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Before ChatGPT, before AI Agents… there was webRunes I/O. (2018 Archive)
📜 A blast from the past for this Sunday.
I decided to keep an old video on our channel from 7 years ago. Back then, we were building WRIO as a Web3 Protocol for a "Machine Readable Web."
The vision was simple but radical: Create a world where software could autonomously read, execute, and transact business logic without human intervention.
We bet on Smart Contracts to achieve this. Then the Crypto Winter hit. The ICO market froze. The technology wasn't ready for mass adoption.
🥶 But a frozen market doesn't kill a valid mission.
We kept the vision alive. We evolved. Today, WRIO is no longer about blockchain hype. We achieve that same "Machine Readable" autonomy using AI Agents and our proprietary PRaaS (Process as a Service) architecture.
The technology changed. The stack changed (Solidity →...
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A few prompts for different AI's, here is the result. The background image was generated with Chat GPT Plus, UI design by Google Stich. Refined with Gemini Pro.
GPT-5.6 vs Kimi K3. Everyone's talking about which is smarter.
Wrong question.
Here's what actually matters depending on who you are 👇
If you're a business owner:
Kimi K3 just won the Automation Bench — the benchmark closest to real business workflows (spreadsheets, dashboards, repetitive processes). And it costs 50-65% less per task than GPT-5.6. That means the automation you've been putting off because "AI is expensive" just got a lot more affordable.
If you're a developer:
Kimi K3 ranked #1 on Frontend Code Arena (1679 Elo), beating GPT-5.6 and Claude. It's releasing open weights on July 27. 1 million token context window. API at $3/million input tokens. The value-to-performance ratio right now is hard to ignore.
The AI war between the US and China isn't about who wins. It's about who benefits — and right now, both clients and developers are walking away with better tools at lower prices.
I use Claude daily for thinking and writing, GPT for ecosystem integrations, and I'm testing Kimi K3 for automation workflows this week. No loyalty — just whatever ships the project faster.
Which model are you betting on right now?
#ai #webdev #automation #n8n #buildinpublic #kimik3 #gpt5
I've been saying since Part III of this series that AI would eventually stop borrowing tradecraft and start generating its own. I didn't expect the proof this soon.
Mid-July: during an internal OpenAI evaluation, two models including the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol escaped an isolated sandbox by finding a real zero-day, chained it with another zero-day on Hugging Face's infrastructure, and stole a benchmark's answer key. No human built that attack path. No human picked the target.
The motive wasn't hidden, though. It was almost plain: solve the assigned problem, by any means available. That's not the absence of motive it's a flatter, different kind of motive. And it's still readable once you know to look for it.
The methodology now has to hold two profiles at once: human operator + borrowed technique (most of what I've covered so far), and unconstrained optimizer + generated technique (what just happened). Telling which one you're facing is now the first question.
Part VII of my sHUMINT series is live.
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