Joe Fier

Delphi has always been about understanding how other people think. So we built a matrix to see who you think most like. Not sure how I feel about some of my neighbors... Find yours delphi.co/drops

Our engineers have been fanboying over this episode with Vercel founder @rauchg all week. I asked him how he’s built this much loyalty and trust with developers. “Trust is gonna be one of the most valuable moats for a post-AGI business.” But he says “trust is an output, not an input.” Meetups and any tactic you can point to “probably ain’t it.” What earns it is the unglamorous work: security, fixing bugs, simplicity, great documentation. This week on Library of Minds, the legend Guillermo Rauch joins us to talk about competing with AWS, selling to agents, building verification loops for agent evals, deciding which SaaS tools to replace, and raising his “six sub-agents” (his kids) in an AI world. 0:39 - How to Compete With a Giant (AWS) 5:38 - One Person Doing the Work of Thousands 17:15 - Trust Is the Moat After AGI 24:24 - You’re Not Confronting Enough Pain 25:54 - His Slack Channel Called “Scream” 27:46 - Your Next Customer Is an Agent 30:05 - How to Sell to Agents 37:05 - The Future Is Just Capital Allocation 47:30 - The Night His House Caught Fire 49:50 - Raising Six Sub-Agents (His Kids)

Andrej Karpathy makes a good point: as AI does more of the work, more of your job becomes reading what it produces. His first tip caught my eye. Ask the model to explain things in ASD-STE100. ASD-STE100 is a controlled English standard built for aircraft maintenance manuals. A mechanic anywhere in the world should read a step once and get it right. The core rules: 1. Keep sentences short 2. One action per step 3. Say who does what 4. Give each thing one name and stick to it AI output breaks that last rule all the time. It says "worker," then "agent," then "executor," and you can't tell if it means one component or three. The full spec is strict. Karpathy asks for "80% of the way," and that works for daily use. Someone turned it into an open-source skill: github.com/danyuchn/asd-ste1…

Robert Cialdini (@RobertCialdini) has spent his career studying one question: why do people say yes? His answer became Influence, the book that's shaped how the world sells, negotiates, and persuades for 40 years. A psychology professor who turned decades of research into the principles now taught in business schools everywhere, his books have sold over 7 million copies. Advice from the world's leading expert on persuasion has always gone to boardrooms and Fortune 500 companies. Now it's available to anyone, whether you're closing a major deal or asking for a raise. Ask him here: delphi.ai/robert-cialdini

People who drank more coffee had less body fat, less visceral fat, and more lean mass than less-frequent or non-drinkers. The biggest benefit was seen at 5 or more cups per day. And for men, every extra cup per day was associated with a ~10 ng/dL higher total testosterone. Higher coffee intake was also associated with better glucose and insulin regulation in men. This was an observational study, but mechanistic and experimental evidence actually supports coffee's benefits on metabolic and hormonal health. I'm willing to believe there's a real link here rather than draw a conclusion such as "coffee drinkers live healthier lives in general."

🌿KEEP OFF THE GRASS!

Raoul takes on Raoul. Whose side are you on?

THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU SIT IN THE WINDOW SEAT OF ANY PLANE FLYING OVER YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW. no download. no app. no account. you open the tab and you are in the sky. it's called Stowaway. stowaway.live. it finds your location. pulls every plane and satellite passing over you right now. click one. hit "Stow away" and you are in the window seat. real terrain. real weather. real light for this exact minute. the guy who made it, jheising, said on Hacker News he built it because as a kid he would watch planes cross the evening sky and try to imagine what the world looked like from up there. Stowaway is that, without the airport. 441 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying in it. just a website that lets a normal person see Earth from a stranger's window seat for a few minutes. we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still: open tab. sit in a stranger's plane. watch the sunset from 35,000 feet.

AI Rants & Rabbit Holes: Does AI Make Our Lives Better? teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1nGeLMBzB…

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…

@BrianTracy: speak slowly, pause often, and know your material cold. Energy beats perfection. @BrendonBurchard: warm up your body and breath, remember your three key points, and open with a clear promise. Keep the conversation going with them: Brian Tracy: delphi.ai/brian-tracy/chat?q… Brendon Burchard: delphi.ai/brendon-burchard/c…

AI is making kids dumber. It should be making them geniuses. Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇