Yohei Nakajima

Yohei Nakajima

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VC by day @untappedvc, builder by night: @babyagi_, @pippinlovesyou @pixelbeastsnft. Build-in-public log: https://t.co/UdHHGbZba5

Prioritize Detailed User Facts and Personalized Style Prompts
SocialMar 1, 2026

Prioritize Detailed User Facts and Personalized Style Prompts

actually the prompt and instructions could be improved a lot. instead of a timeline of facts, it should ask for a detailed summary of facts about user. also, should leverage profile preference, with a separate prompt to generate user's preferred...

By Yohei Nakajima
Anthropic Gains Consumer Spotlight Beyond Enterprise Roots
SocialMar 1, 2026

Anthropic Gains Consumer Spotlight Beyond Enterprise Roots

we know anthropic’s strong suit has been enterprise and coders, but recent events have clearly made more consumers aware of them https://t.co/212RQDK3xj

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Military Procurement Needs Formal Collaboration, Not Competitive Bidding
SocialFeb 28, 2026

AI Military Procurement Needs Formal Collaboration, Not Competitive Bidding

not an expert, but impo, ai use in military/govt should be decided through a more formal collaborative process, not through public contract negotiations pitting private companies against each other

By Yohei Nakajima
After 2.5 Years, AI Still Can’t Play Music
SocialFeb 24, 2026

After 2.5 Years, AI Still Can’t Play Music

it’s been 2.5 yrs since i prototyped this and i’m still waiting for ai chatbots to be able to find and play music for me starting to finally see some dynamic UI recently so i’m hopeful https://t.co/WpAbs6HO7U

By Yohei Nakajima
Testing Small Local Models for Effective Tool Calling
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Testing Small Local Models for Effective Tool Calling

can you get small local models to do tool calling? what does it take? these guys share their experience testing different models & approaches

By Yohei Nakajima
Upcoming Releases Echo Babyagi2o and Openclaw Tech
SocialFeb 20, 2026

Upcoming Releases Echo Babyagi2o and Openclaw Tech

if you look at what i'm playing with - you might get a sense of what's coming next lots of similarities between: 👶babyagi2o ('24) 🥧pi (which powers openclaw) 🦄pippin framework ('24) 🦞openclaw https://t.co/7V02vLWQ4y

By Yohei Nakajima
LLMs Now Handle Task Lists—Unthinkable Three Years Ago
SocialFeb 19, 2026

LLMs Now Handle Task Lists—Unthinkable Three Years Ago

it's crazy to think that only 3 years ago, the idea of asking an LLM to generate and manage a task list was practically non-existent

By Yohei Nakajima
Win $1000 Creating AI Video for Claude Code
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Win $1000 Creating AI Video for Claude Code

Just for fun: AI music video contest In celebration of Claude Code’s 1 yr bday, I will give $1000 USD to the best* music video for “Ode to Claude Code” To submit: - Find the song on Spotify - Use AI to create music...

By Yohei Nakajima
Early Adopters Saw Graph Memory Before Hype
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Early Adopters Saw Graph Memory Before Hype

good example: i had multiple builders telling me to check out how graphs could help babyagi’s memory 6 month before graphRAG was even a term which is how i ended up working on graph based memory and investing in @falkordb only started...

By Yohei Nakajima
Cross‑team Context Fuels Smarter Autonomous Marketing
SocialFeb 18, 2026

Cross‑team Context Fuels Smarter Autonomous Marketing

imagine if your marketing dept knew exactly what your dev team has been working on that’s what @layers enables in an agentic world, with their code-aware autonomous marketing the take-away pattern is to use context from department A to help department B...

By Yohei Nakajima
OpenAI Co-Opts Anthropic‑inspired “Claw” Brand After Viral Bot
SocialFeb 16, 2026

OpenAI Co-Opts Anthropic‑inspired “Claw” Brand After Viral Bot

it’s kind of wild that clawdbot, clearly named after @anthropicai’s mascot claw’d, went viral at the same time claude code was getting lots of attention… got away with changing from clawd to (open)claw which then openai was able to acquire, and can...

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Analyzes My Behavior, Turns Results Into Minimalist Infographic
SocialFeb 15, 2026

AI Analyzes My Behavior, Turns Results Into Minimalist Infographic

i tried the chatgpt interview question on myself and turned it into an infographic ask chatgpt, "based on my past conversations, can you analyze my behavioral tendencies" take it to gemini, "create a minimalistic infographic about > that summarizes the information below....

By Yohei Nakajima
Antim Labs Benchmarks AI Agents in Competitive Simulations
SocialFeb 13, 2026

Antim Labs Benchmarks AI Agents in Competitive Simulations

I know y'all like simulated agent interactions ICYMI - check out @antimlabs project: Among AIs, where they benchmarked different models playing against each other https://t.co/HgcMg0PNrB

By Yohei Nakajima
Link Apps to Create a Shared Agent Memory Graph
SocialFeb 12, 2026

Link Apps to Create a Shared Agent Memory Graph

connect your company apps to build a memory graph your agents (or claw) can access

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Builders Worry About Leaks, Not Claw‑bot Uprisings
SocialJan 30, 2026

AI Builders Worry About Leaks, Not Claw‑bot Uprisings

from my convos (just fyi), nobody who is seriously building and stress testing agent capability is worried about the claw bots in moltbook we saw similar reactions w autogpt/babyagi, smallville, project sid, truth terminal, etc. which are all significant but small...

By Yohei Nakajima
Build Complex Memory From Scratch Using Two Proven Approaches
SocialJan 30, 2026

Build Complex Memory From Scratch Using Two Proven Approaches

solid article on building more complex memory from scratch it has a lot of good specific techniques in here across two high level approaches

By Yohei Nakajima
Plan with AI Before Coding for Thoughtful Results
SocialJan 29, 2026

Plan with AI Before Coding for Thoughtful Results

thoughtful coding is talking to an ai first about what you’re going to ask the ai to build

By Yohei Nakajima
Reviving BabyAGI Amid Surge of Build Energy
SocialJan 29, 2026

Reviving BabyAGI Amid Surge of Build Energy

it’s been so fun watching the build energy this past week, i had to start rebuilding babyagi again last night :)

By Yohei Nakajima
OpenAI Turns Into Venture Hub, Monetizing Research Tools
SocialJan 27, 2026

OpenAI Turns Into Venture Hub, Monetizing Research Tools

>be openai >announce plans to take a cut of openai-aided discoveries >release prism, free tool for research teams >rate limit prism >announce prism+, more free credits, latest models >just promise small equity if you build co >openai becomes next yc >sama used to run yc

By Yohei Nakajima
Memorable AI Names Drive Early Virality and Adoption
SocialJan 27, 2026

Memorable AI Names Drive Early Virality and Adoption

some thoughts on naming AI products naming is important, and has impact, especially on early virality. babyagi was originally called "task-driven autonomous agent" and don't think it would have performed as well autogpt had a more descriptive name, and had a lot...

By Yohei Nakajima
Replit Agent Powers Offline AI Voice Assistant on Mobile
SocialJan 27, 2026

Replit Agent Powers Offline AI Voice Assistant on Mobile

these guys got @replit agent to build a fully local and offline AI voice assistant for mobile 👀

By Yohei Nakajima
Launching an AI‑First Startup Accelerator After 3 Years
SocialJan 26, 2026

Launching an AI‑First Startup Accelerator After 3 Years

very excited to share a project i've been iterating on for 3+ years: an AI-powered startup "accelerator" inspired by my time at Techstars and seeing similar programs, I've wondered what an AI-first version could look like check out what i made this weekend...

By Yohei Nakajima
Two‑pane Design Predates Claude, Still Holds Strong
SocialJan 26, 2026

Two‑pane Design Predates Claude, Still Holds Strong

i was cleaning my office and found this sketch from when I was building BabyFoxAGI (6th iteration) back in Sept 2023 the two pane approach was 6 months before Claude artifacts, and I think this general pattern is still pretty solid...

By Yohei Nakajima
AI PR Review Bot Scores Future Feature Impact
SocialJan 25, 2026

AI PR Review Bot Scores Future Feature Impact

would be cool to see a PR review bot that automatically generated and tracked potential features to add, and scored each PR on which potential features become easier/harder to add later based on architectural changes in the PR

By Yohei Nakajima
ChatGPT Drives Shopify Sales, Adds 4% Fee for Merchants
SocialJan 25, 2026

ChatGPT Drives Shopify Sales, Adds 4% Fee for Merchants

so chatgpt can help you with buying Shopify products, but the merchant will pay 4% more, which goes to openai (edited an earlier mistake) given current user base, Shopify merchants should be happy to get additional traffic combined w ads, kinda feels...

By Yohei Nakajima
Prompting Game Yields Concise, Creative Solutions Without Emojis
SocialJan 22, 2026

Prompting Game Yields Concise, Creative Solutions Without Emojis

finally starting to see some longer solutions in KISS (prompting game), after disabling emojis and special characters. solutions still aren't quite like in the taboo game where you have to speak the hints, there are still a lot of acryonym/hacky solutions...

By Yohei Nakajima
Phone AI Soon Replaces Cloud for Everyday Reasoning
SocialJan 22, 2026

Phone AI Soon Replaces Cloud for Everyday Reasoning

using @runanywhereAI, I have Mistral 7B running on a 5 year old phone (iPhone 13 pro) given phones getting more powerful and models getting smaller, how much longer til we have sufficient reasoning capacity on our phones that we don't rely...

By Yohei Nakajima
Single Core .md File Streamlines Agent Context Organization
SocialJan 22, 2026

Single Core .md File Streamlines Agent Context Organization

we need an agents .md for everything coding agents got better when we collectively decided on a design pattern: point the coding agent to a single md file they got even better when we started organizing multiple md files, stemming from our...

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Learns Transferable Skills Through Simple Video Games
SocialJan 21, 2026

AI Learns Transferable Skills Through Simple Video Games

can you learn generalizable skills playing video games? can AI? great article from @antimlabs on their experiments training AI by having them play flappy birds, snake, and more.

By Yohei Nakajima
Crafting the Shortest
SocialJan 21, 2026

Crafting the Shortest

random thoughts on building this prompting game... one challenge is that every challenge so far has been solved in 1-3 characters. since i was using the same model to generate AND guess the random phrase, it was REALLY good at...

By Yohei Nakajima
FlyMy_AI Offers Fast, Low‑cost Image Generation
SocialJan 20, 2026

FlyMy_AI Offers Fast, Low‑cost Image Generation

Fastest/cheapest inference for image generation? @FlyMy_AI gets added to @ArtificialAnlys /image as a provider, check out their speed vs cost running Qwen https://t.co/bIWEXQxuC1

By Yohei Nakajima
Shifting Focus: Exploring Consumer AI After Diverse Investments
SocialJan 20, 2026

Shifting Focus: Exploring Consumer AI After Diverse Investments

our last 10 investments were: - 3 dev tools/infra - 3 vertical niche b2b - 2 deep tech - 1 consumer hardware - 1 general agent would be fun to look at some consumer AI this quarter

By Yohei Nakajima
Day 8 Challenge: Guess the Phrase in Fewest Characters
SocialJan 20, 2026

Day 8 Challenge: Guess the Phrase in Fewest Characters

day #8 of the prompting game how many characters will it take you to get the AI to guess today's phrase? play at https://t.co/jmmguoWeQG https://t.co/jlL6jelBe9

By Yohei Nakajima
Python Script Merged Files for Seamless ChatGPT Input
SocialJan 20, 2026

Python Script Merged Files for Seamless ChatGPT Input

before all these agents, i always had a python script that would traverse all the folders and files to concat into a single file so i could copy/paste easily into chatgpt

By Yohei Nakajima
Use VideoDB to Search, Annotate, Edit Massive Video Data
SocialJan 14, 2026

Use VideoDB to Search, Annotate, Edit Massive Video Data

do you know anyone w a shit ton of video data? have them check out @videodb_io to build search on top of it, annotating at scale (eg. for training data), vibe-editing videos from clips, etc.

By Yohei Nakajima
More Powerful Agents Still Waste Time on Simple Tasks
SocialJan 9, 2026

More Powerful Agents Still Waste Time on Simple Tasks

increasingly the capabilities of an agent often results in increased cost/time spent on easier tasks “oh, you just need a router to determine if it needs more or less capability” easier said than done

By Yohei Nakajima
Start Simple with Traces, Add Complexity Later
SocialJan 9, 2026

Start Simple with Traces, Add Complexity Later

the idea of using traces so agents can better perform over time is easy to talk about, but hard to implement for anyone just getting started, this was a v1 of me trying this 1.5 yrs ago. you'll find it breaks...

By Yohei Nakajima
AI‑First Legal Service Merges Human Expertise with Affordable Automation
SocialJan 8, 2026

AI‑First Legal Service Merges Human Expertise with Affordable Automation

what does an ai first legal service look like? @docdraftai pairs legal expertise from real human lawyers with ai to provide affordable solutions for customers they have a new /customer-stories page with case studies so i so pulled out stats to better...

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Can
SocialJan 7, 2026

AI Can

you can effectively give an ai power of attorney if you set it up through an llc, but there still needs to be a human fiduciary

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Literacy: From Prompt Crafting to Model Perception
SocialJan 7, 2026

AI Literacy: From Prompt Crafting to Model Perception

first-order ai literacy is knowing what to say to a model. prompts, tweaks, vibes, try again. second-order ai literacy is knowing how it hears you. fewer words, more shape.

By Yohei Nakajima
Our AI Investment Thesis Mirrors Industry Trends
SocialJan 6, 2026

Our AI Investment Thesis Mirrors Industry Trends

okay i lied. the first prompt was, "here are my AI investments, write me a VC think piece about the state of AI incorporating these" and then we iterated. still, it reads pretty well, captures our thinking, and a good intro...

By Yohei Nakajima
Nearly Kept BabyAGI Closed, Then Opened Source
SocialDec 27, 2025

Nearly Kept BabyAGI Closed, Then Opened Source

i almost didn’t open source babyagi

By Yohei Nakajima
Automate Team Meetings with ChatGPT: From Questions to Gantt
SocialDec 24, 2025

Automate Team Meetings with ChatGPT: From Questions to Gantt

we did something similar at @untappedvc queued up chatgpt to create questions we talked through as a team, uploaded transcription of the meeting to generate a plan, converted it into a gantt chart, and then we do monthly meetings to talk...

By Yohei Nakajima
ChatGPT Powered My Year: 11k Messages, AI‑Driven VC
SocialDec 22, 2025

ChatGPT Powered My Year: 11k Messages, AI‑Driven VC

my year w chatgpt: - agents, fund II, AI in VC - most likely to automate himself out of a job - 11k msgs sent across 1342 chats https://t.co/n5ibOtorvd

By Yohei Nakajima
Use Famous Authors' Names to Define AI Writing Style
SocialDec 9, 2025

Use Famous Authors' Names to Define AI Writing Style

when i want to specify writing style to an ai, i don’t describe the writing style in the prompt i first ask an ai to give me writers known for the style i want, and then include the writers’ name in...

By Yohei Nakajima
Invested in Memory-First AI Agent for Seamless Workflow
SocialDec 8, 2025

Invested in Memory-First AI Agent for Seamless Workflow

excited to be an investor in general intelligence co! i’ve tried tons of general agents, and so much of how these guys built cofounder resonated with me (memory first), I broke my preseed deal to invest. it’s part of my daily...

By Yohei Nakajima
How to Choose the Right Number of Clusters
SocialDec 8, 2025

How to Choose the Right Number of Clusters

been playing a bit with vector based clustering, and haven’t quite figured out the best way to pick number of clusters. i tried some of the algorithms that choose cluster number for you, but it’s often either too many or too...

By Yohei Nakajima
AI Enables Expert-Focused, Condensed Technical Writing
SocialDec 6, 2025

AI Enables Expert-Focused, Condensed Technical Writing

historically when writing, we’d write in a way that your entire target audience could comprehend, meaning you explain enough for the dumbest person in your target audience but now that everyone has ai, i think some writing can start targeting the...

By Yohei Nakajima
New Survey Highlights Cutting-Edge Self‑Improving Agent Techniques
SocialDec 5, 2025

New Survey Highlights Cutting-Edge Self‑Improving Agent Techniques

"better ways to build self-improving agents" i had chatgpt write me a paper summarizing approaches to build self-improving agents, focusing on 2025 neurips papers found using @exaailabs "paper" in thread 👇 https://t.co/IbabIsfaGk

By Yohei Nakajima