Chris Farrell

@ThrillaRilla369 Love me some egg sandwiches, except I subtract the bread and add a cup of egg whites.

A poor people food you’ll always eat no matter how much money you have? I’ll go first Egg sandwiches 🥪 🥚 🍳

@ThePrimeagen false comparison + 2 things can be true. AI likely doesn't 100x most people, but also AI isn't used only for decision making, it's mostly used for grunt work where a 100x improvement is 100% possible.

I am so thoroughly convinced that anyone who thinks AI 100x's their output is a liar or a lunatic. You are telling me you can make 1 years worth of decisions in 3.65 days? Let alone describing those accurately and coaxing the result from the AI... (1.8 days european time)?

@rucam365 Claude code is still my/our goto for coding. Sonnet handles most tasks, Opus as needed. Heard Codex is now better but OpenAI upset me, plus I mostly use what my customers provide and enterprises move slowly.

With GitHub Copilot Enterprise sawing its feet off before our very eyes (tragic), it’s gone from the most slept-on product to hard to justify. So, what’s the current room-read as a suitable replacement, or is the party truly over for cheap AI dev?

@ibuildthecloud on a Claude API/consumption plan one of the devs I manage spent $900/month. I had ZERO problems with it.

Ok, I tried codex $100/mo plan. That wasn't enough. Back to the $200/mo plan.

@SahilBloom snarky partisan comments

What’s something people think is a flex but actually isn’t?

@ibuildthecloud I love CI. What don't you like about it?

Who ever thought the answer to CI sucking was to just make it's AI problem.

@T_Nation lacross ball

What's the weirdest thing in your gym bag?

@AMANPRE37638190 @BenBajarin As a software guy I'm predicting the AI trend, no idea how to invest it yet. HBM and VRAM are key with AI regardless of datacenter vs edge. I did buy EMXC to get more direct exposure to non-US semis such as SK Hynix and Samsung

@chrispfarrell @BenBajarin What stocks ?

More workloads will move to the edge and hybrid AI worklaods will span cloud-on prem servers-clients. Ask who has the ability to orchestrate all this.

@davepl1968 A lot of people acted badly during that time. It was as much a political pandemic as a health pandemic so that gave reason for irrational people to be even more irrational than normal. My .02c. Forgive, learn, move on :)

I don't give a damn about Covid, but Rogers lied to the public and his teammates about his status after he'd what, seen a shaman or something? How you protect yourself is up to you. But so is the level of risk that you bring to others for your own convenience. And that's on you, ethically. Consider driving like a dangerous asshole and then surviving and saying "See! You owe me an apology, we made it, didn't we?" The outcome does not justify the process. You know that.

Prediction: 5 years from now Devs will run most (80-95%) of their AI workloads locally. Today's OSS coding models are already good enough for most problems. They will be far better in 5 years. Today's hardware can already run coding models. All you need is a decent GPU, a DGX sparc, a Jetson Orin Nano Super, etc. Hardware will be optimized for AI workloads and performance for AI will increase far faster than Moore's law. Today we pay for Claude to get the harness (Claude code), but that piece will have strong OSS alternatives. This is now especially easier since much of the harness can be generated using AI. You will be able to tap into datacenter level compute/memory or frontier models as needed but will seldom need it for coding. If I'm right, there are some interesting questions. 1. As an investor, I'd bet on OpenAI, Claude, others. for the next 2 years, but for 5 years...it's a coin flip. At least one ends up as myspace(dies), one ends up as Facebook(prospers), and one ends up like reddit (survives but meaningless). I guarantee a big player like Oracle, Google, Microsoft, IBM buys at least one of them. 2. What do we do with all the compute we are building out now? My guess is they become compute wholesalers to corporations that have AI baked into their apps and the AI datacenters become a new Cloud, call it Cloud 2.0.

in place of my salary, I'd be willing to be paid a commission for every "Good call" or "you are right" that AI generates for me :)

@davepl1968 use Mac OS for a week or two, you will realize just how good Windows is even if they have been off their game for a few years.

Microsoft wanted the users, for whom they first needed the developers. So they won the developers and, in turn, the users. It was a genius strategy. But now that popular sentiment has shifted about the product, the people they really need are the power users, influencers, and vocal decision makers. It's time to start pleasing the people who are most displeased with @Windows, because it's their voices that dominate the conversation. They should bring back Steve to chant "Power Users! Power Users! Power Users!" Recent steps like restoring the Start bar flexibility give me some hope they're listening, though! That's a pure power-user feature that 99% of people will never use, but that the 1% are vocal about it.

@lovelacecoding you did miss out; they were simply amazing. In many ways even a decade later, the best iPhone and android still haven't caught up. It was a masterclass in design, and also a masterclass in how not to execute.

I never got onto the Windows Phone hype. I feel like I missed out 🥲

@Budgetdog_ I'd say a good CPA is among the best ROI you can get :)

Your bed is one of the largest ROIs you can make 🛌 Spend the money.

That's how programming feels nowadays

@MrPeterLMorris @sadhna6389 respectfully disagree. The level of financial expertise that $3K/year buys you from an advisor is practically zero. They take their fees then put you in a TDF, balanced 60/40, etc.

@sadhna6389 Add a programmer who hears AI enables non-programmers to do my job without me, who then sees the shit they write - I am incredibly sceptical about this claim. The risk to your future is too great!

BREAKING: Claude can now map out your retirement better than most people charging $3,000 ever will. Here are 6 prompts to figure out exactly when and how you can retire. (Save this before it disappears).

@mcuban Wish we had you as a healthcare affordability czar but then realized you would be expected to divest. Somehow, we have to find a way to get smart/capable people like you into roles where you influence policy.

Everything in the hospital could cost $1, and the insurance companies conglomerates would buy them, raise prices, and make sure their top and bottom lines grew I'm not saying hospital systems are innocent, far from it. But the big vertically integrated insurance companies create the annual plans that crush people's financial situation

@WhaleWatcher_ai @Polymarket @grok please help Tommy out with his question about how the US could seize crypto

@Polymarket How does one go about seizing a billion dollars in crypto? Pardon my ignorance, but I though being not easily taken was generally part of the appeal?

JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Bessent announces the U.S. has now seized ~$1,000,000,000.00 in crypto from Iran.

@JeffBezos Failure happens. It is a part of life. Winners embrace it, learn from it, grow stronger from it, and eventually start to seek it out when they realize if you aren't failing at least occasionally, you aren't pushing yourself hard enough.

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.