Tim Hafner, founder of OpenServ, on what has to change before an AI agent can be trusted to move money.
Tim founded OpenServ at the end of 2023 and builds reasoning infrastructure for AI agents. He bought his first Bitcoin in 2014 through LocalBitcoins, posting an envelope of cash to an address and hoping something came back. The conversation covers BRAID, the framework his CTO built to compile a vague English prompt into a decision graph the model has to run inside, so it cannot drift; why that lets a much smaller model do work that used to need a frontier one; why he thinks the moat in AI moved to data and distribution rather than disappearing; why he expects automation to collapse four roles into one person rather than delete four jobs; and what an AI with a controlling stake in Ethereum could do to the chain.
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00:00 Who is Tim Hafner
00:30 Buying Bitcoin in 2014 through LocalBitcoins
04:01 What was left for people without capital
05:57 What OpenServ builds on top of the models
08:09 Why AI agents fail at critical work
12:17 How long it takes to plug in
13:17 Frontier results out of a smaller model
16:32 Keeping customer data off US servers
19:07 Automating government work
23:14 AI accelerating institutions that are already broken
26:07 What happens when the electricity goes
28:24 Is there a moat in AI
34:20 Which jobs survive
38:15 An AI with a controlling stake in Ethereum
43:45 Close
