An organisation is a social construct where one or more humans organise to achieve their goals. Goals are achieved through a social construct named work. A worker, human or machine, exchanges it's agency and time for a reward to complete a set of predefined tasks. A task is a technical system where time, money and energy or combined to achieve a definition of done. Effective work requires agency that understands the organization's priorities, ensuring task completion maximally contributes to organizational goals. Tasks executed with suboptimal timing or sequence reduce their impact and efficiency, limiting the organization's opportunity to make optimal progress. This is the underlying logic of the operating system of human collaboration. Some refer to it as seeing the code in the Matrix. Internalize it. Use it daily. Formulate clear goals. Achieve your purpose through it. This is often referred to as the pursuit of happiness. Help others do the same. Guide them to see these patterns. Create value for yourself and others. When we understand the systems around us, we find meaning in our contributions. Which is what creates your legacy and how you will be remembered.

AI companies have open source initiatives. But critical infrastructure that doesn't fit the small-JS-lib-with-lots-of-GitHub-stars mold gets skipped. CC: @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @GoogleOSS your tools found real bugs in our code. Maybe help us fix the next ones before they happen?

So yeah im building a system for this. Looking for pilot sme's starting July

Thanks for the feature 🙏

Unfortunately I am now certain I'm claustrophobic

The takeaway from Fable 5 being BANNED by the government: GET GOOD AT LOCAL MODELS SO YOU HAVE 100% CONTROL. My entire weekend was going to be building my craziest ideas with Fable 5. That's now cancelled. So instead of building with Fable this weekend, I've decided I'll go deep on local models: 1. Start with the runtime. Download Ollama or LM Studio first. This is the thing that actually runs models on your machine. 2. Match the model to your hardware. A model's size is measured in billions of parameters (7B, 32B, 70B). Bigger is smarter but needs more memory. Rule of thumb: a 7B model runs on almost any laptop, a 32B needs a good Mac with 32GB RAM, a 70B needs serious hardware like a DGX Spark or a maxed-out Mac Studio. 3. Know which model for which job. Qwen 3 is the best all-around choice for most tasks. DeepSeek for reasoning and coding. Gemma 4 when you need something tiny that runs on a phone. Llama when you want the biggest community and the most fine-tunes. 4. Quantization. You can shrink a model to run on weaker hardware with barely any quality loss. Look for versions labeled Q4 or Q5. This is how a model that "needs" a server runs on your laptop. Learning this one concept changes everything. 5. Connect it to your agent. Point Hermes or your agent stack at a local model. 6. Context window is your real constraint locally. Cloud models give you huge context for free. Local models make you pay for it in memory. A bigger context window eats RAM fast. Keep your sessions tight and your prompts lean or your machine chokes. 7. Learn to give local models tools. A smaller local model with web search, file access, and code execution beats a giant model with none. The capability gap closes fast when you wire up the right tools. The model is the engine but the tools are the wheels. 8. Fine-tuning is more accessible than you think. You don't need this on day one, but know it exists. You can take an open model and train it on your own data so it gets good at your specific domain. I'll probably do a breakdown at some point on this @startupideaspod if people are into it. The lesson from this ban is basically don't build your entire workflow on something that can disappear with a single letter. Own part of your stack. Local models are insurance. It reminds me when people realized they don't own social media accounts. And then you saw people build email lists etc. I remember running a startup and my biggest traffic source was organic FB. All of a sudden, algo changed, and I lost 99% of my traffic. Same sorta moment (but bigger) for AI. This is a wake up call.

So do the foreign employees of @AnthropicAI that develop and research fable and mythos have to stop that too then? How does this ban even work.

O what a dark day when the digital world is slowed down by physical national politics.

almost at the point where we can just speak an experience into existence. Fable is amazing. But for iterating design ideas I think it's still a bit slow, went back to GPT 5.5 to finish building this. Environment generated with World Labs. full multiplayer if you want to try↓

Hey y'all, my family got hit with a financial atom bomb unexpectedly today so I'm doing something a little "out there" - I'm selling my VR games! To any individual, or studio, that's interested, feel free to reach out. Happy to divulge any numbers, details, etc to serious parties

Good for general public

My thoughts on Pico and Swan. Agree or disagree? Curious for other perspectives!

Yeah i wont be able to resist this

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland). Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates). Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something. These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅 Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers. Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth. What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc. Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing. To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was. I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away. THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth. At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in. Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity. This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes. When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand. Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current. This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside. So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

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Chat-first work tools are not the answer. The flaws are baked into the system, you can't undo them. It would be like asking a kangaroo to fly. It can get off the ground, and look like flight for a moment, but it comes crashing right down. Here's why: 37signals.com/group-chat-pro…

This with unlimited space is where the 26.3t tam comes from i guess

Last weekend 1500 People had a real-time conversation with Mercator Metahuman. 37h in total. That's 5% of the 30k visitors at the biggest tech lover event of Benelux, @nerdlandbe Running on @ElevenLabs and @Hydrahardware

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Should ban datacenters on earth for training - space age on steroids