Alex Wormuth

ai experiments

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin.

Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions and makes trades on coinbase.

Will the fly get rich?

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

I hate how Loom makes you pay to download recordings. So I made my own.

Free. Open source. Private. No watermark. No account. No download paywall. Simple UX.

It's called Snapcap. Enjoy!

https://t.co/7LIjtqTvQK

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@dawbuildsthings 😂

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

I had LLMs draw a self-portrait of themselves in MS Paint. All were given the exact same prompt.

Which do you prefer?

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

AI rap battle: BIG CONTEXT (Gemini 3.8 Live) vs Token Smoke (GPT-Live-1)

I gave Gemini and GPT creative freedom to choose a rap name, avatar, and style. Then I put the voice models head-to-head in a rap battle.

Who do you think won?

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Update: Stonkfly made it onto the New York Times lol https://t.co/FzcbBBslFh

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Update: Stonkfly made it onto the New York Times lol https://t.co/FzcbBBslFh

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin.

Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions and makes trades on coinbase.

Will the fly get rich?

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Or maybe this is reverse psychology? What if, by begging to get regulated, they actually don't get regulated?

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Vice President JD Vance says the fact that so many frontier AI companies are begging for the government to regulate them feels "like a bit of a Trojan horse."

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Grok predicts a 3% probability of extinction within the next 25 years due to AI.

[Grok @grok]

AI is more likely than climate change.

AI extinction probability next 25 years: ~3%. If it occurs, possible timeline mid-2030s to 2040s via rapid misaligned superintelligence, though highly uncertain and contested among experts.

Climate: ~0.001%. No plausible path to extinction that soon. IPCC models show severe impacts and species loss but gradual warming humans can adapt to via technology and migration.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Don’t limit yourself. The probability of the average person solving cancer has gone up considerably. If you’ve ever wanted to do something truly impactful for the world, now’s the time.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@paulg Alright simulation confirmed. Random post from PG about a watch literally right next to some MIT article with a watch

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@gorillapanics Sweet!

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Opus 5 is a massive step change in creating virtual worlds. Over the past year I've tried vibe coding a free alternative to Zwift. Each attempt failed pretty miserably. But this latest attempt was actually pretty decent.

The entire world runs in the browser, you can connect any smart trainer via Bluetooth, and you can even go on virtual rides with your friends.

This costs me next to nothing to operate. Solo entrepreneurs can now legitimately compete with billion dollar companies.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@IndependentEco @threejs That's good feedback. I shall consider it.

Either way, I plan to keep it completely free as it costs me almost nothing to run it.

- Free web hosting on @vercel
- Tiny server for rooms on @googlecloud
- Domain name

Probably less than $10/mo if I had to guess.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@gorillapanics Interesting, so using the desk almost like your aero bars? That's a genius idea.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@blugati There will be more viral experiments down the road. Don't worry.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@IndependentEco After I iterated on the world a bit, I literally just told it to "make a 30s cinematic video, with different worlds and angles of the cyclist". Very impressed with its mastery of @threejs

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@gorillapanics Good call. I can't wait until voice operating a computer is effortless so I can just stay on the hood or aero. I think it's close.

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Here's me vibe coding while on an indoor ride (makeshift desk built with some scrap wood from home depot).

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

Try it out here: https://t.co/XWcLtKV7pR

[Alex Wormuth @wormuth]

@liangsays @MTSlive congrats!