Phoenix Taylor

If Austin wants to be a tier 1, tech city it needs to get serious and stop using this water for frivolous recreation and start using it for data centers. If you don’t understand this, you’re going to get left behind

@amjaworsky If you're doing university right, a diploma isn't what you're pursuing.

Go check this out! One of the best entrepreneurs I know and my friend Josh made this! The future is here

@davieball @genomecomputer Do yall use Secure Enclave models

For everyone waiting for the right time to explore their genome: this is it. 30x Whole Genome Sequencing, delivered in a format built for AI-assisted exploration. @genomecomputer is a Public Benefit Corporation legally prohibited from ever selling your genetic data.

@andreysuperior Lidar straight to the brain

Most people see a street. He sees $300-600 per block. A 24-year-old from Chengdu figured out that every hotel, every apartment, every commercial space within walking distance is an untapped asset. One nobody has packaged yet. He straps a rig to his back, walks in, spends twenty minutes scanning the space, and leaves with a file that lets anyone on earth stand inside that room from their couch. The client pastes a link on their booking page. Guests tour the property before they arrive. Cancellations drop. Reviews go up. He gets paid $400 for the scan. $99 every month for hosting. The technology: 3D Gaussian Splatting. Free on GitHub since 2023. The app: Luma AI. Also free. The page he delivers: built by Claude in ten minutes. Total tool cost: $20/month. Month one: $3,500. Month six: $18,000. The streets haven't changed. He just started charging for them.

@mrtonyy_ @typedfemale @grok where can we learn more about this guy

@typedfemale I would like to read more of this, wherever it came from. Sauce?

kinda obsessed with elon's lawyer

If you don’t know already, the big AI companies are working towards having you basically operate your life through their platforms. They’re trying to build an agent for everybody, and because of this, and they decide what it can do or not. They are the lawmakers. They decide when to limit its power/capability. They are the rule makers. They choose its knowledge. They are building the interface for the future as we know it right now on the Internet. Whoever builds the new way to interact with this who created the next level of intelligence or capability of us humans.

@sivori @grok is this true?

Anthropic is buying millions of rare books, scanning and destroying them because legally destruction is the safest option. This was a plot element in the Vernor Vinge novel, "The Rainbow's End", which I read 20 years ago.

@dadiomov Because then you have to add card fees. Why drag Visa along with us into the future like a software virus?

@izqui9 I don’t know how satisfying this is gonna be whenever it’s only every 100th purchase that this happens. Y’all must be subsidizing the cash back initially and front loading giving it to the user before they’ve actually earned it to get them hooked.

cashback is dead. people surely love a 5 or 10% cashback. except it's only on random categories. except you have to maintain a $200k balance. except it's capped at $1,500 a quarter. except you have to keep referring people. optimizing cashback buries customers in fine print. when you make a purchase with @itstuyo, you might not have to pay for it at all. no fine print, no limits. you just tap your phone and instantly get a notification on whether you got charged or not. it's not cashback or a rebate, your balance literally doesn't go down. Buy Now Pay Maybe is the first thing we've shipped that pulls in people who never cared about crypto or stablecoins at scale. it sparks a level of curiosity and interest we just hadn't seen to date and we are excited to open it up to everyone. it's also incredibly fun and has already created so many fun anecdotes and interactions.

@longhorntrack78 @WestsideLAGuy Most austin answer

@WestsideLAGuy Working for somebody is never a flex imo

Serious question. What elite jobs are in Austin? If you’re a single guy in Austin, what companies are the biggest flexes?

@ThorbaseDev @dazhengzhang @YakuzaDaddy @NousResearch @grok what does this guy mean

@dazhengzhang @YakuzaDaddy @NousResearch for real, this post is straight up a self-report

There's so much AI Propaganda on the TL You're wasting time and money trying to save $30 a month using cheap models like kimi, glm, & minimax 1. Buy the $100 chatgpt plan 2. Get a @NousResearch Hermes agent 3. Go build some shit Otherwise you're gonna break your head and keyboard fixing ai agents then actually using them for a purpose

pretty crazy how five years ago vaccines were the most devastating thing you could ever do to your body but nowadays its fine to inject chinese peptide from Temu because you cant stop snacking after dinner

@MichaelGuimarin @jamoses92 @grok why are non competes a Texas issue that could prevent it from growing, like op says

@jamoses92 Not unless Texas bans non-competes. If they don’t it will not. I’m rooting for Texas but they need to do a 180 on this issue.

California idiocy will turn Texas into a technological powerhouse.

@szeloof @KupoPewPew @oorischubert @fab2 And a soph at UT

@szeloof @KupoPewPew @oorischubert @fab2 Gonna apply to this! I build computer vision systems, pwa’s, iOS swift apps, and Iot!

I’m thankful for 4 years in California . But, the Next Phase is in Texas. We shift our hiring focus to build huge operations in Austin, Texas. Join us ! The team is really great. @fab2 New 120,000 square feet HQ for R&D and production:

the best app ad doesn’t explain the app it shows a situation where not having the app feels stupid

People are capable of far more than they think, on far shorter timelines. Problems expand to fill the time you give them.

@zamdoteth Wdyt abt the thiel fellows from the recent round

a16z speedrun is the most expensive humiliation marketing campaign for potential founders not a SINGLE product outside of shitty gpt wrappers we are back in 2023

Diligence in 2026 is wild. My friends in PE are now spending the weekend before IC trying to rebuild the company they're acquiring in Claude Code. If the clone works, the deal dies. Cheapest moat test in human history.