Zack Swafford

building @its_dart (YC W22), where humans and AI agents actually get work done. wiring agents into real teams and posting what breaks.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

He's right about the risks, but wrong about the remedy. Did he send those letters to America’s major power adversaries too, or just American ones? Any superpower ignoring AI development at this point is just setting itself up for a severe economic and military disadvantage.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Bernie Sanders has written a letter to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg urging them to immediately pause all AI development in the interest of humanity. And he warns if they do not take appropriate action now, the US Senate will.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@AndrewCurran_ Game theory makes a voluntary pause basically impossible. It just shifts who leads the frontier. If you don’t address global incentives and open weights, pausing three US labs doesn’t stop the tech from advancing. The toothpaste is out of the tube.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@gokulr Do the benchmarks factor in whether a material can actually be made? or is it mostly theoretical properties for now?

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@PovilasKorop agree and i think context curation is going to be a core skill for a long time.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@TheAhmadOsman Is it taking action to fix issues on its own too, or just pinging you in Telegram when something's off?

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@yeahfortommy @NousResearch i like the hermes logo alot. who designed that?

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@marcelpociot That’s a pretty cursed vacation souvenir. Hope you’re feeling better now.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@pmddomingos no, it's turtles all the way down

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

Google’s main issue is they still don’t have a coding model capable of matching these other options; 3.5 was supposed to be that fix. We’ll see if Gemini 4 can reach those capabilities or fail like past models have.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

It looks like Gemini 3.5 Pro will no longer see the light of day. According to SemiAnalysis, it has silently been cancelled.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@thsottiaux @hqmank Tibo, you should get like a real big red button and link it up.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@TimJayas I feel like GPT-Image 2 is way better than Mona-lisa 1 in this example. I hope they don't ruin it.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@sierracatalina @LyalinDotCom Already starting to do this for little personal tools. If a service has a decent API, I’d rather generate the UI I need than dig through the app.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@AIatMeta Will be interesting to see how it fares against Qwen3.8 27B! also sad to see the Llama name go.. it was too iconic

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@mattpocockuk Could make the skill ask what would change its mind before it gets to call something upstream.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@DominikTornow Does it need to be executable, or just structured enough to tell the agent when it broke something?

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@mitsuhiko i think npm added npm trust recently, but the package has to exist on the registry first. still doesn't solve the initial bootstrap problem for brand new repos.

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

https://t.co/xP4V2aUDAc

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@finkd This is pretty huge, no?

[Zack Swafford @zswaff]

@alexandr_wang 24GB is a useful target. How much context fits once the cache, vision encoder, and drafter are all in the mix?