After visiting a Generative AI conference in London last week I genuinely think there is misallocation of funds in big corps. There was a presentation on how to ensure AI agents stick to protocol and don’t hallucinate or come up with creative responses that are unexpected. To solve for this one had to build incredible amounts of test data, heuristic quality gates, non LLM based judge criteria etc. at every step of an agent pipeline. Listening to the presentation, I was convinced their whole pipeline could have been built and run successfully just using those heuristic tests alone, and that sometime inside BigCorp, a few million was earmarked: “How can we do this with AI?” and not “Should we do this with AI?” It felt a bit like listening to a session on how to ensure a genius multi disciplinary artist would excel at accounting.

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Saturday walk. Park closed, lots of wind! Visited Orwell! @Big Hash @TAM | FAFO Rocks @BitcoinWalk #proofofwalk #proofofwind

Great turnout today in London! #Proofofwalk @Big Hash @TAM | FAFO Rocks @BitcoinWalk

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User interfaces are going away I think the end of interfaces is coming faster than most people expect. Not the gradual evolution we've seen before, from desktop websites only to two versions to dynamically resizing websites working on every screen size, but a complete removal of the interface altogether. We're creatures of habit, returning to the same digital spaces - Netflix for this, Spotify for that, each with its own login, its own subscription, its own carefully designed experience. We expect a certain experience from within all of these apps - but soon we will expect a certain experience one level above the apps. Soon we won't browse Netflix or manage Hulu subscriptions. We'll simply ask for what we want and receive it, or even have it recommended to us based on various interactions we've had. The content finds us, not the other way around. The technical shift is profound but the business model shift is even bigger. Today's walled gardens exist because companies need to own the customer relationship. Tomorrow, that relationship disappears - I get my content, whoever owns the rights to it gets paid, and I never need to care about who they are. What enables this isn't just AI that understands our intent. It's payment infrastructure that can move money frictionlessly, instantly, to the right party without us managing accounts or subscriptions or even knowing where our content comes from. Every streaming service, every media company, every platform betting on exclusive content and beautiful interfaces - they're all building for a world that's about to disappear. The pieces are converging. Frictionless, vendor less, payments, AI that truly understands context, and a generation that values access over ownership. I think now is the time to work with these things in mind, and create a decentralised, democratised system, based on solid foundations and open source Curious to hear what others think! #grownostr #future #payments #systems

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A restaurant/vet/service booking tool that can pick up the phone when an operator is busy and schedule people in based on needs and availability. I’m sure something exists but it would be fun to build and could be cheap to implement for the services. Text to voice and voice to text models are really great these days. #GrowNostr #Build #AI

I would love to build a EA system that can answer calls from unknown callers and get back to them or dismiss them properly. Give them overall guidelines, access to my calendar and some common sense.

Wondering if the field of cybersecurity will grow to encompass protecting systems from vibe coded solutions. Will we deploy things we don’t know, only to box it in a framework we do, in order to keep it from doing unintended things?