Bryant Macy

silicon valley software executive: my twitter feed is a stream of thoughts on life, business, software development & technology

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders]

As demand for #AI continues to reshape labor market, job postings increasingly reflect growing need for technical/infrastructure-related skills; according to @Stanford 2026 AI Index Report, based on billions of U.S. job postings collected since 2010 by @LightcastData (where single postings may list multiple AI-related skills), demand for these competencies has surged across wide range of fields over past decade
@StatistaCharts

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

@nicbstme I agree this is one possible outcomes - only time will tell. You seem to suggest that WebMCP will be the primary interface. I wonder if well designed CLIs aren't a better answer as demonstrated by OpenClaw's popularity. You don't mention them here. @nicbstme, your thoughts?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

NIU head coach Thomas Hammock gave his thoughts on the transfer portal.

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

I've been a contributor and investor for many years. Happy to see Gridcoin see some mainstream media coverage https://t.co/ApIw450urj

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read.

It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book.

Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good.

Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

(credit: @Pergament_F)

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

I love my country with all my heart and I've never been more embarrassed for America than the spectacle I just witnessed in the Oval Office.
Zelensky is fighting for the survival of his country, his people and their democracy.
Trump and Vance appear to be completely aligned with Putin, the invader whose aim has been to conquer Ukraine.
Zelensky should know that millions and millions of Americans still stand with him and his valiant people.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Kamala Harris told us exactly what was going to happen.

[Deedy @deedydas]

If you're not using AI apps in 2025, you're at a huge disadvantage.

I've tried 100s of new apps this year, and here are the best 14 AI tools that actually stuck with me!

[Karthik Hariharan @hkarthik]

This is a big deal! I switched to @cursor_ai from GitHub Copilot once I realized that GitHub's own models were falling behind for coding tasks and Claude was a step ahead. For context, Cursor uses Claude under the hood.

It looks like GitHub themselves reached this conclusion and are now pivoting to Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Microsoft is now officially working with both Anthropic and OpenAI.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

@mhcautomation The Ecrion Cloud-based System is currently unresponsive and we are unable to reach support. We need a response ASAP

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

I miss #kfog

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

#93xrt Chicago is the last quality radio station on the planet - just amazing. Sad to think the music curation they do is a lost art. I will listen until it is no longer! #chicago #sf

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

Finding life on Saturn's moon Enceladus might be easier than we thought https://t.co/6zIXQWdFqW

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Earth receives enough sunlight every day to meet all of humanity's energy needs 10,000 times over.

[Bryant Macy @bkmacy]

Tell Congress not to undermine the rights of millions while leaving a gaping hole in our privacy. Stop the #RESTRICTAct. https://t.co/3AQ9RIrwJ2 #privacy

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon.

Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM.

Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy efficient form factor.

With M1, M2 & soon M3 the neural engine is even more powerful than their A series mobile chipsets.

While we currently need the cloud to run ChatGPT and it’s clunky, I think Apple is going to blow everyone out of the water here. Both on desktop class hardware and mobile.

I think Apple will be launching their own secure and private LLM that runs on device (edge compute). And when necessary it offloads more heavy workloads to a cloud based LLM that’s optimized for heavier tasks. So we will initially have some hybrid.

Personal, with tight hardware and software integration this AI will be omnipresent. Apple will probably use this to sell a lot of new hardware that they claim is needed to run this. They will make a lot of moneys.

For me the LLM’s will form the new protocol level technology upon which most new software will be built. We will have to re-wire our core understanding about what an application is.

Single-use apps will be a huge thing. If you need to solve a unique problem, and nobody has ever done software for that because not enough market. With an LLM even a problem with only one user, will be doable, enter your ask, and code gets written, problem gets solved. Runtime ends, app dies. Done. Single use apps are born.

It’s hard to predict or try to understand how the world will look just 10 years from today. It will be very different, we have passed the inflection point, the rocket engines have been lit. We’ve taken off.

Add to all the above that every single field, category and market will be disrupted at the same time. And not only with text/coding but with any multi-media we have. Images, video & audio. Anything we can come up with can and will be enhanced or disrupted by AI.

Once we got more people that will have their AI A-ha moment the rate of change and adoption will continue to increase. This will continue until we have global access and coverage.

People will get left behind, and this will be one of the most important things to try to combat. Having a 0% left behind policy. We need to make sure AI benefits all.

We’re living through a paradigm shift, and we’re witness a new protocol level technology. We’re seeing it arrive in real-time and most people have no clue about what’s about to happen.

I’m not an AI alarmist, I’m an AI gardener, and optimist.

We will have time to adapt. Not as long as we had during the Industrial Revolution, but enough time to make sure we have a chance at a positive outcome.

We’re moving away from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence. With unlimited access to intelligence anywhere, anytime.

18th Mars 2023 - Linus Ekenstam

[Travis Fischer @transitive_bs]

OpenAI has privately announced a new developer product called Foundry, which enables customers to run OpenAI model inference at scale w/ dedicated capacity.

It also reveals that DV (Davinci; likely GPT-4) will have up to 32k max context length in the public version. 🔥