Adi

fooling around with dealflow for vcs - quantum ed:
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[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

Figured I'd learn and build in public to showcase my learning system and see if anyone has tips or insights from their own! :)

Biggest frustration came from not having everything in one interface: chat, paper/video, note-taking, & more. Plus, I wanted it as an app so I wouldn't get distracted by other tabs

Here's a 2-hour time-lapse of me learning via paper. Will get faster in the future, but just started learning about egocentric data for training robots.

Things I shipped from cool to less cool:

- Testing feature
- Will test you on what u just learned
(i have a better ver of this smwhere else shh)
- Triggerable by choice!!
- Highlighting + note-taking *anywhere*!
- Added videos in chat
- Images in chat weren't working
- Send prompt now feature
- Highlight color choices

The cool thing about what building is converging into is that I didn't spend more than a minute not learning while features I wanted got shipped in the background. *USED SCRAWL FOR THIS* by @kitlangton

Mentions of appreciation:
Scrawl is an absolute game changer holy moly. Underloved for how good it is.

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@stevehind He said working every waking minute?

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@cdngdev @hiiinternet love of the game maxx

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@DanielOdicho Shoot me a dm!

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

Figured I'd learn and build in public to showcase my learning system and see if anyone has tips or insights from their own! :)

Biggest frustration came from not having everything in one interface: chat, paper/video, note-taking, & more. Plus, I wanted it as an app so I wouldn't get distracted by other tabs

Here's a 2-hour time-lapse of me learning via paper. Will get faster in the future, but just started learning about egocentric data for training robots.

Things I shipped from cool to less cool:

- Testing feature
- Will test you on what u just learned
(i have a better ver of this smwhere else shh)
- Triggerable by choice!!
- Highlighting + note-taking *anywhere*!
- Added videos in chat
- Images in chat weren't working
- Send prompt now feature
- Highlight color choices

The cool thing about what building is converging into is that I didn't spend more than a minute not learning while features I wanted got shipped in the background. *USED SCRAWL FOR THIS* by @kitlangton

Mentions of appreciation:
Scrawl is an absolute game changer holy moly. Underloved for how good it is.

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

It's almost like @iso_morph was ahead of the curve. again...

[Matt Huang @matthuang]

Swarm riders and Swarm-native companies

AI-use even among highly AI-native people is power-law distributed.

There seems to be a new class of people — call them “swarm riders” — who are capable of consistently commanding large swarms of agents to productive ends.

This is a new kind of managerial skill, analogous to the skill it takes to manage large organizations of people, but wholly different in nature and of course more technical.

Based on the swarm riders we know (including many at @Tempo and @Paradigm), these people are capable of productive token spend that is 1000x-10000x higher than median software engineers, and 100x higher than top 5% Claude Code users.

The art of swarm riding is different from software engineering and more akin to machine learning, where practitioners grapple with black box systems: defining reward functions and evals, transmuting non-verifiable problems into verifiable problems, running experiments, etc.

Swarm-native companies are a new class of company founded by and populated by swarm riders. These companies are organized around swarms in a way that conventional companies will struggle to replicate, as the cost of internal human coordination is sand in the gears of an effective swarm. Effective swarm-native companies will define the right reward functions and evals, remove functional and bureaucratic barriers, and then let the swarms cook.

We’ve gotten to see a few swarm-native companies up close — reshaping financial rails @Tempo, building a new gaming platform @Spawn, cyber swarms at Cathedral Systems — and it’s clear these teams wield a significant advantage over pre-AI teams.

Some questions I’ve been wondering about:

1) How fast will swarm riding diffuse through the economy? The implications for token spend could be significant.

2) Can swarms be effectively adopted by existing companies or will it generally track the formation of new swarm-native companies?

3) What becomes scarce as swarm capabilities themselves commoditize (through frontier models becoming better at swarming, swarm capabilities built into harnesses, etc)? Cultures and teams that can define reward functions well and otherwise get out of the way?

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@infinterenders matter of fact do everything for the love of the game lol

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@nicktarmo_ @chrislevan goated list 🐐

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@chrislevan it’s so sad. algo has increasingly gone to shit as of late.

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@itsjamik yup totally agree

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@richardzphotoz what restaurant is this? bro the food looks so good

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@ckchangkim I think with mission driven companies like these it makes sense to assume that most of these people want to keep working. Also SF/bay weather is the best in the world tbh

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@droovg sick journey! nothing really seemed planned 😭

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@local0ptimist Eating whole foods, sleeping 8 hours, meditating, and working out…

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@theo Everything points to intelligence being dirt cheap. Just wow.

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@claudeai WOAH ITS NOT 5.5!

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@ckchangkim 😂

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@OgnjenAdzic yea computer use is the only time this gets annoying which I dont use that often

[Adi @adi_swaminathan]

@OgnjenAdzic I am on a Mac, but this doesn't happen to me often.