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AI Engineering ✦ Current: @pocketmodelai ✦ Prev: OpenAI, Netflix, Uber

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Joined July 2007
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Phone Use is now completely untethered via an optional Bluetooth bridge You can now have your agent control your phone from your phone. An AI agent can now: Use any mobile-only service, app, game or website Approve 2FA Order from DoorDash Trade meme stocks on Robinhood Swipe right on Tinder Make poor decisions on Kalshi Raise its blood pressure on X Doomscroll on Reddit No bot restrictions will stop it
Computer use is over. Introducing PHONE USE! github.com/lxe/phoneuse My real actual iPhone on my desk via Bluetooth and AirPlay connected to my Linux machine. Textualization OCR happens out of band so we don't use screenshots all the time. There are recipes for all interactions. Agent skill for your robots. You literally can just do anything now.
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i’m a forward deployed engineer at a software factory
wtf is a Forward Deployed Engineer FDE?
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This has consistently been a high quality piece of software
Introducing: Browser Use 1.0.0: CDP is all you need 👀 We deleted 90% of the old library. Predefined state and action space make it worse. Now the agent just writes Python REPL on raw CDP. Simplicity wins. > same models, up to 50% better > 2-5x cheaper > 2-3x faster > SOTA web agent From now on we ship fast. Please pin with ==
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actually it's just this
This who you are competing with
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I am very intentful with the stack decisions of orble.tech Nodes are very big computers with headroom instead of lots of small ones. This makes optimistic bursty workloads generally faster. Every box is a Firecracker microVM with its own kernel, cloned from a golden snapshot Each box has its own IPv6 address. When you SSH in and your client sends its greeting on port 22, the VM is resumed, and your still-encrypted connection is passed through Suspended and periodically checkpointed boxes go to Cloudflare R2 because it's unbelievably cost effective and well-peered
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The CPU and capacity crunch is real. We're already seeing lots of "non-traditional hardware" plays for inference and training. But general purpose agentic runtimes that don't require a GPU, but do require a stateful environment, are just as important, arguably even more so. I'm betting we're going to see more and more compute substrates that are much more diverse, such as mobile intended CPUs, or other less supported architectures pop up as competitive cloud offerings. Because at this point, software support, OS support, ecosystem support is no longer a moat or a roadblock. Hardware has become "compute substrate" with software generated and optimized for it on demand, on the fly, purpose-built.
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the only slide in the pitch deck
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sorry to all the overpriced and unstable sandbox providers out there it's still a very bad day to short orble.tech
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when others grow +20% MoM, orble.tech grows +20% every 57 minutes the market for cloud VMs infra for agents has virtually no cap, it's just the singularity's compute primitive so everyone in this market will get fat, that means we're competing on growth rate instead
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side projects 2016: a to-do list app side projects 2026: literally rebuild aws
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now that lower priority work is done (sev0 outage) we can focus on what’s important here at orble.tech (product demo videos)
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we’re back baby orble.tech your sandboxes and data are restored to the up to hundreds of thousands of customers who survived this outage: thank you for your support. you all get a boon now go out there and orble orble orble
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if I could quote and repost a tweet 100,000 times, this would be it
Monorepos were always an anti-pattern
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the sillytavern sub is losing their mind
OpenRouter is officially part of @stripe today! More than 10 million developers and companies use OpenRouter, and as they build with more models across more workloads, they need control over what it costs and where their data goes. OpenRouter has built that operating infrastructure to help run AI across every model and provider, with access to new models, uptime through outages, and enforced spend and data policies for each team. Joining Stripe, which has spent years running critical infrastructure for businesses around the world, means we can build it faster and support companies at every scale. Our commitment to neutrality stays the same. Models and providers compete on quality, reliability, and price. You decide what works for your business.
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i only hire backward withdrawn engineers
i have never heard the term "forward deployed engineer" in my life
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to-do list startups are back, and I'm here for it
In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox. Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents. Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse… Until now, none of them could work together. Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent. Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context. Try it here: roma.app
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Hey guys, I'm looking for a cloud provider that would not nuke servers that you pay for, along with your customers' data, without warning. I know it's a really high bar, unattainable by @latitudesh at least. Looking for other options.
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uh @latitudesh may I kindly ask why the entire server I paid for is gone without warning?
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