“Why do East Asians migrate to California?”
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
Body hair might seem pointless, but it actually helps shield us from mosquito bites.
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Christophe Chong
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Christophe Chong
@ChristopheChong
2023: Founder of fastest consumer fintech to 100MM ARR. 2018: Founding engineer of fastest consumer product to 100MM (record broken now).
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Could The Bronze Age could be a blueprint for The AI Age to come?
In it, there are four new kinds of software engineers: agent of empire, urbanite, rebel, and nomad.
1) the agent of empire. these are the tier 1 lab shops. they are growing the beast. unlimited token use is applied as much to growing the beast as creating competition for incumbents, to force them into paying the AI tax.
2) urbanite, aka the new factory worker. they are the ones who are enjoying the centralization of AI, for now. includes both people who have never written code before, to those who are ex-engineers. since they haven't been reading the code before, they continue to ignore it now. they are just happy to be a part of it all.
3) the rebel. these are the open source models. they are growing mini beasts, goading the empire into attacking them and mimetically growing beastlings. they refuse to pay the tax and eschew centralization, and are increasingly a thorn in the side of empire.
4) the nomad. these people are AI minimalists. they are the bedouins, living off their own skill and knowledge of the land. they will be here when urban knowledge centers fail or the beast becomes uncontrollable.
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I remember during my stint at meta I rented a room in an Airbnb to explore living closer and an electrician who was working on one of the new MPK buildings said:
“I don’t know why the company needs so many engineers for an app that can run on a laptop.”
Oh, where to begin. I politely nodded, put on my helmet, and jumped on my gxxr.
Kontra@counternotions
WSJ: “Meta has no platform layer, no operating system, no cloud business, no device. It is an application running on Apple’s hardware, spending up to $135B this year to build consumer AI features that Apple ships free, at the OS level, on every device it sells.” → 20% layoff?
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Stellar record of finding the previous generation's founders. First principles approach to incubation. Excited to see where this program goes! I've met some of the potential candidates and it's a high bar.
outcastventures.com/catalyst/
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SMBs are now proven LLM winners – which is great because that includes half of all working Americans.
Case in point: my friend runs tech at an SMB with less than a hundred ppl, closing in on nine figure sales.
They abandoned a million dollar salesforce migration (which they are still on the hook for) since it took forever for the salesforce engineers to add buttons in the right place... but not abandoned for nothing. Instead, the tech lead modernized their homegrown solution using Claude Code.
This is a technology so powerful that sunk cost contracts by incumbents can't hold you down.
All the little integrations and add ons he would be charged for he can now build in house. All they need is a ledger and some core accounting software for financials.
Making integrations hard to migrate away from, nickel- and dime-ing every both headcount growth and every added functionality, heavy upfront contracts – all of it is going away.
That’s triple downside for the giant software shops. Your order management, website, CRM is now cheaper, faster, more secure and scalable.
Which means more money for businesses to do business!
And it's not just the saved costs, it's velocity unlock and capabilities unlock — toss into this story a DB with 80% CPU utilization being brought down to 12%.
So sure, software is getting hammered, but software is about utility, and those at the heart of the American economy stand to gain big when we push software from big centralized brains to the edges.
Interesting road ahead!
Cautiously optimistic.
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@linderps >> search for bachata in sf bay
>> drive down to San Mateo.
>> it’s all guys but two girls
>> not enough girls so me and a few guys volunteer for female part
>> doing both actually helps in learning bachata better!
>> never go back
>> mfw i learn the sexy ppl are in ny 😂
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weekend reminder: go do sexy activities to meet sexy people.
when i used to dance bachata, i remember constantly thinking… how am i surrounded by beautiful, sexy, feminine women and somehow there's not enough men???
try something new. go where the sexy people go.
Fitas@Feezy_fitas
Best way for a guy to find a girl is to get a “sexy hobby” - social dancing - street portrait photography - hiking tours - learn guitar - learn multiple languages - world traveler - tennis - beach volleyball/suf - skiing/snowboarding Get good at it, display it, find/build community, and you’ll never be lonely or have to use the dating apps again. Oh and pursuing something fun outside of work that doesn’t involve responsibilities or pressure is great for mental health
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>> claude --resume d535acb8-c68a-4f38-b3c0-36b7298fce65
No conversation found with session ID:
d535acb8-c68a-4f38-b3c0-36b7298fce65
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If data was the new oil, then AI coding is the new plastic
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@tunguz Software ate the stock market. But it was done by the older vintage.
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This. SO. MUCH. THIS!!!
I was going to write a blog post about how software never ate the world, but I’m glad that someone beat me to it.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Marc Andreessen was wrong about software eating the world, and I see people making the same mistake about AI today. I wrote this almost three years ago and I wouldn't change a word if I were publishing it today.
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@tszzl @tylercowen I stopped full contact sparring after my fingers wouldn’t remember to do their thing following a hard session.
Could’ve just been panic-induced though 😅
They eventually recovered
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It's when we cure LLM dementia before human dementia that it's truly over.
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@paulswaney3 Conventional masculinity may be about acting bullet proof, but it’s also about discipline which I think BJ owns to an extreme.
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This over-the-hill rock band that just crushed 5 doubles of Jack Daniel’s at TPA on the way to a gig is an order of magnitude more masculine than this androgynous vampire who co-opted his look from Twilight
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
identity through physicality
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@ebitdaddy90 Yeah last time someone said something like this they invented AWS
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This + that fruit fly in a game replication lead me to believe human consciousness is not software it’s a hardware problem with emergent properties. Replicate the hardware scaffolding in a GPU and you’ll find consciousness #imhigh
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip has learned to play DOOM.
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@AmazonHelp Thx — the mental model of “scrolling your notes to where you’re in the book” doesn’t work well in the reverse: when you’re scrolling your notes and checking the context, you need to click through into the page (full view) to mark where you are in the notes to keep it synced.
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@ChristopheChong Hey. Thanks for bringing this matter to our attention. We'd like to look into it with you. So we'll be able to perform any necessary troubleshooting, will you please contact us directly here: amzn.to/NAContactUs. We'll be standing by. -AJ
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Now that we can vibe code things can someone from @AmazonKindle fix the highlights section so that clicking through to see the text doesn’t lose track of the scroll position in the highlights? Might be worth joining the team to fix this myself.
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Can you win the War, but lose the war?
finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic…
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Perhaps the most amazing part of it all is that 8 billion messy piles of molecules are capable of reasoning in the first place.
As Dario said with a flustered laugh yesterday, biology is practically inscrutable (although AI provides hope for making faster progress).
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Company grind, sabbatical unwind
x.com/arcticinstinct…
David Sun@arcticinstincts
FROLIC IN THE MEADOWS NOW
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