rod

scan my brain | co-founder @augustalabs, prev. ceo team @swordhealth

[rod @rodfernn]

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us.

So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve.

The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'.

More info in the comments.

We're just getting started.

[rod @rodfernn]

@ZeMariaMacedo 🏃🏃🏃

[rod @rodfernn]

@JNeedem were just getting started Jack 🏃‍♂️

[rod @rodfernn]

@JeoCryp @rudiservo sick. dm'ed you

[rod @rodfernn]

We just raised a historic funding round for Portugal, backed by some of the country’s top unicorn founders. And we're now looking for the best young talent to join us.

So we built something to find them. It's called Arcus - a series of trials. No resume. No application forms. Just a terminal and a problem to solve.

The first trial is live: Ode Triunfal, with €3k in prizes. Access it through 'ssh augustalabs[dot]ai'.

More info in the comments.

We're just getting started.

[bernardo @0xvrea]

we've heard a lot of people are running out of tokens to solve the challenge.

we're giving away 3 claude max subscriptions in the next hour.

dm us 3 bullets describing your current approach, and if we like it we'll hook you up for the month.

[rod @rodfernn]

@KevinJDCS @augustalabs @X we're just getting started kevin 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[rod @rodfernn]

check it out here: https://t.co/6wIUfEsXdg

[rod @rodfernn]

"take a simple idea and take it very very seriously" - charlie munger

[rod @rodfernn]

if 'attention is all you need' gave us the models

then something like 'context is all you need' will give us the tech & approach to make these models truly useful within businesses

and it'll be us writing it

[rod @rodfernn]

gigaharness

[rod @rodfernn]

the world is increasingly a young people's game

[rod @rodfernn]

@saranormous neatly describes @augustalabs

[rod @rodfernn]

software incumbents own decades of decision traces

this partnership will set the gold standard on turning that incumbency into real RL environments, and from there into best-in-class AI capabilities

very very excited for what's to come

[Augusta Labs @augustalabs]

Augusta Labs is proud to partner with @SageUK (FTSE: SGE), a global leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology, to accelerate the deployment of its AI Center of Excellence.

Our collaboration embeds Augusta Labs directly into Sage’s product organization. Together we are delivering production-ready intelligence at startup speed, combining Sage’s platform scale and proprietary data with Augusta Labs’ Applied AI expertise and high-velocity execution.

This partnership sets a new benchmark for how enterprises move towards true autonomy, transforming real-world workflows into best-in-class agentic systems at scale.

We’re just getting started.

[rod @rodfernn]

R(ea)L environments

[rod @rodfernn]

'research & deployment' 🤔

I have an idea

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Capability overhang means too many gaps today between what the models can do and what most people actually do with them.

2026 Prediction: Progress towards AGI will depend as much on helping people use AI well, in ways that directly benefit them as on progress in frontier models themselves.

2026 will be about frontier research AND about closing this deployment gap — especially in health care, business, and people's daily lives.

[rod @rodfernn]

yes

@augustalabs

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The next 10 years in AI are going to be very, very engineer-led. To get the right ROI from AI, engineers will have to do EVERYTHING. In one of our pre IPO cos, engineers write the code using AI, but engineers are also sitting in support calls & "agentifying" it. Engineers are plugging into marketing & sales functions and injecting AI into it. Same for product, design, etc. Frankly this has been the only way AI (1) has delivered ROI (2) led to sticky adoption within functional teams (3) in a short time frame. There is a new concept of what I call "internally deployed engineers" that is really necessary to take these magical but brittle tools and fit it to specific purposes for an enterprise. The value and importance of an engineer has never been higher, but the value of a creative, high empathy engineer is at the absolute peak right now because they can be very effective change agents within the orgs and be the strategic secret tool that puts the company ahead of all others. If you have these engineers, do everything you can to keep them around.

[rod @rodfernn]

this is the most important thing one should understand about Augusta

[Augusta Labs @augustalabs]

We believe one of Augusta’s defining advantages is our approach to talent.

So we decided to make the core principles around how we spot, hire and develop talent available for anyone to read.

https://t.co/8CYjrUcrz1

[rod @rodfernn]

@sama came through.

[rod @rodfernn]

we've ripped through 20b tokens on OpenAI this year.

where are our 2 medals? @sama

[rod @rodfernn]

poetry

[george hotz archive @geohotarchive]

Pathetic Losers https://t.co/fa99FedXx8

[rod @rodfernn]

@dscape @davidgomes @lisbonai_ @javisantana @arseny92 @P_FFigueiredo @augustalabs I believe there is an ever better alternative to tekever: https://t.co/S8RQ5HW7ZV

Pretty exceptional from what Ive been told. Know ppl that can intro