Reece Harding

Gauntlet Cohort 2 Launches Monday Everyone Keeps Asking Me the Same 2 Questions Should I Join? Absolutely. Best Experience of my Life. How Do I Prepare? I'm Dropping Everything I Learned From 1,000+ Hours of Coding into One Crash Course👇

@o1echka depends who you’re with lol i still have friends who scare me intellectually

Something i’ve been noticing after the last few weeks Once your brain gets exposed to a different level of thinking or execution consistently enough, it adjusts surprisingly fast People you would’ve found intimidating before just start feeling normal The pace that once felt intense becomes expected And after that it’s hard to go back to your old reference points without feeling the difference

@sukh_saroy bro have you even used open cut? it’ll crash every few minutes and latency is horrible this is the most ai post i’ve read today 😆😆

CapCut just locked basic features behind a paywall and started training their AI on every video their users edited. A group of developers got mad enough to clone the entire thing from scratch and put it on GitHub for free. It's called OpenCut. 45,800 stars in under a year. Here's why every CapCut user is quietly migrating. → Timeline-based editing with multi-track support → Real-time preview without rendering first → No watermarks on any export, ever → No subscriptions, no premium tier, no locked features → Works on web, desktop, and mobile from the same codebase → Your videos never leave your device, the editor runs in your browser → MIT License, so anyone can fork it and ship their own version CapCut started free. Then they paywalled basic transitions. Then they paywalled higher export resolutions. Then they started slapping watermarks on free user exports. Then ByteDance started using user content to train their AI models. The pattern every free creative tool follows. OpenCut breaks the pattern by being unable to do that. The repo is MIT licensed, which means nobody can ever add a paywall, force an account, or train AI on your projects. If the maintainers tried, someone would fork it within 48 hours and ship the same product without the changes. The features that put it ahead of CapCut already: → Privacy-first architecture, video processing happens locally → No CapCut account required, no Apple ID, no Google sign in → Open source codebase you can audit line by line → 90+ contributors actively shipping features every week → Web version works on Chromebooks, Linux, anything with a browser → Anonymous analytics only, no behavioral tracking, no fingerprinting The numbers that explain why it's blowing up: → 45,800 GitHub stars → 4,700 forks (developers betting on the codebase) → 1,280 commits in active development → 90+ contributors from around the world → Backed by Vercel and fal.ai for OSS infrastructure The most uncomfortable truth for CapCut: their entire moat was being free. The moment a free, open-source alternative caught up, the moat disappeared. OpenCut has caught up. MIT License. 100% Open Source. Free forever.

@cjoye is this legislation passed or proposed or theory @grok

The single biggest winner from the budget: the tax-free owner-occupied home, which is where people will put their money. After the budget doubles the capital gains tax on productive businesses/assets from circa 23.5% to 46-47%, investors will understandably pull money from businesses, shares, commercial property and rental housing and plough it into their tax-free owner-occupied home. It's a great way to push up the prices of these houses. On the other hand, cutting negative gearing while also doubling CGT makes investing in rental properties extremely unattractive. It hammers the capital gain upside on any asset: shares, commercial property, the small or medium sized business you built, venture capital and private equity. It will give Australia the most unattractive capital gains tax in the WORLD (see table below)! So the government's policies will (1) push up owner-occupied house prices, (2) push up rents, and (3) reduce the capital available for investing in any small, medium or large sized business that is driving employment, innovation, growth and productivity/prosperity. Investors will go to other countries where they pay half the capital gains tax, or less. Since these pollies have never worked a day of their lives in the private sector, it is no surprise that when they decide to completely and unilaterally rewrite the entire tax system for all investors and businesses -- after promising before the last election more than 50 times NOT to change the capital gains tax and negative gearing rules -- that they would blow the entire Aussie economy up... Your best bet will be to buy a house, live in it, and hope they keep dropping 500,000 new people into the country every year to pump-up prices...

Alpha School guides: igniting and inspiring.

@kutluokan Now that’s fucking awesome Like Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure meets magical school bus

@ReeceHarding correct! tyty <3

hey everyone. say hi to izzy.

@ph0rque @Austen well played lol

@Austen So you want to own nothing... and be happy?

I hate having stuff. Want to sell almost everything I own and just not deal with any stuff ever again.

Tomorrow I'm sitting down with @nateliason, founder, writer, and the man behind @AlphaSchoolATX - a new entrepreneur high school opening in NYC this fall. Tuition is $150K a year. The promise: every student makes $1M in gross profit by graduation, or the family gets the tuition refunded. To explain why a school like this needs to exist, Nat starts with one word borrowed from pro wrestling: kayfabe. The fake fight everyone agrees to take seriously. He thinks that's exactly what school has become for almost every kid in America. This clip is the case.

@newstart_2024 I literally blocked instagram because of this clip and have been substantially happier since

Elon Musk saw through Instagram’s illusion and deleted it. He told Joe Rogan he caught himself taking selfies for likes and thought, “What the hell is wrong with me?” That moment made him realize the app is engineered to make everyone look hotter, richer, and happier than they actually are. The endless comparison game quietly breeds unhappiness and insecurity. It’s especially toxic for young people growing up on it. Elon’s decision to step away shows real self-awareness and discipline — something Instagram actively works against. Have you quit or heavily reduced Instagram and felt better for it? Or do you think the platform does more harm than good overall?

@PSkinnerTech Thank God

I cannot BELIEVE my Tesla just pulled that reaction time! I came within INCHES of hitting a deer just a moment ago. I was fully paying attention because I saw the first deer, but another jumped right in front of me from the other side. There would have been NO WAY I would have reacted in time on my own. WOW. @Tesla owner for life now!

@builtwithjon @cryptopunk7213 @naval @ankurnagpal this is the def of reasoning by analogy rather than first principles lmao

@cryptopunk7213 @naval @ankurnagpal Naval has a strong reputation so it was initially very tempting to invest. However there is a track record of influencers recommending things that don't turn out to be good for anyone

yesterday @naval launched a platform allowing anyone to invest in anthropic, openai and spacex for as little as $500 i was fucking ecstatic until i wasn’t. major issue: USVC has hidden fees. or so i thought. today their GP @ankurnagpal convinced me i was not only just wrong, but that @usvc_ is actually the best way for retail to access private deals i went in ready to fight and came out convinced otherwise. i appreciate Ankur offering to come on and chat instead of dunking on me as a result i went ahead and invested in them today what are your thoughts on this? 👇

Don't have a CS degree or 3+ years of engineering exp? BUT... You have a ridiculous level of agency? APPLY! Anyone can learn to be a 10x AI Engineer, but not everyone can learn to have agency. ‼️WARNING‼️ If you like agency and ambition, then don't waste your time, because you won't make it to graduation.

After 10 years of teaching in public schools, I am leaving. Every year, I have a few students who share what a difference I have made, and that keeps me going for another year. But I am seeing an undeniable downward trend in standards and expectations. Teachers are expected to curve grades, often called restorative grading. Students who can't read are passed along out of compassion. Many teachers right now are questioning their purpose due to low standards and the lack of enforcement of basic rules and procedures. Needless to say, my current environment is not conducive to my personal educational philosophy. I considered starting my own microschool. I reflected on what I believe education should be: individualized learning, high expectations, meaningful life lessons, and a culture that refuses to lower standards. It is the same philosophy I had when I homeschooled my older children. A microschool was tempting. But when I laid out my vision in full, it aligned almost entirely with what @AlphaSchoolATX has already built. I have decided to join Alpha as a guide. To the teachers who follow this account and are still early enough in their careers to make a change: fill out the guide application. Once you spend a day on an Alpha campus, you know without a doubt that there is no other place that values students and learning more. And if you're in Houston, come say hi at the Alpha summer camp. I am looking forward to raising the bar and supporting students while they achieve goals that others consider "impossible."

@mhp_guy Kids are creative My friends built proxy servers in middle school to get around our chromebooks’ website blocking

My kids impress and annoy me at the same time. My 14 year old daughter just got her first iPhone. She can’t download apps and doesn’t have a browser. She wanted to DoorDash food but didn’t have the app. We said no anyway. She instead asked ChatGPT to open DoorDash in a browser and she used that to order chipotle to her school because she hadn’t eaten all day. Then she didn’t even tip her driver “to save money!” 🤦🏼‍♂️ Love the inventiveness, but some teaching is still needed. Oh, and parents: beware of embedded browsers! They are everywhere. This is about as innocent as it gets.

@adgmodular @maxwellcopy well put

@maxwellcopy The advice I will give to my kids is that university is for finding a spouse and building a network. There’s very little they can teach you formally that will help you navigate your future. The risky path is now the only path.

My biggest “the kids are f*cked” moment is watching my own college friends try to find a job right now. I'm 23, graduated in May, and every single week I get people reaching out asking me for work… > College friends > People I knew in high school > Guys with degrees who are well put together They're telling me they'll literally work for under minimum wage. Need a job or they have to go live with their parents. This morning, I got a call from a dude I worked with in my junior year of high school. Hadn't talked to him in 6 years. He saw my LinkedIn and called me asking if I could get him a job. The job market is so cooked and it's only going to get worse because AI is taking people's jobs. I know software engineers who just graduated, and AI can literally do all of that now. I've had a few people I know lose their jobs from headcounts getting cut, and nobody says why, but it's obviously AI. Right now, you have to take matters into your own hands because college isn't going to teach you this.

@EricJorgenson @ChrisWillx @elonmusk first thought: i wonder what happened at 23 mins in?? second thought: did i just get click baited to watch a podcast for the first time

LOVED talking with @ChrisWillx about the life lessons anyone can learn from @elonmusk. (And I had a little surprise for Chris, which absolutely cracked him up -- at 23:00)

@Austen For decades, software devs were the constraint of the tech world I’d estimate we were moving at ~ 1/100 the pace that there was demand for So even with LLMs making devs 5-10x more efficient we’re still heavily supply constrained

“AI will give software engineers superpowers thus making the demand for engineers go down” only makes sense if the number of things that can be built is inherently limited by some other constraint. Unless AI can do everything (or we run out of things to build) demand will go up.

@teachthemx3 Respect for you holding the line and being honest Twice the respect for your DI being self aware enough to recommend you leave 👏

Yesterday, after school, my DI called me into her office. For context, the director of instruction is over staff and academics. She reports directly to the principal. DI: Is this you? (holding up her phone with my X account on the screen) Me: Yes DI: Do you hate your job? Me: I hate the system we call education. DI: Me too. Don't take the coordinator position. It would be like staying on the Titanic while it's sinking. (I was offered the district behavior coordinator position.) Me: I'm going to put this on X. DI: Tell them I said admin knows the ship is sinking. We can't stop it either.

@paulg Reading the comments, my first reaction was “wow, it’s so refreshing to have all human-written comments down here”

Almost 6 years ago:

Short answer is that J.P. Morgan Chase has a fiduciary duty to their shareholders not to their employees so this conversation is misdirected from the beginning That being said, to address Patricia’s scenario specifically: 1. living in irvine california is a luxury. since she clearly doesn’t have familial /community support in Irvine (see below) she should move to a lower cost of living area while she builds skills 2. It appears she’s a single mother so presumably this calculation should include child support 3. The minivan is arguably a luxury in her scenario. It could be replaced with public transport 4. Not sure why food calculation doesn’t include SNAP 5. Relating to number one: If she has family in the area child care shouldn’t be an expense. If not, why does she live in Irvine?

💼 Jamie Dimon gets put on the spot in this 2019 footage when Congresswoman Katie Porter does the actual math live on a full-time JPMorgan Chase bank teller making $16.50 an hour in Irvine, California… The teller is a single mom with a 6-year-old. After rent, utilities, car, gas, food, phone, and childcare, she’s still $567 short every single month — with nothing left for clothes, school lunches, medical, or emergencies. Katie Porter puts the numbers right in front of Jamie Dimon on a whiteboard and asks him how this woman is supposed to survive. He just keeps saying “I don’t know… I’d have to think about it.” Meanwhile, Jamie Dimon made $31.5 million that same year. Do you think any of this is better today? 🤔 I certainly don't.