Braid

Braid lets you delegate to agents without prompts | a multiplayer human machine computing platform | @fkasummer production

[Braid @braidbrowser]

Braid exists to multiply human agency.

[Braid @braidbrowser]

LLMs will be disrupted.

[akhil @fkasummer]

LLMs have to be disrupted

there’s no other way

[akhil @fkasummer]

every time i get a glimpse of the agent runtimes outside of Braid i’m shocked you all live like this

still wrapping automation frameworks huh 😏

[akhil @fkasummer]

@AdamRackis Adam most software you and I use will be written by other people, mostly by volunteers creating public goods

It’s not out of line to ask for basic consideration like not being entitled and dunking on people doing the work

devs know their work is a gift & not something they owe

[akhil @fkasummer]

grinding doesn't work when there are paradigmatic issues to be solved

you must pursue moonshots

there's no safety on the frontier

[akhil @fkasummer]

Sober sincere competent judgement is rare. This must be celebrated.

[akhil @fkasummer]

if you’re in your 20s in tech right now, a couple of years spent handing the biggest ass whooping anyone has ever seen to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any known AI startup will give you 10x the career juice of any MBA or graduate degree

(you’ll build the post-llm intelligence paradigm)

[akhil @fkasummer]

I feel like language models use space more than time for representation

that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case

intuitively I’d want the space heavy vs. time heavy trade off to be dynamic at runtime

doesn’t make sense for intelligence to have a fixed resource tradeoff

[Astrid Wilde 🌞 @astridwilde1]

there is billions of $$ in this tweet btw

[akhil @fkasummer]

sometimes people reveal gaps in their world model

Think of software at three levels: surface, function, and value

Think of the ideal distribution between novelty and stability at each level

Do you want the surface to be high novelty or high stability?

[akhil @fkasummer]

first principle: intelligence is sample efficiency

more compute does not compensate for lack of sample efficiency

you misunderstand the bitter lesson

[akhil @fkasummer]

When the multiplayer browser demo went viral, I realized it's easy to create charismatic moments.

It was not even a launch. I made it in iMovie in 20 minutes.

But those moments are mostly a distraction from the technological imagination and invention I have in mind.

They certainly don't change the difficulty of the paradigmatic problems.

So, I decided Braid must choose a worthwhile mission: multiplying human agency.

Our allegiance must be to building technology and solving problems that multiply human agency.

Everything else is secondary.

[akhil @fkasummer]

what is your timeline for AGI as in an intelligence that can solve ill defined out of distribution problems?

[akhil @fkasummer]

I have great affection for these fringe subcultures in computing, but as I get older, I'm becoming more demanding.

I want the philosophy to be effective out in the world; otherwise, it's meaningless.

Just a bunch of technologists talking to each other. Feckless.

[akhil @fkasummer]

consensus is opportunity

[akhil @fkasummer]

prompting is compromising, hence @braidbrowser

[akhil @fkasummer]

The killer app model fails for intelligence because it assumes problems can be modeled and hardcoded into software.

Intelligence enables the modeling of problems in real time.

Traditional software relies on pre-modeled problems: the creator anticipates a user's need, builds it, and distributes.

With intelligence, software can model problems dynamically, including ones the authors never envisioned.

The value is no longer in the hardcoded features.
Surface, function, and value are becoming decoupled.

[Braid @braidbrowser]

an ai company that manages to generate 90% gross margins and unlocks new demand for intelligence will win the paradigm

[doomslide @doomslide]

The missing innovation: generating stable profit.

[akhil @fkasummer]

imagine hundreds of thousands of knowledge workers start delegating bits and pieces of their work to agents

significant enough quantities to change the kind of projects they can take on

how does this change the nature of the firm

[Braid @braidbrowser]

browsers are simulations

[akhil @fkasummer]

this is on point

the browser shaped thing that actually changes the game will do so because of massive research implications around data, verification, etc

just a feeling :)

[akhil @fkasummer]

not to rub it in, but this is low taste

poor problem selection and doing it six months after Google

steelman: there’s some strategic advantage but it’s a product miss

if new ai os, what can I do I couldn’t do before?