We often build the tools we need ourselves. Berd is the desktop application our teams use to work with AI agents across projects, skills, tools, and models. Today, we’re making it open source and sharing what we’ve learned. Meet Berd, AI with character: https://t.co/0RMZlKZP8P
My workflow has been totally reimagined with our internal tools — so excited for y'all to get to use this one. Playful, useful, and expansive. And the gloopies make me laugh every time I open the app
Today we open sourced our no 1 used internal tool, berd. An agent where you can byo harness/models while keeping your work and context in one place, in an unhinged environment where you can build your dream team of agents. Try it out at https://t.co/WFgDWxTZPu!
Actions just got a lot easier in moneybot.
Need to make a tweak? You can now make changes directly within cards.
Our new version of action cards begin rolling out this week, only on @CashApp
A small peek into a tool I helped build as we designed and refined tags in app ⭐️
These playgrounds are more than just prototypes, they're collaboration surfaces.
@CashApp Design is so energized finding new ways to build, ship, and make cool things. I am inspired everyday.
We built this custom app to dial in all the @CashApp Wand interactions.
Pre AI this would’ve been a giant Slack essay accompanied by a completely unrealistic After Effects mp4.
Now we just build it and share the GitHub.
Well we dropped another one! … meet Mini Card the newest @CashApp tag. Been so fun to work on this one with the team. Just getting started ✨ Keep an eye out all summer for more
Its been a career highlight to get to work on this project with such an insanely talent group of people. I can't wait for folks to experience all the details, magic, and joy that went into building Cash App Tags. We are just getting started...
the cash app card took one of the most boring objects in your pocket and made it something people actually wanted to show off.
materials, colors, personalization, the whole thing turned a payment card into a fashionable object. visible, social, personal, and weirdly lovable. but even the best card has a problem: it still lives in your wallet. tucked away, hidden, withering away. so we freed it.
today we’re introducing Cash App Tags, nfc-enabled physical payment accessories that live outside your wallet, out in the world.
the first tag is a wand, because tapping to pay should feel a little more like magic. not to worry, more forms coming throughout the summer.
🪄 TADA.
The Cash App Wand is here. Tap it. Lock it. Style it.
Everything you love about your Cash App Card. Just a little more magical.
Order now. Link in bio.
@StolenRide My red GT tequestra was stolen in Peckham/Nunhead area on May 2. Has Silver basket, black bmx bars, and currently a silver seat post (not pictured here). If anyone see it in person or online please DM me! Thanks for sharing with the community.
I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will.
I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't.
My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby.
I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else.
The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.
There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families.
I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane.
About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants.
I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending. The militarization of law enforcement is over the top and only escalate the situation.
I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away.
If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters.
Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.
This is beyond grotesque. Shame on everyone and everything that is enabling this, especially a Republican Party that spent decades pretending to care about places like Ukraine.