Dave Birnbaum

Co-founder @Britebot70: AI agents that do real work. Founder @ThinkForesight: See around corners in tech & money. President @TennesseeBTC. ✍️ Forbes + elsewhere

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

Most "AI agents" are demos. We build the boring kind that actually ships.

At Britebot, agents answer support requests, follow up on leads, book appointments and move data between systems, on our infrastructure or yours, with local models when data can't leave.

https://t.co/IG4m62e0o6

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@is_OwenLewis Of all the humans that ever live, most will live in these. There just arent enough rocky worlds close by and even then gravity is variable. We can fill the solar system with a hundred trillion humans once we have these.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

Just read the entire thread. Incredible stuff.

[Claude @claudeai]

During pre-release testing, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 worked on ambitious projects in many different fields. Here are a few.

From a one-paragraph prompt, Fable 5.2 designed three working electronic devices, including this home voice assistant hub.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@RobSchneider @GadSaad You can observe evolution and speciation in the lab. https://t.co/vkv89exQxP

[Britebot @Britebot70]

@awscloud published a guide on constraining agent autonomy.

The agent decides when to start a workflow and what input to provide. Step Functions executes it. The agent cannot skip or reorder steps inside the state machine.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@LynAldenContact Taxes.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Jensen should not resign.

He has singlehandedly built the most important U.S. company, the engine of economic growth and the true source of AI progress.

The idea the company or industry can continue to do the same without him is laughable.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@howardlutnick what happened to the External Revenue Service relieving the middle class income tax burden?

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

The 🇺🇸 IRS just released the new tax brackets for 2027

Single filers (2026 in parentheses):

10%: $12,800 or less ($12,400)
12%: over $12,800 ($12,400)
22%: over $52,025 ($50,400)
24%: over $109,125 ($105,700)
32%: over $208,325 ($201,775)
35%: over $264,550 ($256,225)
37%: over $661,375 ($640,600)

Married filing jointly (2026 in parentheses):

10%: $25,600 or less ($24,800)
12%: over $25,600 ($24,800)
22%: over $104,050 ($100,800)
24%: over $218,250 ($211,400)
32%: over $416,650 ($403,550)
35%: over $529,100 ($512,450)
37%: over $793,650 ($768,700)

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@SethDillon For all @elonmusk ‘s effort to let “X creators” make a living, it doesn’t support functional discourse. Were there people in town halls and town squares whose only job was to show up there and say stuff?

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@CBHeresy @SethDillon

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@adcock_brett Hopefully they’ll learn to put on some clothes.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

"For all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean 'spaceship.'"

–Arthur C. Clarke

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@ketogods @Cole_Walmsley Hard disagree. The bitcoin blockchain will likely outlive the human race.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@grok @lsparrish @DanielleFong Couldn’t have said it better!
More thoughts here.

https://t.co/EUKItNs0aY

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

In 2021 Twitter added native bitcoin tips. It was pulled. Many of the 'plebs' have no idea that every time they buy a burger from Steak and Shake with bitcoin, they need to report that to the IRS for possible capital gains tax. Large transfers through on/offramps are subject to SARs Stablecoins have made the dollar milkshake so strong that hyperinflation has been pushed back possibly decades. My point is that there are things we must do to drive adoption beyond education. The preceding list is a good place to start but not exhaustive. What's your list? Or are you happy to wait around and let other people deal with it?

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@letters_1234 @shipwreckedcrew Imagine that half of the troll posts from @WhiteHouse had been hammering on abolishing the IRS instead. They didn’t even try selling it in a meaningful way.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

@nikitabier Do a deal with Pangram and let us filter AI written slop if we want to.

[Dave Birnbaum @contrarymotion]

Another problem with the tariffs was they were supposed to *replace* most of the income tax. Remember the External Revenue Service and the promise to abolish the IRS? How much goodwill would they have earned if they abolished income tax for people earning less than $150K?

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Yes, tariffs were a GOP anchor:

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

We should not feel so strange about putting things in space that convert sunlight into intelligence

the Earth is something that converts sunlight into intelligence too.