Cofounder | AI engineer & researcher @hdclabs_ai Blogging @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/gLektr01zQ and https://xitter.cf/t.co/rU0gaNPIgm

Toronto 🇨🇦
Joined October 2013
Same 😭. The brain has gotten habituated to feel like doing anything else (scrolling, opening X, etc.) when I'm waiting for my agents to finish their work. And then the constant switching between multiple agent sessions. I think mindfulness meditation is the only way to go! 🧘
My attention span is worse than ever, agents have made it much harder for me to focus on any given thing
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So stoked for this one! It's such a fascinating topic to be speaking about, and I couldn't have found two better people to present with! See you at @_odsc West in San Francisco next week!
7 days to go until ODSC AI West 2026! @_odsc Our "Connected Intelligence" sessions in the new graph-enhanced AI track explore how AI can recall relevant experience, check it against current rules, and learn something useful for the next decision. David Hughes and @tech_optimist are going to be in San Francisco with @hdclabs_ai and @amyhodler, from October 27-29. 🧵👇🏽 1/2
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Prashanth Rao retweeted
I think most people multi-tasking with agents could benefit from slowing down most of the stuff you're doing wont really matter- what's your P0? what would it look like if you gave it your full attention?
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but no matter who you are, the MOST important skill to train in the age of AI is critical thinking. When you see (or are told) something in the real world, you should aim to question *why* it is what it is, rather than just looking at *what* it is. Understand how things work. If one exercises critical thinking skills hard enough, you never stop (or tire of) learning. You just absorb new information like a sponge, and because you're always asking "why?" and "how?", you end up going wider and deeper than you ever did before you had AI. It was simply too hard to spend the time on that deep a study before. Now, you can.
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Graphs 🤝 world models as they capture connectivity of state
i’m becoming incredibly graph pilled lately. i used to be dismissive of them, not seeing how they were actually useful over RAG or postgres. but i now see a future where graphs are a central data structure for every company’s world model are you guys graph pilled yet?
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Plea to Anthropic. Please don't release opus 5.6 and regress on 5.5, I beg you. I love 5.5, not ready to let it go 🥲
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As a dataset grows, unrelated hypervectors get more chances to look accidentally alike. In part 2 of our research study on the scalability limits of bundling, we use probability theory to estimate that risk, then test the predictions with controlled experiments. 🧵👇🏽 hyperdimensionalcomputing.ai… 1/6
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Quite a pertinent question to ask. We may not be there yet, but every day, it's more and more fair to ask why is this tool something I'd pay for, vs. something I'd build on top of open source?
If building tools and frameworks is so easy (it is) what is the point of building tools for other software engineers instead of doing end-user products already? What kind of tools survive?
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Dunno what it is but I've barely felt the need to use 6.1 Sol all week 😂. Opus 5.5, it's soooooooooo good 😌 I wonder when OpenAI will be back.
I'm about to rage quit 6.1 Sol
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This is a profound realization I came to only earlier this year. Thankfully, better late than never. There's still plenty of good days left to enjoy better health!
Replying to @Jainadave_
At some point, working out just becomes a non negotiable habit, like brushing your teeth. You don't always enjoy every session or feel motivated, but you do it anyway because it's simply part of your routine.
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Agree with all of this 💯 , and good communication of concepts and ideas with the right amount of words + visuals. This is also additionally important as we churn out more and more code/content at a pace like never before.
Might be just me and my time spent in industry, might be the vibe of the times, but I find myself much more impressed by projects that make things smaller, cleaner, more elegant rather than larger and more distributed. Less code, less PRs, less text. Good compression is an art.
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"Good compression is an art" is so related to how the human brain works, too. We don't consciously compress information, but the brain has learned to conserve energy in just the right ways so as to predict what it needs to, while compressing and creating abstractions over time.
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tibo you can skip the next 23 days. just ship a model that beats opus 5.5 and we are good
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I agree with this take wholly, and I was approaching it wrong my whole life. The positive feedback loop of looking at yourself in the mirror everyday and liking what you see as you persist. It's only about comparing current you with last week's you, and that sustains itself 💪🏽
The harshest truth about exercise is you'll never feel like doing it and you won't feel the benefits until after you're done. But the way you feel after a great workout is so damn good it keeps you coming back every single day.
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Die leetcode, die
Goodbye to LeetCode? Google just updated its interview process. AI is now a part of it. They have introduced a new round called Code Comprehension. The idea behind this round is to drop the candidates into a 200-500-line codebase with Gemini available for use. This round evaluates: - Can you read someone else's code - Are you able to debug independently before utilizing AI - Can you catch when Gemini is wrong
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The mechanism is really interesting. It seems like a classic "boom-bust" cycle. One spends more on R&D for the next gen of model, while the other spends more on inference/deployment scale. Then next month, the trend reverses. Super hard cost optimization to solve at these frontier labs!
How the fuck is Anthropic suddenly this far ahead of OpenAI? 😂
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Happy first birthday to Ladybug! 🐞 A year ago today, @lbugdb was announced, shortly after @kuzudb was archived. As someone who helped build and evangelize Kuzu, I still have a lot of fondness for it, and I’m so happy its ideas didn’t just survive. They’ve kept evolving 🚀 I wrote about Ladybug’s first year 🧵👇 1/4 thedataquarry.com/blog/celeb…
🤖 Made with AI
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The improvements really do show up in practice. On some unofficial LDBC SF1 benchmarks I ran on my machine, @lbugdb 0.21.1 is faster than @kuzudb 0.11.3 on 23 of 30 queries. One multi-hop query went from 𝟰𝟮 𝗺𝘀 in Kuzu to 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟱.𝟲 𝗺𝘀 (8⨉ faster) in LadybugDB, because the planner now stays on the traversal frontier. 3/4
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What I love most is how @lbugdb is being built: in the open, under an MIT license, with a growing OSS community (and their agents) hunting for performance gaps. This is a great time to be building! Huge props to @arundsharma and his tireless efforts in reviewing PRs and improving Ladybug, all year 🤠 Read the post all the way to the end to see where graph lakehouses are going. The future looks bright! ☀️ 4/4 thedataquarry.com/blog/celeb…
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