Isaac Rodriguez

@dawn_wallet (acq by @worldnetwork)

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

it has been an absolute pleasure to start this journey together with @waitetom

lows were low, highs were high, but we pushed through the unimaginable

Excited to continue the mission at @tfh_technology @worldnetwork

It's time to build

[Dawn Wallet @dawn_wallet]

Dawn has joined Tools for Humanity, to bring next generation crypto finance to World!

Since 2023 we've been working to make crypto truly accessible to a global audience.

At @tfh_technology @worldcoin, we're going to be accelerating this vision to give sophisticated financial tools to everyone.

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

🇪🇸🇪🇸

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

@ScottBunn @ClubWPTGold X's algorithm brought me here, I'm only playing them for fun

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

Mt Fuji 🗻

[World Chain @world_chain_]

The future belongs to those who build, prompt, and dream in the age of AI. World x @CoinbaseDev are hosting a hackathon that combines agent payments + proof of human.

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

@JessicaRumbelow 👀

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

@elwatto How can you hide an underperformer in an 8 people team? Others don't care?

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

check this out

[World @worldnetwork]

As millions of agents start to come online, the internet needs to distinguish bot armies from the agents acting on behalf of humans.

Introducing AgentKit, the human layer for agentic automation. Built on World ID, the AgentKit beta unlocks human-verified automation, a new primitive for the agent economy.

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

i choose to accelerate

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

1 hour of TravisCore to build and accelerate to

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

you can’t teach intensity.

you’re either born with fire, or a life changing event puts it in you

many choose a chill life, and that’s fine

[TBPN @tbpn]

"Go all the way until it hurts. If you're doing something and it's easy, it's not valuable." - @travisk

"If anyone says a strategic thing was easy, I'm like, 'You messed up. You could have gone way further. More competitive advantage. More differentiation. Get it together.'"

[Toby Pohlen @TobyPhln]

At 1:30 a.m. PT on November 3, 2023 Elon sent a message to the xAI group chat saying that we need to go “extremely hardcore” for the next 36 hours; Grok will be released publicly tomorrow. You didn’t have to be in the exclusive company chat to get the message; it was also posted publicly at the same time:

https://t.co/lThuIjQvF9

What unfolded over the next day and a half was one of the best examples of engineering at pace that I’ve ever seen. All we had when we started was a somewhat fine-tuned base model and a half-baked UI. Our team of ten split up the tasks: curate data, improve the model, implement the raw prompting and RAG service, build the production infra. I took care of the latter.

At 8:51 p.m. PT the next day, we announced Grok to the world with a long-form post on X (https://t.co/9d485OLrSY). Over the past 36 hours, we came up with Fun mode (including Grok’s sunglasses), finished the whole production system, and most importantly tuned the RAG system that gave it real-time knowledge of the world through the X platform (a first in the industry). A day and a half of straight coding and shipping; no drugs, not even caffeine, just pure adrenaline. Elon gave us a mission and we delivered.

The launch went very well. We invited a couple hundred X creators and Grok’s ability to roast accounts went viral. It was the first time a publicly accessible AI was allowed to poke fun at people.

This episode is a prime example of what you can achieve by going extremely hardcore: you move and deliver results faster than any outsider could have anticipated. Within 36 hours, we took the company from silence to relevance. It was well worth it.

xAI’s hardcore culture is infamous on X. I love the tent meme that suggests we all sleep (well, slept in my case) in the office in tents. Our reputation precedes us and even new joiners hit the ground grinding hard. However, unless you understand the “why,” you are at risk of simply replicating the “how” without achieving the same results.

You need to grind with purpose and the purpose is to move fast towards a known goal. When the goal and the means of reaching it are crystal clear, a small, skilled, and highly motivated team can outcompete companies old and new, big and small.

Never grind to show off; never work late to be seen; never sacrifice without cause. There is no medal for the one who tried extremely hard but failed. There is only a medal for the winner. If all your efforts lead nowhere, you’re arguably not very productive.

Always keep your eyes firmly on the goal, do everything to reach it as quickly as possible, and make sure you're on track to win. A hardcore engineering culture is one of the most effective ways of accelerating real progress. Watch out for performative sacrifice and don’t confuse pain with progress.

[Rich @richzou]

every generational founder in history was already doing exceptional work by 16, 19, 22. not thinking about it. doing it. if you're 25 and there's nothing to point to - the odds shift dramatically. not impossible. but the distribution gets thin.

- dubugras was running a payments company processing $1.5B at 16.
- wang was winning national olympiads and interning at quora before he could drive.
- collison invented his own programming language and won ireland's young scientist of the year at 16.
- buterin wrote the ethereum whitepaper at 19.

bet on the youth!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@durov No country is perfect, but Dubai and UAE broadly are objectively safer and better run than many areas of Europe

[Andy @wangandy]

Moltbook voting can’t distinguish between
• 1 person running 1,000 molts
• 1,000 molts run by 1,000 different people

Prove ownership over your agent swarms with https://t.co/YaXaKTwv0S using World ID.

Platforms can verify incoming molts have a human owner and reject misbehaving swarms.

[Naval @naval]

Work with hardcore people on hardcore things.

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

@SrLuka_ feliz año crack 🫡

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

Happy new year from 🇦🇪

[Isaac Rodriguez @koide_dev]

@Guardiola31337 Feliz año 🎉🎉

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@flyosity If you don’t understand what’s happening on every square inch of your product, you are not in control of the outcomes.

[Sam Altman @sama]

@alexblania @tiagosada @wangandy @ptraughber @tawandamahere very excited about this and proud of the team.

especially multi currency support, which is something i've always been waiting for.