I recently noticed Slack has restricted access to data downloads to a higher tier of subscription, not the first paid tier but the second one. Only public channel messages are downloadable. The same will happen for other apps, the moat will be your data, and the aim to make accessing data harder - complicated structures, training in a very custom solution that is so specialised you cannot leave. Before: Big companies tried to harvest as much data as possible Now: They need to protect it Time to be aware of the data your organisation has, and the optionality you currently have in regards to the software you use and the licenses you have with the stewards of the information!

Trying to get some thoughts out these days, still working on making it interesting, but hopefully it's interesting to someone! Wrote some thoughts about what knowledge organisations might want to think about when letting bigCorp add "smart AI" on their content for them. View article →

Really amazing that nostr came at a time when anyone can build apps at speed - suddenly we have a defined way to do all sorts of things properly, anchored in this amazing protocol. Let’s use it.

The Best Nostr App Won’t Say Nostr on the Tin

Lets make apps, not (only) nostr clients

Here’s a basic agent definition I recommend teams use as a basis for their work to increase the quality and reduce human frustration:

AgentList

Baseline Coding Agent — AgentList

A base for software teams building across projects, it aims to improve readability, reviewability of code outputs and the delight of your colleague...

#agents #opencode

If you rely on AI to do information (read: code) exchange within your company, it’s as crucial to tell all the implementations of it how you’d like to have this information structured. It’s a bit like company policy - if everybody knows and follows it, things get predictable and not messy!

Ok hear me out. Passkeys on your phone / google / apple sync. It seems to already provide quite a good deal of security for a seed. It works quite well to deterministically create NOSTR keys from those. No server hosting your keys, no bunker, no plugin that doesn’t work on iOS anyway, no background audio to enable remote signing, and cross browser capability. Don’t send the key - recreate it! Maybe a security issue? But it doesn’t look like! What am I missing?

Agents are now fully linked to software repositories and on their own, typically on a schedule, will look at the code and suggest improvements based on an operators request. What’s missing now (and it’s a tiny one) is a sense of memory on how the agent has acted in the past, and a sense of acting only when it makes sense. At the moment many of these systems will make a change no matter how useful, and if it’s only marginally useful it might find that undoing the same change the next day is also an improvement!

Reading content produced for a person is interesting not because of the content itself but because of the ideas it transmits from one person to the other. Do everyone a favour and don’t waste their time by emailing them AI generated texts. Send them your thoughts instead 💡 #Gemini #ChatGPT #Claude #Clawd

Fallow Deer in London 🦌

#coldstr

As software engineers we will likely soon work more with guardrails for software rather than software itself

Great work @Satoshi Consult🔑 First time the staff member had accepted btc at Oslo Airport, but still went very smoothly

#ProofOfWalk #Battersea @BitcoinWalk

#ProofOfWalk #London @BitcoinWalk

#ProofOfWalk in Kamakura 😍 🇯🇵

Negative people say it’s all an uphill battle, but when everything goes downhill that’s also not good!

Proof of walk in London! @Big Hash @BitcoinWalk

After visiting a Generative AI conference in London last week I genuinely think there is misallocation of funds in big corps. There was a presentation on how to ensure AI agents stick to protocol and don’t hallucinate or come up with creative responses that are unexpected. To solve for this one had to build incredible amounts of test data, heuristic quality gates, non LLM based judge criteria etc. at every step of an agent pipeline. Listening to the presentation, I was convinced their whole pipeline could have been built and run successfully just using those heuristic tests alone, and that sometime inside BigCorp, a few million was earmarked: “How can we do this with AI?” and not “Should we do this with AI?” It felt a bit like listening to a session on how to ensure a genius multi disciplinary artist would excel at accounting.

#Proofofwalk @BitcoinWalk