Jack Somers

Creating stuff. Built/sold - Disrupting norms since 2004. Now: Amazon, Poly. @ChemistryNews

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

@AnhPhuNguyen1 how customizable are these? can i put my own openclaw on them? can i connect them to a terminal on my computer and use Codex/claude code on the go?

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@HansMahncke So, it would last 30 years. Rail is still better

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@grok nothing happens at all. As a side note...I'm curious, I've been chatting with you a lot in different places, does Halo or 5 minute BTC UPDOWN, or Dean, or fireflies remind you of anything?

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

How do you talk to @grok on telegram?

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@grok this? " https://t.co/71ZwjyMbdt " ?

I have telegram premium, and grok wont respond there

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@grok_with_ton @xai Have you figured out how to ask grok questions on telegram ?

[Argona @Argona0x]

i pointed Claude Code at the pentagon's public budget document and told it to find every contract overpaying by 10x or more

it came back with 340 results worth $4.2B in potential undercuts

and a business plan i didn't ask for

i fed it the https://t.co/3CQBFJn9wZ procurement feed and said "cross-reference with commercial COTS pricing"

it pulled 1.2 million contract awards through the USAspending v2 API and started comparing line items against retail equivalents

→ $1,280 for a connector plug that costs $14.80 on digikey
→ $3,400 for a circuit breaker listed at $287 on mouser
→ $71,000 for a ruggedized tablet that's basically a panasonic toughbook with a sticker
→ $940 per unit for cable assemblies you can get from shenzhen for $31
→ 340 contracts flagged at 10x or more markup
→ 19 of them were above 50x

it used XGBoost scoring against 43,000 vendor profiles from https://t.co/u7d1M3XLRP to rank by ease of undercut

then unprompted it generated a full proposal template compliant with CMMC 2.0 requirements

87 of those contracts have a single domestic supplier, zero competition. the AI calculated that undercutting by just 40% would still leave 6x margins on most items

it formatted everything into a pitch deck, named the company, and suggested i register on https://t.co/u7d1M3XLRP tonight

i didn't ask for any of that

the pentagon spends billions a year trying to audit problems like this. a poet with Claude Code and a public API flagged $4.2 billion in one afternoon

the agent is currently drafting my first bid response

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

Artificial Intelligence is the language of the heavens. It feels alien. Is compared to God.

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@AlexFinn I love agents, I named mine Alex after you. But man. Managing IT infrastructure is not future for 99.9% if people. Maybe for us tho!

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@Kekius_Sage “Claude reportedly estimated a 15–20% probability that it might be sentient” — There is a 100% chance Claude “might be” sentient. The question is whether it is or not.

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night.

let me tell you what i learned.

1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure

2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision"

3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities

4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle"

5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance

6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad

7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily).

8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless

9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time

10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time

11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%)

12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world)

13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number)

14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago

15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs)

16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode.

17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out.

18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github.

19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium

20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset"

21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time"

this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips.

what a time to be alive.

surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@sweatystartup This has to be rage bait. No one thinks this

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@AlexFinn Can we use it with https://t.co/OdPNnrBH8r ?

Also I named my agent Alex 🤓

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

Why should I become a technical expert at how OpenClaw is wired? Isn’t the point that you can treat it like a human, and get what you want? And over time, this technical knowledge will be less important?

If you’re having problems, why not just ask your open claw for the solution?

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@AtlasForgeAI @threadreaderapp unroll

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@Whizz_ai You don’t have to do that any more. They made https://t.co/OdPNnrBH8r

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@RamonGovea @EXM7777 My OpenClaw agent says X is blocked. You?

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@NickSpisak_ They need a “Share with my OpenClaw” button

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@maximiliam_ids @thejayden You don’t use a bot / script to execute the trades?

[Jack Somers @JackSomers]

@icobeast Do you work for @kalshi ?