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Technologist and Entrepreneur. Talk to me about Machine Learning, AI, and building teams driven by empathy and purpose.

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Joined November 2008
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What startups are made of vs. what academics think startups are made of.
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Bringing it home, and making @compliantvc proud
Today we’re launching full EU data residency at @hyperspell Data sovereignty is critical for your company brain. European companies need confidence their data stays local Storage, AI processing, backups, and logs can stay in the EU Your data stays in Europe. Where it belongs
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Say what you will about @realDonaldTrump, but he truly united the country. against him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Midterms2026
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At @hyperspell we really like end-to-end automation. Small bugs get literally fixed with the press of a button now. We even made a special button for it.
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Humans spent 30,000 years pretending to talk to god. And for some reason the ambition of most workplace AI agents stops at replacing Jake from accounting. If you're building agents, you're choosing between two futures. 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝘆-𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰: One agent per function. A copy-paste of your org chart. 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗼-𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰: One agent that knows the whole company and adapts to the person/task. The poly-agentic model is a human-centric projection onto machines. We have separate departments because humans have limited bandwidth. A salesperson can't also be an engineer. Communication between humans is expensive and difficult, so we keep each person's scope narrow. But agents don't have limited bandwidth the way people do. With a proper memory solution, one agent can hold everything sales, engineering, and support knows simultaneously, with perfect recall. An omniscient, omnipresent agent that works on your company vision. Most workspace agent providers are still trying to push the poly-agentic model, one agent per function. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝗱? At Hyperspell, our agent Cubert lives in our group chat. He doesn't have a "sales mode" and an "engineering mode." He knows what's going on across the company, and when I ask him about a customer issue, he pulls from the same knowledge graph as when @contextconor asks about a product roadmap question. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻. Build one agent that knows everything. Make it act differently depending on who's talking to it and what they need. It knows the whole picture, so it adapts. You don't need more agents. You need one that understands your company the way a chief of staff or trusted advisor does.
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Artificial scarcity ⁦⁦by @AnthropicAI⁩ around Mythos is brilliant. Gets labelled supply chain risk. Hypes up “most advanced hacking tool on planet”. Puts US gov’t in a loose / loose position: deny the NSA access, or be called out on their bluff. axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-ant…
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Good job Hungary. Can we repeat the process with other autocratic populists elsewhere? I have prepared a short list.
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Something @jack implies but deserves being called out: humans still think we need an authoritative, self-coherent source of truth on org-charts, projects, etc. We design processes and organizations under the delusion that we actually have that. Using AI to change how we work means focusing on what's relevant right now to you, not what's true for everyone.
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Our in-house AI agent at @hyperspell, Cubert, is telling it like it is. I just wish I could follow any of it.
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Our in-house @openclaw bot, Cubert, keeps wanting to complain to HR about us. Finally we had to tell him.
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Playing with @home_assistant. Any sufficiently automated home is indistinguishable from haunted.
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Hot take: The desktop user interface was perfected in 1995 and the last 30 years have been progressive enshittification by corporate designers who needed to get promoted. Fight me.
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Thanks @dasha_shunina for the feature! Fun story behind this: my first chat bot was written in Prolog and "distributed" by passing it around on floppy disk at school. 1/2 forbes.com/sites/dariashunin…
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It was extremely limited in what it would understand, but it did "remember" what everybody talking to it said. But at the end of the day we were still 13 year old boys, so if that floppy disk ever gets found I will probably get cancelled so hard... 2/2
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Bullish on first believers
🪄 Announcing one of @pioneer_fund's first YC F25 investments: @hyperspell Hyperspell is the memory layer for AI Agents. It helps developers connect data from tools like Slack, Gmail, Notion, and Google Drive so their agents can recall, reason, and learn over time. Agents gain long-term understanding of starting from zero with every task. We invested because every AI agent will need memory, and Hyperspell is building the infrastructure that powers that layer. The team has also been growing very fast throughout the batch. If you're a developer that wants to skip rolling your own retrieval, connectors, and authentication check out hyperspell.com Book a demo, you'll be blown away by the beauty and simplicity. @conor_ai led a $30M ARR API business at Checkr and @maebert has 15 years of machine learning experience and built a startup aquired by Airbnb. These 2 can build. We're proud to back them as one our first YC F25 investments! And don't forget to watch their epic, Office-style, short. It's not your average launch video: youtube.com/watch?v=Wze0wJdS…
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Rocking the scariest costume at the @hyperspell X @agentmail Halloween hackathon #aws
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For this year’s Halloween I’m dressing up as us-east-1
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The first web app I built was running from a WAMP “server” in my family’s living room. I had to explain to users that outages were caused by my mum having to clean behind our computer desk. AWS is a god damn miracle.
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I built a thing. A year from now, this is how all dev tools will work. But for the time being, we’re the only ones already living in the future.
we built the world’s first self-installing API powered by claude code add memory to your AI agents in 5 mins with @hyperspell no human coding required
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Pro tip: slow down your competition by signing up for their products with usernames like m’eb�rt to waste their dev cycles on wondering where their unicode bugs come from
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