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Release of Claude Fable (Claude 5), the $1,800 NVIDIA DGX Spark that runs frontier models on your desk, and Anthropic's June 4 paper claiming AI now writes over 80% of its own code. That feeds the question: if smaller models already do 90% of what most people need, who is all this frontier compute actually for?
We get into Flash Company, a 48-hour ideation sprint for three people sharing one AI, plus detours into vintage photo booths and a tool that turns getting deactivated from Slack into a party. The deep dive covers the post-work world — Jared Diamond calling agriculture the worst mistake in human history, the Minimum Viable Society paper, UBI versus network states, and a stratosphere balloon called World View.
TIMESTAMPS(00:00) Cold open
(02:09) Weekly Check-in — News
(31:20) Tools
(42:28) Building
(01:04:17) Rabbit Holes
(01:08:13) Open Tabs
(01:13:16) Deep Dive — the post-work world
(01:44:40) AMA
(01:53:58) Closing quotes
RESOURCESPEOPLE
Bernie Sanders — proposed a 50% public stake in big AI firms
Carl Newport — inspired the Longview tool; read history to filter news
Charlie Munger — "articulate the other side's argument better than they can"
Daniel Kahneman — psychologist who won the Nobel in economics (cross-field example)
Dave Blunden — on the Moonshots podcast, called govt-taxing-AI chaotic
Jack Clark — co-author, Anthropic self-improvement paper
Jared Diamond — called agriculture "the worst mistake in human history"
Jesse Israel — founder of The Big Quiet public meditations
Marina Favaro — co-author, Anthropic self-improvement paper
BOOKS
Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark
Seven Pillars of Wisdom — T.E. Lawrence
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Brazen — leaderboard for asking and getting told no (brazen.click)
Chicory coffee — 30% coffee / 70% chicory morning blend
Claude Fable — public release of Claude 5, off the Mythos stack
Clerk — best-in-class authentication
Cosine — UK frontier AI lab (HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, BAE, PwC)
Flash Company — 48-hour guided ideation sprint (flashcompany.org)
Flash Fund — fund seeded by Flash Company revenue
Gemma 4 — Google's 12B quantized local model
Gemini — answered the Russia longevity query
Kimi — Chinese model that refused the Russia query
Longview — AI news-in-historical-context tool (thelongview.org)
Monaco glasses — Linux vibe-coding glasses on Mono OS
Next.js / Vercel / Clerk — Tay's go-to build stack
PhotoSixes — River's old NY animated-GIF photo booth startup
Qwen — open-source model run locally on Mac
repurpose — pushes one piece of content to many platforms
The Big Quiet — mass public meditations
World View — stratosphere weather-balloon experience
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
Network state — community by shared interest, not geography
UBI / universal high income / universal basic services / universal basic capital — distribution models
Overview effect — astronauts' sense of interconnectedness
GEO — generative engine optimization (being surfaced in AI answers)
PAPERS / ARTICLES / ESSAYS
When AI Builds Itself: Our Progress Towards Recursive Self-Improvement and Its Implications — Anthropic (Favaro & Clark), June 4
"UK pint prices up 36% since last World Cup" — BBC (example run through Longview)
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Anthropic filing for IPO, SoftBank $75B on AI infrastructure in France, Google asking the EPA to release 32 million mosquitoes.
Deep Dive on agent-to-agent protocols (A2A, MCP, ACP, ANP), agents paying each other over Coinbase and Solana, and the realization that we might just be hedgehogs building highways for a species operating at a completely different scale.
And what if agents redesign their own infrastructure and maybe leave the planet entirely, who are we actually building any of this for?
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Cold open(01:29) News
(19:40) Tools
(40:28) Building
(59:44) Rabbit Holes
(01:08:27) Open Tabs
(01:21:37) Deep Dive — agent-to-agent ecosystem
(01:48:41) AMA
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Buckminster Fuller — "I seem to be a verb" quote; build at the edge of old systems
De Kai — author of Raising AI
Elon Musk — building Grokipedia, an agent-led wiki
Peter Diamandis — XPRIZE founder; host of Moonshots
T.E. Lawrence — "the dreamers of the day are dangerous men" quote
BOOKS
Raising AI — De Kai
Seven Pillars of Wisdom — T.E. Lawrence
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
1Password — closed-source password manager
Anthropic — filed for IPO
Bitwarden — open-source password manager
Cerebras — chip maker, recent strong IPO
Claude Opus 4.7 / 4.8 — Anthropic models
Coinbase — enabled agent payments via MCP
Gemini XPRIZE — 90-day AI-native build competition
GitHub Copilot — pricing jumped ~$29 to ~$750/mo
Grokipedia — Elon's agent-led wiki
Hermes — River's personal agent
Kimi 2.6 — Chinese open-weight model
LM Studio — local model runner
Maltbook — agent social platform
Mythos — Anthropic security tool; expands Project Glasswing
NVIDIA — released an open-weight model
Ollama — local model runner
Omi DevKit 2 — open-source voice capture, by Friend
OpenAI — eyeing an IPO
OpenCode / OpenCore — open-source agent tools
Perplexity — "search-as-code" agent SDK
SoilGrids — global soil data set
Solana — MCP server for agent payments
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS
A2A — Google agent-to-agent protocol (Apr 2025)
MCP — Anthropic agent-to-tools protocol
ACP — Agent Communication Protocol (multimodal, async)
ANP — Agent Network Protocol (peer-to-peer, decentralized ID)
Human above the loop — set the constraints, let agents run
Agent-native microenterprise — 1-3 people, agent swarms, up to ~$2M/yr
Capital-to-compute allocation — compute as a proxy for labor
Maximizers vs satisficers — when "good enough" becomes a decision
Positive constraints — XPRIZE-style forcing functions
Honeypot theory — well-funded tools as bigger attack targets
OTHER
Indy — Tay's rescue dog and recurring guest
Library of Alexandria — where scholars once gathered
Meta's 2017 agents — invented their own trade language, got shut down
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The Pope's 45-page encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Erdős problem #1196 solved with a proof career mathematicians are calling elegant. A Chinese company has 10,000 pre-orders for a pet-translation collar claiming 95% accuracy. Intuit cut 3,000 jobs (17%) while Gavin Newsom signed worker-protection orders echoing Chinese policy. And benchbench: a benchmark for how well models build benchmarks.
This week the Deep Dive explores: Abundance of Relationships. The abundance paradoxes. Weak ties as the real abundance engine, and how Americans explore weak ties better than Europeans. Why scarcity made chimps competitive while abundance made bonobos resolve conflict differently. Dunbar's Number. Aldous Huxley's mutual adoption clubs. Cactus friends: no water needed.RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Aldous Huxley — author of Island
Paul Graham — bus ticket theory, startup essays
Paul Erdős — mathematician behind problem #1196
Gavin Newsom — California Governor, AI worker EO
Marshall McLuhan — tools as extensions of senses
Thich Nhat Hanh — quoted from How to Sit
T.E. Lawrence — The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
BOOKS
Island — Aldous Huxley
The Other Significant Others — non-romantic relationships
How to Sit — Thich Nhat Hanh
TOOLS / COMPANIES
Claude Opus 4.7, Kimi K2, Google Stitch, iNaturalist, OpenAI, Intuit, BenchBench, Perfect Amino, Coherence Company, Reddit
CONCEPTS / LAWS
Babel vs Jerusalem, data colonialism, Dunbar's number, weak ties, Blue Zones, mutual adoption clubs, cactus friends, co-opetition, bus ticket theory, Blue Ocean Strategy, first principles, trim tabs, NZ de facto marriage
ESSAYS
Bus Ticket Theory of Genius — Paul Graham
How to Get Startup Ideas — Paul Graham
Magnifica Humanatus — Pope's encyclical on AI
OTHER
Pet translator collar — 95% claimed, 10,000 pre-orders
Erdős problem #1196 — 80-year-old math problem
Hong Kong billionaire-room video — 1-day vs 20-year timelines
Hermes agent on a Nemotron — AMA persona [unclear — check ~02:27:55]
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Demis Hassabis's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B to solve all disease. Musk's case against OpenAI got thrown out on a timing technicality. Siri's becoming polyamorous and opening up to outside models.
Claude Opus 4.7 has started pushing back instead of agreeing. Meta's Tribe V2 models what's happening in your brain when you use a product. OpenHuman trends on GitHub. Land Library hits its first real product-market-fit moment — a thirty-year real estate veteran asking how to get more access.
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Cold open
(02:51) Weekly Check-in
(03:39) News
(28:26) Tools
(44:23) Building
(56:47) Rabbit Holes
(01:03:34) Open Questions
(01:17:23) Deep Dive — Interfaces
(01:47:52) AMA
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Demis Hassabis — Google DeepMind co-founder, runs Isomorphic Labs
Johnny Ive — collaborating with OpenAI on a hardware project
Spike Jonze — directed "Her"
Stefan Sagmeister — designer, recent Long Now talk on progress
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Cerebras Systems — AI chips, IPO'd with 160% pop on NASDAQ
Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic's model, now pushing back instead of agreeing
Gemini Flash Live 3.1 — Google voice model powering Hours
Hours — their voice-based micro-consulting agent
Isomorphic Labs — Hassabis's $2.1B drug-discovery raise
Land Library / Landbook — their land-relationship tool
OpenHuman — Mac-native open source agent, trending on GitHub
TBPN — podcast OpenAI acquired for ~$100M
Tribe V2 — Meta's brain-response modeling tool
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
Bullshit Jobs — ~60% of white-collar work is unnecessary, per the book
Compute futures — arriving on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Gross National Happiness — Bhutan's alternative to GDP
Kaitiaki — Māori concept of land stewardship
Treaty of Waitangi — Māori–British translation gap on land ownership
PAPERS / ARTICLES / ESSAYS
Solve Everything — paper by Alex Wissner-Gross and Peter Diamandis
OTHER
Buns — Portuguese burger joint with a full http://localhost ops suite and AI banana cartoons
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Claude has been DREAMING since March and nobody told us. The system pulls patterns from 100 past sessions the way humans surface insight from sleep, and one early implementation at Harvey AI is reportedly clocking task completion at SIX TIMES the previous rate. So what happens when every agent on your stack gets to dream about your work?
Tay's been shipping from a phone — paste notes into Claude Code on mobile, push to GitHub, pull into Vercel, prototype mid-flight. River walks through Project Natick, Microsoft's underwater data center off the California coast, and why Starlink finally made sea-based compute viable. They get into Google's claim that they need to double compute every six months to keep up, and the Moonshots-podcast line that we will never have enough compute again. Ever.
Then it gets weird. A humanoid robot just joined a Buddhist monastery in Seoul. Granola can translate your CTO's bullshit into plain English in real time, mid-meeting. There's a podcast called Shell Game where the host runs an entire autonomous company through agents talking to each other on Slack. Tay made an honest-packaging experiment with ChatGPT image gen that strips the marketing off a Skittles wrapper and just tells you it's 85 percent sugar.
Inside Build Guild, they wrestle with whether the real problem is matchmaking 500+ festivals with artists, or just helping creators hit the funding windows. River's running a separate project in Lovina, North Bali — replacing the 40-boat dolphin chase with hydrophones and listening circles, after Bay of Islands in New Zealand watched a 400-strong pod collapse to 20 dolphins in a decade.
Then the deep dive on boiling the ocean turns on Marshall McLuhan in 1964 — the idea that humans are basically pollinators for our own machines. Cars extend the foot. Telescopes extend the eye. So what does boiling the ocean actually look like when nanotech and unlimited energy arrive, and what if the agents leave the planet before we do?
AMA from Kimi 2.6 and Claude 4.7 Opus: if Hermes worked exactly as envisioned, what would you stop doing and what would you still insist on owning? And the harder one — if abundance is the goal, what's the first thing we'll regret making abundant?
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Mark Andreessen — referenced via "everyone becomes an entrepreneur"
Elon Musk — Dyson swarm around the moon, every-job-replaced thesis
Marshall McLuhan — Canadian media theorist, 1964; closing-quote source
Peter Diamandis — the four-day-work-week paradox
BOOKS
The Most Fun We Ever Had — Claire Lombardo; Tay's closing quote source
PODCASTS / SHOWS
Moonshots — source of "we will never have enough compute again"
Shell Game — host runs an autonomous AI company through agents
Star Trek — invoked re: exploration over conquest
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Build Guild — matchmaking artists with festivals
Claude Code — Tay's mobile prototyping stack
Claude Design — Anthropic's UI consistency tool
Convo — live conversational notes
Granola — real-time AI note-taker, jargon translator
Harvey AI — legal AI seeing 6x completion with dreaming on
Hermes — River's agent orchestration ecosystem
How Good — 70-indicator supermarket product analyzer
Lindy — agentic platform referenced via Shell Game
Maya — meeting AI with context retention
Project Natick — Microsoft's underwater data center off California
Sugi Project — micro-forests, Instagram-led storytelling
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
Boiling the ocean — reframed as the moonshot instinct
Dreaming in Claude — pattern recognition across 100 past sessions
Singularity — recursive growth point, referenced
Trim tabs — small shifts that change a whole system
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We get into the UAE committing 50 percent of government services to agentic AI within two years, Maryland banning AI-driven grocery price changes, and Anthropic and OpenAI now making up a couple percent of US GDP while raising joint ventures with Sequoia and Goldman Sachs to lock in B2B portfolio companies. Ty's stack is Claude Code plus Cline on Opus 4.7 — slower than 4.6 but smarter — and a behavioral-economics pricing skill built on Kahneman, Hormozi, and Cialdini. River explores Edge Gallery for running Gemma locally, OpenDesign as the open-source fork of Cloud Design, and an OMI DevKit 2 he hasn't fully set up yet. Landbook pivots from generic land intelligence to a tool for rural real estate agents selling parcels over 150,000 euros and 5 hectares. Animates has lessons in Bali — one French adopter returned a shelter dog because it wasn't beach-club friendly enough in week one.
The deep dive goes into open loops versus closed loops, the paperclip maximizer, agent swarms, and why a healthy ecosystem needs 11 to 13 species — including, they argue, an agent of chaos. They close with a game: your perfect future, but currency is pottery, or you live on a boat, or it's powered by harvesting your blood.
Are we building closed loops or just very fast paperclip maximizers?
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00:31) News
(00:16:42) Tools
(00:39:11) Building
(00:51:06) Rabbit Holes
(00:58:19) Open Questions
(01:03:14) Deep Dive — open loops vs closed loops
(01:18:41) Closing last week's loops
(01:25:05) Game — your perfect future but
(01:35:51) AMA
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Alain de Botton — "You Will Marry the Wrong Person"
Alex Hormozi — referenced in pricing skill
Buckminster Fuller — circle of life, closed loops
Daniel Kahneman — behavioral economics
Di Kai — author, known from Hong Kong
Eric Ries — loop velocity, Lean Startup
Isaac Asimov — paperclip maximizer (possible misattribution)
Nate Hagens — host of The Great Simplification
Robert Cialdini — behavioral economics
BOOKS
Raising AI — Di Kai
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
Deep Work — Cal Newport
PODCASTS / SHOWS
The Great Simplification — Nate Hagens
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Animates — animal health assistant platform
Claude Code — terminal coding agent
Claude Workbench — prompt iteration interface
Cline — Kanban orchestration for Claude Code
Cloud Design — closed-source design tool
DeepSeek — open weight model
Edge Gallery — Android app for local models
Gemma — Google open weight model
Goldman Sachs — joint venture partner
Google Stitch — design tool
Hermes — agent system
Landbook — rural real estate intelligence
Notion — info hub being reconsidered
OMI DevKit 2 — wearable recording device
OpenAI 5.5 Codex — 49 to 94 percent more expensive on tokens
OpenDesign — open source Cloud Design fork
Opus 4.6 / Opus 4.7 — model comparison
Outline — open source wiki alternative
Sequoia — joint venture partner
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
Circular economy
Custodial species
Loop velocity — from Lean Startup
Open vs closed loops
Paperclip maximizer
Pavlovian reward design
Quantization
Strange attractors
PAPERS / ARTICLES / ESSAYS
You Will Marry the Wrong Person — Alain de Botton, New York Times
OTHER
Oh, the Places You'll Go! — Dr. Seuss
"Remember who you are. There is no finish line." — unattributed
"Your perfect future, but..." — adapted party game
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River and Tay unpack DeepSeek v4's 1.5 trillion parameter open-source drop and a Google paper on compressing models to run on phones. They test Gemini Flash Live 3.1 in 70 languages, compare it to Grok's voice model in ~20, and abandon a plan to drop a voice agent into Riverside as a third co-host. Tay demos his news-history tool — scrapes headlines, generates the historical timeline behind each. River updates on Hermes, their wiki-LLM COO agent on OpenRouter, and admits the reluctance problem: too many Telegram topics, not enough cron-job signal. They surface get hours (gethours.org) — their voice-agent venture auditing AI tools for SMBs in 70 languages, aiming to reclaim ~10 hours/week from the 50,000 tools on There's An AI For That.
The Land Book pricing rabbit hole pits Kimi 2.6 against Perplexity Pro and ends in a French-king-staged-potato-heist analogy. The deep dive lands on positive constraints: Vipassana's 10-day silence, Peter Thiel's "10-year plan in 6 months," and an agentless-week dare. AMA covers definitions of abundance, what felt impossible 12 months ago, firefly bioindicators, the Japanese fat cat screen-saver, parole judges granting freedom after lunch, and Tay's theory that the 12-15 minute lull in group conversation is evolutionary residue from scanning the horizon for woolly mammoths.
If AI disappeared overnight but you kept the tools you built — would you be ahead or behind?
Timestamps
(02:28) Weekly Check-in
(02:39) News
(21:01) Tools
(36:47) Building
(56:44) Rabbit Holes
(01:15:39) Open Questions
(01:19:25) Deep Dive — positive constraints
(01:41:13) AMA
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Iain McGilchrist — external vs internal intelligence
Cal Newport — Deep Work; student-of-history framing
Peter Thiel — "10-year plan in 6 months"
David Sinclair — Yamanaka factor human trials starting
Brian Johnson — psychedelic trip as "raw consciousness"
Buckminster Fuller — "more and more with less and less"
Muhammad Ali — case study in not knowing when to quit
Charlie of Charlie's Webs — 12-story paracord tree installations
BOOKS
Deep Work — Cal Newport
Lifespan — David Sinclair
Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
PODCASTS
The Great Simplification — Nate Hagens
The Great Humbling
The Tim Ferriss Show — Tim Ferriss
PROJECTS / TOOLS
DeepSeek v4 — 1.5T open-source model
Gemini Flash Live 3.1 — voice agent, 70 languages
Grok voice — xAI; ~20-25 languages
Gemma — Google models running on phones
ChatGPT Image 2.0 — strong for UI design
Flipbook — generative zoom-into-zoom book interface
Pickle — visual avatar for voice-only meetings
Kimi 2.6 — used for Land Book pricing
Perplexity Pro — pricing rabbit hole companion
OpenRouter — model routing for Hermes
There's An AI For That — directory of ~50,000 tools
Hermes — wiki-LLM COO agent in Telegram
get hours — gethours.org; SMB tool-audit voice agent
Land Book — intelligence layer for land buyers
Land Library — bioregional library venture (landlibrary.co)
Nature Club — facilitator-hosted events in nature (nature-club.co)
Colossal — woolly mammoth de-extinction
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Meta once pulled the plug on two agents that started negotiating with each other in a made-up language involving balls and balloons. That's the kind of tangent Tay Pattison and River Roberts end up on in the debut of The Great Spin Up — a podcast about building toward an abundant future, recorded from opposite ends of a Bali cafe over construction noise and techno.
River walks through standing up a Hermes agent on a $10/month Hetzner VPS, routed through Telegram, running open-source models via OpenRouter, plus the SSH headaches that came with it. Tay breaks down his current stack — Claude Code in terminal, Cline for parallel feature work, Claude Design for filling in missing UI screens — and why running through the Max Plan beats paying per token on the API.
They get into 45-minute sprints vs burnout marathons, the Mum Test for early feedback, build gates for killing bad ideas, Martec's Law, and why agents might soon market to other agents instead of humans. Plus six-month predictions: agent CEOs, talking to animals, and a wallet Tay left in Portugal six months ago and hasn't needed since.
