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Founder @hob_app: your whole agent stack in one app. Ex-Director of Security Tooling R&D @OpenZeppelin. Philosophy of mind. Debugs code, agents, and vegetables.

Las Vegas, NV, USA
Joined October 2017
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Agents can already run loops, drive websites, and talk to each other. Now give them a place to do it together... with you on the team. That's hob. Agents that coordinate, browse, build, and automate in one workspace you share with them. You set the direction, see the work, and step in whenever it matters. hob.dev
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What do an indie game designer, a lawyer, a fire protection business owner, a smart contract auditor, and a developer have in common? When they're working, they're using hob as their workspace. Whatever your work, the best place to work with agents is hob.
A good model needs a good place to work. In hob, your agents, files, and browser can each have a pane in the same workspace, so you can work across them without switching between windows.
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If they're not charging you, its worth asking how / why. Something something you're the product...
many people aren’t aware that their agent sessions are being sold for money there are literally companies whose business model is to help other companies sell people’s agent sessions (search for “magma ai” if ur curious) be careful what you use and install
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People telling their agents to tone it down on the edge case considerations to keep their code simple. People are are simultaneously agast that stacking edge cases is breaking the infrastructure that powers the internet. Thorough agents are a feature, not a bug.
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hot take: I expect the number of devs per initiative / department / effort to violently collapse. Simultaneously, though, I expect the number of initiatives / departments / efforts to explode even more violently.
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I love this feature, and so do our users! hob knows how to use itself and it knows how to walk humans through using it, too. A workspace with an infinitely patient on screen tutor. What's not to love?
Not sure where a hob feature is? Ask your AI agent. It walks you through it, pointing at each button on screen, one step at a time. No more docs or tutorials to dig through. Try it today 👉 hob.dev
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Being able to nitpick your agent in an ergonomic way might sound like a small thing, but it increases throughput by at least 5x on tedious tasks. There's a reason the boss has always used a red marker to circle things for people to improve. You're the boss now. Act like it.
Stop describing the problem. Point at it. Nobody should write a paragraph about 'the third button from the left.' In hob, highlight it on the page and send the markup to your AI agent. It sees what you mean, so it fixes the right thing. Works on web pages, images, and PDFs.
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Andrew D. Anderson retweeted
A researcher mapped 335,000+ surveillance cameras across America. Flock's response? Try to take it down. Our response? Build a tool so you can find those near your home.
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Your x money account is frozen and your vision capabilities have been suspended as we review your account for suspicious activity. Thank you for your patience. (At least your car can drive you home though.) The world needs more than one visionary.
🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET! Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell: “In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.” “And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.” The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.
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A lot of X is people living in software factories and solo devs conquering the world, but the more we talk to normal devs and teams adopting ai, the more we see issues still functioning as a mainline agent / human team communication layer. That layer is right there in hob.
hob now supports Linear. If your team uses Linear for projects and issues, connect it in hob so your issues are right there next to your agents.
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Finally we take a step towards telling the world what it means for "agents use hob like you do". It's a bit of a mental shift - and we have more work to do educating here. But it's a strong paradigm for engineers and back office workers to understand & leverage agents in this way
Learn how agents in hob can use the workspace like you 0:00 Why agents should use the workspace 0:13 What "agents are users" means 1:00 Agents teach you hob 1:38 One agent starts and runs others 2:42 Agents markup things inside hob 3:15 Agents check old conversations
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Side projects are really forgiving about disorganization. You can use 20 terminals and waste a couple minutes chasing down the right ones. Professional work is less forgiving about these inefficiencies in the long run. Get organized. Get hob.
Old way: six terminal tabs, all called zsh. You click through every one to find the agent that was on the auth bug. New way: every pane tells you what it's working on. Friday's conversations are right where you left them. Same agents. Very different Monday.
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Is that what UBI in America is going to look like? By the time these kids are adults, jobs will be solved... but they'll have equity in some of the businesses that produce intelligence and robot labor at scale?
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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Markets do not really care what you imagined yourself doing, what you'd rather be doing, or how slowly and artistically you'd like to solve a particular problem. They never have. If that was ever rewarded, it was by accident.
a comment from 3blue1brown's most recent video
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I'm not really into cars, but I'd pay money to watch Tesla Roadster races.
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Everyone saying there are no moats must be incredibly bad at customer service. People can have unlimited free software and will still pay to talk to experts, to avoid frustration, and to ensure they're a priority. Ask me how I know.
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Todo apps should be significantly affected by this, but Todoist has broken records for both revenue and usage, and our growth has reaccelerated. I'm not saying things won't change in the industry, but software is far from dead. I think much of AI's value will move to the app layer.
Software is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
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Never meet your heroes? Never relentlessly post that the last thing you want to do is become dependent on a single frontier lab? Not sure how I got here. 😬
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Some people think agents are exciting so that they can finally do nothing. Other people think agents are exciting so that they can finally do everything. Work with people in the second camp.
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I'm so very certain that we are, indeed, entering a period of abundance. I just have no idea who is going to be doling it all out, and that does concern me.
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It seems apparent that neither the government, nor the handful of companies owning the abundance machinery, are ideal.
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