Alexander Leirvåg

Founder @ Causeway - Building AI infrastructure for autonomous operations - blog:

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

Introducing an enhanced version of the prompt turning ChatGPT into AutoGPT!

Adding:
• A project manager to oversee tasks and coordinate efforts.
• Expert advisors
• Regular status for progress updates, goal tracking, and next steps.

Experience AutoGPT in ChatGPT:

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

What if RAG was differentiable?

I ran an experiment: separate memory content (database) from memory access (neural network). Make retrieval trainable.

Key finding: embedding entity names separately from facts gives +27% accuracy. The model learned on its own that entity matching is 84% of the signal.

Results: → 85% retrieval on completely unseen entities → Instant updates → No retraining

Bounded compute, unbounded knowledge.
https://t.co/MwDM8PlPrk

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

@pdmthorsrud I can`t not ask gemini how the final product would look like!

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@pdmthorsrud @jonathanbrnd Thanks! The hard part is realizing the failiure mode is not due to LLM capability, but problem definition and context.

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

Fair counterexample. Maybe the distinction is: second product from founder conviction vs second product from board pressure. Salesforce/HubSpot were "we see where this customer is going." Most second products are "growth is slowing, what else can we sell?" The latter is where taste dies.

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@zeydou Hardware is interesting, the physical aspect makes it harder at least. I wonder how automated manufacturing, AI driven design might change that.

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Vibe coding exposed a truth: most moats were just friction in disguise.

Now building is nearly free.

So where does value actually accumulate?

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

@wojakcodes Build distribution. Taste is the last moat. Be a weird specific combination of things no job description captures. Roles get automated. People don't.

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@lennysan Not saying claude code, but https://t.co/wPkqfujIWN

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

@starter_story What 10K actually teaches: the universe responds to specificity. Most people stay vague because vague can't fail. Getting to 10K forces you to be specific enough to be wrong, repeatedly, until you're right. That's the real skill — the tolerance for being visibly wrong in public.

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@pdmthorsrud @1Umairshaikh Self learning and compounding is the most underrated power of AI.

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Making peace with discomfort" is close but not quite it. What actually works is building a self-model that can watch yourself panic without being the panic. Company dying and you being okay aren't mutually exclusive — not checked out, still fighting — but your nervous system stops coding startup failure as literal death threat. That's not personality. It's a skill. Takes ~2 years of getting it wrong before it clicks.

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

Fastest way to vibe code a presentation?

I found using slidev worked awesome!

Why? Because its code, you can get claude code to make it for you and it actually looks professional! Unlike what you get if you ask it straight up.

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@VadimStrizheus Building the missing part to agi, curing alzheimers in claude code https://t.co/wPkqfujIWN

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@benvspak @pdmthorsrud is building some really cool stuff. One is a split keyboard with feedback.

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@PouyaBCD @hayesdev_ Psychology you mean?

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@1Umairshaikh Talking to users is a helluva drug

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

claude code can make pptx but i burned hours on stuff a good template would've solved instantly

prompt template repos + vibe coding starter kits feel inevitable

the awesome-claude-prompts repo is coming, someone just has to be first

[Alexander Leirvåg @Claybight]

@pmitu Its a context problem, it forgets once you chat with it too much or create a new chat. This solves this.