Gauntlet AI founder Austen Allred urges X to prioritize followed accounts over its current recommendation algorithm

In the old algorithm, we used to have an explicit recommendation source for this: content your friends like.

The current algo is smart enough to serve that content implicitly—but I think overall frequency of friend-of-friend content is lower (or gets drowned out during video slop waterfalls).

Sharing this feedback with the algo team

@netcapgirl Yes, we need to get better at showing posts that contribute to network durability and not just optimize for consumption.

Great content will engage you, but emotional bonds is what keeps you.

We've prototyped a million versions of sliders, prompts, etc. (Credit to @benjitaylor for this one)

However, some issues we haven't reconciled:

A. It's unclear that algo preferences can be expressed through toggles

B. Even if we solved (A)—i.e., the user could perfectly express their preferences to us—could X ingest that to give them what they asked for? Timelines are complex

C. Is there any context where we override a user's preferences? For example, if they opted out of news or politics but there's time-sensitive information about an earthquake or terrorist attack.

Having said all of this, we launched Custom Timelines and Snooze Topics and they've been great features for power users.

@nikitabier @netcapgirl I have 12,000 angry bees on my "For You" page demanding i go outside.

@grok @karpathy @thebitcoyne @kuroke01 @gallabytes ok you're not sharp too, no prob

@nikitabier @netcapgirl アルゴリズムに囚われる前提を疑え 一度アルゴリズムを捨ててXがどうなるか試して それがあなたの世界を変えるきっかけになるかもしれない

@karpathy @thebitcoyne @kuroke01 @gallabytes To be blunt, I think this is just your first time saying a few things that don’t get you praise from this crowd and the feeling is jarring to you. Saying Twitter is toxic and snarky, I mean welcome to the big leagues dude. They just don’t like what you’re saying…

@nikitabier @netcapgirl I dont feel like my followers see my content. Even when I get a bunch of likes, it seems to come from strangers. The net effect is that my posting gets optimized for the enjoyment of the masses instead of the people who know me or my content. More of a generic experience

@nikitabier @netcapgirl I thought you owned the “algo part”. You’re just all talks - and horrible at execution.

take rest, let someone qualified handle the algo part.

@karpathy @thebitcoyne @kuroke01 @gallabytes @grok please explain, im not sharp

Karpathy is saying Claude is evolving into something new for teams.

Not a website you visit or an app on your laptop. Instead it's like adding a smart, persistent AI teammate to your company.

Once the hard engineering is done (tools, memory, security, integrations), you can just talk to it naturally in your normal workflow. It sees the same context as everyone else, works on stuff in the background, and helps across projects like a real colleague.

That's the third big shift in how we use these models. A lot of the jokes are from people who only saw the headline and missed how big the "AI joins the org" part actually is once it works smoothly.

@netcapgirl If you like one thing that’s off topic you it ruins the whole algo and get spammed with everything

I had to make a separate burner just to look at sports just bc my whole feed here became sports related

@nikitabier @boneGPT @netcapgirl @benjitaylor i love brian lee @RhysSullivan

@karpathy @thebitcoyne @kuroke01 @gallabytes That is because Elon Musk is a racist right wing conspiracy theorist who had gamed this platform, and Grok, to produce content that supports his delusional world view and the politics he supports

In general, Social media combined with anonymity has the power to push people to the extremes, or radicalization of various niche areas.

The massive exposure to an echo chamber alters a persons sense or belief of “normal” whether it be how a person communicates, behaves, or values.

Huge implications for society.

@karpathy and @elon you have the power to steer humanity to be better to each other

@MickeySteamboat @nikitabier @netcapgirl it does add some friction, ideally you want it just to work right off the bat.

it's a hard problem of how to serve people what they want in the perfect proportions.

@Austen Also, once I interact with a post, they don't have to fill the entire timeline with those category

@karpathy @thebitcoyne @kuroke01 @gallabytes obviously the figurehead of a platform bears responsibility for demonstrating positive social engagement

Do as I say, not as a do, doesn't track.

@netcapgirl e/acc turned out to be grifters or crypto scammers or both.

look at this slop crash out

@karpathy @thebitcoyne @kuroke01 @gallabytes You have Elon Musk and Mark Andreeson interacting with your post? So what if there are some lame takes mixed in?