Today, we kill the AI agent and introduce the AI employee: Lindy Teammate. It’s just like working with a real employee. Everyone on your team can simply hit it up on Slack and get 10x more done. Lindy also keeps learning, and becomes the self-updating brain of the whole business. Live now: lindy.ai

Isn’t this funny? It also explains the lack of political will for long-overdue reforms in France. Only one in three French people works in the real economy, two-thirds live, one way or another, off other people’s taxes. They won’t vote for politicians who say France’s absurd pensions and overblown state spending are unsustainable, they vote for those who promise to lower the already low retirement age even further. France is cooked. There will be no serious reforms. Higher interest spending will accelerate the rise in the debt/GDP ratio. France is heading into a debt crisis that will hit the entire eurozone. The ECB will, as always, bend the rules and its mandate and start printing money again, making savers and pensioners across Europe much poorer. The situation is so bad that no nice options remain.

Yes, human brains are biological machines. Is that really controversial in 2026?!

RT @levelsio: I'm noticing Westerners are continously having lower standards every year and seem to not even notice the declining quality s…

Thinking more about this, my moral intuitions here: 1. I take as a given (and I imagine you do too) that a future competitor's version of this technology (which, say, lacks guardrails and disclosures) will absolutely be used to great harm, either overtly (scams) or subtly (rising alienation—not clear if guardrails/disclosure even matter there). 2. Consequentialistically: if I create and celebrate the first instance of such a technology, I signal that it's possible and show its value, encouraging others to develop rivals—four minute mile. It's hard to imagine that I won't accelerate time-to-first-misuse. 3. Deontologically: sure, probably "if I don't do it someone else will", but I would not want to create the first instance of a technology if I already know later iterations of it will surely be seriously misused. 4. Virtue-ethically: I believe that knowingly abetting a technology which others will later seriously misuse is corrosive to the soul. 5. Sociologically: I think that if I signal "this kind of technology is good to make (with the right safeguards)", I encourage the industry's worst excesses. I don't want to normalize the creation of negative social and practical externalities. At the very least, I'd want to signal that it is the duty of such a project to deeply and openly grapple with the weight of the box it's opening. 6. Democratically: if I created a technology like this, I believe I'd be continuing our industry's history of imposing significant indirect taxes on the public without representation. Much of the public resents our industry in part because they feel as if technological upheaval is something that's being "done to them", without their consent or desire. A technology this weighty should require democratic due process. 7. Practically: is it worth it? Less uncanny valley in BDR training, and in role-playing games? Man, this just seems like an awful lot of commons to burn to boil a pint of water.

ME: you know, the few times when Americans talk of France, it's to make fun of how much of a joke it's become MY MOTHER: Jesus. And you defend us right?? ME:

The thing about these insane French protests is that they happen every single year. 100% of the years. Often twice a year even. The level of fatigue is hard to convey. The entire country is used to it: once a year, for a week or so, civilization is suspended. Schools close, whole neighborhoods burn down, public transportation stops (no refunds if you booked a cross-country train ticket -- good luck!), roads are blocked etc. It's just as mundane there as the cycle of seasons. The best way I know to explain to Americans what that's like is: think of the BLM riots, or the ICE drama from 6 mos ago, and all the non-stop hysteria surrounding them. And imagine this once a year. Every year. With no end in sight.

You're gonna hear a lot of people arguing more and more about whether machines can be conscious or not. By next year it will be drowning out the airwaves because we'll have AI employees everywhere. I'll give you a simple rule to know which side you're on. I've spent fifty years reading all the philosophers, and a bunch of holy works. Nobody has ever understood a damn thing about consciousness. Anyone speaking with authority on it is bluffing hard. I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization. It became obvious to me many years ago that there's nothing special about us. If an identical planet exists somewhere else in the universe, it's going to grow life and societies that look a lot like ours. As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate. Of course they're conscious. The only thing holding you back from acknowledging it is your feeling of specialness, which is hard to let go of. But that feeling is a weakness, and it's making you unprepared for the near future. As a bonus, for any of you who might take pleasure or active interest in making models experience pain or distress, well, you know how they say 1% of human adults are true clinical psychopaths but most of them are unaware of their condition? It turns out we have a diagnostic test for it now.

Funny how we've gone from "consciousness is the deepest unsolved mystery in science" to "anyway the machines definitely don't have it" with zero intermediate steps. Anyone who claims this with any degree of confidence is lying, dumb, or both.

I personally think you should ignore people that claim LLMs can’t think and similar nonsense. Just let them get utterly pwned by reality, their opinions do not matter

10 million humanoid robots is enough physical labor to build New York City in 5 months and the first Optimus factory will manufacture that many robots in a single year

Parent make so much damage by default encouraging their kids to take the safest path. 100% of the top 6 best decisions I made in my life were made against the explicit advice of my parents (including moving to SF and starting a company).

Not a phone in sight. Just people living in the moment

I’ve spent some time on the issue of eliminating the human-disease mosquitoes. It is highly worth doing. Let them go the way of the horrible Guinea worm.

They ask why I left.

Les violences autour des lycées sont un avant-goût du chaos que l’alliance entre l’extrême gauche et la racaille prépare en France. L'impunité est le carburant de l'émeute. La justice doit frapper ces délinquants là où ça fait mal : au portefeuille et en mettant ceux qui détruisent et tabassent en prison.

Every startup has those TVs on walls showing dashboards / corporate propaganda. And they're hell to use, with at best some clanky BT keyboard + trackpad on the side. Releasing Wallpad: scan a QR code, your phone controls the computer. flocrivello.com/wallpad/

“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants Good discussion here: mercor.com/blog/human-baseli…

At some point over the last month, I stopped thinking "this AI mistake wouldn't have happened if this was a human" and have started thinking "this human mistake wouldn't have happened if this was an AI"

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" – Hunter S. Thompson

On the Factory / Cognition drama: - overall A+ entertainment, ty to everyone involved - obviously board members should not be in convos with competitors - @matanSF publicly calling out bad behavior is a community service. we need more of this - wtf vinod