Will Goldman

product @merit_systems

recreational poker player

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

there’s no renaissance bc everyone is outsourcing their thinking

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@BrettEast I would start by not having white semi transparent components on a orange / red gradient background

And go from there

[Liste @endliste]

Just found out about recency bias. Maybe the most important bias ever

[Sam Ragsdale @samrags_]

I've spent 2 years trying to figure out how to build great evals for tuning agent trajectories.

I can now explain, at considerable length, why evals are important. Unfortunately, I'm convinced my actual evals are a very sophisticated slop pyramid.

Willing to pay $2,000/hr for 5–10 hours with someone who's exceptional at this. Ideally you've worked on a frontier model / well-known agent harness / RL environments sold to labs.

DM me or refer a friend. Referral bonus available.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Today is probably a good time to check in on things with @privy_io, which became part of @stripe just over a year ago.

Our acquisition was predicated on three factors: stablecoin growth, self-custody as a key enabler of broader global coverage, and rapidly increasing demand for programmable financial infrastructure. As we said at the time, "money has to reside somewhere, and Privy builds the world's best programmable vaults."

Since then, the Privy team has executed exceptionally well: assets in Privy wallets have grown ~25x, monthly active developers are up ~3x, revenue is up ~9x, and Privy now facilitates nearly $25B of monthly transaction volume. @tryramp, @Deel, @Klarna, @felixpago, @HyperliquidX, and thousands of other businesses are building embedded banking functionality on Privy.

At Stripe, we're deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, @Link, and Connect. In each case, it's accelerating our global expansion, and enabling us to build better functionality faster. (Coming soon: @Link balances.)

We're also seeing that Privy's wallet infrastructure is the ideal substrate for agents to transact and earn -- live today with @merit_systems, @orthogonal_sh, @Nevermined_ai, @prlnet, and more. Developers prefer programmable financial infrastructure, but agents need it. We expect that the agentic economy will continue to grow extremely quickly.

The Privy team has maintained remarkable product velocity, with major launches this year including deposit addresses, earning on Privy balances, digital asset accounts, custodial wallets, and Stripe's own stablecoin cards.

It's also been neat to see how Privy has been accelerated by Stripe, with better onramps, @stablecoin payment rails and licenses, Stripe's fiat capabilities and issuing stack, and integration with @Tempo.

Together, we're building one API for holding stablecoin balances and earning yield, moving money in and out of fiat, and orchestrating spend with cards. We still have a lot of work to do, not least in integrating everything across Privy, Bridge, and the rest of Stripe -- there's been so much feature and functionality expansion that we haven't yet had much time to reconcile everything. Overall, though, I'm very happy with how things are going, and excited by where these capabilities are headed.

If you're interested in working on the future of stablecoins, agentic payments, and crypto's deployment in the real world, you should get in touch with @sternhenri (now leading all of @StripeCrypto) or others on the team.

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

contact names are personal instagram handles

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@Skye your problem is that the widgets look vibe coded

consumers crave intentional experiences .. iPhone users in particular

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

duolingo is a dating app

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@mignano @Supertake What’s benchmark for agent ability to convert idea to strategy

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@bookwithmiso @0xJuliechen miso why are u glazing bruh

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

everything is fake.

[Brian Pempus @brianjpempus]

This Kalshi ad is among the most dystopian ones I’ve seen from any betting app

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@mattdesl this is dope

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

this is romantic

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@Jason @DarioAmodei I fking hate you

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

i never imagined superhuman intelligence would look like 10,000 agent swarms

if you brute force every point in the solution space with unlimited time and compute is that also intelligence

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

wtf is going on with citibike parking in the east village

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

important

[Ryan Sproule @rsproule]

avg tradeoff for gpt-6

[sania @saniaio]

nobody will tell you this but the secret to good design is repeating the same song 90mins at a time 3-4x a day

[Will Goldman @WillGoldman7]

@senortilt eat sleep breathe support tix management