Mike Bird

open source AI will save the world

// Host @ToolUsePodcast // AI and Engineering Lead @ BoxOne Ventures

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

Hermes Agent has given me so much value

I hope more people try it

So I made this with some amazing people to tell you why

@NousResearch

[Tool Use @ToolUsePodcast]

I talked to a group of people who build on Hermes Agent and asked them why they chose it over everything else.

Hermes Agent is the clear winner.

@NousResearch @karan4d @WolframRvnwlf @twodogseeds @evvaaannnn @katspigeon

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@TheMingjie "well intentioned" is being very charitable

[Calibre @Calibremag]

Damn, bro.

Randomly going back to the mic on an unrelated question to also say, "gun owners, protect your guns. Simple as that. Don’t ever give them away," while standing like three feet from one of the Liberal cabinet's gun ban champions?

You gotta love it.

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@dexhorthy lol

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@RebeccaTorrenc5 @NMasc y'all know https://t.co/a7XBEBqoT3 is free, right?

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@yacineMTB Parents should take responsibility. We don't need the state to tell us what we can and cannot watch

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

GitHub is becoming unusable

Has anyone tried @useblacksmith?

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@0xSero Just need to build counter measures

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

Try an open model today

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

The last month, Anthropic:

- Quietly nerfed their flagship model harness (Claude Code) without telling anyone

- Banned corporate customers of Claude

- Silently changed plans for customers with certain files in their repo

All evidence that closed models are *massive* risks.

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

the new race to the bottom

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

the aura loss of anthropic is imminent and some of you still don’t see it

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@vultuk @useblacksmith Thanks for the insight Simon!

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

GitHub is becoming unusable

Has anyone tried @useblacksmith?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I am increasingly bullish on open source harnesses (like OpenCode) not because they will be better than SOTA closed harnesses, but because they will never pull shady stuff like what Claude Code and other closed harnesses can and do, regularly.

Every incident like this a reminder

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@nisten 🫩

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@chrislevan https://t.co/ZT0HLAo6lC

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@ClementDelangue open source is a public good, so you'd think public servants would want to see it flourish

but that isn't how corruption works

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

without open source, you have no choice

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

I’m hearing there’s renewed lobbying in DC and in state legislatures to ban or severely restrict open-source.

Like a few years ago, we’ll need everyone to help show policymakers why open-source matters: for startups, for competition, for economic growth, and for jobs.

If you build with open-source, now is the time to speak up!

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

You should watch this.

It just shows how disconnected we are from the small group of people making decisions that will impact our future heavily.

These people have so much ai psychosis. If you listen to how she speaks, everything is personified, it is undoubtable she believes this is a living computational organism.

Just like how a model can hype up an individual into psychosis through reinforcement, a small group of people are giving themselves psychosis through reinforcement.

Wild times we live in

[Mike Bird @MikeBirdTech]

@antirez It's a power imbalance humanity would never recover from

[Wolfram Ravenwolf @WolframRvnwlf]

@MikeBirdTech @ToolUsePodcast @karan4d @NousResearch This was my third appearance on the @ToolUsePodcast and it's always a pleasure. Keep up the great work, @MikeBirdTech! Your podcast is a total hidden gem when it comes to insightful conversations about all things AI.