[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@willccbb](/creator/twitter/willccbb) "it's still crazy to me how much my life has totally changed in the past year. last summer i had just finished a CS theory phd converted from banking intern to banking full-timer and had just reached 1000 followers on here. yesterday i got recognized by someone on my flight"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947643303517634683) 2025-07-22 13:02:03 UTC 28.5K followers, 63.3K engagements "do we think an ai system will be able to reliably do semi-complex personal taxes by april 2026"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1939117639428661586) 2025-06-29 00:24:06 UTC 28.2K followers, 37.8K engagements "@afurgs at that point just hand over the hardware lol"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947849195521774040) 2025-07-23 02:40:12 UTC 27.7K followers, XXX engagements "it's kind of a "King of England" situation"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948897799820464285) 2025-07-26 00:06:58 UTC 28.5K followers, 146.9K engagements "@khoomeik big complexity spectrum at the end of the day envs are just software by raw count i expect XX% either bulk-generated or nearly one-shot vibecoded (id guess the MCP ecosystem is like this already) but high-powered envs for specialized domains will be mainly handcrafted"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948481690948546863) 2025-07-24 20:33:30 UTC 28.5K followers, 2807 engagements "@yacineMTB @jsuarez5341 (every serious open LLM RL stack uses either vLLM or SGLang for inference)"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948731606019051526) 2025-07-25 13:06:35 UTC 28.4K followers, XXX engagements "im much more inclined to say that the RL *system* inside OpenAI is AGI rather than than any fixed model checkpoint which comes out of it"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1946880991798173808) 2025-07-20 10:32:54 UTC 28.5K followers, 420.9K engagements "synthetic RL environments all the way down. the future is here"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947401093526573551) 2025-07-21 20:59:36 UTC 27.7K followers, 4486 engagements "if a model uses several sequential tool calls interleaved with chain-of-thought reasoning to answer a single question this is:"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947665782999290322) 2025-07-22 14:31:23 UTC 28.5K followers, 13K engagements "theory is that its partly downstream of export controls as well as knowing their audience domestically DeepSeek and Kimi dont need to worry about a race to the bottom on inference pricing there are only so many GPUs to go around people will use the official host by default internationally most wont trust their API anyway and open-sourcing gives them an alternative route to mindshare"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1949098664938398103) 2025-07-26 13:25:08 UTC 28.5K followers, 1990 engagements "strong LLM priors are a powerful basin of reasonableness. you can twist and contort this to sample filter evaluate synthesize; theres a gravity towards Good imbued from the whole of the internet you just have to set up the dominoes and let probability take the wheel"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947402114763825190) 2025-07-21 21:03:39 UTC 27.7K followers, 4405 engagements "@yacineMTB @jsuarez5341 for tabula rasa RL this is probably true it's not true for LLMs we already have a good universal abstraction for LLM inference via the OpenAI API spec all serious inference engines support it. you can decouple your rollout logic from your training logic at zero cost"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948730692382159354) 2025-07-25 13:02:57 UTC 28.5K followers, XXX engagements "@kalomaze LeBron James has sent cease-and-desist letters to the AI company making pregnancy videos of him Instagram has banned three accounts for resharing the videos"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948804142308491674) 2025-07-25 17:54:49 UTC 28.5K followers, 4557 engagements "cant stop thinking about this one insanely elegant seems insanely powerful"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1945940824379752733) 2025-07-17 20:17:01 UTC 28.5K followers, 99.6K engagements "you know things are heating up when one of the hottest early-stage AI VC firms of all time Stanford University is losing top talent to a new upstart"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1940479816517697870) 2025-07-02 18:36:55 UTC 28.3K followers, 12.2K engagements "after a few weeks of productively working from just a laptop screen starting to wonder if X monitors is a mistake"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947641191933079909) 2025-07-22 12:53:40 UTC 28.2K followers, 29.8K engagements "@tw_killian the research findings yes what's not clear is how much curated human data they're using nowadays for training model-based verifiers to RL against if deep research + operator + agent + IMO needed tons of human annotations system is not AGI if e2e synthetic system is maybe AGI"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947036808195317813) 2025-07-20 20:52:03 UTC 28.1K followers, 3768 engagements "the models i've been using the most lately are Cursor Tab and willcb/Qwen3-1.7B-Wordle"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1945812756692656180) 2025-07-17 11:48:07 UTC 27.7K followers, 6999 engagements "Meta is hiring researchers on 4-year contracts. most big labs are doing the same. would this be rational if there was a high expectation of AI research being fully automated in less than X years"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1949125553409151164) 2025-07-26 15:11:59 UTC 28.5K followers, 37.4K engagements "@KyeGomezB overhauling for next major release version lotta new stuff 🫡"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948417474845638983) 2025-07-24 16:18:20 UTC 28.4K followers, XX engagements "i feel like you shouldnt call your paper that"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948738181727232447) 2025-07-25 13:32:42 UTC 28.5K followers, 146.1K engagements "idk about that most of my friends know what it is"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1936514349000003984) 2025-06-21 19:59:34 UTC 28.2K followers, 369.5K engagements "it wasn't even a tech bro flight. copenhagen to newark"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947644114683518985) 2025-07-22 13:05:17 UTC 27.7K followers, 5749 engagements "@SinaHartung to be fair a company called The Browser Company cant just have *one* browser"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948703460603404748) 2025-07-25 11:14:44 UTC 28.5K followers, 18.2K engagements "i was hoping i could skip adding this one to my Qwen3 but with normal tokenizer chat templates HF collection but :("  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947386897048998259) 2025-07-21 20:03:11 UTC 27.7K followers, 2365 engagements "its a shame that were running out of internet data because everyone collectively stopped putting new content onto the internet"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947778052320006492) 2025-07-22 21:57:30 UTC 28.4K followers, 12.4K engagements "honestly i would much rather have an open-source 4.1-mini than an open-source o3-mini"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1946204303338668136) 2025-07-18 13:43:59 UTC 28.2K followers, 15.9K engagements "@JustinLin610 any more info you're able to share on how you apply it for agentic tasks is GSPO-token what's used for your multi-turn rollouts how do you handle branching/non-increasing context e.g. throwing away think sections"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1948955524445209056) 2025-07-26 03:56:21 UTC 28.5K followers, 1217 engagements "maybe the way to handle offloading tasks to semi-reliable agents is to just rebuild everything around git. email git. shopping git. paying taxes git. calendar believe it or not also git"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1946194886249648418) 2025-07-18 13:06:34 UTC 28.5K followers, 56.5K engagements "one of these days i'm gonna start squashing commits but today is not that day"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947792011123179550) 2025-07-22 22:52:58 UTC 28.4K followers, 6380 engagements "@daniel_mac8 getting self-verification + self-generation of learning curricula to work at scale would count as AGI in my book"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1946972877556986320) 2025-07-20 16:38:01 UTC 28.5K followers, 10.8K engagements "one of my favorite parts of working at prime intellect is getting to pick the silly names whenever someone launches a new instance"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947848238058364952) 2025-07-23 02:36:23 UTC 28.4K followers, 5005 engagements "@solarizid just seeing how small of a model i can get to hillclimb wordle with as few output toks as possible (more as a multi-turn infra test case than for science) this is with a SFT'd Qwen3-1.7B"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1944715289234379155) 2025-07-14 11:07:10 UTC 27.7K followers, XXX engagements "ChatGPT Agent is actually quite useful for booking flights"  [@willccbb](/creator/x/willccbb) on [X](/post/tweet/1947734820374647057) 2025-07-22 19:05:42 UTC 28.5K followers, 5961 engagements
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"it's still crazy to me how much my life has totally changed in the past year. last summer i had just finished a CS theory phd converted from banking intern to banking full-timer and had just reached 1000 followers on here. yesterday i got recognized by someone on my flight" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 13:02:03 UTC 28.5K followers, 63.3K engagements
"do we think an ai system will be able to reliably do semi-complex personal taxes by april 2026" @willccbb on X 2025-06-29 00:24:06 UTC 28.2K followers, 37.8K engagements
"@afurgs at that point just hand over the hardware lol" @willccbb on X 2025-07-23 02:40:12 UTC 27.7K followers, XXX engagements
"it's kind of a "King of England" situation" @willccbb on X 2025-07-26 00:06:58 UTC 28.5K followers, 146.9K engagements
"@khoomeik big complexity spectrum at the end of the day envs are just software by raw count i expect XX% either bulk-generated or nearly one-shot vibecoded (id guess the MCP ecosystem is like this already) but high-powered envs for specialized domains will be mainly handcrafted" @willccbb on X 2025-07-24 20:33:30 UTC 28.5K followers, 2807 engagements
"@yacineMTB @jsuarez5341 (every serious open LLM RL stack uses either vLLM or SGLang for inference)" @willccbb on X 2025-07-25 13:06:35 UTC 28.4K followers, XXX engagements
"im much more inclined to say that the RL system inside OpenAI is AGI rather than than any fixed model checkpoint which comes out of it" @willccbb on X 2025-07-20 10:32:54 UTC 28.5K followers, 420.9K engagements
"synthetic RL environments all the way down. the future is here" @willccbb on X 2025-07-21 20:59:36 UTC 27.7K followers, 4486 engagements
"if a model uses several sequential tool calls interleaved with chain-of-thought reasoning to answer a single question this is:" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 14:31:23 UTC 28.5K followers, 13K engagements
"theory is that its partly downstream of export controls as well as knowing their audience domestically DeepSeek and Kimi dont need to worry about a race to the bottom on inference pricing there are only so many GPUs to go around people will use the official host by default internationally most wont trust their API anyway and open-sourcing gives them an alternative route to mindshare" @willccbb on X 2025-07-26 13:25:08 UTC 28.5K followers, 1990 engagements
"strong LLM priors are a powerful basin of reasonableness. you can twist and contort this to sample filter evaluate synthesize; theres a gravity towards Good imbued from the whole of the internet you just have to set up the dominoes and let probability take the wheel" @willccbb on X 2025-07-21 21:03:39 UTC 27.7K followers, 4405 engagements
"@yacineMTB @jsuarez5341 for tabula rasa RL this is probably true it's not true for LLMs we already have a good universal abstraction for LLM inference via the OpenAI API spec all serious inference engines support it. you can decouple your rollout logic from your training logic at zero cost" @willccbb on X 2025-07-25 13:02:57 UTC 28.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@kalomaze LeBron James has sent cease-and-desist letters to the AI company making pregnancy videos of him Instagram has banned three accounts for resharing the videos" @willccbb on X 2025-07-25 17:54:49 UTC 28.5K followers, 4557 engagements
"cant stop thinking about this one insanely elegant seems insanely powerful" @willccbb on X 2025-07-17 20:17:01 UTC 28.5K followers, 99.6K engagements
"you know things are heating up when one of the hottest early-stage AI VC firms of all time Stanford University is losing top talent to a new upstart" @willccbb on X 2025-07-02 18:36:55 UTC 28.3K followers, 12.2K engagements
"after a few weeks of productively working from just a laptop screen starting to wonder if X monitors is a mistake" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 12:53:40 UTC 28.2K followers, 29.8K engagements
"@tw_killian the research findings yes what's not clear is how much curated human data they're using nowadays for training model-based verifiers to RL against if deep research + operator + agent + IMO needed tons of human annotations system is not AGI if e2e synthetic system is maybe AGI" @willccbb on X 2025-07-20 20:52:03 UTC 28.1K followers, 3768 engagements
"the models i've been using the most lately are Cursor Tab and willcb/Qwen3-1.7B-Wordle" @willccbb on X 2025-07-17 11:48:07 UTC 27.7K followers, 6999 engagements
"Meta is hiring researchers on 4-year contracts. most big labs are doing the same. would this be rational if there was a high expectation of AI research being fully automated in less than X years" @willccbb on X 2025-07-26 15:11:59 UTC 28.5K followers, 37.4K engagements
"@KyeGomezB overhauling for next major release version lotta new stuff 🫡" @willccbb on X 2025-07-24 16:18:20 UTC 28.4K followers, XX engagements
"i feel like you shouldnt call your paper that" @willccbb on X 2025-07-25 13:32:42 UTC 28.5K followers, 146.1K engagements
"idk about that most of my friends know what it is" @willccbb on X 2025-06-21 19:59:34 UTC 28.2K followers, 369.5K engagements
"it wasn't even a tech bro flight. copenhagen to newark" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 13:05:17 UTC 27.7K followers, 5749 engagements
"@SinaHartung to be fair a company called The Browser Company cant just have one browser" @willccbb on X 2025-07-25 11:14:44 UTC 28.5K followers, 18.2K engagements
"i was hoping i could skip adding this one to my Qwen3 but with normal tokenizer chat templates HF collection but :(" @willccbb on X 2025-07-21 20:03:11 UTC 27.7K followers, 2365 engagements
"its a shame that were running out of internet data because everyone collectively stopped putting new content onto the internet" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 21:57:30 UTC 28.4K followers, 12.4K engagements
"honestly i would much rather have an open-source 4.1-mini than an open-source o3-mini" @willccbb on X 2025-07-18 13:43:59 UTC 28.2K followers, 15.9K engagements
"@JustinLin610 any more info you're able to share on how you apply it for agentic tasks is GSPO-token what's used for your multi-turn rollouts how do you handle branching/non-increasing context e.g. throwing away think sections" @willccbb on X 2025-07-26 03:56:21 UTC 28.5K followers, 1217 engagements
"maybe the way to handle offloading tasks to semi-reliable agents is to just rebuild everything around git. email git. shopping git. paying taxes git. calendar believe it or not also git" @willccbb on X 2025-07-18 13:06:34 UTC 28.5K followers, 56.5K engagements
"one of these days i'm gonna start squashing commits but today is not that day" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 22:52:58 UTC 28.4K followers, 6380 engagements
"@daniel_mac8 getting self-verification + self-generation of learning curricula to work at scale would count as AGI in my book" @willccbb on X 2025-07-20 16:38:01 UTC 28.5K followers, 10.8K engagements
"one of my favorite parts of working at prime intellect is getting to pick the silly names whenever someone launches a new instance" @willccbb on X 2025-07-23 02:36:23 UTC 28.4K followers, 5005 engagements
"@solarizid just seeing how small of a model i can get to hillclimb wordle with as few output toks as possible (more as a multi-turn infra test case than for science) this is with a SFT'd Qwen3-1.7B" @willccbb on X 2025-07-14 11:07:10 UTC 27.7K followers, XXX engagements
"ChatGPT Agent is actually quite useful for booking flights" @willccbb on X 2025-07-22 19:05:42 UTC 28.5K followers, 5961 engagements
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