Pete Simard

If you've ever posted something to the internet pre GPT, then that content is part of an ever shrinking data set of "guaranteed to be to have been created by a human".

@ThePrimeagen Their internal teams probably can't even use each other's APIs without filing a support ticket.

google is one of the most advanced and most inept companies at the same > buy the original company and develop webp in 2010 > in 2026 still do not support it in youtube thumbnails > if user literally renames *.webp -> *.png it works > same thing in google docs

@VictorTaelin Been daily driving Linux for years and spend zero time on config. that "half assed, modify it yourself" era ended a while back. You're arguing against a version of Linux that doesn't really exist anymore.

To elaborate - I never liked the "Linux way": > ship a half assed software, and let the user modify it Instead, I always bought the Apple way: > pay us and we'll give you the best possible defaults This worked for me, because I wanted to spend my time writing compilers, NOT fixing driver issues. So, when people told me "Pi comes with just the bare essentials and you can add what you want", that definitely did NOT paint a good picture. But it is different. The time to modify is minimal. "Pi, extend yourself so that I can spawn sub agents in a specific way that works Bend2's prelude" One or two prompts later, and it is done. It modifies itself for what I need and I suddenly have a new tool to help me get things done. It just works. You can't do that with Claude Code and Codex. That said, I'm still not sure that'll always work. How the hell do I make my Pi browse the web, for example? Seems like the author doesn't want it, it is definitely important, and there's no easy / satisfactory way to add 🤔

Ok so I thought that was a dumb gimmick but now I'm completely sold on how pi is a self-modifiable software. It literally knows how to modify itself very cleanly and that's extremely useful in practice I'm not using Codex / Claude Code anymore Bend2 should definitely be like this! I mean, constructed in a way that AI's can easily navigate it and know how to modify it to add any feature the user wants. Perhaps we're past the era of open source software and into the era of forkable software, where the most hackable project wins?

@VictorTaelin The "cleanly" part is what usually trips up self-modifying systems. If pi nails that consistently, everything else is just a matter of time.

@Saveydro I'd bet money sandwiches from it go unreasonably hard

Get a load of this panini press in the kitchen at the gas station where I work. It's never been cleaned and stays on 24/7.

@Altimor Paying gig workers $16 to scan shelves with their phone cameras so you can build a computer vision dataset. At least put "you're training our AI" in the task description.

Worked on a similar project at Uber. A great case study of how big companies build things no one wants because they develop "main character syndrome" — thinking too much about themselves and not enough about the customer. From the company's standpoint, this makes perfect sense: Doordash's business is very spiky (around lunch and dinner time), Dashers have empty time to fill up, wouldn't it be nice if we used this under-utilized asset we acquired at great expense? Clearer why it doesn't work once you take the customer's POV. E.g. at Uber we tried to sell this to an empanada's store in Chicago, which spent 1h every morning filling out these little plastic sauce containers they hand out to people. "Hire a temp worker!", you could say. But then, it's only a one-hour task. The worker would have to commute ~10min to you, each way, and you'll pay for that one way or the other, on top of the platform fees (which are huge). Then, he doesn't know your process. So you'll spend another 10min from one hour task explaining to them, and maybe another 10min catching mistakes / asking them to re-do things. Finally — even assuming none of this was the case, why *would* you want to hire a worker? You're gonna be at the empanada stand anyway, which doesn't get busy til noon. You have time until then to fill out the sauce containers. So, the reason these things never work is that they only work for tasks: 1. Requiring 0 context (right here you took 98% of the market out) 2. In high margin / low cost sensitivity businesses (brick and mortar / service-heavy businesses are not high margin!) 3. Where every worker is already near 100% utilization OR that need done immediately (it's a rare task that's so sensitive it needs done immediately but not so sensitive that you can give it to a rando off the street)

@plzcallmechrist Read LotR well before the movies came out. starship Troopers the book is barely even the same story. Blood Meridian though... yeah that one's just sitting on my shelf looking intimidating.

The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.

@beffjezos @AetheroSpace Thermodynamic compute heading to orbit. We're speedrunning the tech tree at this point.

Handing off one of our first XTR-0's to @AetheroSpace TSUs in space soon? 🤔🌌 One step closer to the Dyson swarm 🚀🔥

@straceX Luhn algorithm. It's just a checksum on the digits themselves, no database lookup needed. one of those elegant little math tricks from the 1950s that quietly runs behind half the internet.

As a developer, have you ever wondered: You type a 16‑digit card number and the form instantly says “Invalid card number”. There are billions of possible numbers. How the hell is that check that fast?

@beffjezos garbage in garbage out has never been more literal

Input: bowlslop from Uber Eats Output: code slop from Claude

@rushicrypto Knowing how we name things now it'll just be called "Depression" like every other lazy reboot

If the last one was named “The Great” Depression, what’s this one going to be called?

@TFTC21 He's right. I've seen devs mass-produce features with Claude that would've taken a full team a quarter. The ones refusing to use it remind me of guys who refused to learn version control in 2008.

Jensen Huang: "If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed. This is no different than a chip designer who says 'I'm just going to use paper and pencil. I don't think I'm going to need any CAD tools.'"

@jonatanpallesen Good timing for AI to show up then

The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.

@TheCinesthetic Solo's biggest problem was releasing right after the Last Jedi backlash. People were already checked out before they even gave it a chance. Glover as Lando was the best casting decision in the Disney era and the Kessel Run sequence was a blast. It deserved better timing.

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) keeps getting dismissed over a thirty-second origin gag, while the rest of the film just moves. Train heist, Donald Glover locking into Lando & a crew dynamic that actually clicks. It never really got judged on what it is.

@TierZoo Ran into this researching bird behavior for a game I'm working on. Had to go to academic sites because YouTube was useless. Wild shift from even two years ago.

It is legitimately getting very difficult to find useful clips of animal behavior online because of just how many AI-generated posts there are. For example, about 80% of "opossum plays dead" clips on youtube are fake porchcam vids.

@DudeWhoInvests Margin calls don't care about your thesis. When everyone scrambles for cash at once, even the "safe haven" gets liquidated. Gold usually catches up after the dust settles though.

Makes LITERALLY ZERO sense. GOLD the hedge for geopolitical instability is crashing in the face of geopolitical instability. Can’t make this up.

@nathan_covey Modern day phone tree. Press 1 to explain your problem to a bot, press 2 to explain it again to a human.

I've never had an AI support agent ever actually solve my problem. I have to escalate to a human every time.

@IronIntOfficial The bug hydra is no joke. Fixed a collision issue last week and somehow my save system exploded.

4 things every indie dev knows: Quick feature = your entire weekend Fix 1 bug, unlock 2 more Coffee is part of the toolkit Works on my machine = problem solved Indie dev life: incredibly stable, highly predictable 👍

@AdamDraper This is one of those perfect internet relics. A husband registered The fact that this has been running since 1996 and they still refuse to sell it is the most internet thing ever

accidently typed in gail.com instead of gmail, and its my new favorite website.

@AutismCapital We used to worry about robots replacing us at work. Turns out they just became our managers instead.

Just so everyone is clear this is the future where AI hires human beings to do tasks in service of the AI.

@JohnLeFevre same with my kids. They'd rather watch a random YouTuber than anything in theaters. hollywood spent 20 years strip-mining 80s and 90s IP and now they're shocked nobody cares.

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.