Ian Butler

@kinglycrow

Building usenym.com. AI Researcher @XBOW, thoughts my own. @aitinkerers SF co-organizer github.com/iantbutler01

San Francisco, CA

Joined May 2022

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Ian Butler
@kinglycrow
Aug 2
Intelligence too spiky, verifiers too brittle, horizons too short. The conditions for take off are not yet reached. We're still missing the "G" in AGI
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We are not cleared for takeoff. Yet.
Nope. Intelligence too spiky, verifiers too brittle, horizons too short. The conditions for take off are not yet reached. We're still missing the "G" in AGI and the quality of the tools we have right...
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Ian Butler
@kinglycrow
20m
I have 8 features in flight for Nym right now and let me tell you having a box with 256gb of ram for builds is freaking great
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Ian Butler
@kinglycrow
23h
Yup super difficult right now its why Ive built to take advantage of the way humans interact with software as much as possible. This will get better in the future, but don’t want to wait for that future
Mike Hostetler // Actors & Agents on the BEAM
@mikehostetler
Sep 25
That's it, I give up Most agent protocols suck and are unusable They are built around "chat" only, don't account for distributed actor behavior and have no concept of multi-player A2A, ACP, AHP, AG-UI ... ugh We are so early
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Ian Butler
@kinglycrow
Sep 25
Maybe I'm wrong but an interesting dynamic when difficulty of building product decreases is that even though competitors have crazy money and reach my marginal costs for continuing are basically 0 and I only need a super tiny fraction of user activation to be completely life
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Ian Butler
@kinglycrow
Sep 25
There was a point where I like just became super comfortable with agents running my browser for me. Claude's over there right now grabbing my stripe keys and testing new payment plans on sandbox mode
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