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We are so back

You have to be gitmog maxxing

I love Anthropic’s models but the quick pivot to big tech vibes gives me pause

This is not the happy demo path, Apple or Google would never make this one of their launch videos... it's not what you will hear about in a TED talk, but it's real AI: Doesn't get tired, doesn't ghost A lot to think about in this one

The damage that Jo Boaler and other "Equity-Based Mathematics Education Researchers" cannot be understated Watering down the curriculum and refusing advanced students move ahead has stagnated test scores and only increased behavior-related problems in the classroom.

I use a very specific prompt to push Claude to check its work and do a lot of testing and thinking about perf and refactoring. I find I can do big features (4K LOC+ with full testing) in about an hour.

Jevon's Paradox!

I’ll take “Lighting money on fire while pushing policies that destroy California” for $400M, Alex

Beautiful 🇺🇸

If you vote for any of these people you are contributing to the downfall of California

It is fascinating to what degree the coding agents are starving for data Give it production data, open source, good docs, and a push and it flies Poorly spec it, say a few words and ignore it, and you still get non functioning boilerplate

I used to carry a whole “memory palace” in my head while coding. One interruption and it shatters into glass dust. Now I can write 3 messy paragraphs and the machine rebuilds the palace pristine, clearer than I could picture. I read it and think: I am seen.

We just went from horse-and-carriage to car. The old manuals still have truth in them, but the whole map of effort, speed, and leverage changed overnight. Building used to mean holding an entire system in your head. A fragile memory palace. A house of cards in biological primate RAM. If you stop, the palace collapses. Dinner, a meeting, a context switch. You come back and it’s glass dust on the floor. That’s why builders can look “antisocial.” It’s not vibes. It’s survival. You’re trying to get the palace out of your head and into code before it evaporates. Then the weird miracle: I type a few paragraphs that barely make sense on reread, and the machine builds the palace anyway. It mirrors the structure. It fills the gaps. It hands it back. The feeling is not “wow productivity.” The feeling is: I am seen. Like the part of you that has been translating yourself for 20 years finally gets understood on first contact. This is why the new skill is not “code faster.” It’s taste, direction, and leadership. Managing a swarm of agents. Running tight loops. Knowing what to ask for. And it brings back something old-school: apprenticeship. We forgot how to teach. Now teaching matters again, because the tools are insane but the mind behind them still has to be trained.

Jo Boaler is still at it, grifting 5 and 6 figure contracts with California public schools that can't afford it, for totally cooked data that only hurts children Stanford professor, the woman whose research took away Algebra from SF public middle schools, still grifting 😩

Recursive self-improving context on top of frontier models is like stilts on frontier models You're always going to be taller Poetiq is the truth

We have raised $61M, but that’s not what excites me. Our original idea was fine tuning LLMs for enterprises. Although we topped some benchmarks, the business was not viable.