay and listened to Brockman on @a16z pod. No take yet.

I want the ideas to sit for a bit. Hot takes are cheap. Clarity isn’t. Yaddada mean!?

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@fangchangma @nuance_ai @lightspeedvp @Accel @spc @nvidia @definevc YES! This is so big! I love it. Also, go Seattle!

[Utpal Nadiger @utpalnadiger]

LFG

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@RhysSullivan My unslop definitely removed "load-bearing", "seams", "footgun".

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@linear Dude.

[Alfred Wahlforss @itsalfredw]

Sweden’s best founders should leave Sweden.
At least for a week.

We started Velocity Fellows so 10 young Swedes can spend a week in SF on us.

In 2023, we took Max from Legora to meet Arvid at Cursor. Cursor had 10 people. Legora had 2.

Apply to get a picture like this!

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

Yep, and... @roshan_s @prades_maxime - how do we get all users to move from 1% to 99% utilization/value? Build more trust in the agents? Clearer product education? Show, vs tell videos on social? Agent self-documentation and proactive guides to go up the trust + utility ladder?

[Dmytro @Dmytroo_eth]

SpaceXAI engineer Lauren Tan on why most users barely scratch the surface of GrokBot

"GrokBot is the most powerful agentic tool we have ever built, but only 1% of users use it correctly."

Her setup: 20+ GrokBot agents, organized around a Chief of Staff, 3 managers and 16 workers.

Meanwhile, 99% of users are still working inside a single chat window and wondering why everything takes so long.

The missing piece is how the work gets organized. And it takes one evening to change that.

Chief of Staff → Managers → Workers → Skills → Autonomous Workflows

In a 1-hour workshop, a SpaceXAI engineer breaks down how to turn Grok agents into a coordinated team and put their capabilities to work.

Research → Build → Launch → Improve

Worth more than most $1,000 agent engineering courses online.

Skip Netflix tonight. Watch the workshop and rethink how you use GrokBot.

[rari @0xwhrrari]

https://t.co/GoJ0DWB7Ve

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@arnavsahu341 Both can be true. Distribution, hiring, and cash discipline still transfer. The 10% that breaks is usually “how we used to ship” advice applied to a world where the build loop is days, not quarters. IMVHO.

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@JenniferHli Exactly. If the people building the frontier also own the scoreboard, you don't have a scoreboard, you have marketing(ish). Independent evals are how buyers and builders actually calibrate.

[Jennifer Li @JenniferHli]

The debate on pacing the frontier makes one thing increasingly clear: the labs pushing the frontier shouldn’t also be the only ones grading it.

As an industry, we need credible third-party evals - an independent source of truth on where the frontier actually is, and what risks are emerging.

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@Scobleizer Agreed

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@inababi 💯

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

Ever read this one? It's a banger. I found it inspiring while building Fernish with Michael, but it's insights go well beyond the world of furniture.

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@ColinGardiner @joshelman @saranormous @kirstenagreen @deedydas 💯

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@petergyang @pedroh96 If only...

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@_shubhankar Truth. Inertia is real.

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@kevinyien Not mundane. The realness. And what makes "normies" adopt.

[Lucas Dickey @Lucasdickey]

@_heyglassy @MiguelriosEN Woah