Dan Walmsley

CTO @gravityrail, former Lead AI Architect @automattic, CTO @nationbuilder.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@El__Bohemio @DylanByers It’s the highest rated news program in America so that does count for something, even in 2026. There are few people alive who haven’t heard of it and watched it at some point.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

AI will be one of the most equalizing and deflationary forces ever, finally giving those who can’t afford a doctor, lawyer, tutor, translator, etc an alternative to paying through the nose for a human to do it. Huge talent and potential unlock. Not to mention what it might do for sustainable energy, materials engineering, etc etc.

I don’t think it’s going to help anyone being performatively cynical as the greatest shift in human potential ever happens all around you.

Embrace the potential and do something amazing rather than complaining.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

Releasing the strongest model in the world would be a PR disaster? You know a lot about AI, but I’m not convinced you’re right about the PR angle here. Unless then it caused security nightmares across the world. That would make them look dumb. But maybe they got the guardrails figured out?

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@JFPuget @fjzeit It only has to be more deterministic than a human.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

There is no aspect of human memory that cannot be replicated or surpassed by computers. The moment has already passed. To say otherwise is willful ignorance. The human brain runs on a dozen watts and is powered by oxygenated blood. Data centers have megawatts of power. It’s a matter of constraints.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@PWilliams529 @DomainDead They own it now. Including the copyright.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

Look, I’m sympathetic to the emotional impulse behind this and of course there’s always going to be some rate at which even the best AI makes mistakes, but it’s really clear at this point that it’s going to be far fewer mistakes than almost any human performing the same task. Is there a jagged edge? Yes. But for coding it’s now far beyond most humans in quality. In “the long run” I’m afraid you are wrong. It’s only in the near term that you are even partially correct

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@mattvanswol Nobody on the right seems to believe in freedom anymore.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@leecronin Given that an LLM is just neurons and a human is just neurons, is it stealing when a human is inspired by something they read or heard? Why does the substrate of the neurons matter?

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@fallawanna @imagine @xai @Safety My sister had endometriosis and also is blind and intellectually impaired and it sucks to be any of those things but it’s not ableist to say touching grass is nice.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

That’s cool and everything but time on X is not a cure for anything. I’m trying to be empathetic here. I know people who have gotten way too into the virtual at the expense of the real. Nobody on X is going to cure what is happening for you - it’s a wasteland of toxic bullshit. Nobody is listening unless they have an agenda. You should find a real lawyer and take this to a court, not duke it out in a place populated by bots and shills.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

Human to human, and to take nothing away from your valid points about AI and images of women, it seems like you have an unhealthy relationship with social media. Something like this is only “in your face” when you log into X. Nice day to step outside and touch the grass, maybe even delete the account for a bit.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@MikeDavis794267 @NancyMace Uh yeah that’s one of the things USAID was doing before it got gutted.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

Clearly after the gov’t fired all the qualified epidemiologists these people are having a hard time understanding the ways in which the world is connected. Same broken logic that gave us “we don’t need the strait of Hormuz to have low gas prices”. Something must be in the water over there…

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@om_patel5 This sure sounds like all the salient information and I choose to believe your words uncritically.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@frommyvantage7 @iruletheworldmo Do you condone violence or not? Personally I think there’s enough FUD in our media ecosystem that anyone resorting to violence based on what they read about someone online is the real problem.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@XFreeze This seems like hype designed to dethrone the company with the best coding model. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.

[Dan Walmsley @danwalmsley]

@killerstorm @karpathy The slower your project moves, the more likely it is to be compromised. Evolve or die.