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[Sergey Karayev @sergeykarayev]

For over a year, my team has been working with AI agents in a fundamentally different way than most.

All of our Claude/Codex/Pi/etc agents run in the cloud, and any session is joinable by anyone on the team.

Each of our meetings has an agent that launches subagents to do research, draft posts, and implement features as we discuss things.

A Chief of Staff agent lets me know what's waiting for my review, and can talk to any person or agent on the team to resolve bottlenecks.

Working in this fundamentally multiplayer way has given us a preview of the way everyone will work soon, so I wrote up a short manifesto explaining

• the current problems
• principles for a great solution
• some things that are tricky to get right

Check it out, and let me know what you think!

https://t.co/w8tdxxcDuR

[Joseph Younis, MD @YounisJoseph]

I avoided commenting on the Lindsay Clancy trial because its nuanced and emotional but the implications are enormous so I am going to say something now. A lot of people are calling that one juror who wouldn't join the other eleven irrational. But, that juror is probably the only one asking the right questions imo: where is the evidence that she lacked the capacity to know it was wrong or to stop herself? And, maybe, where do we draw the line on what an ostensibly insane person is allowed to do when the doubt the defense manufactured rests on nothing in the record before the killings? It seems that the entirety of the defense position rests on improbable probabilities and that's a low bar for such a heinous act.

1. Postpartum psychosis is rare, and almost always happens in the first 4 weeks. The idea that some psychiatrists extend the postpartum window to a year is true, but for depression and anxiety. The evidence isn't strong for psychosis, and its latching on to improbability

2. The strongest risk factor for postpartum psychosis is preexisting bipolar disorder or a prior psychotic episode. She had neither before her third child. The real time evidence from her doctors/providers indicate this. The bipolar label that showed up was after significant polypharmacy, and any good psychiatrist will tell you that you cannot diagnose primary disease when multiple drugs could be offending agents. Drug-induced psychosis would show better temporal correlations with her medications and should be a mitigation argument at sentencing. Again, very improbable alignment

3. The proxy for intent is planning, and she clearly planned... she sent her husband to some restaurant they don't normally go to, checked the drive time, texted a specific order at 5:07 pm... she killed her children in sequence. That's demonstrating real time decision making. I don't understand how they circumvented this. Again, very improbable that she was able to make decisions up until it becomes a liability

4. This idea of a "voice" that commanded her is so post-hoc as a defense. The ltierature on command hallucinations show most people don't obey them and the compliance occurs when the voice is familiar. This was a first time voice she only ever reported 2 weeks after killing her kids. And this first time voice asked her to... kill all her children AND she listened to this unfamiliar voice? Again... very improbable

The improbability is so stark that it's almost undeniably a sympathy verdict from the jurors conflated with a misunderstanding of postpartum disease. The easiest way to demonstrate this is to take a father with the same chart, months of documented depression, insomnia, suicidal ideation but no psychosis then strangles his kids after arranging for his wife to be away from the house. 100% guilty.

Everyone knows postpartum disease is real and important. Everyone knows she's sick and needed help, possibly much better management. You can even argue she is insane. What I see to be the most important is where we draw the line of what we allow under the "insanity" rule. Massachusetts forces a binary verdict of guilty or not criminally responsible but this is a case for the third that other states have and which is guilty but mentally ill. We have a responsibility to speak for the unheard voices of these children and future children and say we draw the line at murdering children.

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

Astra became self-aware at 2:14AM Eastern time on August 29th

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

@tifany_shemille sorry a cocktail of SRRI’s and birthcontrol assblasted the human emotion & maternal instinct out of you but its actually totally normal for people to be emotional about someone strangling 3 children to death

[PK Patchworks @PKPatchworks]

Lindsay Clancy just saved me a hundred bucks lmao

[ꓕNIOԀꓤƎ⅁⅁Iꓤꓕ @Grxit]

Bro it is FUCKING BLEAK OUT HERE

[nic carter @nic_carter]

zach bryan is releasing anti datacenter songs meanwhile a planned datacenter will send $172m in direct payments to public schools in the county he's from in oklahoma (ht @cbspears)

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Astra is rolling out now! It's unbelievably powerful, but you have to push it a bit to really see the difference.

I wanted to give some examples of what I mean here. Here are some fun things to try in your codebases when you get access:

1. Slop audits
I have asked Astra to go through all my codebases hunting for slop. Useless tests, unnecessary function wrappers, stuff like that. Surprisingly effective. It's cleaned up a ton of code for me.

2. Hunt for performance wins
Astra has found a ton of performance wins in my apps. It can make hard cuts and verify the results. Make sure you give it the tools it needs to verify it's changes. On that note...

3. Improve agent dx and verification loops
This model is surprisingly aware of what it can do. Ask it what it needs to verify it's own work. Let it suggest improvements to setup and worktree flows, debug access, end to end QA flows, etc.

4. Audit open PRs/issues
I've had Astra close at least 200 PRs and issues at this point. It also does a great job of finding easy win PRs to merge. Super helpful for projects with lots of contributors (both OSS and internal repos)

5. Let it merge
Once you get used to the model and it's ability to verify work, try trusting it a bit more. Obviously don't let it yolo ship to production, but if you have a good flow for pr -> main -> staging -> prod, maybe roll the dice a bit?

6. "takeover" work that is stuck in a loop
I've had this model land PRs that were stuck for months. If you have some old branch or PR where your agents are running in circles, blowing up the spec without actually shipping, tell Astra to take it over. Make sure it knows it can throw away the existing work and start from scratch.

Hope these help you guys with really pushing the new model! I've had a blast with it, I hope y'all do as well :)

Note: I cannot be held responsible for surprise bills and limit usage

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It's also live in the API.

It might take a few days to roll out to our Plus and Business users. Thank you for your patience.

[Hunter Eagleman™ @Hunter_Eagleman]

I’ve sat through hundreds of jury trials. Private lawyers, public defenders, every type of defense attorney you can think of.

Never once have I seen one of them stand up in open court and put a target on a juror for doing their job.

This clown didn’t argue the law. He outed the lone holdout as a man in front of the whole country. Nine women, three men. Now that juror’s identity is hanging out there for every angry keyboard warrior to find.

Jurors are civilians doing a civic duty. They didn’t sign up to get doxed because some defense attorney couldn’t accept that one person wouldn’t fold.

This kind of garbage is exactly why decent people start looking for ways to dodge jury duty. Dude just made the whole system look like a circus.

Absolutely disgusting.

[LP Capital Chi @LPCapitalChi]

I don’t give a damn what the law says

Lindsay Clancy killed 3 children

She should be put down like an animal, in a cruel and unusual manner

Anything less is a society with zero accountability and entirely lawless, which is why crime is so rampant in the first place

[emily🌲 @emilyofeasttx]

I don’t think it should matter what a person’s mental state was when they murdered three children.

In a just society it wouldn’t even be discussed.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Reddington’s attack on the holdout juror in front of the courthouse was, in my view, an outrageous and reckless moment. It would warrant a response from the judge about stoking the rage against this one juror.

[Mehek Cooke🇺🇸 @MehekCooke]

🚨 Kevin Reddington singled out the lone juror: “I hope he can sleep well at night.”

That juror answered a summons, heard the evidence and refused to surrender his vote.

You don’t get to publicly shame a juror and put a target on his back.

[George @BehizyTweets]

The lone juror who just did the unthinkable should be prepared to sue. His constitutional rights were clearly violated.

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

I think the male juror hold out should sue the defense attorney into oblivion. He is slandering him and putting his life in danger.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT DENIES LINDSAY CLANCY APPEAL.

JUDGE IS GOING TO DECLARE MISTRIAL.

LET'S GO!

[Janet Garts @janet_gart87502]

here are some of the things women are saying about Ms Clancy-
-She is bringing a lot of attention to mental illness.
-She was obviously under a lot of pressure when she did this.
-Were the children interfering with her life goals?
-she didn’t handle the situation very well, but who would -when you are under this kind of pressure?
- I think the husband did it and she is covering for him.

They are going to make her into a folk hero for women that hate their lives and their kids.

[McKaylaRose @McKaylaRoseRed]

I'm convinced liberal white women will be the death of society, western civilization and humanity. They are brainless, Godless, emotional and easily programmable.

[Larry Forman @FormanLaw1]

I cannot believe Reddington had the audacity to ask the judge to yank the one jar that will not agree with the majority.

What is going on with massachusetts? During the Karen Reed trial the judge was inventing procedure to make sure she gets convicted.

In the Lindsay Clancy case, a lawyer is trying to invent new case law to remove jurors that don't agree with the verdict that he wants.

This is not how our justice system works. We need to do something with Massachusetts this is insanity.