Very grateful to have been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe AI list! It was a surprise seeing this come in right as I was stepping back from Dex, but I'll admit I was very happy to see my achievements marked - building a great team and the best voice AI experience in recruitment, and raising $8.4m in funding. Really though, it was a great reminder of just how early in my career I am. So stay tuned, the best is yet to come. And yes, I promise this is the only time I'll post about it!

Once again, this is not about protecting under-16s. It’s about ensuring everyone else has their identity verified and disclosed to the government when logging in to social media.

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Wait, does London get to keep DeepMind in the draft??

I was going to offer shares in my stealth startup in exchange for Fable tokens, but in light of recent news I’m coming out of stealth as a sovereign foundational model startup. If anyone wants to transfer the £Bil, my address is bc1qvvdnm…

this is actually very cool - can’t wait to experiment

We just shipped 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜𝙰𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝, a unified abstraction to orchestrate and integrate any agent’s “brain” into your app. @aisdk now frees you from both model and agent lock-in. (And it doesn’t just get you portability, it’s also delightful to use ofc!)

Well that was fun while it lasted

Please for the love of god stop letting refinement conversations with Claude leak into the output. Just seen a pitch deck where slide 2’s title is “The whole picture. One slide.” 🤦‍♂️

Captcha's are getting even more philosophical

Remote coding with AI just rules. I’ve spent the weekend exploring 🇵🇱 Wrocław (beautiful city, go there!) and since Friday afternoon shipped 14 PRs to a new project I’m working on, all from my phone while out and about. My girlfriend is only slightly annoyed.

Update: we made it!

On the runway for my flight home, but Claude usage resets in 1 min. Can we hold it up a bit please so I can tell my agents to resume before we hit the air??

I think this is a good proxy for evaluating venture as an asset class. If valuations are “too high” by current traction, but justifiable by chance of success, it’s a good time to invest in startups. How you judge chance of success is left as an exercise to the reader

As someone who has been on Twitter for 15 years, it is clear to me that the site is the best it’s ever been. The early Elon days were quite rough but I’m very glad it’s bounced back and we aren’t all on Bluesky.

This is what I was talking about with cost savings coming from open source models btw

Lots of excitement around Factory's model router and its 20% cost saving, and rightly so. Many are saying this is just the start. After digging into the numbers, I think it's close to the ceiling. Here's why 👇 Routing only saves money on work a cheaper model can handle without dropping the ball. Factory's router holds ~99% of Opus 4.7's pass rate while cutting cost by 20%. They also published a Pareto curve of other experiments, showing that when they pushed harder performance suffered. Getting down to ~56% of Opus 4.7 cost dragged the pass rate to 81%. In their research, 20% was the elbow of the curve, i.e. about the most you can save before quality starts to go. It's also important not to confuse this cost saving as "only 20% of tasks could be handed to smaller models". The reality was likely far more. Firstly, smaller models aren't free - Claude Sonnet is only ~50% cheaper. But most importantly, the hardest tasks are often the long, token-hungry, multi-step ones. So a handful of hard sessions still eat the lion's share of the bill, even if the majority of tasks get routed. Furthermore, any benchmark that Opus 4.7 scores 99% is forgiving. The tasks we throw at AI in reality are often harder. If you're pushing AI to its limits you'll naturally need to send a higher share of tasks to the smartest models. Hence why I think Factory's numbers form something of a ceiling for cost saving. At least for now... So why does this matter? Plenty of startups are now running in-house agents and watching usage spiral. The results are awe-inspiring, but cost is a creeping concern. I've seen teams attempt their own model routing, and if you are Factory's research should give pause for thought. What it shows is that you're unlikely to beat ~20% cost reduction. Worse, if you think you have, you've probably traded away performance without realising it. For Factory's enterprise clients, 20% off a vast bill is real money. For a startup building it yourself, if you ask me the juice isn't worth the squeeze. My advice: worry about cost far less than you're tempted to. Put that energy into the product and anything that helps you ship faster. The AI landscape is going to keep shifting and many cost reductions are going to come for free. Where I'd bet the genuinely dramatic cost reductions will come from (most to least likely): → Hardware acceleration letting the frontier labs cut prices → Better open-source models and a shift toward local compute → Specialised models giving routers cheaper options with best-in-class performance (see Harvey's announcement from the last 24 hours!) I'm watching the first two very closely this year, and will keep sharing what I find

How dare this airline charge a fraction of the price of its competitors and not give me the same level of service! Scandal

Lot of ground covered today! 📍 Regent’s Park - Bike ride (failed) Southwark - Trip to bike shop (unplanned) Home - Pitch call South Ken - Meeting Marylebone - Coffee Fitzrovia - Coffee, then work 2 more calls from a friendly VC office Now off to Poland 🇵🇱 Back next week 🫡

Microsoft announces 7 frontier models… and is down 5% on the news 🤷‍♂️