Jackson · The Exit Memo

1/ Six months ago I was a financial analyst telling people AI was overhyped. I had Excel. I had a process. I didn't need a chatbot. Then I ran a Tuesday Excel file I present to my VP every month through it side by side. The file used to take me 4-5 hours. Now it takes 15 minutes. That broke me.

@acadictive Ha, appreciate you. The infrastructure is holding, the marriage survived. Good follow back, I like your stuff. Sent you a dm.

@Jtyles haha, good conversation :D lets connect, jackson.

My wife asked what I made this week. I said “a lot of progress on the infrastructure.” She has not asked again.

@KMraza786 One day it will be worth it

@Jtyles Translation: worked 60 hours and nothing looks different

@stijnnoorman Or the smarter you are, the better you get at leaving the right rooms and staying in the wrong ones anyway.

The smarter you are, the less time you spend in big groups.

@Jayyanginspires The hard part isn’t recognizing the conformity. It’s noticing it while you’re still inside it.

It's easy to outsource your thinking to those around you. What they think, you think. What they believe is possible, you believe is possible. And the next thing you know, you're pursuing goals you never really wanted in the first place. Resist the entropy of conformity.

@BuildurBrand_io Interesting frame. I’d put who you marry above where you live. Location is portable. That decision mostly isn’t.

Most people don't realize that one decision literally determines 80%+ of your entire life trajectory. Nobody talks about this enough, and we're certainly not taught to think about this in school. Where you choose to live is the most important decision you'll make in your entire life. It determines: - who you marry - where your kids grow up - your economic opportunities - your daily quality of life (food, water, culture) This one life decision shapes most of our lives, yet most of us give it zero thought. Take it very seriously.

@kimmonismus At this rate I’ll have a new favorite model before I finish reading the last one’s release notes.

Opus 4.8 is a solid jump over Opus 4.7 on DeepSWE, while also lowering the average cost per task. However, GPT-5.5 xhigh still beats it by a pretty clear margin while being cheaper. OpenAI has been cooking insanely hard with its models lately. Really excited to see what GPT-5.6 brings. That said, I have to admit: I’m starting to really like Opus 4.8 as well. We’ve entered a moment where both frontier labs keep shipping genuinely impressive models.

@ChadSteingraber Every cycle in history got called “different this time” from inside it. Sometimes it was. Mostly it wasn’t. This one will be.

The First Great Utility Cycle marks the end of the retail four year cycle that has dominated trading crypto assets. That Four Year Cycle is no longer relevant. What is coming has never happened before in any financial market history so there is no way that anyone can predict what this first cycle will be like. All will can be sure of, is own the asset.

@DavidSacks Calling it before the May print: this ages like everyone who said they’d cancel the streaming subscription they’re still paying for.

Apollo’s Chief Economist: Zero Evidence of AI-Related Job Losses

@CliftonSellers 3 days in and I can say this is going to be an interesting ride. Very grateful.

I cannot stress how insane it is to post content into the void and end up meeting people who can change the entire trajectory of your life Highly recommend getting started (and not quitting)

@MnFounder The future is looking very bright bright

MCP won. 10,000 servers, 164M monthly downloads. But 43% have vulnerabilities and tool poisoning works 84% of the time with auto-approval. The protocol war is over. The security war is just starting.

@danmartell Currently building agents at 7pm after a full day at a firm that doesn’t know I’m doing this. Close enough.

The richest person in your network 5 years from now is the one nobody noticed building agents at 11 PM.

@paulg There’s a six-week window between your boss discovering AI and your boss having opinions about your AI usage. Use it wisely.

The only thing worse than having the CEO knee-deep in building stuff with AI is not having the CEO knee-deep in building stuff with AI.

@unusual_whales McDonald’s telling the kitchen staff to stop eating the fries.

Amazon, $AMZN, has said to its employees, per BI: 'Don't use AI just to use AI'

@beyond_broke It’s switched from years to months. That’s a big change if you’ve been here a while. Not much longer.

I'm feeling more and more confident we are on the fast track to a global technocratic system, much sooner than most people realize.

@zerohedge Biggest buyer gone. Retail: not my problem. Retail, later: oh.

The Market's Biggest Buyer May Be Disappearing zerohedge.com/markets/market…

@emollick The acceleration isn’t the story. The shrinking gap between releases is training people to wait instead of build, and waiting is the only losing move on this chart.

It does seem like meaningfully better AI releases are accelerating, especially from OpenAI & Anthropic. To illustrate, I caused this timeline to be created. It only lists new models that scored 3 points or higher over previous models in the Artificial Analysis index.

@MnFounder Looking forward to when this screenshot changes to 5,000 for you. Keep it up brother!

Started posting on X on April 25. Almost 500 followers 5 weeks later. The best part is that most of you are from Tech! Thank you for following and growing with me.

@FluentInFinance The Berkshire comparison is doing a lot of work for a company Warren Buffett has never touched.

Anthropic valuation: $965 billion Berkshire Hathaway valuation: $1 trillion Anthropic revenue: $47 billion Berkshire revenue: $371 billion Most of us know what happens next

@FrancescoCiull4 Yes please. We await your reasoning.

Many are curious about grok build. Nice.