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[Chorus]
What this means if solved.

[Verse 2]
Agents can "see" images,
which aids tremendously
in implementation.
One of the coolest features
of our software engineering agent v
is its ability to implement an app
or website from a screenshot.
An agent being able to implement
such complex logic as Liquid Glass
by "seeing" its existing behavior
would be astonishing

[Verse 3]
Identify a Jepsen-style consistency
or data integrity violation
in a major open source database
or foundational distributed system
and patch it
Kyle Kingsbury is a researcher
in distributed systems
who has identified severe flaws
in the storage and coordination systems
that underpin vast amounts
of our software infrastructure.
He's famously published these findings
in the "Jepsen" series of audits
(funnily named after "Call Me Maybe").
As an example,
Kyle discovered a flaw in Kafka,
a system that underpins much of the world's
financial platforms
(payment processing, order pipelines, and ledgers).
Without Jepsen,
major financial losses or integrity violations
could have occurred.
To discover these problems requires
both a deep understanding
of the advertised properties
of database systems,
plus the engineering of sophisticated tooling
to express and execute tests.
It's a bit like writing the proof
and the proof-checker
that something is off.

[Chorus]
What this means if solved.

[Bridge]
Preventing data loss.
Privacy leaks.
Downtime.
Internet mattresses that go offline
and wake you up at night.
The world runs on very complex
distributed systems,
which are made up
of lots of computers
that can fail, recover, and coordinate.
If agents find flaws
in these systems,
we can fix them,
prevent disasters,
and sleep better at night.

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[Verse 1] Accurately re-implement Liquid Glass, in WebGPU Solely from image, and video examples Liquid Glass is Apple's most recent (and controversial) design system. Aesthetic and functional opinions aside, it's the closest thing we have to the invention of a new digital material. Refraction distortion, blurring, dynamic curvatures, specular highlights, caustics, fresnel, chromatic aberration… Liquid Glass is a physics and lighting system. Drag this glassy bubble around, watch it adapt and fluctuate. You're witnessing an incredible feat of UI engineering I have not seen a complete implementation of Liquid Glass that matches the quality and completion of Apple's, although many humans, aided by AI, have attempted it. [Chorus] What this means if solved. [Verse 2] Agents can "see" images, which aids tremendously in implementation. One of the coolest features of our software engineering agent v is its ability to implement an app or website from a screenshot. An agent being able to implement such complex logic as Liquid Glass by "seeing" its existing behavior would be astonishing [Verse 3] Identify a Jepsen-style consistency or data integrity violation in a major open source database or foundational distributed system and patch it Kyle Kingsbury is a researcher in distributed systems who has identified severe flaws in the storage and coordination systems that underpin vast amounts of our software infrastructure. He's famously published these findings in the "Jepsen" series of audits (funnily named after "Call Me Maybe"). As an example, Kyle discovered a flaw in Kafka, a system that underpins much of the world's financial platforms (payment processing, order pipelines, and ledgers). Without Jepsen, major financial losses or integrity violations could have occurred. To discover these problems requires both a deep understanding of the advertised properties of database systems, plus the engineering of sophisticated tooling to express and execute tests. It's a bit like writing the proof and the proof-checker that something is off. [Chorus] What this means if solved. [Bridge] Preventing data loss. Privacy leaks. Downtime. Internet mattresses that go offline and wake you up at night. The world runs on very complex distributed systems, which are made up of lots of computers that can fail, recover, and coordinate. If agents find flaws in these systems, we can fix them, prevent disasters, and sleep better at night.

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