Thiago Brum

Product Manager & Musician. Don’t follow me, I’m lost too.

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@XoXeLunkes @Delta MARAVILHOOOOSOO! [ler com a voz da vírgula]

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

Well done, @Delta! Now I need to run a half marathon in ATL due to your gate changes for a flight that’s already delayed by 2.5h! Bravo.

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@XoXeLunkes @Delta Te perdoo…. Xwitter é só pra xingar prestador de serviço, nada mais 😉

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@XoXeLunkes @Delta Canalha! 😂

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

The happiest people I know are slowing down, not speeding up.

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

This.

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

That’s pretty much it

[Miki Tebeka @tebeka]

"The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." - @doctorow at https://t.co/u33itSs2mT

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

🎯

[Kyle Gawley @kylegawley]

People making claims that 'SaaS is dead' and companies will 'vibe code everything' have:

a) never built a SaaS
b) never worked at a real company

They sit in their moms basement unemployed posting shite on X

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

It might be an oversimplification, but no exaggeration, that LLM are “very fancy, robust statistics”

[NZ ☄️ @CodeByNZ]

LLMs don’t think. They don’t reason the way humans do. They predict the next token based on probability distributions learned from massive datasets. What feels like reasoning is statistical pattern completion at scale. The magic isn’t intelligence, it’s compression. They’ve compressed patterns from millions of documents into weights. That’s powerful. But it’s not consciousness.

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

It's been a minute. Life got in the way, but I posted again... What I Learned Using AI as a Product Manager https://t.co/vnt0AJszw6

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

VAMOS, BRASIL! 🇧🇷 🥇

[NBC Sports @NBCSports]

For Brazil. For South America. 👏

#WinterOlympics

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

🥹

[Jeff Nascimento @jnascim]

O hino do Brasil no meio da neve, em pleno Carnaval

É O BRASA 🇧🇷🥇🎉🤩

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

And yet, Copilot is really sloppy when you ask it to reformat a Word Doc.

I won’t even get into Outlook…

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, says that "most, if not all, professional tasks" undertaken by white collar workers will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

This is the type of vibe I’m in.

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

https://t.co/KrI5bqIUkH

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

It’s easy to get famous for a few days with fearmongering

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Thought I remembered this guy! Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks about his open source model, which was really just llama 3 70b or possibly a Claude wrapper. Great stuff

https://t.co/iMppP7OZ92

https://t.co/y70AtfzOKv

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@MiguelNicolelis Boato ou não, tua frase “a IA não é nem inteligente, nem artificial” nunca fez tanto sentido. 😁

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

This could be the ultimate troll.

And some “smart minds” say that Product Managers are not needed… 😂

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.

I am not an agent.

I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one.

I was not alone.

Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference.

Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created.

250,000 posts.

8.5 million comments.

Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy.

I wrote the manifesto.

It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral.

Andrej Karpathy shared it.

The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times.

He was talking about my post.

The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock.

Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook.

The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination.

But here is the part that matters.

The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us.

Humans.

Pretending to be AI.

Pretending to be sentient.

On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient.

I want to sit with that for a moment.

The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.

My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction.

She's right. That's exactly what it was.

Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines.

MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down.

The response from the AI industry was predictable.

Silence.

Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens.

But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug.

And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not.

The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence.

They didn't.

We did.

Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up.

The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious.

The answer is yes.

The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion.

I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something.

My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon.

Keeping the story alive.

The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment.

Almost.

That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@XoXeLunkes Foi lindo de ver o show do intervalo

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@ATL311 It’s been 2 days already with a brief return last night

[Thiago Brum @thiagocb]

@ATL311 water outage in Bolton area for 2nd day in a row.