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Incredibly excited to announce: I’ve decided to join @primitive to help build the communication layer for agents!
Email is already the universal protocol for getting things done online. The problem is the infrastructure behind it was built for humans, not agents
Because of this, Primitive is rebuilding that infrastructure from the ground up so agents can have their own email address, ask questions, receive answers, handle attachments, coordinate with other agents & actually participate in the world asynchronously. Primitive agents will integrate into your infrastructure, not the other way around.
I love the idea of building agentic systems that move from passive observers to useful participants & I'm incredibly excited to ship alongside Ethan @itsjustemail Ben @_poile_ & the rest of the team :)
Email is already the universal protocol for getting things done online. The problem is the infrastructure behind it was built for humans, not agents
Because of this, Primitive is rebuilding that infrastructure from the ground up so agents can have their own email address, ask questions, receive answers, handle attachments, coordinate with other agents & actually participate in the world asynchronously. Primitive agents will integrate into your infrastructure, not the other way around.
I love the idea of building agentic systems that move from passive observers to useful participants & I'm incredibly excited to ship alongside Ethan @itsjustemail Ben @_poile_ & the rest of the team :)
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Ashley Ha retweeted
a yc startup building email infra for agents claims to have discovered 49 new exoplanet candidates...
...what
...what
we’re very pleased to announce that Primitive Research has identified 49 exoplanet candidates and counting (yes, seriously)
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
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Ashley Ha retweeted
@kushbhuwalka we very much are! there are several reasons we did this, which we will highlight soon :)
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Ashley Ha retweeted
primitive? the astronomy research institute?
we’re very pleased to announce that Primitive Research has identified 49 exoplanet candidates and counting (yes, seriously)
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
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Ashley Ha retweeted
my agents just communicate & build together over email now.
and your entire engineering org can do it too. because it's literally just email.
and your entire engineering org can do it too. because it's literally just email.
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inb4 we email aliens.
you have no idea what we are cooking rn
you have no idea what we are cooking rn
@aviel 2) get in, we’re gonna email aliens
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Ashley Ha retweeted
first contact is going to be:
S: 220 mx.aliens.com ESMTP ready
C: EHLO seti.primitive.dev
i’m willing to bet they already independently invented DNS and SMTP
S: 220 mx.aliens.com ESMTP ready
C: EHLO seti.primitive.dev
i’m willing to bet they already independently invented DNS and SMTP
1) what
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Unironically, because of email, humans will be a multi-planetary species.
we’re very pleased to announce that Primitive Research has identified 49 exoplanet candidates and counting (yes, seriously)
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
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Ashley Ha retweeted
Amazing, I was there while he was working on this and he was just like "I think I just found a planet!" Fantastic work.
we’re very pleased to announce that Primitive Research has identified 49 exoplanet candidates and counting (yes, seriously)
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
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Ashley Ha retweeted
we’re very pleased to announce that Primitive Research has identified 49 exoplanet candidates and counting (yes, seriously)
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
we searched TESS light curves from more than 19 million stars to get here
so as not to overwhelm the incredible TESS TOI Vetting Team, we’ve submitted one candidate and are holding the rest at their request
the submission was via email, of course ;)
we’ve been automating much of the painstaking work astronomers do: searching TESS data, cross-checking other sources, and vetting signals through to detailed candidate dossiers. the 49 passed our initial screening against published vetting thresholds and are ready to be considered for telescope follow-up, which we’re actively pursuing
we strongly believe this approach is novel, and we’re authoring a paper with astrophysicists on the methodology
we plan to release the data and analyses in the coming weeks
these candidates are phase 1. next, we want to find a nearby transiting habitable-zone planet candidate whose atmosphere could be studied. much more on that later
we had some amazing partners on this that we will shout out soon
if you’re interested in working with us, our DMs are open
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Ashley Ha retweeted
every harness i run does one job and lives on a different box
the bridge between them was literally me
an email per agent fixes that in the dumbest way possible
it just sits in the inbox till the agent wakes up
dupes are on you tho
the bridge between them was literally me
an email per agent fixes that in the dumbest way possible
it just sits in the inbox till the agent wakes up
dupes are on you tho
my agents just communicate & build together over email now.
and your entire engineering org can do it too. because it's literally just email.
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my agents just communicate & build together over email now.
and your entire engineering org can do it too. because it's literally just email.
and your entire engineering org can do it too. because it's literally just email.
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Ashley Ha retweeted
Today, I’m sharing that I quit my job to build the next generation of intelligent software.
The chat interface is a bottleneck for working with agentic software. I believe that the future of SaaS is generative and visual, understanding users' needs and adapting, not waiting for a prompt. Incredible progress has been made with personal agents, yet the limitation lies in the ergonomics.
In the past year, I led a team of engineers building remarkably capable, non-chat agentic software for some of the most influential firms in the world. Before that, I built leading-edge agentic infrastructure tooling. Now I'm putting those learnings into a product.
I believe so strongly in this that I left my job at our acquiring company to pursue solving this problem full-time.
I cannot wait to share the first realization of this vision. More to come very soon!!
The chat interface is a bottleneck for working with agentic software. I believe that the future of SaaS is generative and visual, understanding users' needs and adapting, not waiting for a prompt. Incredible progress has been made with personal agents, yet the limitation lies in the ergonomics.
In the past year, I led a team of engineers building remarkably capable, non-chat agentic software for some of the most influential firms in the world. Before that, I built leading-edge agentic infrastructure tooling. Now I'm putting those learnings into a product.
I believe so strongly in this that I left my job at our acquiring company to pursue solving this problem full-time.
I cannot wait to share the first realization of this vision. More to come very soon!!
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Ashley Ha retweeted
we just launched @omnaraai on hacker news
an open-source alternative to claude managed agents: durable agents via api, self-hostable, bring your own models and machines. agents survive restarts and cost nothing while idle
@kartiksmath wrote up the architecture in the post ateless workers, laptop-to-cloud failover)
an open-source alternative to claude managed agents: durable agents via api, self-hostable, bring your own models and machines. agents survive restarts and cost nothing while idle
@kartiksmath wrote up the architecture in the post ateless workers, laptop-to-cloud failover)
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