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Tom Ciszek retweeted
Tutor is my first "actual robots" investment (w/ Raghu). Complete, operational, robots w/ hundreds in production.
While being off the scale technical, the team is obsessive about pragmatic approaches to making the end to end economics work.
Very excited to be partnering.
We raised a $75M Series B to deploy intelligent robots now, led by @a16z, with participation from @usv and @neo.
@tutorintel robots work real jobs across the United States, directed by human “tutors” and the foundation models we’ve trained on the work done. This round accelerates frontier model training, robot manufacturing, and deployment into industry.
We’re in almost 4x as many sites as a year ago; nearly a third of this year’s deployments went to existing customers coming back for more; and we’re on track to have more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027.
Our mission is to proliferate robotics for the common good. If you want to make robots reliably do things others think are impossible, for people who’ve never had access to this technology, join us.
Tom Ciszek retweeted
#LeoneXIV
"Nel mese di novembre la Chiesa intercede in modo speciale per i defunti. Compiamo l’opera di misericordia spirituale di pregare per loro perché purificati giungano all’eterna comunione con Dio e i suoi Santi"
Tom Ciszek retweeted
This is how I've been building. Keyboard shortcut to enter prompt, real time reloading to ship feature, user state preserved as close as possible.
Trend is towards more intuitive real time reconfiguration of interface, blurring between applications etc.
Going to twete @ajassy everyday till I'm blocked or get a meeting, every workaround is a feature request the customer gave up making. Give them an agent that fixes it.
Customer obsession, with commit access.
I'm now building an "improvements" feature into all of my personal vibecoded applications: a freeform text input that's hooked up to an agent that yolo implements whatever is submitted.
It's an interesting experience -- the activation energy barrier to sanding any rough edge or implementing any new feature becomes extremely low. Someone else who uses one of the applications I created has already implemented 150 improvements over the course of a few days. This pattern feels like a new kind of tool -- liquid software? -- and every application that doesn't have this feature now has a slightly rigid and anachronistic flavor. Why can't I just tell it how I want it to be different?
Now, it's not obvious to me how this pattern can or should scale. Does it become unmaintainable after a while? (Maybe model intelligence improvement outstrips my feature appetite such that it's fine?) How does collaborative software work in this model? Can software designed this way be secure and reliable?
Whatever the larger questions about broader deployment, it definitely works great in a personal context. It reminds me a little of the visions of Lisp/Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and HyperCard -- systems that the user can take control of and modify. Those visions never quite worked, though: the vast majority of software today is not end-user modifiable in any useful way. So, while this "liquid" affordance is a very small touch, the way it changes one's relation to the software feels a bit transgressive and empowering in a Lickliderian and Engelbartian way.
Tom Ciszek retweeted
Pretty clever phishing …. Got an email from someone claiming to be a former Google Staff Engineer with 12+ years of experience - mentions Claude Code, Cursor, LLM agents all the right buzzwords. Even attaches a résumé.
🎣
Tom Ciszek retweeted
Turns out there is tremendous alpha in just being the guy who ACTUALLY DOES what he says hes going to do.
Maybe it’s the midwestern in me, but when I say things, I feel weight until they get done.
Tom Ciszek retweeted
Ask your doctor today about premature optimization and whether Szynkobi might right for you.
Tom Ciszek retweeted
Oh tbc Claude filtered it down a lot: urls, regexes, dropping spam, only the remainder was dispatched to Sonnet with a CC Workflow (so it uses the sub tokens). You can see surviving comments under videos, the comments that recommend videos seem to be of nice & helpful character.
Tom Ciszek retweeted
The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, on or about October 29, 2026. The FBI refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor."
The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum (ETH). It is expected these assets will then be further laundered by converting them using DeFi and instant swap services as they prepare them for further laundering stages.
How You Can Help:
FBI, USSS, and IRS-CI are urging private sector entities including THORNode operators, RPC node operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, blockchain analytics firms, and other virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses TraderTraitor actors are using to launder these stolen assets.
A list of addresses associated with this activity is available here: fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/al…
ALT FBI public service announcement with Department of Justice seal in the background on a gold gradient.
A shopping agent that works for me might skip the sponsored results. I can see why Amazon considers this a bad experience.
Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy told investors Thursday not to worry about bots invading its online store and rendering it useless. bit.ly/4ih4bG3
Politicians exempted themselves from Do Not Call, then texted us asking for money to fight special interests.
I had my Muse agent put me on the National Do Not Call/Text Directory. By law telemarketers and other companies have 30 days to scrub my number from their lists. Otherwise Muse will automatically start logging every violation and will skip trace and go after every single one of the violations and hopefully collect between $500 and $1,500 per violation. Let's see how this goes.
Tom Ciszek retweeted
This swingset was designed by AI (Claude Code) using OSH Cut's MCP. I asked it for the design. It gave me a cart ready to buy. app.oshcut.com/api/mcp
AI-designed, OSH Built.
