Ian Ballard

building projects you can't ignore.
going all in on agents
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[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

Most AI agents don't fail because the model is dumb. They fail because nobody ever hired them.

I wrote up the hiring process every agent at my company goes through before it touches real work, plus the template I use. The bar is 6 for 6. https://t.co/vI8YDAnud9

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@argofowl It’s wild how they release such an awful product when they had plenty of time to copy the homework

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@ddaniel3141 I'll have to look into that. thanks.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

I sent my AI agent team three TikToks I liked and asked them to save them as templates for future jobs. They pulled every slide from each post, broke down why each one works, from the design to the hook to the caption, and sorted it all into one folder with the pattern all three share. Now every carousel we make starts from what's already working.

I asked once and got back a playbook. That's what running a business with agents looks like when it's set up right. You hand off the job and check the work. Are you treating your agents like tools or like a team? @bot @SpaceXAI

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@Nicolo_Tognoni They built something really special with Hark. I've been testing it out the last 48 hours and it's becoming my daily driver. Needs a few tweaks but i think the team will come through.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

One prompt btw.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@MrTacticalX imagine collecting a check from both.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@mweinbach Lmao you think they made that change over night

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@rileybrown very nice.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

We have been blessed.

[p4n @p4nthera_]

I built a growing gallery of motion graphics made with Claude Opus 5.5, each shown next to the prompt or skill that made it.

226 so far, all pulled from posts here and credited to their creators.

https://t.co/pAGK4Y8Yqs

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@argofowl exactly why we need, opus

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

Like i just shared them from the tiktok app. This is generation tech.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

I sent my AI agent team three TikToks I liked and asked them to save them as templates for future jobs. They pulled every slide from each post, broke down why each one works, from the design to the hook to the caption, and sorted it all into one folder with the pattern all three share. Now every carousel we make starts from what's already working.

I asked once and got back a playbook. That's what running a business with agents looks like when it's set up right. You hand off the job and check the work. Are you treating your agents like tools or like a team? @bot @SpaceXAI

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@kapilansh_twt Astra has been killing it.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@argofowl Oh yeah 😭

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@elonmusk @bot @SpaceX @elonmusk you should let us select what model each bot uses.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

Grok Bot is going multi-model.

Elon says going forward it'll use the best model for each task. Claude Opus 5.5, Mid Journey, Suno, and other leading APIs. This is the shift I've been waiting for. The model isn't the product anymore. The agent is.

Think about it like hiring. You wouldn't hire one person to write your file, design your logo, and make your music. You'd hire the best person for each job. Agents should work the same way. I already do this by hand. Claude writes my prompts. GPT pressure-tests my systems. Grok red-teams everything. It works, but I'm the one stuck in the middle passing work around.

Full disclosure, I'm building a multi-model agent platform myself. So yeah, I'm biased. But I'm biased because I've been living this problem. If you run agents for your business, which model would you trust with your hardest job?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Important note regarding Grok @Bot:

Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs.

Whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

You're comparing products built for totally different people. Grok Bot is cooking, but it still doesn't have a frontier-level model. I run my business on it. It's rough right now, but it'll get better. Hark is my daily driver for personal life, and Muse is for content ideas. Dots is the one I don't like. OpenAI had the perfect shot to kill Grok Bot and flopped.

[Ian Ballard @thenontechdev_]

@thsottiaux we should of gotten 2 resets by now