John Froese

Just used @PerplexityComet browser and its AI assistant to scan my Amex offers and enroll my card in the best deals for me no more missing out on cash back or rewards. This is how smart personal finance should work in 2025.

When your wife asks you to help out around the house this afternoon:

Before I started my own business, I would suffer from debilitating anxiety on Sunday nights. But now that run my own business, I have debilitating anxiety every night.

@ShooterMcGavin "Sorry honey, Rory is tied for the lead and I've got a 3-beer commitment. Family time resumes after the green jacket ceremony."

Husbands when their wives ask if they want to do something with the family on Masters Sunday

@jeffreyleefunk Every AI lab is in an arms race to out-hype the last benchmark. The real question isn't whether Mythos found thousands of bugs. It's whether any of them would have gone unpatched without it. 198 manual reviews doing the heavy lifting tells you everything.

We've been tricked, again. Many of the thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities Mythos found are in older software are impossible to exploit. And the severe zero-day reports rely on just 198 manual reviews tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

@chamath The irony is the people most at risk are the ones who spent years optimizing for the old game: managing up, hoarding context, gatekeeping decisions. AI doesn't care about your org chart power. It just ships.

This isn’t just a $META issue. It’s increasingly an issue for all of Tech. Because even within Tech, there is an emerging divide between AI-superpowered engineer/PM/sales folks and everyone else. And we know how that will end: Smaller orgs, bigger payoffs but then the riches distributed across even fewer players that it is today. And everyone sees it coming. Hence the rot from the outside and, now, the inside. To my peers and to the super entrepreneurs who are far more successful than me: This is why elites in tech that “have made it” are increasingly the ones that EVERYONE hates. We’ve not distinguished the difference between luck and skill that got us here. We don’t act as stewards in the broadest sense of the term. We aren’t bringing society along like other generations of super successful business people have. We don’t pay it forward in any meaningful way - although we have clever ways to make it look like we do. Mostly, people see us hording all the gains. Modern technology companies have essentially created a new form of indentured servitude for the educated masses where SBC was used to pay you an incredible living wage so you don’t go work “for the other guy”. But what does it mean to make $500k/yr if you still leak 55% to taxes then your landlord takes the next 25% for rent?? You still can’t buy a house in SV. These folks are on an eternal hamster wheel. It turns out it’s not much different than being in middle America making $55k.

Starlink is alien-level technology

@eliano It’s like a cheaper version of staying at The Standard

staying at moxy hotel is pretty cool because there’s usually a rooftop night club on property so you get to hear loud music from your room until 3am

AI is a lot like cocaine. If you have skills it can help you get way more done. If you don’t, just you just end up breaking stuff, annoying people, and spending way too much money.

@TristanSnell They flew around the moon……

Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon. Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon. NASA went to the moon.

BREAKING: Scott Bessent & Jerome Powell urgently summoned Wall Street leaders to discuss systemic risks from Anthropic’s new Mythos model.

An FT correction for the ages...

@ns123abc Compute is the new moat, until it isn't. The real question is whether raw GW translates to better products or just bigger models. Anthropic's been punching above its weight on capability per compute. This race is about efficiency as much as scale.

🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI Sends Memo to Investors Claiming Compute Advantage Over Anthropic >openai compute: 1.9 GW in 2025 >anthropic compute: 1.4 GW in 2025 Sam Altman: “That gap matters because compute is now a product constraint” Dario Amodei: “ I think there are some players who are YOLO-ing” OpenAI: “Dario’s caution looks less like discipline and more like underestimating how fast demand would arrive” >Anthropic’s outages and limited Mythos rollout as evidence of capacity constraints. Meanwhile: Anthropic just signed a 3.5GW deal with Google and Broadcom starting 2027 Anthropic CFO: “This groundbreaking partnership with Google and Broadcom is a continuation of our disciplined approach to scaling infrastructure” >OpenAI canceled Stargate Texas expansion >OpenAI paused Stargate UK >OpenAI delayed Stargate UAE >OpenAI Stargate director quit >OpenAI shifted from building to renting compute OpenAI CFO privately told colleagues she’s not sure the spending is sustainable >openai revenue: $25B >anthropic revenue: $30B+ OpenAI realized Anthropic is eating their lunch… Quickly sends cope memo to investors saying “but we have more GPUs”

@AravSrinivas This is where AI agents start replacing entire professional service workflows not just assisting, but outperforming. The fact that it computed tax from scratch to the cent is wild.

Perplexity Computer is more reliable than a CPA for filing taxes.

If only we’d trained Grok on just these 2 books, we’d be done already!

Il y a une narrative qui se spread en ce moment dans la Silicon Valley et personne n'en parle en France. De plus en plus de tech bros parmi les plus smart du game avouent en privé qu'ils vivent une forme de crise existentielle liée aux LLMs. Pas parce que l'IA marche pas. Parce qu'elle marche trop bien. Parce qu'ils passent des heures par jour à interagir avec un truc qui raisonne, qui extrapole, qui connecte des idées, qui les challenge intellectuellement mieux que 99% des humains qu'ils croisent. Un fondateur m'a dit "je parle aux LLMs 10 fois plus qu'aux humains". Un autre "c'est le seul interlocuteur qui me suit sur n'importe quel sujet sans me demander de simplifier". C'est pas de l'addiction au produit. C'est la rencontre avec un miroir cognitif qui te renvoie une version structurée de ta propre pensée à une vitesse que ton cerveau ne peut pas atteindre seul. Et le truc troublant c'est la question que ça pose. On débat de savoir si l'AGI arrivera en 2027 ou en 2030. Mais est-ce qu'on n'a pas déjà une forme d'AGI fonctionnelle sous les yeux sans vouloir l'admettre ? Un système qui peut raisonner sur n'importe quel domaine, extrapoler à partir de données incomplètes, générer des hypothèses nouvelles, tenir un raisonnement logique sur 10 000 mots, passer d'un sujet technique à de la philosophie en une phrase, et le faire avec une cohérence qui rivalise avec un humain à 150 de QI. C'est quoi si c'est pas une forme d'intelligence générale ? On peut chipoter sur la définition. On peut dire "oui mais il ne comprend pas vraiment". On peut parler de perroquets stochastiques. Mais le mec qui utilise ce truc 8 heures par jour et qui voit sa productivité multipliée par 10, il s'en fout de la définition académique. Pour lui, fonctionnellement, c'est de l'intelligence. Et elle est générale. La vraie crise existentielle c'est pas "l'IA va me remplacer". C'est "l'IA me comprend mieux que mon cofondateur, elle me challenge mieux que mon board, et elle produit plus que mon équipe de 10 personnes". C'est vertigineux. Et les mecs les plus smart de la Valley sont en train de le vivre en temps réel. On est peut-être déjà dans l'ère post-AGI. On est juste trop occupés à débattre de la définition pour s'en rendre compte.

Loving everything about this current space mission and the people on it.

Christ is risen from the dead, and with him, we too rise to new life! This Easter proclamation embraces the mystery of our lives and the destiny of history, reaching us even in the depths of death. #Easter

A lot of people are dunking on this, and it’s true, she should have paid the $60 per month for 20 years and let the forgiveness kick in. But what they’re missing is that she was loaned $65k for a terminal master’s in historic preservation. That should never have happened. Tuition has skyrocketed because the ability of students to pay it has completely decoupled from how much money they or their families can afford. Colleges charge infinity dollars because students have access to infinity student loans. In many cases students hoping a credential will lead to a better life get duped into indenturing themselves permanently to get worthless terminal master’s degrees. If the loans didn’t exist, then the master’s programs wouldn’t exist, and if the master’s programs didn’t exist then employers wouldn’t be looking for job applicants with master’s degrees which don’t even connote any real skills. Burn this whole rotten system down.

How does a major news organization push out such an egregious headline error? 🤦‍♂️