Nick Beaird •
@Nickanbe
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Head of People @btcinc
Notion
Joined October 2018
Enterprise AI strategy is backwards. Most people are focusing on Chief AI Officers and pilot programs, when the real value is in the unglamorous work where organizations bleed time. More thoughts:
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Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way
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We brought the Ralph Wiggum loop to goose with a multi-model approach where one model does the work and a second model reviews it. Tutorial 👇 https://t.co/dtL5U8QD7O
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Run goose in a loop with fresh context per iteration and cross-model review
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Worth thinking about how to describe what your organization does, in detail, in a series of plain English markdown files.
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NEW: i wrote a complete technical guide to building agent-native software (co-authored with claude) it covers: - the five pillars of agent native design (parity, granularity, composability, emergent capability, self-improvement) - files as the universal interface - agent
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We're doing bitcoin things.
BTC Inc Documents Over a Year of Operating Bitcoin Payments at Scale in New BTCPay Server Case Study “Free and open-source software isn’t optional for Bitcoin companies, it’s foundational.” — Brandon Green, CEO, BTC Inc
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[Insert John Hamm dancing to turn the lights down by Kato meme]
I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to
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This is an excellent letter. Worth reading the whole thing, but here's some excerpts: - AI data center investment accounted for over 90% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 - A third of American teens use AI not just for homework but for companionship, with another third
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I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to
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Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are
Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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New on our Frontier Red Team blog: We tested whether AIs can exploit blockchain smart contracts. In simulated testing, AI agents found $4.6M in exploits. The research (with @MATSprogram and the Anthropic Fellows program) also developed a new benchmark:
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