Sean Rober

Analytics at Stealth Startup. Previous Zenefits, Sunrun, JPMorgan.

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@iandmacomber What languages and libraries are the agents mainly leveraging?

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

This is GPT-6 Astra.

Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@sama Amazing

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now sync together seamlessly.

When you’ve got more than one file open, Claude shares the full context of your conversation between them.

Pull data from spreadsheets, build out tables, and update a deck — without re-explaining a step.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@xiaoyiz_uw Excited for this one! A beast when combined with Claude for Excel

[Marcus Freeman @Marcus_Freeman1]

2026…run it back

Go Irish ☘️

[Dick Vitale @DickieV]

Yes ⁦@NDFootball⁩ left out of the playoffs is hard to comprehend. Can the committee logically explain how they could have ND in the Top 12 ahead of Miami for 5 weeks and then leave them out in the end, after Miami lost to 2 currently unranked teams. Where is the logic??

[Chief @BarstoolChief]

If you hate ND and want to celebrate today that’s fine. Just know that you have no integrity and don’t care about the sport because anyone who cares about competition & having the best 12 teams in should want Notre Dame in the playoff. If you don’t it’s because you lack character

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@ZDS_22 @dakern @mattfreeman05_ Why? Duke is to be respected? Aren’t they your champions. There should be a parade

[jason love @jasonlove5158]

So Proud of you son, what a hell of a ride! The Greatest Of All Time, in my opinion of course!

[Brady Quinn @Brady_Quinn]

Crazy to think an SEC officiating crew missing a blatant holding call on the final play of a game ultimately left ND out.

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@ShowtimeTate Always

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@Andykeogh me!

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@tradertoad yes

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@crycrystallss yes

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@davidu The Onion Tree in Sea Cliff has some amazing options

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@preston_holland $130k

[Sean Rober @srober11]

@paulswaney3 Yes! Awesome!