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Ben Horne
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Ben Horne
@benjamin_horne
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The Great Northern Katılım Şubat 2026
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Bucco’s guide to making $400k+:
So, your dumb ass has been lucky enough to stumble into making a 1% salary. Congratulations, you’re at the doorstop of generational wealth (or early retirement). Here’s how to not fuck it up
1. Assume this isn’t permanent: The first thing you need to recognize is most people don’t keep their 1% salaries. There’s a lot of luck, and variable comp, that usually goes into that kind of paycheck. So have some humility and live like it ain’t permanent, because it usually ain’t. Which brings me to point #2
2. Live below your means: Most people who start making fat paychecks start racking up fat credit card bills. But if you follow my first rule you won’t do that. At least for the first 3 years you will live like you aren’t making a lot of money. You will save. A lot. This is a gift to future you
3. Take care of yourself: If you are making this much you are usually working very hard. So take care of yourself. Invest in your brain and your body and your health. It is a marathon, not a sprint, as they say. And one of the reasons people don’t maintain their high paychecks is because they burn out
4. Pay it forward: Fate has smiled on you. You are not only obligated to pay it forward, but it is the right thing to do. One day you may experience something bad, unlucky, and catastrophic. People will remember that you did not neglect others while it was your moment in the sun and they will come to your support. Be kind, especially when you don’t need to
5. Maintain perspective: You are not better than anyone because you make a lot of money. There are many ways to be rich. Be sure that you stay humble, and continue to invest in your friends, families, relationships and health. Or you might one day find yourself with a full bank account and an empty life
Follow these rules and I assure you that the odds of living a prosperous life will tip heavily in your favor
ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism
This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that. 9-5 until they’re what, 50? This is not living. No matter the salary.
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I really do not like @pmarca but I'm kinda on his side on this one.
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If you were walking behind Dasha on the street, and she slipped on a banana peel and fell, would you help her up?
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@captive_dreamer @Aliathewhite Oh so nowwww it’s “bait.”
Right.
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That post was perfect bait. Look at the responses it engendered: "you're white trash, drug addicts, afraid of completion, you're losers."
Totally proving my point - these are not good people. This is how "legal" immigrants view Americans - with contempt.
i/o@avidseries
It's almost impossible to view these people as anything other than insecure downwardly-mobile losers afraid of competition from more talented immigrants.
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CEO Jensen Huang: "Trump would like us to win in every aspect of AI... he's been very clear that he would like American companies to win around the world."
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@_Jason_Dean_ Idk seems like it was a a pretty clear trend toward achieving WALL-E tier 100% fatty status.
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My mildly hot take is that obesity would have plateaued (and even slightly fell) during the 2020s in the counterfactual world
People in the late 2010s and early 2020s were already becoming more nutrition-conscious (remember the chicken sandwich hype? Athleisure?)
Jacob@cryptochamomile
GLP-1 drugs are the first intervention ever to make a dent in the rising obesity rate. "Do it naturally" just means do it not at all
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@0xgingergirl Why not be @theo and do all three?
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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@yacineMTB Don’t do it, just become a paid shill like @theo!
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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Your tweets changed nothing. The world would be the exact same without them
Bambulu@Bqmbulu
What’s the harshest truth every young man must eventually learn?
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brother this is literally just Watertown, Massachusetts
Mountain Cabins@cabinsmountain
The kind of neighborhood where you accidentally romanticize your entire life.
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@colinsolvely @theo Same!
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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@notallthere_net @theo We all do.
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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This Gary Marcus is going around insisting that nobody will debate him about AI. I shared my thoughts and got blocked.
Pic unrelated.
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Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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The "branch off with another model" feature in T3 Chat is still my favorite thing ever. So easy to get a 2nd opinion
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Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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@theo @thsottiaux makes sense but pretty quickly draped in skills?
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@synthwavedd Oh no do we have another OAI fan boy?
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.
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it's mid compared to gpt-5.6, by the way
mythos or bust 😴
can@marmaduke091
claude-opus-4.8 is on Google Vertex 👀
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@NewAgeRetroNerd Thank you.
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.
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“What have you done for the community?”
What an absurd question. How dare you.
I’ll tell you what I do.
I keep the world honest. When I see bullshit out in the world, I write banger schizo posts calling it out, that go quadruple platinum on this site.
I am a warrior for the truth, in a world filled with bullshitters (like @theo), and I will be remembered fondly for my service.
What are you? Besides a reply guy simp for loser tech influencers.
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.
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This feels like undeserved hate toward Theo.
The ending is especially strange, because Theo clearly has both the technical expertise and the real-world experience to back it up. His YouTube videos alone are proof of his knowledge, his work, and the way he explains complex technical topics.
And about the whole “wrapper” argument: most businesses today are wrappers in one way or another. The difference is that Theo has never been just an “idea guy.” He has built a lot for the developer community, from T3 Stack to countless videos breaking down technical problems, trends, and how things actually work under the hood.
He explains things in a way even a 10-year-old could understand, which is a rare skill.
Talking about someone like this publicly, especially when they clearly don’t deserve it, feels unfair and honestly shameful.
And lastly, before attacking someone who has clearly contributed so much, it is fair to ask:
What have you done for the community?
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@thsottiaux Ask @theo it will make him feel real special.
Ben Horne@benjamin_horne
The tragic thing about @theo is he's such a beta male theater kid spazz, that @OpenAI doesn't even *need* to pay him to get him to shill for them. By inviting Theo to their cute little dev events, and giving him early access to models, and having their handlers reach out to him to make him feel all warm and fuzzy and special, they get 100% of Theo's loyalty because he's such an easily manipulated loser. It's the equivalent of the dorky kid who always gets bullied by the popular kids, but then jumps at the chance to sit at their lunch table when he's finally offered the opportunity, and instantly becomes their loyal little puppy dog from that day on. If Anthropic had beaten OpenAI to the punch, and had given Theo all these little perks and ways of making him feel special, you can bet he'd be out here shilling for Anthropic today instead. It's insanely sad to watch, and so painfully clear what's going on. He thinks he's "in on it" rather than just being completely used and manipulated by their team. 🤣 Theo wants so badly for OAI engineers to notice him and accept him, because he is an uncool, neurotic, freakazoid YouTuber rather than a serious or legit engineer, and he just wants to feel "a part of it all" somehow, even though he has zero deep understanding of LLMs nor a background in AI research (again, the lunch table thing). He wants to keep getting invited to OpenAI events, get shipped OpenAI merch, keep getting internet likes and mentions from OpenAI's super duper cool *actual* engineers, etc. so he will continue to find every little opportunity he can to shill for OpenAI and/or bash Anthropic. He is such a loyal little OAI simp that he even tries to bash Anthropic's... web design (the color's are so bad! the art sucks!!). Hey Theo, could you be any more obvious? He pathetically calls himself a "CEO" in his bio, but his "company" is just a glorified way to toggle between using different models—wow, such a visionary, look out Silicon Valley! Theo is not a serious engineer, or person, or serious anything in the AI space. He is a fan.
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