Aaron Jacobson

There has never been a nicer day than today. ☀️

Ad targeting gone wrong 😅 I came across this reddit post yesterday, about claude going rogue and deploying code without approval...which would dissuade anyone from signing up for claude code, in that moment, anyway. Immediately followed by an anthropic ad, promoting that "every moment becomes a chance to ship" Apparently, even when you don't want it to.

@nikitabier lol 2x

What it’s like working at X

@realtrickyd @River We can trust that the government will save them from failing, at our expense. Meanwhile, we can start to progress to a safer, more efficient economy that doesn’t cost trillions to operate.

@AaronJacobxon @River I trust “too big to fail” money-center banks and FDIC insurance

Just got this genius mailer from @River

@DDCDaisy @River I’ve had an account for years with no issues. I was paying high transaction fees with other services before discovering $0 fees with River. It’s the easiest way to start buying bitcoin. Did you find out why your account was closed?

@AaronJacobxon @River River is straight garbage. I made an account in early March and before I even had a chance to add money, they closed my account.

@ZachGregor @River trustless goes both ways 😉

@River @AaronJacobxon Are you implying that maybe the bank had reason not to trust him?

@River 😂 all stolen from institutions that didn't chain them to the desk

@AaronJacobxon That’s a lot of pens you got there…

The migration in numbers: - Team of 16 engineers worked over 6 weeks. - We reduced our footprint from 6M CPU cores, to just 10k cores. - We are now using the same Grok-based transformer models that power your home timeline. - Eliminated 15 years of tech debt - replaced 1M LOC of Scala with just 50k LOC of Rust and Python

That is devastating - glad you've been able to build a successful business despite that experience. Wish there some recourse for that loss though. Doing business with an unethical executive at JPM lost me $150k - and was a big part of why I changed careers. Theme: keep building & don't trust a big bank.

My own JPMorgan VP horror story: A few years ago, a VP reached out and asked me to develop a game for internal marketing use. We agreed on a contract price, I was added to their vendor system, and I got to work prototyping a custom game. A few months later, I showed them the prototype, which I had designed to their exact parameters (they wanted a game that demonstrated the value of corporate treasurers, which was not an easy concept to work with). By then, his team had changed their minds about what they wanted the game to be, and asked me to start over. Since the contract was for a substantial amount of money, including an order of 10,000+ games, I designed an entirely new game concept and presented it a couple months later. They loved the second version. I was told to expect the first half of my payment shortly. So I waited. And waited. I checked in every few days and got no response. Finally, I heard back from one of the VP’s assistants. It turned out he had used the project to stand out among peers he was competing with for a promotion. Apparently, showing the prototype was enough to get him the recognition he needed. He got promoted. And I never heard from him again. I had done six months of work without being paid a dime, because I assumed I was working with a reputable company that would honor its obligations. My poor wife was devastated when she found out. Ever since then, she has had a hard time feeling confident in any deal I make until she sees the check with her own eyes. I learned an expensive lesson: A company’s reputation does not pay your bills. A purchase order does not pay your bills. A verbal promise definitely does not pay your bills. Get a down payment. Every time.

@elonmusk better Ps, Fs, and Bs than Kling or Veo

Grok Imagine

Well said.

@DudespostingWs What a play 🔥 Almost perfect, but “Warren G” High School? - The soundtrack should’ve be Regulate.

I was going to stay out of this, but I'll jump in here. The only reason I am big on X is because "the media" literally left an entire open lane for me to fill in 2024. After the first initial days of Hurricane Helene, nearly all MSM packed up and left. I continued to share the stories of Helene victims LONG after the media was gone. It had nothing to do with me as a person, but everything to do with filling a void the media left behind. That's why X is so amazing. A literal nobody with a camera and a drone can make massive change in the world. It took me awhile to understand the entire gambit, but what the media chooses to cover and what they choose not to cover has absolutely NOTHING to do with the amount of views the content will recieve. My videos of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the stories of survivors got tens of millions of views on X. The NYTimes could have shared those stories too. They just chose not to. The media will literally give up revenue just to push a narrative. They made a calculated decision that the suffering of people in Western North Carolina was not useful to the political narrative during election season and they left. And once you understand that, you can never look at a news broadcast the same way again. The stories they run are selected. The stories they skip are selected. The stories they choose to omit are just as deliberate as the coverage. They don't just shape what you think. They shape what you think ABOUT. I'm just a guy. I'm nobody special But I showed up and they didn't. That lane is STILL wide open. And there are thousands of stories just like that waiting for someone to tell them. And the truth is that people are HUNGRY for those stories... if you do the work to find them. I am so grateful for X and the people that choose every single day to share the stories I post or my thoughts. You all make real change in the world, and I am so grateful.

@geo_anima @ShishirShelke1 😭

@ShishirShelke1 same vibe

Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working This scene is now canon 😭

@JCRM_AI @ShishirShelke1 😂

@ShishirShelke1 Never open windows in space

😂😭

Confirming what we've all experienced.

@RapidResponse47 @SecretaryWright price change data varies, depending on the product. bls.gov/charts/consume…

.@SecretaryWright: "Prices today are still far below what they were in the Biden Administration, where they were begging, bartering, and bribing Iran to behave better."

@Vivek4real_ 🙏

GOLD DID THE SAME IN THE 1970s AND THEN IT WENT VERTICAL 🔥 BITCOIN IS SHOWING THE SAME PATTERN TODAY. TIGHTEN YOUR SEATBELTS 🚀

@elonmusk 🍀 parade in Grand Central station this morning 🍀

🍀 Happy St Patrick’s Day! 🍀