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gen ai @google. i build agents and fun internet projects. my views 🤙

[Mark Karpelès @MagicalTux]

This looks like this could be exactly what I'm investigating. Anyone affected, please contact me or open your ledger and send me pictures so we can confirm if there's a bug in there (pictures: ledger board on top, spy implant below).

https://t.co/mg2VRHLRHE

[stanley @stanleycyang]

MIT licensed. Built with TypeScript.

🔗 https://t.co/A57u5yAaI7
⭐ https://t.co/8V0MY4FDx4
📦 https://t.co/fsTkPzKFh6

If you work with LLMs daily, give it a spin and let me know what you think. PRs and feature requests welcome.

[stanley @stanleycyang]

I got tired of opening 5 browser tabs to compare LLM responses.

So I built a CLI that sends one prompt to multiple models and streams the outputs side-by-side in your terminal.

It's called yardstiq, it's open source, and it works with one command 👇

[stanley @stanleycyang]

The whole thing works with zero install:

npx yardstiq "your prompt" -m claude-sonnet -m gpt-4o `

Or pipe from stdin, read from files, add system prompts — it's a proper CLI tool.

Set up your API keys via: npx yardstiq setup

[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.”

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@micahbrich @shadcn @motiondotdev @nextjs Looks slick!

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@FinanceMohMoh 3 days and I heard back!

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@FinanceMohMoh This used to be me until I saw your post last week. s/o to https://t.co/4IP9BEW5Ue 🫡

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@FinanceMohMoh 📠 no 🖨️ . I got mine via https://t.co/4IP9BEW5Ue

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@FinanceMohMoh Sweet! Just got approved. Thanks for the tip 🫡

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@FinanceMohMoh What’s the link?

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@micahbrich

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@micahbrich Love this my man

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@techbropicasso @grok can you explain this?

[stanley @stanleycyang]

@jasminewsun cc @DOGE