Prithvi Raj

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Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

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OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively telling the market they can't solve every problem with a generic AI coworker. You don't pour billions into massive forward-deployed joint ventures if you think the next model release is going to take care of it. In the cloud supercycle, semis led and software followed (and you didn't need Qualcomm or ARM to tell you the value was migrating up the stack). In AI, the infra layer itself is telling us the application layer is a separate, massive opportunity they can't fully capture. a16z's @joeschmidtiv on why the app layer isn't dead: a16z.news/p/avoiding-dea…

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“A Google employee allegedly used confidential information to make more than $1.2 million through insider trading on a prediction market,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Corporate insiders who misuse confidential information to trade for personal gain will be prosecuted.” @NewYorkFBI justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/g…

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@unusual_whales Me too. It's definitely positively cisco.

Michael Burry has said: "I stand by my analysis. I am not claiming Nvidia is Enron. It is clearly Cisco."

A 19-year old broke into India's largest high school examination system of 2M+ students a year, the CBSE, and was able to view and CHANGE any students' marks. He responsibly wrote to the team 3 months ago, and it took them 3 days to fix only one of the issues. Today, they took the entire website down. This is a absolute embarrassment. The futures and lives of millions rests in the hands of the utterly incompetent. There is also no mass media reporting on the matter. This topic is close to me because not only is this the education system I went through, but 12 years ago and silently for 5yrs since, I'd written about and reported a much less severe vulnerability allowing me to scrape these results too. More than a decade later, not much has changed. This 19yo, Nisarga Adhikary, wrote a great piece outlining each vulnerability he reverse engineered: - the master password leak - the client-side 2fac / OTP validation workaround - tokenless access to the entire internal app (dashboard, evaluator details, etc) setting dummy browser values - changing any password without knowing the old one - an IDOR vuln allowing you to act as any user and edit exam marks For those interested in a beautiful study in security breaches, this is a must read (link below). If there's any light at the end of the tunnel, it's that a 19yo who never went to college can do things 99% of top engineers couldn't figure out.

Uber COO and CEO got it backwards. The highest leverage use of AI isn't "same headcount + more tokens = more cool features." It's using AI to let 25% HQ engineers deliver >=100% output, Eval the costs and ROI. If ur burning then top 25% is mid. Token costs are thru roof though.

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

China is opening up internally. For generations, the hukou system meant the average Chinese national couldn’t freely emigrate within China. Like being geolocked to New York and being unable to relocate to Texas. China did this in part for social control, and in part to prevent huge floods of people from moving to big Chinese cities for jobs before the infrastructure was available. But now development in China is so broad-based, and the infrastructure so reliable, that they are gradually opening the borders *within* China by letting everyone move around. The Soviets also had a system of internal passports. But the new Chinese system is less similar to traditional communism, and more similar to the Schengen region for the EU, or the free migration between the fifty states within the US. In many ways China is moving in the opposite direction from the West, by opening up visa-free travel to China for 50 countries, introducing the K visa for skilled migrants, and gradually shelving the hukou system. The overall trend is towards more free (albeit still controlled) flows of capital and talent within China.

If you give a politician $5 to influence a vote, it’s bribery. If billionaires spend $50 million to influence an election, it’s legal. That is what a corrupt campaign finance system looks like.

This is bound to happen.

In all of human history, has there ever been a commodity with infinite demand, as there appears to be for intelligence? I can't think of one. Even compute, energy or just silicon/sand are just downstream of intelligence, which is the main demand driver. In economics, rather than modeling the usual price/demand curve to reach an equilibrium, perhaps you'd have to model price/*rate of demand growth* (ie, the derivative of demand, or some other indicator of velocity) Interestingly, ChatGPT (below) prefers the framework of "recursive expansion of demand" as increasing intelligence opens new applications/markets. But the end result is the same -- the demand curve keeps moving to the right, maybe forever. Which I think is unprecedented.

The Economist on the U.S. economy’s consistent growth outperformance relative to other advanced countries: “America’s outperformance began decades ago, but in the 2020s it has become vast. And it is likely to last. The latest IMF forecasts show American growth besting the rest all the way to 2030 and beyond…. Many of America’s advantages are hard to emulate. The country’s continental scale, single language, natural-resource wealth and the fiscal space that comes from issuing the world’s safe asset give it a unique economic advantage over Europe… But America also shows just how much other rich countries are failing to live up to their economic potential.” #economy @EconUS @TheEconomist

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Actually 80% of your company - consultants can be automated.

Aliens look at humans like how humans look at chimps and chimps look at monkeys and monkeys look at dogs, dogs look at cats, cats look at mice...goes on. The real cosmic joke is every lvl thinks they are spl, until next lvl shows up n treats them like noise. #ufo #aliens #uap

President Donald J. Trump has just posted an image to Truth Social of a map of the Middle East centered on Iran covered in the stars & stripes with the title "United States of the Middle East?" This follows the abrupt cancellation of his weekend trip to the Bahamas for the wedding of Don Jr. followed by a weekend at his property in Bedminster, NJ.