Jonathan Gu

instacart Machine Learning Eng

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

After nearly six years at Instacart, today I joined @coframe as a Member of Technical Staff, Applied Science.
I’ll be working on website experimentation and learning: what to test, how to measure incremental effect, and what to try next.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

What will the future actually look like?
@friedberg and I sat down to discuss.

0:00 Why we fear the future
0:39 The fertilizer crisis solved
2:01 Life is getting better
4:04 East vs. West mindset
6:20 AI centralizes power differently
7:08 Technology always diffuses outward
9:30 CAR-T therapy case study
11:31 Token costs falling 1000x
12:25 The moon explained
13:50 Everyone owning a robot
16:11 Which jobs AI hits first
17:47 Who buys the robots?
19:20 TikTok proves latent entrepreneurship
21:30 Moon as staging ground
23:54 The 9km rail gun
25:46 Self-replicating robots on Mars
27:06 Fusion energy explained
29:04 How the sun works
32:13 AI cracking plasma stability
37:20 Who owns the moon?
44:33 How far is age reversal?
48:38 Yamanaka factors discovered
54:11 Longevity escape velocity
56:15 Careers in a 120-year life
1:00:07 Transhumanism and brain interfaces
1:05:05 Embryo selection and CRISPR
1:10:53 Making X-Men: transgenic humans
1:26:30 David's seed company explained
1:36:25 California's collapse
1:40:47 Unfunded pension crisis
1:41:08 The billionaire tax threat
1:42:59 Origin of the income tax
1:46:17 Wealth tax kills property rights
1:52:29 Why people vote socialist
1:54:43 Government vs. free market prices
2:02:38 The food stamp explosion
2:05:23 AOC as 2028 frontrunner
2:07:02 Tomorrowland's optimism shift

Includes paid partnerships.

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

https://t.co/PQSnIrAy8U

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

Thank you for sharing lossless-claw
- I made an upgrade that builds on top of it: https://t.co/ObPKj2wCgH
- openclawbrain learns from your feedback live in real time. It will surface the correct memories only and it will learn from you what the correct memories are by scanning for your feedback and doing some light reinforcement learning.

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

Thank you for sharing lossless-claw
- I made an upgrade that builds on top of it: https://t.co/ObPKj2wCgH
- openclawbrain learns from your feedback live in real time. It will surface the correct memories only and it will learn from you what the correct memories are by scanning for your feedback and doing some light reinforcement learning.

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

Under the hood:
• lossless transcript memory
• learned routing graph
• explicit user corrections can commit immediately
• brain_trace
for inspectable decisions

Install:
openclaw plugins install @jonathangu/openclawbrain

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

Just shipped OpenClawBrain: a native context engine for @openclaw.

Corrections stick, retrieval learns from outcomes, and every context decision is traceable.

No more reteaching the same lesson every session. The brain remembers to retrieve what you want it to retrieve.

It's open source and built on top of lossless-claw: https://t.co/ObPKj2wCgH

https://t.co/5wmE6SJS63

@steipete @openclaw

Shout-out @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI for taking all my money! It was worth it?

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

There's a lot of cool stuff being built around openclaw. If the stock memory feature isn't great for you, check out the qmd memory plugin!

If you are annoyed that your crustacean is forgetful after compaction, give https://t.co/C5B7PJxorq a try!

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

Thanks for making this openclaw @steipete . I've used it to: 1) combine it with my data to spin up some ML trading options live (trading just a few thousand per day), 2) make a chief of staff - trader - researcher for the CEO of the biggest biotech hedge fund, and 3) make an app hosted online for trading fruit. I'm based in SF, please let me know if you ever want to meet any power users! Next step would be to connect this open claw to quadruped robot. I'm heading to Shenzhen in month to buy one. Let me know if you want me to bring you back one too.

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

Thanks for making this openclaw @steipete . I've used it to: 1) combine it with my data to spin up some ML trading options live (trading just a few thousand per day), 2) make a chief of staff - trader - researcher for the CEO of the biggest biotech hedge fund, and 3) make an app hosted online for trading fruit. I'm based in SF, please let me know if you ever want to meet any power users! Next step would be to connect this open claw to quadruped robot. I'm heading to Shenzhen in month to buy one. Let me know if you want me to bring you back one too.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP

[Rep. Kevin Kiley @RepKiley]

California is getting safer because we beat Governor Newsom. He repeatedly tried to sabotage Prop. 36, our initiative to make crime illegal again. But the people of California passed it overwhelmingly and now thieves are actually being prosecuted.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

One common concern I have heard from constituents all week who have flooded my inbox is about fraud, waste, and abuse in Sacramento. I hear you.

While calling for higher taxes, FDR also decried the "tax burden caused by inefficient and extravagant local government." I have always been for accountability and taking on corruption. That is what my work with Massie on the Epstein files is all about. That is why I have opposed the bloated defense budget which has repeatedly failed an audit.

Today, I am announcing that in 2026 I will be working on a bipartisan basis on Oversight to request hearings on state governments' high risk programs, including California, that have led to illegal payments and eligibility errors. I also will work on legislation to call for a full independent audit of California's budget.

I believe we can and must ask those Americans who have done well to pay more so everyone has healthcare and education. In turn, we must provide an accountable and transparent government.

Restoring TRUST in government is the highest priority.

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

San Francisco Police Community Foundation | San Francisco Police Community Foundation https://t.co/GSMFJGfSVe

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

https://t.co/jrzIV85yYG

[Naval @naval]

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Government Efficiency 🙌

[Instacart @Instacart]

On a scale of 1 to “too many times to count”, how many times have you used Instacart to avoid having to trek through the snow? ✋✋ #Instacart #WinterWeather #Winter

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

@premium I am subscribed to Premium+, but I am still seeing ads and I dont have access to Grok. Can you fix this for me?

[Jonathan Gu @jongujongu]

@grok I just subscribed to X premium, how do I use Grok AI?