Clayton Kim

@JordanSchachtel The children yearn for the mines

People keep asking "what jobs will AI destroy?" Wrong question. Instead, ask what a brilliant 14-year-old in West Virginia can now do that he could never do before. Previously all his relatives went into the mine bc that was the only door open to them. He was largely doomed because of where he was born. A kid growing up in that same holler today can build an AI company from his bedroom. Think about what that actually means for opportunity in America. The Doomers are wrong. These new tools will make the system more meritocratic, more democratized, and more distributed than ever before.

@theallinpod @chamath This all hinges on making a bunch of Americans in Arizona work as hard as Taiwanese fab workers

Chamath: Taiwan Loses Its Strategic Importance in 18 Months @chamath: “ We're 18 months from Taiwan not being an important moment of conversation the way it is today. Why 18 months? Because we are at a point where we're probably 1-2 nanometers away from being able to do what we need Taiwan to strategically do for us. And so as we scale up our chip fabs, as we get more capacity, and interestingly, there are these orthogonal technologies being developed. I don't know if you guys saw, but Neuralink was showcasing a machine that is literally operating at the almost nanometer scale to do the brain operations for the implantation, all automatically. When you have the dexterity and the capability mechanically to make these things, the real reason then is a very different one than what it is today. Today, it's economic. And if you take that off the table, I think we'll have a very different attitude to Taiwan.”

It’s funny, when you go to a Korean BBQ place without a Korean in your party, the wait staff assumes you can’t handle all that agency and comes to help cook your meat

@dr_alphalyrae Go to Circus Center and hang out with arts people instead of tech people

but seriously has anyone in the bay area figured out how to make net new, non-transactional friendships as an adult?

@yacineMTB Okay, but can someone port Flash and bring back all those old Flash games

the bun to rust thing is some seriously genius shit. like, if i had a project that big, i would do the same thing. it would just be so fucking funny to see everyone freak out about it

@nbaschez Aren’t these just APIs? I hate that they’re going to be called this

New category I bet will emerge: “experts” Subagent-as-a-service that performs specialized tasks using proprietary data/process. E.g. for legal AI, makes more sense for your main agent to be Codex/Claude, and for the sauce to come from the Harveys of the world as a tool call.

@Gebo___ At least they give everyone living around them Parkinson’s. Which is morally neutral at this point

Why don't we talk about the water consumption of an 18-hole golf course in the same way we do data centers?

@thsottiaux I hate that I /fastmaxxed and now I don’t know if I can go back

We found and fixed two issues that could explain this degradation of the capability of GPT-5.5 in Codex over the last ~ 48 hours. We are monitoring over the coming hours to fully confirm and I will reset usage limits this evening. Apologies and now is the time for /fast maxxing.

@dosco Because the Codex app makes fans go brrrrrrrrr

why buy an m5 when my m1 works just fine i rather spend the money to extra high tokens

@cyrilXBT Having this kind of cert is definitely an anti-signal for a candidate

GITHUB JUST CREATED AN OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION FOR THE MOST IN-DEMAND DEVELOPER ROLE OF 2026. It is called Agentic AI Developer. GH-600. And it is the first formal signal that running AI agent teams is now a recognized engineering discipline with a credential behind it. Not a prompt engineer. Not a vibe coder. An Agentic AI Developer. The person who operates, supervises, and integrates AI agents across the entire software development lifecycle. The person who knows where agents fail in production. The person who understands how to build autonomous workflows that do not introduce catastrophic failure modes into CI/CD pipelines. The person every engineering team is going to need and almost none of them have right now. GitHub certifying this role changes the hiring conversation permanently. Before GH-600: "Do you work with AI agents?" is an interview question with no standard answer. After GH-600: the credential tells the hiring manager exactly what you know and what you can do before the interview starts. The engineers who get certified in the first wave of GH-600 will have a credential for a role that has more demand than supply for the next 3 to 5 years. The engineers who wait until it is mainstream will be competing with everyone who moved first. If you are already working with GitHub Copilot or building agent-driven workflows you are already doing this job. GH-600 is how you prove it. Bookmark this. Follow @cyrilXBT for every AI certification worth your time the moment it drops.

@CoachDanGo Or their families commit pension fraud. The real secret to living long

The oldest people on Earth don't have complicated morning routines, do ice baths, or sleep in hyperbaric oxygen chambers. They wake up every day with purpose, walk a lot, eat home cooked meals, and in their free time they hang out with friends.

Codex’s /goal mode finally let me translate this effect from webgl to @threejs’s TSL so it’s WebGPU and WebGL compatible. It finally works on iOS. Check out how the effect is made here claytonkim.com/writing/brain-… (Sky shader shamelessly adapted from @MaximeHeckel)

@MartinShkreli @m_goes_distance Dance like no one is watching, text like it will be read aloud in court

you should not do this, my advice as someone who was prosecuted for securities fraud for similar circumstances. judges and prosecutors do not like memes. i have had to define 'trolling' in court to a jury as 'whimsical commentary intended to delight readers and not given for the truth'. angry lawyer: 'you mean LYING!?!?!'

BREAKING: SAM ALTMAN TEXTS MIRA MURATI ABOUT BACKING HUMAN 2.0 JUST BEFORE THE ROTATION HITS

@AliceFromQueens @merlinreedfield You also get a nice multiplier for not being the same ethnicity as them

@merlinreedfield Yeah foreigners pay more ime

Rich parents in nyc won't take a tutor seriously who only charges $100/hr. Start at $250 and plan a quick climb to $400. Tutors are Veblen goods.

@eigenrobot My problem with AI-generated text is the same problem my wife has with lab-grown diamonds. It's the suffering that makes it special

asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive. this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important. so: not paying that cost is telling

@CoachDanGo Battle ropes

What’s the most overrated exercise on the planet?

@MartinShkreli @spiritbuun We are actively working on the vibes

@spiritbuun yeah. vibe check fail once you use it

real?

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@Austen Their special interest are lifting weights and creating shareholder value

I assure you they can be autistic

@erikdunteman What type of load (%) and rep scheme are you doing? Does it feel more like CNS fatigue or muscle fatigue? When you DL in the morning, do you also wake up earlier than usual?

Any way to deadlift in the morning and not have it absolutely tank energy for the day?