Germain

Building something new - AI to reduce cognitive loads / Scaled SaaS $0-$100M ARR / French American / Sailing, tech, politics

[Germain @Gobos_]

History is written by the vectors.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.

Then retrain on that.

Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@naval Welcome to the party!

[Germain @Gobos_]

@austeni "Le XXIème siècle sera spirituel ou ne sera pas"
- André Malraux 1946

[Germain @Gobos_]

We focus more on the volume of search than the fact that, for the first time in our history, non human agents are editing the corpus of human knowledge.
Our library has been 100% human authored (pre AI bots are programatic) until very recently. That feels much more significant than search volume.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@signulll The kind of builder who can manage a herd of genius, amnesiac, glazer interns…

[Germain @Gobos_]

Interesting that this is a bigger deal than the fact that a few years ago, for the first time in HUMAN history, a non deterministic non human agent contributed to the corpus of human knowledge. That feels more important than traffic.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa

[Germain @Gobos_]

@kylezantos @ridd_design I think it’s « Codex and I…transformed a single Zoom Chat… »

[Germain @Gobos_]

@TurnerNovak This is the VC version of “what’s the price of a gallon of milk”

[Germain @Gobos_]

@octal $600 ish without insurance, get it in days. https://t.co/xLyjP7WjJS

[Germain @Gobos_]

@shedsgns Craft is Queen/King

[Germain @Gobos_]

@jasonfried 100%. generative UI is great but not for every interaction. Same with voice…and saying “proceed to checkout” is more work than just clicking the checkout button. Interface narrows intent more than voice.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@pensandpoison Insecurity is hitting ATH.

[Germain @Gobos_]

It’s not that product management is dead…it’s that everyone is now a product manager.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@cis_female Disrupt libraries! How lucky are we to have the wonderful public spaces spread across the country. Train people on AI, create a third place for connection…let’s put the space to use !

[Germain @Gobos_]

@pitdesi We believed social media made us social just like we believed SaaS made us productive.

[Germain @Gobos_]

💯

[Simon Last @simonlast]

1/ Some things I've learned recently running coding agents on large-scale projects. Most of this contradicts advice from 6 months ago!

[Germain @Gobos_]

@Alfred_Lin There’s a view that if we were immortal we wouldn’t do anything because it would always be possible.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@tbpn @bchesky TBH if I could do 80% of the stuff I do on my phone in iMessage, I’d be thrilled. But yeah the last 20 needs malleable UI.

[Germain @Gobos_]

This is why I think “agents” are an artifact.

People don’t want to mange Agents.

They want : Intent -> Outcome.

[𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖊 𝖏𝖎𝖆𝖔 @eddiejiao_obj]

I don’t really want to multithread across 10–20 minute Codex requests. I want a realtime conversation where I dump context once, then hand the goal off to a long-running background agent that periodically updates me on progress.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@hthieblot Interface for AI.
Cowork is the DOS to my Windows.

[Germain @Gobos_]

@karpathy 100%. input = voice, output = visual...we are visual beings.

Was working on HTML Generative UI last year (below). Models have gotten a lot better/faster.

Current model UI is linear / chronological, which is not how we think...I'm working on this.

https://t.co/tOPzyG0xf5