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Zed B
@zedbbb
Software engineer. Typescript/React/Node. Ex-Uber. Ex-Flash/HTML5/HaXe gamedev. Views are my own.
Beigetreten Mart 2009
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@sinclairstrange Goole luck, I love the visuals, but I think the short range attack in such action platformers is a terrible mechanic!
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Eric Schmidt says the 10x advantage is no longer execution. It is defining what counts as success.
A programmer writes a spec and an evaluation function, runs it at 7pm, and wakes up to what was invented overnight.
The advantage now belongs to whoever can specify the problem precisely.
The rest will be automated.
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@falco_girgis Everybody is free to spend their mental energy and time on whatever non-valuable hobby they have if they have money to live.
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Someone said that our Sega Dreamcast ports were a pointless waste of time today and that nobody will play them…
Meet my son, who was the first kid to ever play Mario 64, Doom 64, Mario Kart 64, Starfox 64, Sonic Mania, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City, and now The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time—some of my all-time favorite games from childhood—on my favorite console, the Sega Dreamcast, for his first play-throughs… and his little sister plays with us as well.
Despite the fact that we actually do have a thriving homebrew scene of people playing and supporting us, I could not give less of a shit if anyone else plays them or appreciates the work… This is all the validation I need.

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Google doesn't let you set the spending limit for Gemini API keys or for the entire account.
The only reason not to do so, despite being one of the most important features, is to allow you to overspend by mistake.
If your key becomes visible in your app's code by mistake and someone gets access to it, you might wake up to a $1,000,000 Google Cloud bill overnight.
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@bryan_johnson @PegasusPoison How is internally making a rule not relying on willpower?
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@PegasusPoison It’s ok, being human is very hard. By the end of the day willpower is exhausted and things can kinda runaway from you. I had the same problem and solved it by making a non-negotiable rule that I couldn’t eat after 5 pm. No matter what. To never rely upon willpower. It worked.
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I came home from work exhausted. Ate some toast. Ate a candy bar. Thought about @bryan_johnson and felt ashamed.
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This is insane. Next.js rebuilt based on Vite, and it only took one week and $1,100 in tokens?!?!
Code really doesn't matter anymore. Crazy.
Cloudflare@Cloudflare
We rebuilt Next.js in a week. No, really. The team ported the framework to run natively on Workers to prove what’s possible with edge-first architecture. Dive into the technical hurdles we solved to eliminate Node.js dependencies. cfl.re/4ciNc3L
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@zedbbb @rundowndaily_ @AutismCapital Yes, reports from Fortune, Bloomberg, and India Today confirm Sam Altman and Dario Amodei did not hold hands during a photo op at the AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi, opting to raise fists instead. Altman later said he was confused about the gesture.
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Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.
OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
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An xAI engineer just described how the company operates, and buried in that description is the only thing that might save Western technological dominance.
No organizational overhead. No documentation requirements. No approval chains. You identify what needs building and you build it.
xAI engineer: “There isn’t organizational overhead getting in your way, having to write docs. You just do stuff.”
That’s not a workplace perk. That’s an emergency response to an existential competitive threat most people refuse to acknowledge.
China owns 50% of the world’s AI researchers. Not the developing world combined. Not Asia collectively. China alone controls half of every brain advancing the most important technology in human history.
While the West celebrates chip sanctions and export controls, China is doing something infinitely more dangerous: removing every organizational barrier between brilliant people and execution.
xAI engineer: “If you want to get shit done, you can get shit done.”
In most Western companies, that sentence would be fantasy. Compliance reviews. Documentation mandates. Approval hierarchies. Risk assessments. Process optimization. Every layer bleeds velocity while competitors operate without friction.
This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about survival.
Talent compounds generationally. Elite researchers train the next wave. Each generation builds on everything before it. When you control half the pipeline and let them operate at maximum speed, your advantage doesn’t grow linearly. It explodes exponentially.
The West responds with governance frameworks. Ethics committees. Responsible AI initiatives. All valuable in peacetime. All fatal when you’re being systematically outpaced by an adversary that captured the talent advantage and eliminated the one thing slowing them down: bureaucracy.
xAI engineer: “It’s truly an environment where you just do stuff.”
That’s not unique culture. That’s the minimum operational requirement to compete against a system that owns half the world’s AI minds and removed every organizational obstacle between their ideas and reality.
Western advantages are real. Capital markets. Research institutions. Democratic innovation. All of it becomes irrelevant if the output gap keeps widening because one side builds while the other holds meetings about building.
China isn’t trying to slow the West down. They don’t need to. They’re accelerating their own execution while Western organizations debate whether acceleration needs additional oversight.
The math is brutal. Control half the researchers. Remove bureaucratic friction. Compound that advantage across generations. The West doesn’t lose slowly. It becomes a spectator watching the future get built in a language it can’t read fast enough to translate.
The choice isn’t between chaos and order. It’s between execution and extinction.
Either we build environments where the smartest people can operate at the speed of thought without permission structures, or we watch capability concentrate where those structures were already eliminated and wonder how we lost a war we didn’t realize we were fighting.
This isn’t about xAI’s culture. It’s about whether Western civilization can remember how to move fast enough to matter before the advantage gap becomes permanent.
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