“Hungary seeks president: fashion model, internet meme, or Rubik's Cube inventor?”
Alan Nichol
@alanmnichol.bsky.social
Co-founder@Rasa, doing chatbots since before they were good. Sharing takes I can't put on linkedin. Former physicist, wannabe chef, someday cuneiform translator.
When I was a teenager my dad always said his dream was to become a world-leading expert in something very niche, and then be called up everywhere for an opinion when that suddenly became topical. Anyway happily reading Emily Wilson in the lrb and Atlantic this week
Remembering google’s inbox app, which delightfully extracted all the important details of a trip into a nice card shown prominently at the top. Gemini fails to add a flight to my calendar from an email.
Today I managed to get a work discussion going about the gömböc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
Gömböc - Wikipedia
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how to build an agent when you have a 1 token context window
My investment thesis is “dumb baselines everyone claims to beat”
Boing Boing@boingboing.net · 3mo agoChina built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.
Built something I always wanted: a better way to figure out what comedians you want to see at the fringe: fringebinge.co.uk Comedy is so subjective, what's the point of a poster full of 5 star reviews?
FringeBinge — swipe your way to Fringe 2026
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Flashback to 2014 hearing a VC brag they’d invested in a company with “a seven layer convolutional neural network”
10 years ago my 5k pb was just under 19 minutes. Slowly getting back into running and this morning did a 29:23 Life comes at you fast.
In GLM news, still happy to ship you one of these if you want.
Alan Nichol@alanmnichol.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew stickers! Hit me up if you want one, will mail you one for free.
“When I was young you couldn’t be gay, but you could smoke anywhere. Now it’s the other way around “ rip david Hockney a real one
What simpsons character is most plausible as a persona dreamt up by jimmy mcgill or Kim wexler
Workslop is very real but I’ve also seen people who are smart but struggle to articulate their thoughts DRAMATICALLY improve their writing by first sparring with Claude.
Bookmark this for a nuclear “well actually”
Yoïn van Spijk@yvanspijk.bsky.social · 4mo ago‘Probably’ is often pronounced /probly/, losing the syllable ‘ba’. This is called haplology. Some people have an issue with that, but what they don’t know is that ‘probably’ is the result of haplology too: in Middle English, it was ‘probablely’. Click my new graphic for more cases of haplology:
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. Session token limit expired. Resets at 1pm.
Claude design is very nice - finally shipped a personal site alannichol.com
Alan Nichol — AI agents, agentic architectures, and shipping LLMs to prod
Essays, talks, and podcasts by Alan Nichol, Founder & CTO of Rasa — on building reliable AI agents, agentic architectures in production, and Conversation-Driven Development.
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I was just doing a little A/B test where 5% of my spending hits your credit card instead nbd
Pour one out for the marketing teams who already committed their spend for the year
So fuckin weird to me that in the VC world it’s just canon that “A.I.” started when ChatGPT launched.
Now I want an app for exploring the latent space of spoken languages
Abel@abeliansoup.bsky.social · 5mo agointeresting WAN family artefact. when audio is left disconnected on an i2v model with speaking instructions but no dialogue provided, the model injects its own protolanguage to fill the time
Is there anything more uncool and embarrassing than being referred to as a stakeholder
New stickers! Hit me up if you want one, will mail you one for free.
