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Joined November 2011
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Typical VC bullshit. This is the case for any (remotely) related AI startup.
back to brazil! so tired a VC just passed us because "we'l have no moat when big labs decide to build their bend". they're probably right. who knows. I'll keep building because, above everything, this has been so fun and I feel so alive. who know what's ahead now, rest!!
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Way back when pitching Leibniz Labs it was based on two premisses (1) verifiably safe, and (2) hyper-personalized. I got laughed out of the room consistently (or in VC speak" ...blah .. no conviction .. blah ...). In the mean time no one is laughing about safety and verification any more. The models are not yet powerful enough, but soon I expect hyper-personalization via partial evaluation will be common practice as well. If you want to learn more, come to my "Welcome to the AI chop shop" talk at aidevcon.io. Use "ERIK30" to save some $$$ to spend on tokens instead.
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What happened to the continuous learning hype?
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As AI has surpassed all our skills, and the big labs grabbed all opportunities with their infinite token budgets, I have been learning the craft of pizza making. Before the food robots rob us of that as well.
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"... First I'll check what the vendored TLAPS supports and how the existing proofs are laid out: ..." Claude This always freaks me out. It fucking wrote the model in TLA+ 5 minutes ago!
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Been giving advice for free since early 2023.
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From my AI World Fair talk in June 2026 on using formal verification for AI safety. Apparently they did listen, but never bothered to tell me (yet) ;-)
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"... Fine-tuning a model corresponds to partial evaluation of an interpreter to yield a compiler. Then, the second Futamura projection shows that we can specialize/fine-tune a model to fine-tune other models ..." Original Automind pitch, circa 2023
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.... Something significant could be lost when that team of 10 developing the ideas that lead to a breakthrough is whittled down to two or three researchers and a chatbot. ... vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news… Why do academics keep want to gatekeeper research? It is *amazing* that you only need a single researcher and a chatbot to get the same results as a team of 10.
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👇👇👇👇 what @satnam6502 says 👇👇👇👇
You might not want to formally verify software or hardware you or your teammates have written. You will want to formally verify software or hardware produced by an LLM. And now it is possible, using AI theorem provers to produce correct by construction software and circuits.
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Buy UPS, Fedex, ... stock!
Uhhh.. guys. Matthew is someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.
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... Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done ... ... Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. ... proofsandprompts.com/2026/10… Cry babies.
Sorry, but I find "the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight" to be elitist and entitled. And "We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work" rather short-sighted and lacking creativity.
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Oh my, programming languages, whether you consider them ugly or beautiful, AI has already thrown them all out with the bathwater and flushed them down the sewer.
I called someone’s baby ugly and now I’m old and unskilled 😂 Over the past few weeks I’ve critiqued Go and Rust and had many personal attacks lodged at me. I know this is twitter and there isn’t centralized response coordination. But seeing a lot of vitriol from these communities doesn’t inspire me to want to use those languages.
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Boosting, super useful for all your vibe coding projects, especially the API pldb.kirancodes.me/mcp.
to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been: pldb.kirancodes.me Titles and abstracts of 22,324 programming languages papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to this year's proceedings.
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Congrats to all the great winners (obviously I did not stand a chance against those)
Proud and pleased to be finally able to announce our latest set of Creators working on technically exciting and societally critical projects. Formal methods have the potential to lead to a phase change in cyber resilience, and it matters that we get there fast!!
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You see, AI *is* dangerous, I had to laugh so hard I nearly choked. Just nearly.
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