Michael Topo

@visegrad24 @hispanicnomad He said no path to residency.

@hispanicnomad Please tell us more about the pathway to Qatari citizenship!? 🇶🇦

A Colombian friend of mine is moving to Spain 🇪🇸 She was in Qatar 🇶🇦 working for an airline, but decided to leave after the drone & missile strikes (Can’t blame her) But moving to Spain has its own set of problems: - She’ll have to enter as a student and can’t work - No path to legal residency if she does things by the book - Completely destroyed job market so even if she got her documents, she’ll just scrape by Very sad to see

@DanKulkov Lol people ship nonstop, that doesn’t mean anything anymore. Code will flow like water.

it's better to have $20/mo claude and ship something than to have $200/mo claude and ship nothing

Technology sufficient to dominate the planet. No nation can defend itself when Elon starts throwing rocks from the Moon. Whoever built this can wipe out all the infrastructure of their enemies on Earth—gravity well FTW.

@soulegit Dope

Been wanting to do this for awhile, finally found the right technique. I'm calling it a "Mondrian" distortion. In combination with a Sobel outline, it looks like some early drafts of blob tracking. Not as on the nose, but more aesthetic.

@Codie_Sanchez That is like … maybe after Series A. But you have no chance of getting there to ve funded now without hardcore work and innovation you do personally. All of these are like luxury after A.

I’m convinced 90% of the founders job is to just do 3 things: - be delusional in your optimism - push everyone to move faster - make it crystal clear what to work on

@forgebitz What you guys are missing is that mvp is good enough for most companies internal tools. They don’t need to grow your ARR. They just need a ui on top of a database and it’s good for like … years. We are now making all needed internal tools as part of each product developement.

"cost of software is going to zero" > 500k/y se salary > 250k/token budget saas seems like a good deal for most companies

friend is in the stage of claude psychosis where he asks claude to send him newspapers about what claude is doing for him

It genuinely breaks my brain to imagine what 1400 hours of annual sunshine must be like to live in. When going to college in Chicago, I really struggled with the seemingly endless gray of the winters. Chicago gets 2500 sunshine hours!

@tszzl I liked the visual, had a bit of an analogue feeling to it. Neon green is not a typical space color choice either, it was fine. But I agree both Martian and this could be more special if it went a bit more hard science way, that could be unique in cinema.

project hail mary was unfortunately a middling adaptation of a good book. the script has the unfortunate affect of “language model populism” - where every single line has to be some sort of punched up comedic zinger yet still unremarkable. visuals were uninspired and trite and more or less identical to other space movies. everything good about the film comes from the wonderful world scaffolding of the book and the hard science fiction of it all that lets you suspend disbelief on the alien rocky the movie doesn’t really try to get into the xenolinguistic stuff even at the depth the book tries (someone called it “arrival for idiots” which unfortunately hit ) the thing that elevated the book is the commitment to a hard science fiction engineeringporn fiction at a level nobody else is able to write. the direction of the movie doesn’t really convey the same feeling successfully, and you’re left with flat characters, an alien that is more human than several humans i know, and a marvel populism gosling and the german woman are great as actors, but this movie will not be remembered in a year. it is disappointing to see people do so little with a quarter billion, insane acting talent, and incredible source IP

@gabriel1 Well but it was obvious AI OS is the endgame (even oai mentioned it before) I think everyone just want to package and sell and you didn’t know how to make money on it yet.

i was skeptical of the openclaw concept first, but turned out i was just stupid very visionary product. perfectly predicted and made it obvious how having access EVERYTHING from ANYWHERE to do ANY work is clearly how the world will run very soon

@gabriel1 Mainly - don’t restrict it (I know you will). But key are things like when chatgpt is searching info on web compared to perplexity computer and shows crawling all pages … (more detail). or when pro image generator uses your brand images client gave you vs “I can’t do it”

@megha_lilly Art can be anything. Therefore also the price of art can be nothing or everything.

Art is not whatever you feel like is cool. Art is craftsmanship which requires medium. Material. It is using material to tell stories in the physical world. Digital images only exist in the digital world and so it’s at the outskirts of the definition. AI cant even create, it can only generate. Therefore AI is not a chisel or a pencil. It’s simply an algorithmic illusion pretending you are making something when really you’re imagining that you are. You’re creating nothing. You know this. We all know this. AI cannot make “art” no matter how cool you think something looks. Just like tofu can never be steak.

@RockyRoark They are selling ai design at the level it’s currently at. This will change.

OpenAI hired Jony Ive. Gamma, Perplexity, and Superhuman all hired the same branding studio. Every AI company selling “you don’t need a designer” is quietly paying designers to build their own brand. The companies closest to the technology are the ones least willing to trust it with.

@JohnLeFevre Cmon they have massive interest in shows but they are all on yutube now lol.

My kids are 11 and 12. I know this from direct experience, and also asking all their friends: - no interest in movie theaters - no interest in movies at home - no interest in TV shows Hollywood is dead.

@thom_bradshaw @TukiFromKL Will switch to energy based economy

@TukiFromKL For economic growth to occur, the money must flow through consumer consumption in the form of wages. No jobs = No wages = No growth. We are a consumer based economy. AI should know that, right? 😂

🚨 Let me tell you why this Goldman Sachs headline is the most dangerous one you'll read today.. Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year.. fired tens of thousands of people to "restructure around AI".. replaced entire departments with chatbots.. And Goldman Sachs just said it contributed basically zero to economic growth.. so where did the money go? > It went to Nvidia.. $130 billion in GPU sales.. Jensen is the only man on earth who got rich from AI that hasn't produced anything yet.. > It went to stock buybacks.. companies fired people, cut costs, reported "record profits" and bought back their own shares.. the money went UP not OUT.. Jesus! > It went to a bubble.. the same way crypto money went to Lamborghinis and not infrastructure.. AI money is going to valuations and not productivity.. here's the part that should terrify you.. They already fired the people.. Atlassian 1,600.. Meta 21,000.. Block 40%.. Amazon warehouses.. the jobs are already gone.. But the growth didn't come.. the productivity didn't come.. the revenue didn't come.. they burned the village to build a city that doesn't exist yet.. and Goldman Sachs just looked at the empty lot and said "there's nothing here"

@TukiFromKL It will be much worse I feer - like all of these companies might be run by one ASI megabrain datacenter and deliver all the product. The issue is people will price that not higher but lower - saying your enterprise had value before when it was costly but now really doesn’t.

@tomfgoodwin Yeah it’s small context window and infra in general for now. Will be one superagent - or even more so the general diffusion of the whole thing - business model, medical model etc that will oneshot final answer.

I’m surely being stupid. But if AI is rather unconstrained by expertise or capacity or to some extent speed Why do we need to divide tasks or departments to 9 agents ( the marketing agent, the optimization agent etc ) to each do one thing. And then another agent to manage the swarm. Cant one agent just be doing it all you know. It seems very skeuomorphic. Will we have HR agents to make sure the agent agents are being looked after ? A office canteen manager agent to feed the agents ? Seems daft

@gen_ericai @midjourney Also why they just dont allow api and automation is beyond me.

Dear @midjourney & @DavidSHolz, I’ve gone from being a featured artist in your 1st Anniversary Book to being banned without explanation. As a paying user since Jan 2023, I’m heartbroken by the silence. 🧵 #Midjourney #AIArt #MidjourneyCommunity

@iamgingertrash You are on fire lately

Patrick and John built a $200B company Why not focus on infrastructure for a new world instead of figuring out how you can retain middleman status? This is why everyone hates tech, and billionaires You’re slimy, grimy slugs You’d take a cut out of oxygen if you could

Everyone ~building for agents~ Is underestimating 2027 capabilities You think a hyperintelligent machine > that communicates at 10k tok/s > needs to settle in microseconds > uses nano cents per transaction Is going to use a Proprietary Middleman Chain ™ (?)

@karpathy Real flex this one ☝️

Thank you Jensen and NVIDIA! She’s a real beauty! I was told I’d be getting a secret gift, with a hint that it requires 20 amps. (So I knew it had to be good). She’ll make for a beautiful, spacious home for my Dobby the House Elf claw, among lots of other tinkering, thank you!!