Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“Hungary seeks president: fashion model, internet meme, or Rubik's Cube inventor?” 011
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026When I was a teenager my dad always said his dream was to become a world-leading expert in something very niche, and then be called up everywhere for an opinion when that suddenly became topical. Anyway happily reading Emily Wilson in the lrb and Atlantic this week 110
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Remembering google’s inbox app, which delightfully extracted all the important details of a trip into a nice card shown prominently at the top. Gemini fails to add a flight to my calendar from an email. 110
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Today I managed to get a work discussion going about the gömböc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...en.wikipedia.orgGömböc - Wikipedia 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026how to build an agent when you have a 1 token context window 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026My investment thesis is “dumb baselines everyone claims to beat” 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 06/07/2026oh thank goodness - I hope it's a spoiler-free replay 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Built something I always wanted: a better way to figure out what comedians you want to see at the fringe: fringebinge.co.uk Comedy is so subjective, what's the point of a poster full of 5 star reviews?fringebinge.co.ukFringeBinge — swipe your way to Fringe 2026 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Flashback to 2014 hearing a VC brag they’d invested in a company with “a seven layer convolutional neural network” 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/07/202610 years ago my 5k pb was just under 19 minutes. Slowly getting back into running and this morning did a 29:23 Life comes at you fast. 100
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/06/2026In GLM news, still happy to ship you one of these if you want. 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 12/06/2026“When I was young you couldn’t be gay, but you could smoke anywhere. Now it’s the other way around “ rip david Hockney a real one 020
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 12/06/2026What simpsons character is most plausible as a persona dreamt up by jimmy mcgill or Kim wexler 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Workslop is very real but I’ve also seen people who are smart but struggle to articulate their thoughts DRAMATICALLY improve their writing by first sparring with Claude. 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. Session token limit expired. Resets at 1pm. 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Claude design is very nice - finally shipped a personal site alannichol.comalannichol.comAlan Nichol — AI agents, agentic architectures, and shipping LLMs to prodEssays, talks, and podcasts by Alan Nichol, Founder & CTO of Rasa — on building reliable AI agents, agentic architectures in production, and Conversation-Driven Development. 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I was just doing a little A/B test where 5% of my spending hits your credit card instead nbd 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Pour one out for the marketing teams who already committed their spend for the year 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 15/04/2026So fuckin weird to me that in the VC world it’s just canon that “A.I.” started when ChatGPT launched. 110
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Now I want an app for exploring the latent space of spoken languages 020
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Is there anything more uncool and embarrassing than being referred to as a stakeholder 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026New stickers! Hit me up if you want one, will mail you one for free. 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Wait I asked Claude on iOS to remind me of something and it used the native Reminders app 🤯 000
Reposted by Alan NicholEconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇 930883
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 25/02/2026spotted this in the nanoclaw README and I think we'll be seeing a lot more of this. 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Wild how Gemini has access to incredible tools (like nano banana pro) and absolutely fails to call them, or remember it has them. 010
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026It only takes one coffee to wake me up and it is pretty consistently the fifth 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Very happy to see misha take it over. Great episode 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Learning to do girl hair on a toddler is the most ridiculous thing. Gonna pitch a reality show where people learn carpentry on a speedboat 030
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My wife’s (untenable) position on chilaquiles is “just because it has a name doesn’t mean you get to eat chips for breakfast Alan” 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/01/2026If you don’t miss a flight now and then you spend too much time at airports. 000
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 18/12/2025This is so good and funny and I for one hope “tickling the simpsons” catches on. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...nytimes.comWhy Does A.I. Write Like … That? 001
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Everyone here keeps telling me to use the for you feed but it’s full of exactly the stuff I’ve curated my feed to avoid. 100
Reposted by Alan NicholAmy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 08/12/2025mcp is bananas, we are literally doing rpc over markdown here 3396
Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Maybe my longest most firmly held opinion is I hate drinking coffee from a to-go cup 000