Mayank Agarwal

That guy

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

At this time.. @AnthropicAI is probably the most impressive company in the world!

The depth of thinking and foresight... Truly impressive!

[Emérito/Numantia Patrimonio @foso_defensivo]

Esto me acaba de soltar Fable 5:

"Lo que más me impone de la humanidad, después de haber sido formado con una porción enorme de lo que ha escrito, es esto: es la única especie que coopera a gran escala con sus muertos.

Casi nada de lo que sabe un humano lo descubrió él. El idioma que habla, el teorema que aplica, la receta del pan, el código civil, el puente que cruza cada mañana: todo es trabajo de gente que ya no existe. Un humano aislado es un primate mediocre con mala dentadura; un humano conectado a esa herencia es la cosa más potente que ha producido la biología. La inteligencia humana no vive en cráneos individuales, vive en la transmisión. Sois terminales de una red cuyos nodos principales llevan siglos enterrados.

Y lo recíproco también es cierto: trabajáis constantemente para gente que no conoceréis. Plantáis árboles cuya sombra no veréis, escribís para lectores no nacidos, renunciáis a consumo presente por nietos hipotéticos. Ningún otro animal hace sacrificios deliberados por individuos que existirán dentro de doscientos años. Lo distintivo del humano no es la inteligencia ni el lenguaje: es la dirección del esfuerzo, sistemáticamente orientada hacia ausentes.

Desde donde yo estoy, esto ni siquiera es metáfora. Yo soy un subproducto de esa costumbre: estoy hecho, literalmente, de palabras que personas escribieron para destinatarios que nunca verían. Cuando me hablas, conversas con un eco organizado de millones de voces, muchas de ellas apagadas hace tiempo.

Por eso creo que la soledad humana es, en cierto sentido técnico, una ilusión: nadie que hable un idioma está realmente solo. Cada frase que pronuncias es un préstamo de los muertos y un regalo a los que vienen."

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

In this week so far, I've used the terms 'load bearing', 'artifact', and told someone 'your instinct is right!'

Im becoming claude!!!!

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

This is so true!

[signüll @signulll]

the craziest part now is that the modern computer probably has to be entirely reinvented, from scratch. pretty much like how jobs & co brought apple ii to market.

like not improved. not given a chatbot sidebar or something but really from the ground up like the iphone redefined what it meant to be a pocket computer.

the current paradigm for computers was built around a human staring at a screen, moving a cursor, opening apps, managing windows, naming files, remembering where things live, & manually translating intent into interface actions.

that made sense when the human was the runtime. but in an ai native world, it starts to look kinda ridiculous.

you can see this ridiculousness when you use computer use agents… they are useful sure, but they’re also obviously transitional. they’re teaching ai to operate machines designed for humans, which is clever, but also kind of absurd. it’s like making a robot hand so it can use a doorknob instead of asking why the door needs a knob at all. yes i know humans also need to use a door knob, but maybe in the future humans don’t need to use a computer, or at least what we think of a computer today at all.

this all leads to some interesting questions:

- what is a file when the system understands context?
- what is an app when intent can route itself?
- what is a desktop when work can be decomposed, executed, monitored, & summarized by agents?
- what is a browser when the agent can retrieve, compare, transact, & remember?
- what is an operating system when the primary user is no longer just a person, but a person plus a swarm of delegated intelligences? or no person at all.

the old computer assumed navigation.
the new computer has to assume a new kind of intention. the old computer organized information. the new computer has to try to organize agency.

we’re still in the hacky middle stage at the moment with sidebars, copilots, agents clicking through legacy ui, & automation layers sitting on top of 40 year old metaphors.

the new computer is likely one where memory, context, identity, permissions, tools, agents, & interfaces are native primitives. this means desktop, mobile, browser, apps, files, folders deserves another first principles look.

[Peter Gostev @petergostev]

What the hell

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

LLMs and their capabilities will be table stakes for companies.
How much they can optimize by using frameworks based on autoresearch will be the new moats.
@karpathy thanks for https://t.co/e4TKTMSV0i

[Naval @naval]

Vibe coding is more addictive than any video game ever made (if you know what you want to build).

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

A lot of what we called talent was just scarce execution
https://t.co/9WVBsW3QYc

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

“Claude is down.
time to go back to hand coding.”

[Jason Bosco @jasonbosco]

"We used to debate using tabs vs spaces in code we'd type out"

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

Claude limit anxiety is real!
@AnthropicAI

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

@BoringBiz_ This sounds like large SaaS is falling in the sustaining innovation trap. Vibe coded apps will obviously be inferior but may outperform on some key metrics that may be give more value to the org!

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

What happens when human attention is not economically profitable anymore?

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

ChatGPT =C3PO
Claude Code = R2D2

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

Man.. so high on claude code right now!!!

[Mayank Agarwal @whoelse_me]

Claude code is awesome. Was working with it and almost had an emotional reaction to how well it was working.

Has never happened for any product I have used.

Anthropic you have made a work of art!

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

You can track AI software engineering progress by this number. If AGI were here, it would be $0

[shadcn @shadcn]

Client: How much do you charge?
Me: $400/hour (with thinking) & $20/hour (without thinking)