Progon

Precision AI GTM systems for B2B SaaS.
Former Head of GTM @ stealth AI startups • 11+ years systems & product ∴

+ music, robotics, creative coding

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Progon @Progon3k]

fact

[tuna🍣 @tunahorse21]

hermes with 5.5 is agi basically

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

The strongest models are gated and access is granted only to a select few.

Hermes Agent now exposes MoA presets as virtual models, giving you capabilities beyond the publicly available frontier: 8% higher than Opus 4.8 and 11% higher than GPT 5.5 on our upcoming benchmark.

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

Having been in the generative AI scene since before it was cool, I haven't really liked the direction that conversation is going.

And it has been getting me down.

But I'm deciding to lean back in. So here's a few thoughts about the state of AI discourse:

As with all movements, there's a huge wave of naysayers and skeptics (who didn't need to be named). But this is a constant reservoir of noise. The thing is that they are all just parroting each other, ironically, and most of it traces back to Gary Marcus.

Interestingly, the early schizos seem to have tapered off. I think because it was all labeled as "AI psychosis" and so the hivemind developed an immune response pretty quickly. That's probably the most interesting, useful phenomenon.

Then there's the Doomers, which have really fallen off. They are by far the most in decline of any group. There's a durable core of true believers in the "AI x-risk maximalist" camp, but even some of the founders of that cohort have taken institutional positions and distanced from EA. When your Schelling points abandon ship, the movement is DOA.

The optimists and techno-progressive legs have basically just become the default.

The anti-AI crowd seems like it was Astroturfed and it's already fizzling out. Like, even pro AI people agree "slop is bad" and the data center NIMBY movement doesn't really have a leg to stand on where water is concerned.

This is all just my perception of where we're at in terms of discourse, but of course I'm in my own social media bubble.

[Progon @Progon3k]

@svpino Insane timeline

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

If you are asking “Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?” I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don’t want to see that happen to AI. Public opinion matters, and it shouldn’t be ceded unchallenged.

If you are asking “Why should I support AI efforts at all?” I believe we are in the midst of a transition more vibrant than the industrial revolution. Opinions formed a couple of years ago about the uselessness of AI are no longer valid. Millions of people and organizations are getting great returns from using it, and the demand for data centers is the market responding to the value signal. That is how progress is made!

[Progon @Progon3k]

@alexrkonrad What if you can’t recognize that its a fully AI-written wordvomit but turns out it actually is an autonomous AI outreach clanker?

Banter aside, I haven’t had a solid email in my inbox in ages.

BUT at the same time, no one has been able to crack our method of avoiding aislop

[Progon @Progon3k]

Ha! This is basically what we’ve been building toward for almost a year now (as a separate track [basically a clone] from the OG product/system we already have)

Wasnt sure about the semantics of the category, but “Ghost kitchen” is a slapper phrase.

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

the ‘ghost kitchen’ era of the internet is coming very soon

we’re going to see lots of websites and products that are built only for agents, without a human in the loop

this is inevitably going to be the majority of traffic, and much larger than the human internet

[Progon @Progon3k]

@askOkara Company accelerator systems

[Progon @Progon3k]

@nocodeworks @askOkara Pretty sick

[Progon @Progon3k]

@kzitouni1 lets get iiiit

[Progon @Progon3k]

@steel_life @matdryhurst Was thinking about him also. Pretty up there on the alien standards

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

make sure to leave weights and matricies out for anthropic tonight incase fable comes

[Progon @Progon3k]

@round THEY
HAVE
ME
BLOCKED

[Progon @Progon3k]

@matdryhurst Easy - SKRILLEX

[Progon @Progon3k]

"Create Fable 6 (codename:Logos), jumpscare the government a bit, make no mistakes"

[Miranda Nover @mirandanover]

i need to see how openai and anthropic employees prompt

they know things we don’t

even just for personal chat use

[Progon @Progon3k]

Seeing a lot of systems thinking hype, but the good stuff is still weirdly rare.

[Progon @Progon3k]

@romanbuildsaas LK

[Progon @Progon3k]

Doing gods work

[Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708]

Introducing Clips - 100% free, open source, agent-native alternative to Loom

Unlike Loom, agent's can fully understand Clips just from a URL. Every Clip comes with APIs and metadata for agents to explore their contents.

Agents can "see and hear" anything in a Clip - not just transcripts, but everything visually in the video at any timestamp.

Easily share bug reports, feedback, analyses, or anything else in a way that you can easily pass to agents to use to improve products, reports, or more.

Also unlike Loom, you own the software, so no one can jack up prices on you suddenly like Loom did to us.

Clips is made to be customized. The built-in agent can customize its own code, so you can personalize the app to your needs and workflows.

This, in my opinion, is the future of software. Open-source, forkable, customizable with agents, to make your own personal version of anything.

You can also import Looms just from a URL and upload videos as well.

I got so sick of telling people "don't send me feedback as looms, I can't pass those to agents, I need text and images" that I had to just solve this once and for all.

There's a free hosted version you can use too, or fork and self host yourself. Will link to both in the replies.

[Progon @Progon3k]

@MatthewBerman Added! Proper good stuff