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Alan Nichol

@alanmnichol.bsky.social
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Co-founder@Rasa, doing chatbots since before they were good. Sharing takes I can't put on linkedin. Former physicist, wannabe chef, someday cuneiform translator.

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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Hungary seeks president: fashion model, internet meme, or Rubik's Cube inventor?”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When 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
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Remembering 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.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today I managed to get a work discussion going about the gömböc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
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Gömböc - Wikipedia
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
how to build an agent when you have a 1 token context window
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My investment thesis is “dumb baselines everyone claims to beat”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
oh thank goodness - I hope it's a spoiler-free replay
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Built 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?
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FringeBinge — swipe your way to Fringe 2026
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Flashback to 2014 hearing a VC brag they’d invested in a company with “a seven layer convolutional neural network”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
10 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.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“Here’s how that changes the shape”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In GLM news, still happy to ship you one of these if you want.
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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
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What simpsons character is most plausible as a persona dreamt up by jimmy mcgill or Kim wexler
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Workslop 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.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
When I’m about to post
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bookmark this for a nuclear “well actually”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. Session token limit expired. Resets at 1pm.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Claude design is very nice - finally shipped a personal site alannichol.com
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Alan Nichol — AI agents, agentic architectures, and shipping LLMs to prod
Essays, talks, and podcasts by Alan Nichol, Founder & CTO of Rasa — on building reliable AI agents, agentic architectures in production, and Conversation-Driven Development.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I was just doing a little A/B test where 5% of my spending hits your credit card instead nbd
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Pour one out for the marketing teams who already committed their spend for the year
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So fuckin weird to me that in the VC world it’s just canon that “A.I.” started when ChatGPT launched.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Now I want an app for exploring the latent space of spoken languages
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
FT with a lovely garden path sentence
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
lol, lmao even if this turns out to be true
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Is there anything more uncool and embarrassing than being referred to as a stakeholder
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New stickers! Hit me up if you want one, will mail you one for free.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Anyone building music streaming on ATproto?
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wait I asked Claude on iOS to remind me of something and it used the native Reminders app 🤯
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Anyone remember Deep Learning
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
spotted this in the nanoclaw README and I think we'll be seeing a lot more of this.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is a really great essay
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Wild how Gemini has access to incredible tools (like nano banana pro) and absolutely fails to call them, or remember it has them.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It only takes one coffee to wake me up and it is pretty consistently the fifth
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Very happy to see misha take it over. Great episode
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Claude cowork is even better than I hopef
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Learning to do girl hair on a toddler is the most ridiculous thing. Gonna pitch a reality show where people learn carpentry on a speedboat
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Losing my job to AI
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My wife’s (untenable) position on chilaquiles is “just because it has a name doesn’t mean you get to eat chips for breakfast Alan”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
If you don’t miss a flight now and then you spend too much time at airports.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is so good and funny and I for one hope “tickling the simpsons” catches on. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
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Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Everyone 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.
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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
mcp is bananas, we are literally doing rpc over markdown here
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Gemini wat
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Maybe my longest most firmly held opinion is I hate drinking coffee from a to-go cup
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
TIL about this family relation
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