Yuri Burov

I’m a Product Leader with an entrepreneurial mindset, looking to join a visionary team building LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered productivity tools. About me ⬇️.

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Big thanks to @manusai and @_ai_collective for an incredible evening! The demo showed exactly why manual work is becoming obsolete. Props to @hidecloud and the team for building something that bridges minds and actions. 🚀

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@AravSrinivas sent you a DM

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Loved diving into the state of LLMs and what’s next for AI agents at #DeepDiveAI tonight. Huge thanks to @manohar_paluri for the sharp insights, @joewhaley for the great questions, and @StartX + @BuildInception for putting it all together. 🚀🤖

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My bet: in the future most people will run two core agents, personal and work, just like email.

Each becomes your OS, wired into every tool you use. They’ll handle tasks, chat with other agents, and learn your style.

Not a hundred apps, one interface to life.

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to be your core AI subscription, the default interface to intelligence.

Not just ChatGPT, but new surfaces that feel more like operating systems.

The goal isn't to dominate the app layer -- it’s to own the layer everything else builds on.

“If you can make a better one… go ahead. That’d be great.”

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@adamcohenhillel I totally agree with you

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@iporollo Same with ln

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@saranormous 100%

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@AravSrinivas Gmail and G cal

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@kevinweil @shivon Love these four points! They’re why I’m so excited about OpenAI, because of the mission for AGI to help humanity, the awesome team, the big impact, and everything there is to learn. I’m a product manager who’s crazy about AI. Can we chat about joining the team?

[Yuri Burov @uburov]

Big thanks to @joaomdmoura from CrewAI for organizing AI Agent Week SF and to @AndreasSjostrom for hosting the event 🙌

Jumped into a great convo about where AI agents are actually at, what’s holding them back, and what needs to click for mainstream adoption.

Panel was 🔥:
@jeffreyhuber (Chroma)
@pk_iv(Browserbase)
@YashSheth46(Galileo AI)
@dexhorthy (Humanlayer)

💡If you’re into agents or just getting started — these folks are worth following.

[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.”

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A lot of debate surrounds the definition of AGI. Here’s my take:
AGI isn’t about self-consciousness or willpower. It’s a technology that uses computation to solve complex tasks as well as (or better than) humans. And that’s amazing! We don’t need a new “creature”; we need better tools to help us improve the world.

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@iruletheworldmo Any exciting developments you want to share with us humans?

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@AravSrinivas 🔥

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👀 If you're into LLMs, highly recommend checking out the new video: '[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models' by Andrej Karpathy. A real gem for understanding AI! 🧠

https://t.co/t4klCm2qRp

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@sama Congrats ❤️

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@LawLM @ruslansv @alicevdeng Great job guys👌

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I think GPT-4 (LLMs in general) is a real big thing. And it's going to change forever how we’ll learn, work, & live.

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Global smart speaker sales reached a record level in 2020 in spite of the challenging conditions precipitated by the Covid 19 pandemic, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ https://t.co/aEkstrlpyJ