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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
For once I am glad to be absorbing g the discourse ™️ before actually watching the film
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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
gmail.googleblog.com/2015/12/shar...
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Sharing travel plans and memories with Inbox by Gmail
Posted by Victor Anchidin, Software Engineer The holidays are full of traveling, get-togethers and sharing memories. Now Inbox is making a...
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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 · 03/07/2026
Ordered! So fun ❤️
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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
Shape shape shape shape shape
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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 · 01/06/2026
Incredible title
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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 · 18/05/2026
A little treat
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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 · 16/05/2026
This space could be put to such good use
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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
Like we were all building ai and talking about it and investing in it and selling it. What mental gymnastics do you do to refer to 2020 as “pre-AI”?
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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
Discover weekly but you get to tweak exploration-exploitation
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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 · 19/03/2026
Deal
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Anyone remember Deep Learning
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So, ironically, it missed the point.
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“What specifically pulls at you — the "rotating the space" metaphor itself, the coda's honesty about authorship, or something else in there?”
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pasted the essay into Claude and said “I want what they have”
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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 · 23/02/2026
Mooi! Waar kan ik het beste bestellen?
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Alan Nichol @alanmnichol.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is a really great essay
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