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Alex Mayall

@speakmouthwords

Principal at Anthemis. In the mix with CommonAI. Investing in teams working out how to give AI execution authority in high consequence environments.

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Today was my birthday! (9pm here)

I ask for no gifts, other than for you to check out my new personal site: speakmouthwords.io

It is cool and nice and I just launched it today

16.02.2026 20:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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>he doesn't even know about the Rhinegold

28.01.2026 10:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes! The desktop OS crown is in the gutter and the world needs more ideas on this topic

24.01.2026 21:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once again I discover that another podcast that I thought was audio only actually has a video feed

24.01.2026 21:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Only Claude demonstrates this behaviour with me

24.01.2026 13:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Head chef is a great analogy, and also covers appropriately the amount of swearing people do to the poor agents when they mess up

22.01.2026 20:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess it's just hard to point to a line on the Temperature axis where the parrot leaves the building. T=0 is definitely parrot, T>>1 is random words. What temperature range does "understanding" sit in?

22.01.2026 20:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

huge if true

22.01.2026 19:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's definitely something to the thesis that if/once scaling tops out, model specialisation and a diversity of models is the next frontier

22.01.2026 19:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, Google aren't anywhere close to that point yet. It'll come though. But they've got a ways to go!

22.01.2026 19:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We must create the Blackwall

22.01.2026 19:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to Get a Junior Role in VC Iโ€™ve been speaking with a lot of undergrad and MBA students recently, and a universal question I get from them is how to get a job in VC. Iโ€™ve been repeating myself a lot, so to save time Iโ€™m writing ...

Iโ€™ve been speaking with a lot of undergrad and MBA students recently, and a universal question I get from them is how to get a job in VC. Iโ€™ve been repeating myself a lot, so to save time Iโ€™m writing down my thoughts so I can link this document to the right people.

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22.01.2026 08:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Why W mentioned none of this in their announcement is beyond me."

Becaise their announcement was at Davos, where the culture is to keep things very simple and big picture.

22.01.2026 07:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bro presides over Microsoft Office and Microsoft Copilot and Copilot can't even edit a Word document yet, but he sits there twiddling his thumbs going "what's something useful we can do with this thing"

Cursor for Office! Please, just Cursor for Office ๐Ÿ˜ญ

22.01.2026 07:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The masses will use AI when it can actually edit a Word docx. Unbelievable that Microsoft crams Copilot into the sidebar, but it can't actually do anything to the document?

21.01.2026 22:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anthropic are what OpenAI promised us they'd be. I'm rooting for them all the way. When a computer becomes ensouled, I hope it is Claude's soul.

21.01.2026 22:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0