Wira Mahendra

[Rikiya Takehi @rikiyatakehi]

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.

We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: https://t.co/bOWCcFhCVq

[Caleb Peffer (Hiring!) @CalebPeffer]

no shade but

why would superintelligence need an office suite?

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

RIP Instinct 🪦

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@jullerino Woot woot 👀

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@theo @davis7 oh man this is so good

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@theo Fr this is so cool man

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@kitlangton Man this is awesome

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@CompleteSkeptic Can’t wait to try Jev

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

FFFUUUUUUUU

[DHH @dhh]

For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@PrimeIntellect A masterpiece

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

No one thinks billing systems are hard until they run a SaaS company and realize plans/accounts/billing/usage are a really hard data modeling problem

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@patrickc @link This is awesome

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

one of the biggest things i struggle with in the agent world is the research and plan phase

it's never really been how i work, i much prefer building MVPs, iterating on the concepts inside of them until i find composable patterns i like, and then expanding the implementation

[wukko @uwukko]

open source is awesome, i love when people come together to build something cool for everyone

[Wira Mahendra @sheringfords]

@chrisdengso Based! Congrats Chris!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[@levelsio @levelsio]

AI is making coding fun again for so many people

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