Tim Smykov

Founder @veractoai. Building with AI. Exploring how it changes the way we think, learn and build.

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@MatthewBerman Glad to test!

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@gregpr07 DMed

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I see harnesses like GrokBot (@bot) /OpenBot (@OpenBot_) moving toward the kind of system described in this @DeepSeekHarness article. DeepSeek lays out an architecture for a more autonomous, always-on agent that can coordinate multiple different tasks and work proactively.

I’m experimenting with a similar direction in my own OpenBot setup, moving toward the idea of a super-agent.

One of the hardest parts, in my experience, is long-term memory. It’s not just about having a good retrieval system or a knowledge graph. The harness also needs to know what to remember, how to connect it in logical chain, and when to bring the right context back into an ongoing task.

I also see a connection between this kind of harness and the work @sailresearchco is doing around long-horizon agents and GPU optimization. If agents 24/7 working in the background, the trade-off changes: for some tasks, latency may matter much less than the cost and reliability of completing the work.

This could bring us a different kind of agent possible: one that proactively works in the background and makes progress continuously. We don't have to ask it to do anything. It is just always analyzing our whole digital work.

[DeepSeek Harness @DeepSeekHarness]

https://t.co/gwwIHtyCRQ

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OpenBot > Grok Bot. For me.

The models I want. Code I can change. Better design and UX.

I borrowed two ideas from @elonmusk and @NStoronsky to organize my AI team.

Here's the setup—and why I prefer it ↓ https://t.co/A008rk0KfN

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I think AI could make companies like Revolut much harder for startups to compete with.

Revolut is already challenging new niches through its new bets teams. It’s still founder led, and Nik wants to expand into new markets.

AI helps those teams test more ideas with much fewer people. They also have much more funding to iterate, unlimited tokens, customer data, and existing audience.

A startup has to earn trust and loyalty while building the product. They get the same AI. So both sides can build faster.

But as development becomes less of a bottleneck, the huge advantage shifts toward things that take years to earn: reputation, trust, loyalty and insider data.

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Jeff Bezos said you need to pour gasoline on promising sparks.

Nik Storonsky says this is exactly how he makes bets on new products at Revolut:

“We know that our top 10 bets, they grow 10-20% month on month.”

“If we see that a bet is historically in the bottom 25% of all the bets, we simply sunset it.”

“We instill discipline when we're running businesses which are not growing very fast. And then bets which are growing very fast, we're doubling down.

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@OpenBot_ Thank you guys for your purely beautiful and such a valuable product! Just one thing: the sound of switching between agents is what? It sounds like kicking the metal can with a wood stick. It's unpleasant to hear in headphones as well.

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@davidsenra Nik is one of the guys who really solved business through science.

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Nik is a brilliant and kinda "unknown" fonder quietly building the most valuable private company in Europe and one of the highest growing non-AI business in the world.

He's the guy with Elon's obsession to truth and scientific approach to building extremely high-performance team.

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Elon Musk and Nik Storonsky are two of the brightest founders of the West today, building NOT AI as a main product, disrupting their industries.
I consider these guys are business geniuses who build frontier systems and highest performing teams.
Revolut — the most valuable private company in Europe.
SpaceX until recently was the most of the world.

I saw quite a lot of intersections in their scientific approaches to building companies in performance tracking, hiring the best, product and many more. I'd like to learn from their playbooks, and collected their publicly shared principles and found intersections creating a graph of the scenes:
Github:
https://t.co/xuxrtMYEO7

Interactive site:
https://t.co/LTr64UT9lz

I welcome you to look at it and get the most from these geniuses to implement in your company systems and life.
I think to expand this graph by adding other exceptional founders' principles and see what works best in business systems in general in the modern world.

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@balajis In what city the new campus of NS is gonna be?

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We first touched AI in interfaces, and it felt like a miracle.

Then we installed Codex/Claude Code on our device, and it became a co-CEO of our work.

The next step is Hermes/OpenClaw kind of an AI OS that knows our whole life and becomes a co-Brain.

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@gdb Shortcuts Cmd + C/V/A don't work with most of the languages in Atlas browser. That's very annoying!!

I use English and Russian, while typing in Russian I have to switch languages to English just to copy/paste something.

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Buying these devices we create another addiction) but without them, it's hard to improve health.

I found a way to offload my mind from it and automatically uploading all my health data to agents, and they tell me what to eat, when to sleep, how to train. This actually frees mind for thinking about different things.

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@tim_cook Thank you, Tim!
You've brought Apple to the Golden Era.

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https://t.co/bsEHasdDHd

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@adxtyahq Claude 46 vs Claude 47

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AI is like electricity; it can make you more powerful or infirm.

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AI makes you faster. But does it make you smarter?

I used to be a good writer. In school, in university. I was consistently among the top. I could shape raw ideas into structured arguments, weave words into something meaningful. Writing was thinking made visible.

Now I use AI for practically everything:
- What to eat
- How to train
- When to wake up
- How to structure my work
- What work to do
- How to learn new things

I use AI to do 95% of my things. And it works. I genuinely believe I'm 10x more productive than I was in the pre-AI era.

But here's what I didn't expect.

Over the past two years, I haven't written a single text longer than several paragraphs without AI involved at some stage: outlining, structuring, drafting, or generating entirely. My role shrank to editing and approving.

Now, when I try to write something from scratch, I feel so much pain and frustration. I feel like a child who has not read books, only learned to speak, unable to construct words into beautiful, coherent sentences. The muscle atrophied.

And I think this is a broader pattern. When you use AI everywhere, your role quietly shifts:
- From author to reviewer
- From creator to orchestrator
- From thinker to verifier

We stopped generating ideas on paper. We started curating machine output.

When was the last time you wrote something substantial without AI at any stage? No structure assist, no post-processing, no "just clean it up." Purely your own mind on a blank page.