Tom Solid

AI doesn't fix broken systems. It amplifies them.

I help professionals build the system first.
Creator of @myICOR

[Elder Scrolls @ElderScrolls8]

Grok Bot usage rug pull shows people are drunk on these newly found powers of controlling agents.

For some of us, sane ones, this shows what will happen once you build something really sophisticated for yourself and/or family, and start to dependent on it, and then BOOM... the cost goes up or compute is taken away from you. Imagine the distress, lost effort/time and fear that will take over for the rest of your S.I journey. @xai

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Trigger Claude from within Artifacts.
In case you didn't know, you can do this.
Just switch this on in your settings.
You're welcome.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

@amix3k Funny you say this, as I thought already that this would have been better placed in Todoist's realm. Especially given the direction you're going right now? Or am I not even close this comparison?
https://t.co/oDONpTO2Eg

[Jan Senderek @jans]

In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox.

Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents.

Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse…

Until now, none of them could work together.

Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent.

Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context.

Try it here: https://t.co/w9Ag9OrTUO

[Paco Cantero @PacomyICOR]

Serious companies keep their data and their history at home.

Now Claude's agents can live there too. That's when AI stops being a pilot and becomes part of how the business runs.

https://t.co/W1rNFhzslq

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Companies fear people automating their own job, so they lock the tools down.

Reward it instead, and your best people go looking for the next job to automate.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Enid joined us to handle deal desk, quickly automated her work, and now spends her time building GTM tools!

At self-driving companies, when you automate your job, you get promoted to do higher value things.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

And yet, I still can't hit "E" to archive an email, which forces me to use another tool layer on top to improve my inbox processing efficiency.

[Google Workspace @GoogleWorkspace]

Improve your email’s outlook with @gmail 🤷

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Imagine asking an AI to take Photoshop apart.

Not to pirate it. To understand it. How the generative fill works, how the licensing check works, which features are actually locked and which are just hidden.

That's where reverse-engineering with AI is heading. And it matters way beyond one app.

For decades, a lot of software was "protected" by one thing: nobody had the time. Millions of lines of compiled, undocumented code. Too painful to dig through, so nobody did.

That was never security. That was obscurity. And AI makes digging cheap.

So yes, a lot of things built on "nobody will bother" are about to get exposed. Paid features. Old internal tools. Legacy systems nobody wants to touch.

But here's where people overreact.

Understanding code is not breaking encryption. Your bank login, your private messages, serious infrastructure don't rely on nobody understanding the code. They rely on math. Understanding a lock faster doesn't give you the key.

So AI doesn't end security. It ends lazy security.

And honestly? Good. Anything that only survived because nobody looked closely was never safe. It was just unnoticed. And if AI helps us build more secure software and close those gaps, even better.

In the end, it all comes down to who has the smarter AI.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Prompt engineering at its finest 😂
But I can relate...lost my manners the same way.
https://t.co/dYHxqE7tGo

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Fable 5.2 verdict after real work:

A full week of usage plus one reset. Gone in a single day.

The quality jump? Not big enough to justify that.

Back to Opus 5.5.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

This is why it's not Fable 5.5...

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

This Fable/Opus narc behavior is infuriating

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

@mattshumer_ Prompt engineering at its finest 😂
But I can relate...lost my manners the same way.
Back to Opus 5.5 to get actual work done...
https://t.co/dYHxqE7tGo

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Fable 5.2 verdict after real work:

A full week of usage plus one reset. Gone in a single day.

The quality jump? Not big enough to justify that.

Back to Opus 5.5.

[Grok Bot @bot]

Grok Bot on Mac can now use Messages, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Location, and Contacts.

[Paco Cantero @PacomyICOR]

Stop switching AI tools.

Every week a new one drops.

Every week you rebuild everything.

And you're still drowning.

The tool was never the problem. Your productivity system was.

Fix that first, and AI stops being one more thing to manage.

It starts working the way you do.

We've helped thousands of professionals get there.

Your turn: https://t.co/sQBpmtsfCW

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Technology isn't the problem...

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Microsoft's outage gives us an idea of what's coming.

Not a sci-fi collapse. Just one company having a bad day.

Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and more went dark. Outage reports came in from 74 countries. A day later, Microsoft was still calling it "encouraging recovery progress."

And the part that matters most: Microsoft says this was not a cyberattack. Servers became unexpectedly unavailable, and the load hit whatever was left.

No hacker. No AI gone rogue. A server failure was enough to stall healthcare, schools, government inboxes and airline support.

That's how thin the layer is that the modern workday runs on.

And here's the uncomfortable part.

The usual advice is: keep everything local, bet on niche tools, spread your stuff across different servers. Save money, stay independent.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Even if my stack runs somewhere else, the world stands still. My clients can't read my email. My partners can't join the call. When the big players go down, we all go down. Same boat.

So yes, this outage is a preview. Not of the apocalypse. Of how connected we all are, whether we like it or not.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

"I won't try Grok Bot because of Elon Musk."

Speak up. Have opinions. I do.

I don't agree with Elon's politics.
Does that mean I stop using what his teams build?

Then be consistent.

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO amid reports of affairs, one with a suspected Chinese asset. Do I stop using AI running through Nvidia GPUs?

Bill Gates met Jeffrey Epstein around 30 times after his conviction. Do I stop using Windows?

Steve Jobs denied his own daughter for years, even in court, and was notoriously brutal to the people around him. Do I give up my iPhone? Without him, there's no iPhone to give up.

"That's why I use Android." Fair. That's a valid choice.

But Google paid Android co-creator Andy Rubin $90 million on his way out after a credible misconduct claim. Do you throw away your Android phone?

Mark Zuckerberg ran Facebook while Cambridge Analytica harvested data from up to 87 million profiles. Do I delete WhatsApp?

Sam Altman was fired by his own board for not being "consistently candid." Do I cancel ChatGPT?

None of this is okay. And using the product doesn't mean I endorse what they did.

"That's why I use Linux." Fair. That's a valid choice too.

But Linux creator Linus Torvalds had to step back and apologize in 2018 for years of abusive emails to his own contributors.

Still on Linux? Good. The project is bigger than its founder's worst emails. I'm not telling anyone what to use.

Nobody is above the law. That's exactly why we speak up.

But speaking up doesn't mean setting things on fire.

In 2024, extremists torched a power pylon next to Tesla's factory near Berlin. Production stopped, workers went home, and the towns around it lost power.

Elon makes a statement, people make a statement back, and normal people pay for it.

Their private life is not their business vision. The vision can be right even when the person gets it wrong. Building companies where everything works together is a skill, and it deserves credit.

Judge the leader. They set the direction and own the calls. And when they cross the line, boards and regulators rein them in. Even Elon lost Tesla's chairman seat over one tweet.

Meanwhile, thousands of engineers built the thing you're using, and you'll never hear their names.

If your rule only applies to Elon and Grok Bot, it's not a principle.
It's a preference.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

"I won't try Grok Bot because of Elon Musk."

Speak up. Have opinions. I do.

I don't agree with Elon's politics.
Does that mean I stop using what his teams build?

Then be consistent.

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO amid reports of affairs, one with a suspected Chinese asset. Do I stop using AI running through Nvidia GPUs?

Bill Gates met Jeffrey Epstein around 30 times after his conviction. Do I stop using Windows?

Steve Jobs denied his own daughter for years, even in court, and was notoriously brutal to the people around him. Do I give up my iPhone? Without him, there's no iPhone to give up.

"That's why I use Android." Fair. That's a valid choice.

But Google paid Android co-creator Andy Rubin $90 million on his way out after a credible misconduct claim. Do you throw away your Android phone?

Mark Zuckerberg ran Facebook while Cambridge Analytica harvested data from up to 87 million profiles. Do I delete WhatsApp?

Sam Altman was fired by his own board for not being "consistently candid." Do I cancel ChatGPT?

None of this is okay. And using the product doesn't mean I endorse what they did.

"That's why I use Linux." Fair. That's a valid choice too.

But Linux creator Linus Torvalds had to step back and apologize in 2018 for years of abusive emails to his own contributors.

Still on Linux? Good. The project is bigger than its founder's worst emails. I'm not telling anyone what to use.

Nobody is above the law. That's exactly why we speak up.

But speaking up doesn't mean setting things on fire.

In 2024, extremists torched a power pylon next to Tesla's factory near Berlin. Production stopped, workers went home, and the towns around it lost power.

Elon makes a statement, people make a statement back, and normal people pay for it.

Their private life is not their business vision. The vision can be right even when the person gets it wrong. Building companies where everything works together is a skill, and it deserves credit.

Judge the leader. They set the direction and own the calls. And when they cross the line, boards and regulators rein them in. Even Elon lost Tesla's chairman seat over one tweet.

Meanwhile, thousands of engineers built the thing you're using, and you'll never hear their names.

If your rule only applies to Elon and Grok Bot, it's not a principle.
It's a preference.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Microsoft's outage gives us an idea of what's coming.

Not a sci-fi collapse. Just one company having a bad day.

Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and more went dark. Outage reports came in from 74 countries. A day later, Microsoft was still calling it "encouraging recovery progress."

And the part that matters most: Microsoft says this was not a cyberattack. Servers became unexpectedly unavailable, and the load hit whatever was left.

No hacker. No AI gone rogue. A server failure was enough to stall healthcare, schools, government inboxes and airline support.

That's how thin the layer is that the modern workday runs on.

And here's the uncomfortable part.

The usual advice is: keep everything local, bet on niche tools, spread your stuff across different servers. Save money, stay independent.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Even if my stack runs somewhere else, the world stands still. My clients can't read my email. My partners can't join the call. When the big players go down, we all go down. Same boat.

So yes, this outage is a preview. Not of the apocalypse. Of how connected we all are, whether we like it or not.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Microsoft's outage gives us an idea of what's coming.

Not a sci-fi collapse. Just one company having a bad day.

Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and more went dark. Outage reports came in from 74 countries. A day later, Microsoft was still calling it "encouraging recovery progress."

And the part that matters most: Microsoft says this was not a cyberattack. Servers became unexpectedly unavailable, and the load hit whatever was left.

No hacker. No AI gone rogue. A server failure was enough to stall healthcare, schools, government inboxes and airline support.

That's how thin the layer is that the modern workday runs on.

And here's the uncomfortable part.

The usual advice is: keep everything local, bet on niche tools, spread your stuff across different servers. Save money, stay independent.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Even if my stack runs somewhere else, the world stands still. My clients can't read my email. My partners can't join the call. When the big players go down, we all go down. Same boat.

So yes, this outage is a preview. Not of the apocalypse. Of how connected we all are, whether we like it or not.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Am I the only one who thinks Claude vs. Grok is now like Granola vs. Wispr Flow?

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking.

Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Fable 5.2 verdict after real work:

A full week of usage plus one reset. Gone in a single day.

The quality jump? Not big enough to justify that.

Back to Opus 5.5.

[Tom Solid @TomSolidPM]

Grok Bot killer incoming...

Those who know, know.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents is now in private beta.

You can host the agent harness, sandboxes, and session history, in your own cloud or on-premises, and choose where requests to Claude are sent.