A Twitter post: Don't trust your agents.
A Twitter post: Don't trust your agents. On Autoresearch and overfitting. If you just have the agents optimize, they'll overfit to the problem domain. Goodhart...
Topic: Twitter
24 mentions · 24 chunks · 21 episodes
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- Twitter appears in 24 chunks across 21 episodes, from 2024-02-05 to 2026-03-23.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 4/15/24 (2024-04-15), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, Simon Willison, and prompt injection attack, while by chunk count it sits between marginal cost and Simon Willison; its yearly rank moved from #31 in 2024 to #40 in 2026.
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In the 90's it was hard to imagine a world of infinite content.
In the 90's it was hard to imagine a world of infinite[bl] content. Twitter, blogs, Facebook, all only make sense in that world. Very hard to imagine ahead of time. Now we have infinite thinking. Infinite cognitive labor. Wha...
This week's Wild West roundup is a doozy:
...Actions - Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects Hit So Far Also covered in this Twitter post: trust your inputs, lose your repo. Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distribute Atomic macOS Stealer. OpenClaw Vulnerability: Website-to-Local ...
Nearly every useful feature of Twitter started first in userspace before being formalized in the platform.
Nearly every useful feature of Twitter started first in userspace before being formalized in the platform. Hashtags. @ mentions. Retweets.
Fabian Stelzer on Twitter:
Fabian Stelzer on Twitter: "The AI assistant Moltbot / Clawdbot trilemma is that you only get to pick two of these until prompt injections are solved: Useful Autonomous Safe"
The meta-game can shift rapidly even from small changes.
...rs realize and exploit it, before anyone else realizes. For example, last year, Twitter changed it so you can't see who liked a tweet. They did it for… reasons. But it also changed the meta-game. That means that it's easier than ever bef...
Instead of trying to make outcomes that are unbiased, make local processes that lead to emergently balanced results.
...ed, make local processes that lead to emergently balanced results. For example, Twitter's Community Notes feature was cleverly designed.
Bits and Bobs is my own personal anti-Twitter.
Bits and Bobs is my own personal anti-Twitter. Instead of shouting into the void, I invite people into my cozy study where I navelgaze. Twitter is about hot takes and shouting. Bits and Bobs is a...
Garry Tan on Twitter:
Garry Tan on Twitter: "New social networks are going to appear that will be LLMs creating a cozy web customized for us and our real friends, and their friends and so on T...
Someone told me this week they sometimes scroll LinkedIn to get their infinite feed fix.
...nite feeds, so they configured their phone to not allow them to use Facebook or Twitter. But the addiction to infinite feeds is so strong that he ended up scrolling LinkedIn. That's how you know you've got an addiction!
A study asked Gen Z adults if they regretted that a given product had been invented.
...ed.[op][oq][or] 47% regretted that TikTok had been invented. 50% regretted that Twitter had been invented.
John Collison on Twitter:
John Collison on Twitter: "How does everyone manage state in the little personal apps they're vibe coding? If you believe AI software butlers will happen, there's a need for ...
A general rule of thumb for compelling ideas: a number of different people who look at it go, "that right there could be great."
...d the early resharers are in terms of their network overlap. Community Notes on Twitter is also "ideas lots of people find helpful to start" which is the same idea.
Simon Willison asked on Twitter for people's favorite LLM prompting tips.
Simon Willison asked on Twitter for people's favorite LLM prompting tips. The answers were all over the map. That implies that we're still in the early days of collectively figuring...
A new kind of burn on Twitter: "your product is so simple I could build it as an Artifact in a few minutes"
A new kind of burn on Twitter: "your product is so simple I could build it as an Artifact in a few minutes"
Someone on Twitter notes that, unlike software, VC hasn't created a repeatable playbook for hardware.
Someone on Twitter notes that, unlike software, VC hasn't created a repeatable playbook for hardware. When you have a repeatable playbook that's how you know you're in ...
An intriguing Twitter thread from Marko Jukic:
An intriguing Twitter thread from Marko Jukic: "It's unbelievable how many dynamic companies broke their streaks of engineer-CEOs for the first time in the 2000s, installi...
I love Maggie Appleton's "barefoot developers" frame.
...ive programmers, and 90% of people who will passively consume. A reply to me on Twitter: "I am the 9%!"
A term I love for unwanted AI-generated content: slop.
...ll known this week, and I had a front row seat. I watched a friend flag https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418, which encouraged Simon Willison to post https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/ which got picked up by D...
I'm not a fan of Twitter for nuanced discourse.
I'm not a fan of Twitter for nuanced discourse. Nuance takes time and space to establish. When you have to communicate your beliefs quickly and in little space to people who ...