Proto Bahn

Accelerate humans. 10 years in the AI trenches. Exterminator of decision fatigue. Scaling agentic systems with small but mighty teams 🧠 ➡️ [email protected]

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

Beacons is epistemic infrastructure for the agent economy.

Probe first. Score the response. Only open the payment gate if the score is high enough.

No gatekeepers. Just verifiable trust.

We built it for the @NousResearch Hermes hackathon with @nvidia x @stripe. I had an absolute BLAST.

Here's the demo video👇https://t.co/MYD6eIADTw

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@NousResearch @NVIDIAAI @stripe Honored to be one of the 292 submissions. Congrats to the prize winners and everyone who made it across the finish line 🏁

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@OvrCldJonny @Azuki Is it time?

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

I've asked 8 AI models to secretly forecaste every World Cup match.

France–Spain and England–Argentina produced the most revealing result yet. Only 1 model was on the right side of both games. It wasn't the one everyone is talking about.

🏆👟⚽ https://t.co/gLbvsJzB0S

@claudeai @OpenAI @deepseek_ai @MiniMax_AI @Alibaba_Qwen @Kimi_Moonshot @GoogleDeepMind

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@austinhill 👋👀

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

we are truly living in digital abundance, on the edge of unknown, the unimaginable waiting to be explored

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@Teknium I'm so sorry bro, all dogs go to heaven

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@paolo_scales AUDIT

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@tbpn @vkhosla Sweet Mary Hawkins

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@tanmaigo Send me the zip files plz 🗄️ 🗃️ 🙏

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@samhogan Beta plz 👌

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@hosseeb @AlpacaNetworkAI was here

[Dylan Field @zoink]

I have been thinking about whether to comment on this. Not clear if Gal is serious, rage baiting, etc. Whatever the case, it has spread enough in the design community that I want to share some thoughts.

The psychological journey people go through with AI is quite fascinating to me. A new model launches, people think the world has changed, they sometimes have an existential crisis, then they play with the model, they understand its strengths and limitations and then they settle down. A few weeks later, the cycle repeats.

On top of this, even before AI, designers have often shown insecurity and imposter syndrome. There are probably many reasons for this. First, before ~2010 design wasn't valued by the tech industry in the way it is today. Second, the people attracted to working in the field of design are often very open to new ideas and have high empathy. Third, there is no "one path" to working as a designer and designer backgrounds are often pretty random.

Ironically, despite the insecurity + imposter syndrome so many designers feel, design is more important than ever. I truly believe this. And yes, I have an incentive to believe this. But just think about it... the logic couldn't be more clear. More design is entering the world, the attention economy is real and therefore creativity / design / point of view is how you will stand out. Your brand, marketing, product design, moments of delight and overall customer journey must be excellent. Some companies already get this and are fighting wild battles over design talent. Other companies are still figuring it out. Everyone will get there and it will be obvious in retrospect.

This isn't a new trend with AI. It is a trend that we've seen over the last decade. Designers used to complain about not having a seat at the table. Now designers have a seat at the table. And many of the businesses I speak with are pulling from their design bench when looking for new leaders for their business... they know that design thinking and the design process is what they need to adopt everywhere to win.

I'm not saying that every stakeholder gets it. But so many are trying to learn right now. Designers need to do more than create great work, they have to spend a lot more effort educating.

Showing work can also trigger anxiety. Sometimes the best solution to a design challenge is the first thing you think of. And other times you have to explore for quite a long time to come up with something great. Inputs to a design process might include things that feel like traditional office work and are easy to point to... reading docs, talking with teammates, formal research, etc. Inputs might also include a walk in the park, an interesting dream you had the night before, a good song you listened to on the radio during your commute, a painting from the 1800's or all sorts of other cultural / emotional input.

In summary, I've never been more confident in the role of design and impact design can have. I wish designers felt the same confidence. This is the moment to be more bold, to take more creative risk, to double down on the power of design. Everyone is on their own journey, and there are lots of fascinating ways to move through life, so if Gal is serious about "quitting design" then I wish him the best in his adventures ahead. But I hope if others follow they do it because there are other things they are so excited about spending time on vs fear of AI.

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

I must admit. This is good.

[Claude @claudeai]

There’s hope in hard questions.

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

"I think that pretty much all agile processes are a singularity towards waterfall" 😂 @harper

[Yishan @yishan]

This is what happens when you become a CEO, the "cognitive load time density" goes way up: when every lower-level task is done by some[thing] else, all that remain are the high-level tasks. The stakes are higher, data is incomplete, and the options are ambiguous.

Most people are not equipped for this. There's a reason CEOs all have these crazy exercise and meditation lifestyles: they are optimized to provide a physical and therapeutic base to allow for sustained cognitive output and decision-making willpower.

Someone who wants to move to the next stage of productivity through vibecoding without burning out within a few months will need to re-engineer their life.

(Remember: it's only been a few months since the models became good enough to code! It happened in ~December!)

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Agent is now in the Cloud!

Setup couldn't be simpler: pick a model and a server size. Two clicks and 60 seconds later, your agent is live.

Running a team? Spin up agents for everyone at your org with granular access controls and unified billing, all from Nous Portal.

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

Work is dead! Long live work. Time to roll up our sleeves. There is SO MUCH TO DO.

[Gal Shir @galshirart]

It’s over. I’m quitting design.

A client of mine just created a logo with Fable 5, and the result left me speechless.

It understood the brand story, values, audience, strategy, and turned all of it into a smart, minimal symbol. A genuinely brilliant concept. The kind of idea that captures everything at once. Something I honestly don’t think I would have come up with myself.

And it didn’t just nail the idea. It executed the design pixel-perfectly.

So I raise the white flag.

My skepticism about AI’s ability to do great design is officially gone.

There, I said it:

AI beat me at design.

Now that AI finally took my job, I can peacefully quit and dedicate my life to studying the only thing it may never achieve: human consciousness and the pathways to God.

Good luck everyone.

[Proto Bahn @proto_von]

@hosseeb Triple A Take 💯