"The potential of complex machines to actively increase public understanding and agency, to uplift us all, has been subsumed into ever more centralized and closely guarded machines of knowledge acquisition and domination, to the detriment of our common power." @jamesbridle.bsky.social, Ways of Being
Matt Dionis
@dionis.dev
Dad, husband, 🐶 dad, Software Engineer. Working to change the world for the better through AI & decentralized tech.
A quick demo of the "storm watch" feature currently live on WooPulse. With today's risk of flooding, I thought it would be nice to see wetland, flood zone, and live radar for any address in the city of Worcester...so I built it! youtu.be/-gJ7HHPGqTQ?...
WooPulse Dynamic Map: Live Radar, Flood Zones & Wetlands (Worcester, MA)
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It's pretty damn cool to watch an engineering pipeline utilize available context to solve a problem. Here my pipeline is investigating a bug by looking through recent commits and its memory, using Context7 to read docs, and even looking into relevant Linear issues, Notion specs, and Obsidian notes.
You can pry open-weight models from my cold, dead hands. I have found that I don't need Fable or Opus for the vast majority of my tasks. GLM 5.2 has served as a viable Opus/Sonnet replacement w/ MiniMax M3 acting as a Sonnet/Haiku alternative. Data and inference sovereignty are the end goals.
My summer reading so far. If I had to recommend just one of these it would be "Nexus". The deep discussion of information networks throughout history influenced the way I think about building with AI. With that said, each of these books is worth a read!
I began the process of making my dev pipeline's model selection configurable over the weekend. Been rolling w/ Claude models until now but I don't want to get locked in to one model family and I'm aiming to reduce costs. Thanks to my pipeline, the model can change but the DSL remains!
Experimenting w/ my personal site, dionis.dev, by providing the chatbot w/ filtered context from my development pipeline. A visitor that enjoys the cross-site transitions between my sites can ask, "how did you implement the cross-site transitions between your sites" and receive an accurate response.
In January I began building software through my custom engineering pipeline and it has been populating, reading, and updating @obsidian.md, @notion.com, and Linear content ever since. I now have an incredibly interesting Obsidian graph, hundreds of Notion specs, ~8k Linear tasks backing my pipeline!
i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)
Smooth cross-domain transitions implemented autonomously by my dev pipeline as I worked on more urgent tasks. 😎 It's nice to be able to lean on a dev pipeline to build features like this as this type of work would never see the light of day in the past due to a long list of higher priorities.
I wanted an "all things Worcester" app so I leveraged the dev pipeline I've poured hundreds of hours into building to create it! This is the first product launched under the @clovernight.build platform which will be opening up soon. Request early access here: clovernight.build woopulse.live
WooPulse — Worcester's Morning Dashboard
Weather, transit, sports, events, and alerts for Worcester, MA. The everything-Worcester app.
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I added a basic CLI tool, `claude-config-composer`, to the claude-code-configs repo. 🦾 Want to generate an optimal Claude Code configuration for a Next.js project? Just run the below: `npx claude-config-composer nextjs-15 shadcn tailwindcss` github.com/Matt-Dionis/...
I'm adding a CLI to github.com/Matt-Dionis/... that supports building custom Claude Code configs based on your stack's language, framework, and major dependencies! AI-assisted dev is cool, AI-assisted dev configured for your specific stack is cooler. 😎
For those who use Claude Code for development, I just open-sourced a repo with full, custom Claude Code configurations for various projects! I added full support for Next.js 15 with many more languages, frameworks & popular packages on the way (including Radius MCP SDK)! github.com/Matt-Dionis/...
GitHub - Matt-Dionis/claude-code-configs
Contribute to Matt-Dionis/claude-code-configs development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I spun up some subagents, commands & hooks in a side project. I love this new approach to AI-assisted development! 🤖 Subagents act as experts focused on specific areas ⌨️ Commands allow you to define custom slash commands 🪝 Hooks allow you to introduce determinism to inherently probabilistic flows
Friday night project complete! Claude Code + TTS so that I can be alerted as tasks complete or input is needed while I work on other things.
This demo shows Claude autonomously & securely accessing token-gated MCP tools! This benefits MCP Server builders & agent builders. MCP builders can monetize their tools in just 3 lines of code.Clients can autonomously purchase access to these tools! youtu.be/SsvIsu66fd8?... CC: @thedsp.bsky.social
How to Monetize MCP Servers: Token-Gating AI Tools with Radius Payments
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My take on AI programming products such as Cursor & Claude Code in mid-2025: 🪄If you expect these products to act like magic wands, you'll be sorely disappointed 🛠️ If you understand that these products are tools to be leveraged to vastly improve your efficiency as a developer, you'll be blown away
In this video, I show how AI agents can access real-time data faster than web search while making micropayments to MCP servers! Claude autonomously handles 402 payment requirements via EVMAuth, enabling direct access to premium MCP tools. No more web scraping of stale data! youtu.be/L6WBmMvrsm4?...
MCP vs Web Search: Real-time Sports Data with Autonomous Payments | Live Demo
YouTube video by Matt Dionis
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A discussion on LLM web search inefficiencies, copyright battles, and how EVMAuth on Radius can make for a much better future of agentic AI solutions! 🦾 open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
Beyond Web Search: The Micropayment Infrastructure AI Agents Actually Need
Let's set the scene: You're building a financial analysis agent for a major hedge fund.
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"The most profound impact may be enabling truly autonomous AI agents. With EVMAuth, an agent could receive a budget, make decisions about resource allocation, and execute tasks requiring paid services—all without human intervention." hackernoon.com/evmauth-an-o...
EVMAuth: An Open Authorization Protocol for the AI Agent Economy | HackerNoon
EVMAuth is an open source authorization protocol that enables AI agents to access paid web resources without human intervention.
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Here is a demo of EVMAuth protecting pages and API endpoints within a Next.js app! 🔐 While this demo shows a human user interacting with the site, we will also be releasing an AI agent toolkit soon which will allow agents to navigate this flow autonomously! 🦾 youtu.be/QUiF0f0jjR0?...
EVMAuth Demo: Token-Gated Authentication in Next.js | Protected Pages & API Endpoints
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We're creating a digital ouroboros - AI consuming its own tail as models train on their own outputs. This feedback loop has huge implications which I'll discuss in an upcoming post: "Eating Our Digital Tail: How Generative AI Creates Its Own Digital Ouroboros" substack.com/@matthewdionis
Beyond Assistants: The Rise of True AI Agents open.substack.com/pub/matthewd... #AI #AgenticAI #LLM #Substack
Beyond Assistants: The Rise of True AI Agents
Discover the fundamental differences between AI assistants and true AI agents, and why this distinction will reshape our relationship with technology.
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"The transition from AI assistants to true AI agents represents as fundamental a shift as the leap from command-line interfaces to graphical operating systems. The paradigm of how we interact with technology is being reimagined from the ground up."
Beyond Assistants: The Rise of True AI Agents
Discover the fundamental differences between AI assistants and true AI agents, and why this distinction will reshape our relationship with technology.
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“Just as massive objects curve spacetime, creating paths of least resistance that smaller objects naturally follow, extreme wealth distorts our entire economic playing field.” open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
The Physics of Inequality
When Wealth Disparities Mirror Theoretical Incompatibilities
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What a Sunday! I was fortunate enough to be able to spend the day working w/ incredible teams as they built on the Radius platform. Massive thanks to everyone at SundAI Club! You all took Radius for a spin & created some very impressive demos. 🦾 The AI community in Cambridge is something special!
🦾 Radius AI Agent Toolkit for TypeScript! The missing piece for autonomous AI agents has arrived. Our open-source toolkit enables AI agents to process millions of transactions at machine speed with near-zero cost, with support for major AI frameworks! github.com/radiustechsystems/ai-agent-toolkit
GitHub - radiustechsystems/ai-agent-toolkit: Toolkits for integrating Radius capabilities into agentic AI applications.
Toolkits for integrating Radius capabilities into agentic AI applications. - radiustechsystems/ai-agent-toolkit
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