andrew 3000

@Shpigford slop-pacalypse

i’ve never shipped more code used by fewer people

@herbertong > mirrorless and appears to have larger wheel hubcaps. focus on aerodynamics, range and cost per mile over consumer appeal and aesthetics to sell vehicles

🚨 Tesla Cybercab spotted in Palo Alto, California, with NO steering wheel. It’s also mirrorless and appears to have larger wheel hubcaps. Until now, these were only seen in Austin. Testing footprint is expanding. $TSLA

If interested in rag (in the context of ai) this is a pretty good tutorial. learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/retrie…

I think people are sleeping a bit on how much Ruby on Rails + Claude Code is a *crazy unlock* - I mean Rails was designed for people who love syntactic sugar, and LLMs are sugar fiends.

@XFreeze grok sux except making deep fake nudes. gemini is just better... idgaf how much they game the metrics.

TESLA ISN'T JUST AHEAD IN AI, IT'S AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD "I actually think Tesla is ahead of the rest of the world in intelligence density of AI by an order of magnitude or more This is going to sound like a pretty bold statement, but I know what the intelligence efficiency of the big models are like, Grok and a bunch of the other models Tesla’s AI is, in terms of its memory efficiency, I think more than an order of magnitude better. The Tesla AI is very compute-efficient and very memory-efficient One of the metrics one should consider for any given AI model is the intelligence per gigabyte. Especially when you’re constrained on RAM, having an AI that has very high intelligence density per gigabyte for a given number of gigabytes, how much functionality can you get out of it" - Elon Musk

@nikitabier I regrettably subscribed to X and have been scammed out of $400. Here is why it is a scam: - When you unsubscribe you immediately lose features you have paid for. - They doubled the price and auto billed me without any notification. @elonmusk @nikitabier please refund me

@Shpigford I agree... I have hard enough time keeping up with all the slop from a single prompt. Am I missing something about agents?

i think my brain is too slow to manage more than 2-3 simultaneous agents

The VS Code extension for Claude Code is now generally available. It’s now much closer to the CLI experience: @-mention files for context, use familiar slash commands (/model, /mcp, /context), and more. Download it here: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

Undo the first prompt. Then reuse the same prompt, but tell it to avoid the error it made.

@stuffyokodraws Don't fix it. Undo it. Reprompt and have it do it again but tell it to avoid that error.

One reason vibe coding is so addictive is that you are always *almost* there but not 100% there. The agent implements an amazing feature and got maybe 10% of the thing wrong, and you are like "hey I can fix this if i just prompt it for 5 more mins" And that was 5 hrs ago

@TeslaBoomerMama Chicago in the summer. Miami in the winter.

If you were to want to leave California, where would you move with these criteria: - mild winter (ideally no snow) - low humidity - farmer markets - ideally no persistent >100°F heat in the summer

@Cyber_Spock @dwarkesh_sp @eigenrobot The whole premise seems motivated by contempt for Reagan. Yeh Jimmy Carter's humanitarianism saved us all. 🤣

@dwarkesh_sp @eigenrobot Sarah is great. She is unfortunately painfully lib-brained on many topics related to contemporary analysis that cloud her vision on a number of topics. Her historical takes seem to be very well calibrated though

Final Sarah Paine lecture: Why Russia lost the Cold War. To me, the most interesting question is not why the Soviet Union ultimately collapsed - it's how a brutal, centrally planned, stupendously inefficient, colonial land empire survived for so long. I was surprised to learn about the central role that oil played in sustaining (and eventually dissolving) the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the Soviet system was in a crisis. Soviet growth rates had started to slow significantly as compared to the booming West. USSR's heavy-industry based economy was energy-starved. The 1953 CIA-backed coup in Iran blocked Soviet access to Iranian oil. But in 1959, they discovered massive oil fields in Siberia. And of course the 1973 oil crisis multiplied the value of those exports. From 1973-1985, energy exports accounted for a shocking 80% of the USSR's hard currency earnings, which they needed to buy all the things central planning couldn't produce effectively - from grain to advanced technology - and support the many million strong Red army occupying Eastern Europe. And then oil prices plummeted (69% in just 8 months following 1985). USSR government deficit went from around 2% of GDP in 1985 to 20% in 1991. Anyways, all this to say that the discovery of massive oil fields in Siberia might have kept a floundering and obviously unworkable Communist system on life support for an extra 30 years. This way the USSR collapsed in 1991, and not 1961. 0:00:00 – Did Reagan single-handedly win the Cold War? 0:15:53 – Eastern Bloc uprisings & oil crisis 0:30:37 – Gorbachev's mistakes 0:37:33 – German unification and NATO expansion 0:48:31 – The Gulf War and the Cold War endgame 0:56:10 – How central planning survived so long 1:14:46 – Sarah's life in the USSR in 1988 Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!

@svpino I think someone will make a vibe coding product soon where you don’t see the code generated.

I was talking to a guy who vibe-coded a saas, trying to explain to him what a huge mess the code is. I thought I had him. He looked at me completely confused. “So?” He said. That’s when it hit me: Vibe-coders don’t give a shit about code. They don’t understand it, they don’t touch it, they will never have to deal with it. They care about bringing their ideas to life and nothing else. They are 100% unburden by what many of us consider a showstopper. There’s an important lesson here.

@Architect9000 Commander in grief. 🧌

Can't believe he's calling us Lefty Las Vegas. >< Vegas and the broader US Mountain region ex-Colorado is the most libertarian part of the country. Our city council is about as apolitical as it gets. The last mayor was literally pro-choice-to-die-from-covid if that's a thing lmao. This guy is unhinged. If he gets us in a war with Venezuela, I say it's time for impeachment.

@Architect9000 @EthCurious I can’t express how easy it is. Even security. Just one shot it. Prompt with error message if it doesn’t work. Then repeatedly prompt to review for vulnerabilities. I prompt everything.

@EthCurious @andrewt3000 I still think you need a quality engineer to develop almost anything that isn't completely trivial. These tools simply aren't good enough for non-experts, but they can be great if used as learning assistants to teach yourself.

I have confirmed that none of the frontier model's or their coding agents can understand Scala's generic type system. GPT5.1 will even ghost you or go recursive if you keep pushing it.

@Architect9000 making mistakes, being wrong increases engagement... cuz ppl want to correct u. lol... :-(

Is Peter Zeihan retarded or am I doing it wrong tryin to be the King of Good Takes rather than the Emperor of Bad Takes

In LA

@Architect9000 Comparing net worth accrued over a lifetime to a yearly figure such as gdp... seems intended to mislead, overstate, enrage.

Elon Musk's net worth ($434B) has now surpassed the peak of John Rockefeller's ($400B, in today's dollars) during the Gilded Age. Rockefeller's net worth was estimated to be between 1-2% of US GDP. Musk's is now around 1.6%. The Age of Inequality is here. The question is whether there will be a great leap forward in US labor productivity as there was in the aftermath of the Gilded Age. The parallels between the Gilded Age at the dawn of the Industrial Era and the current dawn of the Intelligence Era are striking. Just as we did in the beginning of the Industrial Era, there will be a period of societal adaptation as AI and robotics change life as we know it. Until then, we will probably see the wealth from these new advances accumulate mostly to the top 1%. My hope is that blockchain and decentralization will help democratize access to these technologies and allow each of us to have equity in their future. Intelligence is built on knowledge and data, some of which belongs to you. I want to help you take ownership of what's yours and earn your due share. If that sounds interesting to you, make sure to follow our project, @AionApp.