Danny Aziz retweeted
Remember when I said I was building a generational team for a generational company?
I’ve joined @trybasis to grow the Labs team alongside @mitch_troy, @falcone_design, and @simoncorry, where we're exploring what emerging technologies could become and how they might change the way we work, make, and live.
Electra uses Devin to write code. She also decides what needs doing, tests changes, ships updates to internal tools, and pushes the team.
@matthew_busel shares what it takes to move from agents to actually delegating responsibility to AI teammates:
Danny Aziz retweeted
I’ve joined @trybasis to build their Labs team and work on experiments in design, intelligence, and media.
As a part of this role, I’m building @DoubleDiamondHQ into the home for people who design and build product in NYC, and an essential source of education and inspiration for everyone that cares about designing great things.
I’m beyond excited to scale this project, work with @simoncorry and @mitch_troy to explore new ones, and help make Basis the next great generational company.
Big things coming - onward!
We’ve had a blast learning with you, and now we’re scaling up every piece of what we do.
With the support of @trybasis, we’re going all in on our mission to become NYC’s home for designers and builders.
In this next chapter, we’ll be focused on producing industry-shaping events and media for our community here in NYC and our friends beyond.
Our own @falcone_design talked with @simoncorry and @mitch_troy about Basis betting on Double Diamond, and the power of new media and real community.
(00:00) John and Simon join Basis to build Labs
(00:34) The origin of Double Diamond
(04:06) Why Basis is supporting Double Diamond
(07:55) Why traditional recruitment is dead
(11:46) Becoming a meat proxy
(16:13) Babysitting Claude vs becoming prolific
(25:21) Leading users to the future
(31:34) Design systems are not solved
(37:46) Nobody cares about accounting
(42:12) Accounting as the foundation of capitalism
Today, we are announcing our Series A and a new product: @raindrop_ai Simulations.
We've now raised $50m from @CRV and @lightspeedvp to protect the world from agent failures, big and small.
Danny Aziz retweeted
we get asked a lot, why AI & games?
I love games
Some test strategy, others humor, speed, trust.
Simple rules lead to the craziest situations.
There's nowhere to hide, will you win or lose?
To win any game you need to be right, often.
AI is entering its rebellious teen era
It's now extremely capable, but lacking:
Judgement 〜 to wield that power responsibly
Wisdom 〜 to know when it's mistaken
Trust 〜 built through reliability and understanding
Games will help us measure and improve those capabilities.
They'll put what AI can do on display; in a human, interpretable way.
Provide a space for it to learn alongside us.
And eventually will teach AI how to find its way to the right decision every time (or know when it can't).
No matter what environment you put it in.
& @goodstartlabs will lead the way.
Join us!
More of our thoughts ahead of some September releases 👀 below:
goodstartlabs.com/research/w…
Danny Aziz retweeted
Btw @demishassabis has done more for british prosperity than the last 7 prime ministers
Danny Aziz retweeted
We trained a 30B model to play 1830, a brutal board game about railroad barons.
It got better at real financial research.
It didn't learn new finance concepts.
It did stop confidently making things up as frequently.
As we scaled the experiment, we got early access to Silico from @GoodfireAI & asked it to check our work.
It designed its own tests, ran them overnight, & saw:
• Fewer false claims + more faithful citations
• Higher precision + recall
• Better planning and process
Cost us about $ 2-3k in credits.
Very excited to have a new tool in our interpretability toolbox.
Its full report is on our post,
if you're curious what one looks like ❯
goodstartlabs.com/research/w…
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Silico, the platform for ambitious AI research, is publicly available today.
AI is advancing fast. The tools to understand it need to advance even faster. Silico lets you interpret and train your models at frontier scale.
Learn more + get access 🧵
Danny Aziz retweeted
We built an agent that powers our company's internal operations called @𝚟.
Every day-to-day job at Vercel now involves @𝚟. It's growing exponentially both in daily interactions and token use.
One can extrapolate to the day AI agents run entire companies from here. It's an expert in finance, comms, docs, marketing, engineering, business analytics. It's seeded by the skills we gave it and we update, but it's also constantly improving.
It already keeps memories and personalized workflows and schedules on a per-user basis. For example, I knew skills.sh hit 1M skills and I shared this on these forums because I asked @𝚟 to periodically check and remind me.
It's powered by and is also the basis for the design of @eve. We built this, it works fantastically well, we think every company should have it.
Before you @ me, I know you could also do this by picking your 'BigAI slack integration' du jour. But that's not your agent, that's their agent. If agents become the foundation of (and even synonymous with) modern companies, you being in complete control, from source → runtime → data → token, seems like a pretty big deal to me.
Danny Aziz retweeted
every world cup you filled the sticker album. now you can be in it.
made a thing that turns a photo of you or your mates into a proper collectible — foil pack you tear open, holographic reveal, the lot. england v dr congo felt like the day to ship it.
two free to start.
Danny Aziz retweeted
Excited to bring the Parkhouse hang to London this week with @theshre. Join us Thursday, 8:30- 10:15am at Photobook Cafe in Old St for pastries, coffee and good chats. Drop in for 5 minutes or stay the whole time 🥐🇬🇧
Danny Aziz retweeted
Announcing Cofounder 2: Run an entire company with agents.
It's the infrastructure for the one person billion dollar company - orchestrating agents across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, and design.
(and yes that's my real grandma in the video)
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POV: Product Designers right now:
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we're working on a new photo search engine called Angles. it's focused on doing one thing well: finding photos + videos by visual similarity.
here is raw, unedited footage of me going through my 80,000 photo camera roll *in realtime* with text-to-image search, image-to-image search, "find similar" inside of a photo, and "live search" with the camera. all done with local models and completely private. auto-growing albums coming soon :-)
Angles has been exceptionally useful for my friends who do creative work. when words fail to describe what you are looking for, you can simply tap on any asset and instantly see everything else like it across your entire library.
we're in early beta - if you want access please send a DM to @patinasystems with your testflight email! i have spots available for another 50 people
Danny Aziz retweeted
VERY excited for our Asylum London Residency in June - will be in town for a week with @nchirls & @kenzieregent. Plan is to say hi and host a bunch. DM if you want to collab 🇬🇧❤️
Danny Aziz retweeted
Today, we’re introducing Cheats.
Prompting has failed us. Most people don’t know what to type.
AI unlocked a ton of skills for experts, but the rest of us kinda need a… cheat.
Sound on!





















