building @inanimate_tech / blogger

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Joined November 2006
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shut down my web servers today. had a box of my own on the internet for 27 years. a decent innings but a sad day.
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I've hosted my own blog on my own iron since 2000 except for 6 weeks in 2004 when the hard drive was glitching and I had to go to the datacenter at midnight to pull it from the rack, then sit it on ice cubes to copy data off cos the cold bought me 20 mins extra before crashing
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I need to update my colophon but I am grateful that for many years I have practiced software Longevity interconnected.org/home/2024…
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi retweeted
Exactly this. I recently helped develop front end for an enterprise service where a team of engineers would claim it wasn't production ready and then spend three times as long with five times as many people, rebuilding it. What they should have done is built a hardened cli and allowed all the front end to be agent built.
Front-end is sacrificial The only point of a UI is user comfort the first and only time they see it. From then on: - personal agents don’t care about the UI - security means you need to reduce the attack surface and harden Headless everything 👇 interconnected.org/home/2026…
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Front-end is sacrificial The only point of a UI is user comfort the first and only time they see it. From then on: - personal agents don’t care about the UI - security means you need to reduce the attack surface and harden Headless everything 👇 interconnected.org/home/2026…
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What You Say Is What You Get 👄
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Hot take: Better we experience all these internet security vulnerabilities today Than in a year when there are autonomous agents swarming on self-copied open weights, finding ways to steal money and run on hidden compute
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi retweeted
If you’re telling somehow how many tokens you used for a project, what is “total tokens” typically? - output tokens - output tokens + input tokens - output + input - cache read tokens Asking for reasons.
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the last time I was in a meeting like this I was sitting in a conference room in Dongguan eating fresh lychees off a big bowl in the middle of the table in Brixton this time, and no lychees, but just as exciting
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi retweeted
World model? How about world modulator. @danielfogg and @genmon are cooking. Apparently… coffee?
What if you could change device behaviour, just by talking to it? Create an app. Change it. Edit it. Add personal context. Then completely reinvent what the device is for. WORKS is our limited release of the first ever Promptable Products - physical devices inhabited by AI agents that understand what you want and do what you mean. WORKS launch in November 2026. This is a demo (using a ESP32 device from @M5Stack) showing one possible experience you can create. We’re building @inanimate_tech in public. Jump in, it's gonna be weird.
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If you’re telling somehow how many tokens you used for a project, what is “total tokens” typically? - output tokens - output tokens + input tokens - output + input - cache read tokens Asking for reasons.
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On days like this I think of my old Richter scale for outages… I’d rate this SSL cert vulnerability with the sucker punch PHP follow-up as: 3.0 (where 4.0 is “Broad human inconvenience without threat”) Where we’re on the lookout for 6.0 or even 7.0 aftershocks if there are mass follow-up exploits interconnected.org/home/2015…
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Although honestly this feels like the internet is rumbling like Mount St Helens in early 1980 before the side of the mountain blew out…
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running stats: my Apple Watch told me today that so far this year I have run 1,200 miles in 10,000 minutes
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This is very very cool > The latest Battle Drones now supports multiplayer via two devices sat within microphone distance of each other!
I built a Command & Conquer style RTS called Battle Drones, mainly using Claude Opus 5.5, which runs in the browser and includes device-to-device multiplayer over an audio link simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/2…
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi retweeted
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you. Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet. The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations. This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year. Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m. To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
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lost an hour because the synthetic data generation process stalled and I didn't notice (distilling a public domain mystic text on proto Russian Cosmism and Claude balked)
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test training run succumbed to overfitting second summoning I got a wise one. but too frequently too blunt or plain rude
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