Prof Jim Liew

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 COINBASE JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL LAUNCH CRYPTO-BACKED MORTGAGES FOR OVER 100,000,000 AMERICANS. BUY AND OWN A HOUSE WITHOUT SELLING YOUR CRYPTO. THIS IS MASSIVE 🤯

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT DECLARES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS REMOVING EVERY REGULATORY BARRIER AGAINST BITCOIN AND CRYPTO. This is MASSIVE! 🚀

@Jason Thanks for sharing! Wow! 😮 @Jason

Holy shit, it’s happening

I thought I was using OpenClaw well. Then I watched this. This is the OpenClaw masterclass.

Let me be more clear. Currently 4/1000 returns are audited. Soon 1000/1000. Currently it’s estimated that 15-20 percent of people cheat on taxes. Thats a lot!

It’s so damn sad that both parties keep trying to paint the Epstein files as being weaponized by the other side. There seems to be plenty of bad actors from both teams on the field. From my perspective, this isn’t about which party was uglier; it’s about the elite and how they operated under a different set of rules. We are already heading towards class warfare. These files are just accelerating it.

@karpathy Amazing insights thanks for sharing @karpathy !

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December. i.e. I really am mostly programming in English now, a bit sheepishly telling the LLM what code to write... in words. It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful, especially once you adapt to it, configure it, learn to use it, and wrap your head around what it can and cannot do. This is easily the biggest change to my basic coding workflow in ~2 decades of programming and it happened over the course of a few weeks. I'd expect something similar to be happening to well into double digit percent of engineers out there, while the awareness of it in the general population feels well into low single digit percent. IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now. The models definitely still make mistakes and if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly sloppy, hasty junior dev might do. The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They also don't manage their confusion, they don't seek clarifications, they don't surface inconsistencies, they don't present tradeoffs, they don't push back when they should, and they are still a little too sycophantic. Things get better in plan mode, but there is some need for a lightweight inline plan mode. They also really like to overcomplicate code and APIs, they bloat abstractions, they don't clean up dead code after themselves, etc. They will implement an inefficient, bloated, brittle construction over 1000 lines of code and it's up to you to be like "umm couldn't you just do this instead?" and they will be like "of course!" and immediately cut it down to 100 lines. They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't like or don't sufficiently understand as side effects, even if it is orthogonal to the task at hand. All of this happens despite a few simple attempts to fix it via instructions in CLAUDE . md. Despite all these issues, it is still a net huge improvement and it's very difficult to imagine going back to manual coding. TLDR everyone has their developing flow, my current is a small few CC sessions on the left in ghostty windows/tabs and an IDE on the right for viewing the code + manual edits. Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased. Speedups. It's not clear how to measure the "speedup" of LLM assistance. Certainly I feel net way faster at what I was going to do, but the main effect is that I do a lot more than I was going to do because 1) I can code up all kinds of things that just wouldn't have been worth coding before and 2) I can approach code that I couldn't work on before because of knowledge/skill issue. So certainly it's speedup, but it's possibly a lot more an expansion. Leverage. LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals and this is where most of the "feel the AGI" magic is to be found. Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria and watch it go. Get it to write tests first and then pass them. Put it in the loop with a browser MCP. Write the naive algorithm that is very likely correct first, then ask it to optimize it while preserving correctness. Change your approach from imperative to declarative to get the agents looping longer and gain leverage. Fun. I didn't anticipate that with agents programming feels *more* fun because a lot of the fill in the blanks drudgery is removed and what remains is the creative part. I also feel less blocked/stuck (which is not fun) and I experience a lot more courage because there's almost always a way to work hand in hand with it to make some positive progress. I have seen the opposite sentiment from other people too; LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building. Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually. Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to write it. Slopacolypse. I am bracing for 2026 as the year of the slopacolypse across all of github, substack, arxiv, X/instagram, and generally all digital media. We're also going to see a lot more AI hype productivity theater (is that even possible?), on the side of actual, real improvements. Questions. A few of the questions on my mind: - What happens to the "10X engineer" - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows *a lot*. - Armed with LLMs, do generalists increasingly outperform specialists? LLMs are a lot better at fill in the blanks (the micro) than grand strategy (the macro). - What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music? - How much of society is bottlenecked by digital knowledge work? TLDR Where does this leave us? LLM agent capabilities (Claude & Codex especially) have crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025 and caused a phase shift in software engineering and closely related. The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally. 2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new capability.

L.A. County has become an epicenter for health care fraud in America. Criminals have corrupted the system so much that fraud is now almost expected. President Trump has made it clear: we will not tolerate the patient harm or taxpayer funded theft any longer. More to come.

I hired my first full-time AI employee, it's Clawdbot. It’s free:

This is what we all should be doing. DAVID HOCH: Not everyone has to do what I'm doing, but this has to be the spark where people say, "This is enough." I need to know that all of this was not in vain.

🚨 BREAKING: Outrage erupts after journalist finds office buildings in Maine housing TONS of “home health” companies that practically have no staff — with as many as 22 in a single location. x.com/WallStreetApes… “It's the same thing that we're finding in Minnesota, just to be completely blunt, the same tactics being used to defraud Medicaid!” AUDIT MAINE NOW!

Thank goodness

🚨 WIDESPREAD DHS FRAUD: In 2018, whistleblower testimony from Scott Tillman, a Minnesota DHS forensic investigator, alleged widespread fraud in "Daycare" and Medicaid "Personal Attendants", where fraud rate is in the 70-80% RATE. Tillman said the fraud was being replicated by an individual that was training people across many states. "It started in Minnesota, but we found an individual in our investigation who was teaching and training other states to do this, and it's spreading out. It's in Seattle, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Georgia. It's everwhere." HOW HAS THIS BEEN ALLOWED TO GO ON SINCE 2018 ?! via @DGrayTexas45

Ilhan Omar committed fraud

26 year fraud scam in Minnesota

🚨 TSA allowed Somalian men to bring suitcases full of money and let them pass through TSA security. I 100% believe the government of Minnesota knew this was happening. They had to have been getting kickbacks. TSA whistleblowers have said they have seen upwards of $1 million in suitcases going through TSA. American tax dollars being sent to Somalia and it’s been going on for years. This should make every American furious! 🚨

🚨 After my last video exposing over $110 Million in fraud Tim Walz dropped his run for reelection and multiple federal investigations were launched to stop fraud across the country. In this 51 minute video David and I expose another $16 Million in fraud as Minnesota welfare programs continue to operate fraudulently and steal from law-abiding taxpayers, Like it and share it around everywhere! Accountability and the law must come for the fraudsters and corrupt politicians who have let this happen. The fraud must end.

The Ralph Wiggum Claude Code plugin is taking over X and for good reason It allows Claude to work for DAYS by itself I've been able to one shot multiple apps and features with it In this video I cover how Ralph Wiggum works, how to install it, and how to build with it:

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.