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.

@NotionHQ Nothing, you already built it for me.

What are you building today?

@TheGeorgePu The gap I keep seeing in finance: everyone automates the output, nobody improves the question going in.

I agree with this. When everyone is spinning GPT and Claude for answers. Thinking differently and maturely is the underrated asset.

@leaving_tech Your hard work will pay off. That’s a lie unless you play the politics game too.

What's the worst career advice you ever got? I'll start. Years ago, I was in a tech lead position. My manager at that time told me: "If you want to grow as a manager, you have to stop coding". So I did. At first it worked. My team grew, I was managing a dozen engineers. But little by little: - My days were all 1:1s and meetings - I couldn't ship a single line of code anymore - Six months in I was rusty, stressed and burned out Turns out "stop coding" didn't grow my career. It just killed the part I loved. Your turn. What's yours?

@garrytan Owning your own memory is the digital version of finally getting your stuff out of your ex’s apartment.

You should want to control and host your own memory It’s the one thing that you should be able to take to any platform Watch for this to be a defining battle in the new browser war: the AI harness wars of 2027

@garrytan Removing the export button is the AI version of the gym that makes you cancel in person.

This sounds like a small thing but it's big. Platforms need to stay open and it shouldn't require a lot of work to get your data. Because where the AI harness wars are going... someone else's harness is just going to be you sharecropping someone else's AI ecosystem.

@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.