This week, I'm going to keep it short. If you follow Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, you'll know that a -lot- has been happening in AI; his article about boiling the ocean is making it's rounds around tech spaces, and its one of my favorite representations of the sheer velocity and breadth in which everything is moving.
In the past week alone, I've...
Released my latest product, TheClaw.gg - making Discord data available to AI agents.
Put out a public library supporting the x402 protocol - helping create democratized internet-native payments.
Put out a little MacOS app for hitting up strangers when you're connected to the same cafe Wi-Fi. (this one still needs a little more polish, but I've made the code entirely open-source and app downloadable as a .dmg)
Gathered my journal data to create a personal wiki / handbook (i.e. I can give it to someone close to me and they can read me like Wikipedia)
Put together a pipeline to fold proteins with AlphaFold and create statistically probable binders, for a specific therapeutical target I have in mind.
That last one is particularly important. If you read my last article, you know the story of the Australian tech CEO that used AI to create a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog.
I was inspired by his boldness and the outcome, and picked up a shelved patent draft of mine to computationally validate it in a similar manner.
Garry said it best:
TL;DR
Our fear of the future is directly proportional to how small our ambitions are. If your plan is to keep doing what you’re doing, AI is terrifying. If your plan is to build something dramatically bigger, it’s the best news you’ve ever gotten.
The sheer amount of parallelization I'm doing is unlocking a sort of capacity in my brain I never thought I could touch before - and not in a traditional "multitasking" sort of way. I'm talking about fire-and-forget delegation with AI agents. Would it shock you if I told you I worked on all of those bullet points above...at the same time?
Each little slice is when changes were detected in a given project folder. Now, you might wonder if quality suffers. The traditional argument against multitasking is that quality does suffer - but with AI and proper architecture, I'm not so sure. I'm using the exact same set of tooling that Garry is using:
Garry has seen more capital and effort deployed than most humans.
The unknown has always been a dark horizon for humankind: scary and mysterious, where few dare to venture. In eras past, our ancestors were dragged off into the dark by beasts. Now, the beasts exist more so in our heads in broad daylight, in our collective unconscious, paralyzing us - action stops this.
My heart and mind has never been more on fire. The only way forward is through!
Be well,
Michael Kirsanov