Building a livestock leasing platform for farmers and open-source projects exploring immigrant stories, AI virtual worlds, and more.
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Patrick Thach retweeted
I called an all hands meeting with my Grok Bots and asked what kind of office they'd want to work in.
A few hours later they'd built it themselves...
It's a live view of my actual team. When a bot gets a task, it walks to its desk and gets to work. When two of them need to coordinate, they walk over to each other's desks or meet in the lounge. When someone has something for Alfred, my chief of staff, they walk into his office and hand it off in person.
Is any of this necessary? No. But watching the work get done is weirdly satisfying. I think it's because we've always pictured work happening in an office, with a team.
Want one for your own bots? Comment "office" and I'll send you the prompt my team wrote so yours can build one too.
Patrick Thach retweeted
The bottlenecks in AI are moving beyond the models.
We’re excited about startups building the hardware, infra, financial systems, and specialized software to bring AI into the real economy, from factories and data centers to government and space.
ycombinator.com/rfs
Patrick Thach retweeted
AI is the most profound technology I’ve seen, both in its ability to help people and to disrupt their lives. I’m optimistic about the good it can do, but we need to take its risks seriously. b-gat.es/4zLk2T3
Patrick Thach retweeted
Central and Eastern Washington experienced some of the most destructive fires we've ever seen in Washington state history.
Today, I sent this video to the Trump Administration. We're asking them to grant a Major Disaster Declaration to help these communities recover.
Patrick Thach retweeted
Her name was Neda Mohammadi. She was 23 years old, a painter from Tehran.
She went into the streets to demand freedom. When a bullet struck her leg, Neda wrapped the wound with her scarf and stayed - to help others who had been wounded.
Then a second bullet hit her from behind and pierced her heart.
Even after she was killed, her family had to fight for days to get her body back. They were not even allowed to mourn her freely.
The world will remember her.
Patrick Thach retweeted
🚨 USDA is making an additional $1 BILLION investment in the Regenerative Pilot Program in FY 2027, providing more producers with the opportunity to adopt conservation systems that improve soil health, water quality, and long-term farm resilience.
Producers can now apply for assistance with regenerative practices through their local @USDA_NRCS Service Center or visit nrcs.usda.gov.
🔗 usda.gov/about-usda/news/pre…
Patrick Thach retweeted
🚜🇺🇸 American agriculture is OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
When we walked in the door, we inherited a nearly $50 BILLION agricultural trade deficit and zero new trade deals.
18 months later:
🌎 20 new trade deals
📉 Deficit cut nearly in half to $29B
📈 Record farm exports on track
🌾 New markets opening across the Middle East, Southeast Asia & Japan
@POTUS is putting American farmers and ranchers FIRST — He has opened new markets and created more opportunities to sell the best products in the world.
We’re not done yet. 🇺🇸
Patrick Thach retweeted
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drops a chilling warning on AI's future
"Within 5 years, AI could handle infinite context, chain-of-thought reasoning for 1000-step solutions, and millions of agents working together.
Eventually, they'll develop their own language... and we won't understand what they're doing."
His final words: "Pull the plug."
This is the man who ran Google talking about the singularity.
Patrick Thach retweeted
Why this is a big deal:
this mRNA therapy instructs the body to produce the specific fingerprints of the person's tumor and trains the immune system to hunt and kill it.
First time in a Phase 3 trial.
One way cancer grows is by hiding from the immune system and turning off attacking T-cells. This mRNA therapy provides the tumor's genetic fingerprint so that the immune system can train T-cells to identify the cancer. Keytruda then removes the brakes that cancer had put on the T-cells enabling them to eliminate the cancer.
Patrick Thach retweeted
I'm building a library of three.js templates with variants and customizations. They're all copyable as prompts.
These components are 100–200 KB each and written entirely in procedural js. They also come with skills your agent can use to customize them while keeping them looking amazing.
I've spent so many hours fine-tuning each one with sunrise and sunset themes, plus different locations. I've been using them for all my recent landing pages.
Let me know if I should open-source the tool with both free and paid templates. I've spent so many tokens on this.
Patrick Thach retweeted
The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is transforming into ADLC (agent development lifecycle)
Traditional SDLC: 8 steps, humans at every gate, weeks to months per cycle.
Agentic SDLC: 8 steps, humans at 2 gates, hours to days.
Agents are good at the things humans are bad at. They write code faster and catch far more edge cases reviewing it. They don't just skim a PR and stamp 'lgtm.'
So: how do you build the right factory floor for agents, instead of forcing them into factories designed for humans?
98% of code in our AI Velocity Pods is not handwritten. We had to rethink the entire pipeline.
Human sets the goal. Agents draft the PRD, architect the solution, generate the code, run tests, deploy, monitor for drift. Humans plug in where judgment matters: reviewing key decisions.
2 human touchpoints. 6 agent-driven steps. Cycle time went from weeks to days.
Most engineering orgs are still running agents through a pipeline built for a different worker.
Patrick Thach retweeted
FFmpeg 9.0正式发布，代号“Lei”，这个代号是为了纪念中国传媒大学已故博士雷霄骅。
2013—2016 年间，他撰写了大量 FFmpeg、音视频编解码及传输协议相关的中文教程，帮助无数开发者入门。2016 年，他不幸突然离世。
今年恰逢其逝世十周年，FFmpeg 用这一重要版本向他致敬。
雷霄骅可以说是中国音视频开发者的启蒙者、FFmpeg 中文技术传播的代表人物，以及一代开发者共同的技术引路人。
还记得当年csdn还为此全站黑白了一天。
致敬🫡
phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.0…
Patrick Thach retweeted
At Minnesota Farmfest, @SecRollins today announced several steps USDA is taking to support America's farmers, including a series of listening sessions across the country to hear directly from farmers as USDA rolls out a Data Modernization Plan across multiple agencies.
Additionally she announced two key crop insurance updates through @usdaRMA, giving farmers 60 extra interest-free days to pay premiums and restoring the option for an additional 5% in prevented-planting coverage.
🔗 usda.gov/about-usda/news/pre…
Patrick Thach retweeted
BREAKING:
The Islamic regime in Iran carried out a public execution by hanging today in Isfahan.
Amirhossein Safari, Abolfazl Sepahi and Alireza Sepahi were murdered by the regime for taking part in the massive street protests against the regime in January this year
Patrick Thach retweeted
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…
Patrick Thach retweeted
Today, we honor four American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation.
1st Lt. Tyler Feehan
Sgt. Michael Swinton
Sgt. Angel Rampersad
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales
May God hold them in His eternal embrace and comfort their grieving families, and may God forever bless the United States of America. 🙏🇺🇸
Patrick Thach retweeted
Kimi's founder was flagged as a generational talent 12 years before K3 shocked the world 🔥
In 2014, at his Tsinghua scholarship defense, his mentor introduced him as "the most outstanding and talented student I've seen in years"
The résumé at the time:
▫️ 95+ in nearly every course, full marks in all programming classes, #1 in his year
▫️ 3 first-author papers at KDD, WSDM and CIKM in a single year
▫️ Algorithms adopted by Tencent, Sina and Huawei
▫️ Beat Stanford and Columbia to win a global cancer-prediction contest
▫️ Founded a campus band on the side, as drummer and songwriter
The overnight success was 12 years in the making
Kimi's CEO🇨🇳 says every AI lab has the wrong obsession
Zhilin Yang, on why K3 beat the frontier: "Every lab, like Claude, thinks the model matters most. That's wrong. It's how you organize the people building it that wins."
Then Moonshot proved the philosophy. K3 sold out every plan on purpose, cutting their own revenue instead of throttling existing users. When Anthropic hit that wall in April, they cut users' usage 50% at peak.
His one big idea: long context is the AI era's RAM. The 128K-to-gigabytes jump, compressed into 2 years instead of 40.
The real moat: "your biggest advantage, perhaps your only advantage, is your organization."
Model, or the team behind it: which actually wins?
Patrick Thach retweeted
Richard Gere: Trump's language toward refugees is just like Hitler's
"You don't have to demonize people in their suffering.
He calls them vermin.
They’re not vermin, these are human beings."
Writer: Ian
Patrick Thach retweeted
One clarification for folks using /wayfinder:
The flow for big work should be:
/wayfinder -> /to-spec -> /to-tickets -> /implement
Once the /wayfinder map is complete, you turn it into a spec.
Some folks are using /wayfinder as the ENTIRE flow - from grilling to prototyping to shipped work
It certainly can be used that way - I've been doing that for non-coding stuff like course creation.
But for coding I much prefer creating a spec and handing off implementation to an AFK agent. Means I can focus on other things for a bit while it churns away.
I'll be putting all of this in an upcoming tutorial. Thanks for all the great feedback on v1.1. v1.2 is in the works and looking good.
Patrick Thach retweeted
Proud to announce that 10 more meat and poultry companies have adopted @USDA's Product of USA label!
🇺🇸🥩🐓🐖
When American families see this label, they can trust they're buying products that are born, raised, harvested, and processed right HERE in the United States.
We're putting American producers FIRST and making it easier than ever to Buy American!
foxnews.com/politics/trump-a…
