Mohammad Oli Ahad

Pursuing to learn from intelligent failures. Plain, excited, happy earthling. Father of two butterfly daughters. Love reading, traveling, coffee :-)

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

In an early meeting at Facebook (c. 2007), when I was describing the goals of Facebook Platform (an area I oversaw) Bill Gates yelled at me/us.

His quote has stuck with me to this day:

“This isn’t a platform. A platform is where the collective sum of revenues of the participants exceeds those of the platform itself.”

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the tokenmaxxing circle jerk.

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing.

86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment!

https://t.co/Gpbr3TAiiI

[Dhaka AI Lab Limited @dhakaailab]

Let’s build the #AI the world needs

https://t.co/cSU4cKvclR

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Microsoft did it again!

Building with AI agents almost never works on the first try.

You spend days tweaking prompts, adding examples, hoping it gets better. Nothing systematic, just guesswork.

This is exactly what Microsoft's Agent Lightning solves.

It's an open-source framework that trains ANY AI agent with reinforcement learning. Works with LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK, or plain Python.

Here's how it works:

> Your agent runs normally with whatever framework you're using. Just add a lightweight agl.emit() helper or let the tracer auto-collect everything.

> Agent Lightning captures every prompt, tool call, and reward. Stores them as structured events.

> You pick an algorithm (RL, prompt optimization, fine-tuning). It reads the events, learns patterns, and generates improved prompts or policy weights.

> The Trainer pushes updates back to your agent. Your agent gets better without you rewriting anything.

The best part: you can also optimize individual agents in a multi-agent system.

I have shared the link to the GitHub repo in the replies!

Let me know if I should cover this in a video demo!

[elvis @omarsar0]

I am not going to lie.

I see a lot of potential in the Skills feature that Anthropic just dropped!

Just tested with Claude Code. It leads to sharper and precise outputs.

It's structured context engineering to power CC with specialized capabilities, leveraging the filesystem.

[🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog @testingcatalog]

BREAKING 🚨: OpenAI is planning to announce Agent Builder on DevDay. Agent builder will let users build their agentic workflows, connect MCPs, ChatKit widgets and other tools.

This is one of the smoothest Agent builder canvases I've used so far.

The year of Agents 🤖

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

The new Deep Seek V3 0324 in 4-bit runs at > 20 toks/sec on a 512GB M3 Ultra with mlx-lm!

[Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews]

BREAKING- Toronto had a Delta flight flipped upside down. I got these photos from a friend on the plane. He’s okay. Minnesota to Toronto.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

[Musthafa PC @Musthafa_PC]

#Stopragging #Stopbullying #JusticeforMihir

[Zhiding Yu @ZhidingYu]

Zizheng was one of our interns at NVIDIA back in summer 2023. Later, when we were considering to make him a FT offer, he chose to join DeepSeek without much hesitance. Back then, the DeepSeek multimodal team only has 3 people.

I am still very much impressed by Zizheng’s decision at that time. He has been an important contributor of several important works at DeepSeek, including DeepSeek-VL2, DeepSeek-V3, and DeepSeek-R1. I am personally very happy for his decision and the great achievements.

Zizheng’s case is a very typical example of what I have witnessed in recent years. Many of our best talents come from China, and these talents don’t have to succeed only in a US company. Instead, we learn a lot from them. The same Sputnik Moment has already happened in AV back in 2022, and it will continue to happen in Robotics and LLM industry as well.

I love NVIDIA and want to see her as a continued major contributor to the path of AGI and general autonomy. But if we keep cooking up geo-political agendas and creating hostile opinions to Chinese researchers, we will shoot ourselves in the foot and lose even more competitiveness. We need more talent density, professionalism, learnings, creativity and stronger execution. We don’t need political narratives and clowns like Alexandr Wang.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Apparently reasoning LLMs can apply theory-of-mind in their reasoning (and are pretty solid at sociology): “Think like a cat raised among birds and come up with a new form of neo-institutional legitimation”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The raw chain of thought from DeepSeek is fascinating, really reads like a human thinking out loud. Charming and strange.

[Dr. Nika Soon-Shiong @nikasoonshiong]

A Palestinian child is being murdered every ten minutes. More children have been murdered in Gaza the past 3 weeks than were killed in all global conflicts in each of the past 3 years. UNICEF calls this a “growing stain on our collective conscience.” It is.https://t.co/QjQqmXWoEV

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Don't let what you see on social media skew your view of humanity.

Most bad behavior is due to a few bad apples:

• Just 3% of active users are toxic, but they generate 33% of online content
• 1% of communities launch 74% of conflict
• 0.1% of users spread 80% of fake news

@jayvanbavel https://t.co/tSstCxDIYL

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Controlling parenting isn't good for kids. It puts their well-being at risk.

238 studies, 38 countries, 126k ppl: Kids with controlling parents have higher rates of depression and anxiety. Kids with autonomy-supportive parents are happier.

Freedom is a foundation of well-being.

[kashvi @kashvii]

steve jobs embodied founder mode before it was a thing. but few understand that he deployed manager mode in the right way when it came down to it.

this is my favorite interview of his where he's talking about his management principles 👇

[Rumor Scanner @RumorScanner]

X (formerly Twitter) is flooded with Bangladesh related communal rumors.

In the last 4 days, Rumor Scanner team has identified at least 20 such rumors spread by Indian accounts.

In the first part of these communal rumors, a total of 10 fact-checks are provided below...

[VivaTech @VivaTech]

At #VivaTech, @DigitalBangladesh is hosting 12 #innovative companies driving excellence in #CloudTech & #AI, crafting quality software, & making an impact in #AI, #Deeptech, #Blockchain & more!

See how Bangladeshi software companies are changing the European  #tech landscape! 🚀