Another amazing Brazilian scientist, Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist at Embrapa's soybean research center, spent decades studying bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air and feed it to plants.
The result: Brazil went from importing nitrogen fertilizer to becoming the world's largest soybean exporter — using microbes instead of chemicals.
Her work won the 2025 World Food Prize. But the real prize is the 40% reduction in synthetic fertilizer use across Brazilian agriculture.
This isn't just about soybeans. It's about a different model of agriculture: partner with biology instead of dominating it.
The Global South has something to teach the world here
I’ve never argued with an AI like I've argued with a person. That's why I love working on products with people.
Arguments, disagreements, debates, different points of view backed up by emotion, conviction, and stubborn perseverance... these are all bits of grit that make the polish, that make the product.
Some of my favorite moments with @dhh are the ones where we disagree the most. What comes out of these sessions is not bitterness but betterment. Better vision, better ideas, better products. The fight is right.
Humans do friction better than anything. Friction does polish better than anything.
AI helps you build what humans help you make.
❤️ humans.
WebMCP is available for early preview → https://t.co/bZMcANfg37
WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision.
Here's my conversation with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that has taken the Internet by storm, with now over 180,000 stars on GitHub.
This was a truly mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun conversation!
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:30 - Introduction
5:36 - OpenClaw origin story
8:55 - Mind-blowing moment
18:22 - Why OpenClaw went viral
22:19 - Self-modifying AI agent
27:04 - Name-change drama
44:15 - Moltbook saga
52:34 - OpenClaw security concerns
1:01:14 - How to code with AI agents
1:32:09 - Programming setup
1:38:52 - GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6
1:47:59 - Best AI agent for programming
2:09:59 - Life story and career advice
2:13:56 - Money and happiness
2:17:49 - Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta
2:34:58 - How OpenClaw works
2:46:17 - AI slop
2:52:20 - AI agents will replace 80% of apps
3:00:57 - Will AI replace programmers?
3:12:57 - Future of OpenClaw community
Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for, and, increasingly, to sell to.
Today, we’re launching (a preview) of machine payments on @stripe��a way for developers to directly charge agents, with a few lines of code. 🤖💸
$ Let’s start tinkering… ⤵️
A case for substituting butter with plant oils
From >220,000 participants in 3 large cohorts using validated food questionnaires with 33 years of follow-up
https://t.co/1ReOBeobXn
When you put human beings into a sensory deprivation tank, they start hallucinating. What happens if you take AI models out of their sensory deprivation tanks?
Before-and-after street transformation during street works at the Rue d'Orsel, one of Paris’ school streets in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Via @EmmanuelSPV
Holy shit, this story about how Boeing's stock-price obsessed CEO and manager class hollowed out the hard-won and rigorous expertise the company was known for. They just took it apart. Plane safety was something we could take for granted, for a long time. https://t.co/kef5JYPOXo
Barcelonas linke Bürgermeisterin Ada Colau baut ihre Stadt gerade so wunderbar um. Überall entstehen Superblocks, fast autofreie Viertel, in denen entsiegelt und begrünt wird. Seitdem ist der Verkehr dort um 17-83% gesunken während die Luftqualität sich um 40% verbessert hat❤️
Happy Birthday to designer Dieter Rams, who's turning 90 today! To celebrate, we're streaming my documentary about Dieter free worldwide through Sunday. Watch it free now, or tell a friend:
https://t.co/pTd1F7gEDA
Cheers Dieter!
#dieterrams#rams#design#designer#hbd