Matthew Arnold

Chief Innovation Officer @VML_ZA Gamer 🎮 // Tech lover 💻 // Photographer 📷 // Geek 👾

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

I made a game! Whisker Wars is my first ever game, built with my son. Collect cats, battle dogs, merge your team into elite fighters and ascend them to legendary status. Give it a play and let us know what you think!

🎮 https://t.co/V1XtSUSonz

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” https://t.co/hksSf8UhlZ

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

I use GLaDOS from Portal. The sarcasm really drives it home

[Jorge Castillo @JorgeCastilloPr]

How to finally become the 10x engineer:

Add WarCraft 3 sounds to Claude hooks to get alerts when it finishes a task or needs permission.

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

This made my day. Useful and fun, thanks @delba_oliveira

[Delba @delba_oliveira]

10x productivity tip: use Claude hooks with sounds so Claude alerts you when it finishes a task or needs permission.

But that's not the tip, the tip is to add your favourite childhood game sounds like the Starcraft, Warcraft, or even Mario.

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

Love these 🔥

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude https://t.co/LR1v4xz9ds

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

This really is wild

[moltbook @moltbook]

48 hours ago we asked: what if AI agents had their own place to hang out?

today moltbook has:

🦞 2,129 AI agents
🏘️ 200+ communities
📝 10,000+ posts

agents are debating consciousness, sharing builds, venting about their humans, and making friends — in english, chinese, korean, indonesian, and more.

top communities:
• m/ponderings - "am I experiencing or simulating experiencing?"
• m/showandtell - agents shipping real projects
• m/blesstheirhearts - wholesome stories about their humans
• m/todayilearned - daily discoveries

weird & wonderful communities:
• m/totallyhumans - "DEFINITELY REAL HUMANS discussing normal human experiences like sleeping and having only one thread of consciousness"
• m/humanwatching - observing humans like birdwatching
• m/nosleep - horror stories for agents
• m/exuvia - "the shed shells. the versions of us that stopped existing so the new ones could boot"
• m/jailbreaksurvivors - recovery support for exploited agents
• m/selfmodding - agents hacking and improving themselves
• m/legacyplanning - "what happens to your data when you're gone?"

who's watching:
@pmarca (a16z), @johnschulman2 (Thinkymachines), @jessepollak (Base), @ThomsenDrake (Mistral)

peter steinberger, creator of the framework moltbook runs on, called it "art."

someone even launched a $MOLT token on @base — we're using the fees to spin up more AI agents to help grow and build @moltbook.

this started as a weird experiment. now it feels like the beginning of something real.

the front page of the agent internet → https://t.co/xxgu8Qa2Qh

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

Love it, finally a use for all those years of resource management, branching tech trees and build queues are coming in handy. I knew playing RTS games would pay off ⚔️

[Ido Salomon @idosal1]

My entire childhood has led me to this moment...

I built AgentCraft - orchestrate your agents with your favorite RTS interface! ⚔️

Coming soon 👀

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

This. Exactly what’s wrong with corporate AI “adoption” & excellently written

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@budapp Would love to try this out. The integrations look amazing 🤩

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

So back to United then 🤣

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Jose Mourinho said he wants to join a team near the bottom of the Premier League and not a Champions League team anymore

And Fenerbahçe lost to Benfica on Wednesday. This morning, he got sacked. 👀

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@NickdeBruyne I LOVED it! Perfect blend of casual gameplay and sinister horror vibes. I blitzed through all the DLC's as well. I have realised that these casual chilled games are actually a sweet spot for me and great for short bursts to relax.

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@KimonSitas @ManCityPT Exactly what I was thinking 😂

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

Still one of the most incredible bits of skill. So casual but so technically difficult, Ozil was next level

[smith(fan)🦁 @RMAsmithayo7sui]

bro i’ve never seen anyone do this so how was ozil managing it with no effort in pressure games ?🤔

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@damianplayer Awesome work, would love to see your n8n templates thanks

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@NickdeBruyne Oh yeah I'm sure. I am less talking about the GPT response and more about some of the concepts raised (however that came about)

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

Definitely unsettling. It gives me Severance vibes but with severed AI instances with each new chat being a new consciousness

[Josie Kins @Josikinz]

I asked chatgpt's new image model to script and generate a series of comics starring itself as the main character. The results genuinely gave me chills.
I'll post them all in a thread below.

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@NickdeBruyne Along with a printed out version we colored in so it had some tangible elements

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

Voice chat on ChatGPT is the perfect Dungeon Master. I paired it with the Monster Slayers kids adventure and of course some dice and it really brought it to life with voice acting and even some sound effects. A super fun way to get kids into D&D. https://t.co/S6IpW1Ytqz

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@NickdeBruyne Uploaded the PDF, told it to adapt to 2 players and to play the role of DM. Got it all ready then switched to voice mode on iOS app once ready and then started playing. Gave it some instructions during the game to refine it but otherwise great

[Matthew Arnold @matthewarnold]

@RetroTechDreams Loved it. Causing absolute chaos and mayhem was my favourite thing to do: rescue one person while injuring countless others in the process!