CyrilXBT (@cyrilXBT)

Six months ago, "graph engineering" wasn't a job title anyone used. Today it's one of the fastest-moving specializations in applied AI, and almost nobody currently working in it has more than a few months of hands-on experience, because the field itself is that new....

Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code, has a confirmed daily workflow that sounds almost absurd until you understand the architecture underneath it. Phone as his primary interface, not a laptop. Five to ten active sessions running at once. Each one capable of spawning sub-agents, sometimes a few hundr...

Most research work is not thinking. It is reading, extracting, and cross-referencing, done manually, one source at a time, and it eats the hours that should go to the actual thinking....

Every time you type a message to Claude, GPT, or any other large language model, you are talking to the output of a five stage pipeline that took months, sometimes years, and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to build....

Every other model makes you babysit it....

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views. He died 5 months after recording it. It was his final gift to the world. Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years. The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom. And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one...

Every AI agent you have ever used has the same design flaw....

Most multi-agent systems fail for the same boring reason. Someone spins up three or four agents, gives each one a vague job description, lets them all talk to each other freely, and then wonders why the output is worse than a single well-prompted agent would have produced alone....

Most people open Obsidian, write a few notes in the default folder, and never touch a single setting again. ...