CryptoNick

Well, looks like its over. See you all in 4 years.

@OGCryptoNick Man. it's 100% truth

I’m at a stage in my life where I’m automating the lives of the people around me as much as possible. I am convinced that there is almost nothing left that can be done online that you can do better intellectually than AI. Almost everything that can be done online, including highly specialized work, AI can already do better. Today I had lunch with my Mexican friend—a lawyer. She specializes in conducting anonymous interviews and surveys with employees of Mexican corporations, then evaluating them to determine whether, in accordance with current Mexican legislation, their human rights or employee rights are being violated, and whether their employer and fellow employees are treating them ethically. She evaluates this using a comprehensive methodology, then writes a final report based on it, creates a presentation in English, and presents it to the client—the corporation—which is striving to be compliant and adhere to its internal ethical guidelines. 1. We ordered lunch. 2. I showed her mobile apps that we can use to record interviews with employees—apps that directly support voice recognition and transcription and that she can work with immediately. 2. I had the AI study the Mexican Labor Code, all employee rights, and all the rules that corporations in Mexico must follow as part of best practices. 3. I uploaded hundreds of anonymous employee interviews and ran them through the AI for evaluation using the specific methodology designed for this purpose. It generated a detailed 40-page report. 4. I then asked the AI to create a professional PowerPoint presentation in English. The quality of the presentation was, of course, higher than what my friend is used to. 5. Next, I asked the AI to create an audio file (MP3) using my friend’s voice, in which she would deliver the entire presentation in English. It generated a half-hour audio presentation in her voice, divided into several sections, including an introduction, a description of the methodology, identified issues, a conclusion, and a thank-you to the audience. I didn’t have her visual biometrics for the video presentation. 6. I asked for the lunch bill and paid. My friend realized that from now on, she could handle her entire two-week workload during a single lunch break.

@esrtweet unfortunate naming lol

Announcing xmlif release 1.5 Filter XML, interpreting conditionalizing markup. mlif is a tool that interprets certain processing instructions in XML ocuments to support conditional emission of specified sections of the ocument. It is intended to be used as a stage in an XML toolchain. New in this release: Code hardening against UBB and null derefs by ChatGPT 5.2. Undo caseblinding of attibute names, because XML isn't. Name can now contain the entire ASCCII subset legal in XML.. gitlab.com/esr/xmlif

@ksaitor Those Numbeo crime figures are not accurate.

I just found out that apparently Chiang Mai is safer than Singapore! Wow. Insane to think that actually. But numbers are numbers. 1. Chiang Mai, Thailand - with a crime index of 22.2 and a safety index of 77.8. 2. Singapore, Singapore - Crime Index: 22.6, Safety Index: 77.4

@TechLayoffLover cool story. Too bad it's fake.

Amazon just confirmed 16,000 layoffs but sources inside are telling me the real story is so much worse Word from three different VPs: the 16K number is just "Phase One" - internal docs show another 14,000 cuts planned for Q2 A director in AWS walked me through their new "efficiency matrix" - entire teams being replaced by 2-3 senior engineers running Claude Sonnet workflows The Alexa division got completely hollowed out. 847 engineers two months ago. 23 remaining after this week. All hardware development moved to a Bangalore team of 31 contractors with Cursor access Here's the sick part: they're making the outgoing engineers document their entire decision-making process into "knowledge transfer sessions" that are being recorded and fed directly into training datasets One L7 told me he spent his final two weeks creating detailed prompt libraries and workflow documentation. Thought he was being helpful for the transition Turns out he was literally training the AI agent that replaced his entire org The contractors offshore are using his exact prompts and shipping features 40% faster than his old team of 12 Americans ever did Internal Slack shows leadership celebrating "operational excellence" while badges get deactivated in real-time They're calling it "right-sizing for the AI era" in the all-hands But the P&L sheets I'm seeing show $280M in salary savings this quarter alone The knowledge extraction is complete If you're still at Amazon and haven't started job hunting, you're already dead

@bcinarli @GergelyOrosz Yes. Yes you are.

@GergelyOrosz Just thinking: are we in an echo chamber where all our following communities, big tech folks, and tier 3 are mostly using AI, while tier 1 and tier 2 still use the classic style? Or all tiers adopting agentic development

Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei: "I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." This turned out to be... too darn accurate.

@pbertrand_dev @adamdotdev Not much money in that compared to SWE

@adamdotdev time to embrace that we are all going to become fitness coaches and bjj trainers imagine how much fund that would be adam

Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.

@ThinkingBitmex $60k seems like a very shallow bear market both in price decline and timewise. I'd expect more of a longer drawn out bear market throughout the rest of the year, even if that only gets us down to $50k

Monitoring the situation

@paoloanzn @TheSoftwareJedi why?

@OGCryptoNick @TheSoftwareJedi its not exactly that easy bro especially if your rely on public RPC nodes

@paoloanzn @TheSoftwareJedi What does their paid API offer that a normal RPC node can't? The blockchain is public and public RPC nodes can be queried

@TheSoftwareJedi it helps THEM. i hate gate keeping. free knowledge and free code - to be honest bro they have a good product that is worth the money so you should pay for it.

@ColdBloodShill you've already missed it bro. The time to buy was years ago

This shit going to be the easiest play since the metals and everyone still going to complain they missed it.

@heart_ Linux is more insecure than Windows. Sorry to burst your bubble.

if you’re still using Windows in the big 2026 you’re just asking to be graped tbh especially if you keep your crypto on it if you’re too poor for Apple at least install Linux, it’s not the 90s anymore, it’s so simple even a woman can run it now

@H1BeesNuts Android is linux

GNU/Linux phones are the only solution. Google and Apple both are gonna lock down sideloading.

@LefterisJP This one is huge

And yes we heard you! You can now report issues from inside the app. Help & Support → Report Issue. Less friction, better bug reports, faster fixes.

I am extremely proud to announce that @rotkiapp v1.42.0 is finally out. 592 commits. 19 contributors 🤯 This is a big UX + performance release and it fixes, among other things, one of the most annoying parts of crypto accounting: CEX transfers matching. 👇🧵

@CamDailyTV Brooooo so glad you're back but what happened to all your old videos?

@IRS_MEDIC In my eyes it's an attack on crypto, forcing people to switch to custodial solutions that can be seized and regulating it out of existence

This is what happens when you legislate tax policy by agency press release. IRS Notice 2014-21 coming home to roost. Tracking basis that can’t be tracked under penalty of law. It was bad enough but of course Congress had to “help” with 1099-DA kerosene to really get this dumpster fire developing.

@johnennis you are delusional

Man, the AI discourse on LinkedIn is just brutal People completely in the dark about what is happening, but very sure of themselves The next six months could be a very rough ride

@HodlMagoo If that happens it is bearish af

I don’t think Core Devs have really grok’d the fact that within a decade most Bitcoin code will be written by AI. Controlling social consensus will be more important than actually writing the code for proposed changes.

@_jonasschnelli_ x.com/gainzy222/stat…

Wrote my first BASIC app with 10, first online shop in Perl with 15, created or assisted in hundreds of software projects over 30 years. One thing is clear: software development by humans is over. Done. Maybe some niches stay, but I highly doubt it.