Yrmis Barroeta

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins. It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher. I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight: When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

Treat yourself.

Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents 15:51 - Why AutoResearch 22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 - Model Speciation 32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms 1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 - End Thoughts

Shoutout to @AstralTutor founder @ShivamSharma for the conversation that sparked this one.

Read the full issue here: substack.com/home/post/p-19…

The same thing holding your kid back in fractions is holding you back at work. You skipped a step and kept going. New 1•1•1 Signals on the mastery gap nobody talks about ↓

@ErnestoSOFTWARE @ErnestoSOFTWARE Can I pull you out of lock-in mode and take you to cafecito? Would love to meet you, see if we can do a feature together.

My favorite thing about miami is how motivating it is → I wake up → Look out my window → See billionaires on their boats → I lock in

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Everything from the smallest subatomic particle to the entire galaxy is evolving. While everything apparently dies or disappears in time, the truth is that it all just gets reconfigured in evolving forms. Remember that energy can’t be destroyed—it can only be reconfigured. So the same stuff is continuously falling apart and coalescing in different forms. The force behind that is evolution. For example, the primary purpose of every living thing is to act as a vessel for the DNA that evolves life through time. The DNA that exists within each individual came from an eternity ago and will continue to live long after its individual carriers pass away, in increasingly evolved forms. As I thought about evolution, I realized that it exists in other forms than life and is carried out through other transmission mechanisms than DNA. Technologies, languages, and everything else evolves. Knowledge, for example, is like DNA in that it is passed from generation to generation and evolves; its impact on people over many generations can be as great or greater than that of the genetic code. Evolution is good because it is the process of adaptation that generally moves things toward improvement. All things such as products, organizations, and human capabilities evolve through time in a similar way. It is simply the process by which things either adapt and improve or die. #principleoftheday

Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician. Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive. And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless. Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.” For five hundred years, the idea was the prize. The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed. That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for. Gone. A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses. A thousand of them. Before dinner. The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room. Now it is the cheapest. But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow. Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.” Sit with that. We automated creation. We did not automate truth. We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon. We cannot tell you which ones are real. That is not a gap. That is a chasm. And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now. Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.” The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce. Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate. That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it. Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output. They are now absorbing machine-speed volume. And they are cracking under it. Tao compared it to the internet. The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside. AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself. Infinite generation. Zero verification. The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less. The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more. That is the inversion nobody is processing. Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content. Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct. And that is the only system that matters. Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market. They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through. The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer. The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real. And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand. That is not a research problem. That is the race beneath the race. And almost nobody has entered it.

They told me to learn #OpenClaw. Nobody specified which kind. 🦞 The crustacean and I have a lot in common. New issue out. Friction, agent swarms, and the co-founder of Incase on why the next interface belongs to you. open.substack.com/pub/yrmis/p/11… #Orgo #Claude

BRUTAL TRUTHS ABOUT PEOPLE: 1. The weakest are often most cruel. 2. The dumbest talk the most. 3. The most miserable are the most jealous. 4. The most insignificant are the most arrogant. 5. The wisest remain calm. 6. The strongest are always kind. 7. The smartest often stay silent. 8. The happiest live quietly.

@elonmusk How can I help? This text makes me sad 😖

Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔

@elonmusk @elonmusk wait! They didn’t learn from Venezuela?

A fast way to destroy New York

Dr. Gabor Maté drops parenting truth in 58 seconds: The first 3 years shape everything. Get it right → almost impossible to go wrong later. Get it wrong → emotional absence, lack of attunement, and conditional love hurt deeply. Children need: • Play • All emotions welcome • Unconditional loving attachment • Rest from “performing” to earn your love They just need to be. 58-sec clip — a wake-up call for every parent 👇 Which of these needs did you miss growing up? Or which are you making sure your kids get?

Este es un mensaje para quienes hablan de la violación de la soberanía de Venezuela. Les hago un pequeño resumen de lo que significa esa palabra para quienes han vivido bajo la dictadura chavista.

@Jhonffonseca esperando confirmacion

¡En libertad Luis Tarbay!

How can Americans not understand how thankful (we) Venezuelans feel when, five days later, close friends are being released from unjustified imprisonment? Emotions are running extremely high.

That’s how a lot of Venezuelans feel: like they’re signing up for a makeover deal where the country’s resources are the advertising cost, and in exchange, they finally get a shot at something they just can’t fix alone.

Oversimplified, but a great analogy I came up with while trying to explain to a dear friend how Venezuelans feel with the current situation: Imagine Venezuela right now is like one of those extreme home makeover TV shows.

And the person living in that wreck of a house? They’re like, “Sure, take the ad money, just give me a livable home, because I could never afford this makeover in a million years.”

You’ve got a house in absolute ruin: roaches, dirt, the whole deal. The show swoops in and says, “Hey, we’ll rebuild it better than ever, put you in a hotel for a bit, and yeah, we’ll make a ton of money off the ads and the spectacle.”