Usable Machines

Integrate thousands of AI tools to create, discover, and coach your org to better outcomes. Use any AI while protecting data & IP privacy. Based in Llama Beach

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

We were founded in Sept 2022. @smarcus and team at Riot Ventures shared the vision of our founder @McclaneDet that a new era in AI was upon us. Enterprises need a vendor neutral platform to secure and make compliant this AI transformation of knowledge work https://t.co/EBH8f8QSFa

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

The Bot Company, a San Francisco startup, is testing robots they're training to do household chores in Airbnbs, damaging property and violating house rules.

📝: @skbaer https://t.co/94bUpSfbTC

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

As “an Effective Altruism cult member”…

Beth has tons of data in hand showing AIs create zero new technology risks but still beats the drums of censorship, only a few elites should decide who benefits from AI, regulatory capture, humans should prepare for replacement as we build a new garden of Eden for the elite, etc.

Can safely ignore. Their benchmark is also highly suspect as anything useful since the org is tainted by EA direction (it’s propaganda to scare lawmakers and the people who buy them).

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@tedlieu Ted’s plan is to halt advances for the cure for cancer and many other diseases.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@objectionupdate @balajis What about bad job references?

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@HarryStebbings If you hire an HR person they are going to 10X the HR burden in the company.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

As a reminder Pavel is a Russia born and under intense constant pressure from Russia, if not just actually working for them. A tiny minority of telegram even turns on the “end to end encrypted” chat feature of telegram (otherwise telegram and whoever holds a gun to the staff or founder’s heads can read messages) and if you turn on the encryption you need to know that it’s home grown code that outside reviewers can’t verify unlike Signal’s open code that anyone can point out a flaw in (yet the most respected companies in the world still use this same widely tested to be secure
code to encrypt messages).

Turn off notification previews in your iPhone setting and avoid this privacy issue caused by the iPhone not Signal.

[banteg @banteg]

it all makes sense now. dario was still at openai in 2019. he left next year and took his marketing playbook with him. hasn't changed a thing since.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@devashishup @StockMKTNewz @AnthropicAI @Microsoft Just use @KindoAI with a full set of enterprise controls and AI agnostic

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@tryaether_ai Enterprise ready @KindoAI with the world’s first offensive cybersecurity model (2023) @DeepHatAI delivers this turn key.

[Kyle Daigle @kdaigle]

Hot take from looking at @github Copilot telemetry: benchmarks make coding models look wildly different. Production workflows make them look much more similar. 👀

We looked at 23M+ Copilot requests and examined one simple metric: code survivability.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

AI is going to save a lot of lives if we can keep the regulators and unions from slowing it down.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@KindoAI built these controls in since 2023.
Full enterprise ready AI native agents and agentic chat, run fully on-prem, self-managed cloud, or in SOC 2 SaaS. No legacy data Rube Goldberg machines to configure and struggle with. Just great easy to run agentic AI that is fully private, AI agnostic, and purpose built for secure governable AI us in the largest companies.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

The lack of diving into the motivations and character of these AI CEOs and scientists makes your podcast just a fluff piece.

The most important thing in AI right now is Anthropic is banned from Federal use because of their deep ties to the Effective Altruism cult which has anti-human progress values and is working to depopulate the planet. These are critical motivations to understand about people who also say they are happily building a machine god to rule over us.

Avoiding the topic is a disservice to your listeners who do not understand who they may be partnering and sharing their most sensitive data with.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@thomas_garrard One of the greats!

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

The CEO of a $95 billion company just said something that should TERRIFY every software executive on the planet.

Patrick Collison, the man who built Stripe, went on TBPN last week and compared the entire software industry to frozen food.

His words: "Software has been created years beforehand, freeze-dried, and then prepared at the moment of consumption."

That era is ending.

His new model for software? Pizza.

Fresh pizza, made to order, right then and there.

Exactly what you need, the moment you need it.

That is the future Collison sees for all software.

What does that actually mean?

It means AI agents will build you custom software in real time.

No subscriptions, bloated dashboards and one size fits all.

Software cooked for you, that moment, then gone.

This is already happening.

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork in January.

Within weeks, $2 trillion in software stocks evaporated.

IBM had its worst trading day in 26 years, legalZoom dropped 20% and the entire SaaS sector is in freefall.

They're calling it the SaaSpocalypse.

The old software model was simple, spend millions building a product, sell it to everyone and collect subscriptions forever.

Fixed cost, infinite monetization and winner takes all.

That game created trillion dollar companies: Salesforce. Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft.

Collison says that game is now breaking.

Why? Because AI introduces real cost at every use.

Inference costs, custom creation costs, every single interaction has a price tag.

No more build once, sell forever and he called it the non-Walrasian software regime.

Translation: The winner take all economics that built Big Software are collapsing.

When every user gets custom software built on demand, there is no single winner.

There are thousands of winners or none.

Think about what this does to pricing.

No more $50/seat/month or enterprise contracts worth millions.

Instead, you pay per task, outcome and for what the AI actually built you.

The entire revenue model of SaaS is being rewritten.

Klarna already ripped out Salesforce and replaced it with AI.

Cursor ditched its paid CMS and built a replacement from scratch.

Companies are doing this now.

The dominoes are falling.

The entire industry is being rewritten in real time.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@albertwenger I don’t think we want cult leaders setting military policies of any kind.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@AnthropicAI @jeremyphoward AI models are commodities. This is a non-news item.

[Charlie Hulcher @chulcher]

I'm burning tokens by the billions, running several OpenClaw agents across hosts, multiple Claude Code teams, and specialized agents around the clock. 67 agents were building concurrently this morning.

The hardest part isn't the agents anymore. It's keeping them on task and moving forward without me constantly context switching.

PRs sit waiting for review because nobody notices. CI fails at 2am and sits red until morning. Claude Code finishes a feature and the output just... sits there. A Linear ticket gets updated and no agent reacts.

OpenClaw heartbeats help, but things get missed. A task gets spawned and then disappears into the void. I was the human router. Checking, nudging, re-aligning context, remembering what's in flight, and forgetting.

There had to be a way to manage this workforce better. Agents are out of the uncanny valley stage. Their judgment, with proper guardrails, should be enough to keep the trains running on time.

Can we climb the autonomy ladder? If we can declare the information flows and procedures, can agents supervise each other and keep the business humming? Can I switch from standing over agents' shoulders to designing the autonomous organization?

It turns out, yes! I've been doing it with OrgLoop: Organization as Code.

It's Infrastructure as Code, but for autonomy. Your org's event sources, actors, routes, and SOPs declared in YAML. It's open-ended. OpenClaw, Claude Code, GitHub, Linear, Gmail. Simple connectors loop them together.

Here's what a real route file looks like, and `orgloop routes` shows the topology at a glance.

Now OpenClaw reliably supervises Claude Code teams, handles GitHub events, triages Linear tickets, processes email. I get escalations, and it still takes work to curate the org design. But when Claude Code finishes, that completion fires an event. The supervisor evaluates and relaunches to continue as needed. The org loops.

It's early alpha days, but it's running in production and a few teams are using it. If you're running agents and feeling the coordination weight, I'd love to compare notes.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

@AmandaAskell Amanda is part of the Effective Altruism cult. It’s a dangerous anti-human movement.

One of its leaders is already in jail for a massive crypto Ponzi scheme.

[Usable Machines @usablemachines]

It should be easy for everyone who is allowed to vote. Full stop. However a real ID is required to visit the office of any of the people who are advocating for no ID to vote.

We want voting to be widespread and easy to do, so let’s just solve the getting an ID process easier and how to vote easier. If people really can’t get an ID that they need for everything else in life then we should be fighting to fix that. Voting is cool and all but not letting people fly on a plane, get a job, buy medicine for their sick child, grab a beer to cool off on a hot day, drive a car, etc. seems like a much more important set of problems to solve for the disadvantaged then just voting. But we don’t hear anything about this from the no voter ID crowd?

Why do you have to pay for a passport, State ID or driver’s license? Or stand in line for hours to get one? Why don’t we fix and expand the DMV locations so it’s easier, cheaper and faster? Why are we not funding more polling places and free rides on voting day? Let’s make voting day a national holiday so everyone is off.

The no ID for voting people in power don’t advocate and fight for these things because they don’t actually want people showing up to vote, they just want the ability to fraudulently vote for who does not show up. It’s the only rational explanation and regardless of which side you are on you should want secure elections if you care at all about democracy.