David Kurkov

for humans to even start the steep climb up the kardashev scale will require another Musk while the probability is non-zero, it does round down to that

@jacksondahl @ID_AA_Carmack @JTLonsdale @mbateman @AntonioGracias

Who is the most underrated thinker you know? Who is the person you'd most like to hear a long, deep conversation with? About their philosophy, humanity, motivations? Whose voice needs amplifying? Who do you rush to listen to anytime they speak (or write)? Who never gets old?

@karpathy same problem in recommendation algorithms unfortunately

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

@GrantSlatton i highly recommend the small metal tonka toys instead of the large metal tonka toys

like clockwork our 1 year old toddler has developed an all-consuming fascination with construction equipment

@noampomsky reading my agents dispatch

friend is in the stage of claude psychosis where he asks claude to send him newspapers about what claude is doing for him

@Kpaxs youtu.be/-HzgcbRXUK8?t=… The scream is getting louder

This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.

@DeveloperHarris is that Stefan Lindback??

our patron saint here at the american housing corporation

@Michaelfiore cuz you’re hot then you’re cold you’re yes then you’re no

A freeze and 100+ degrees within the same week. Texas, you are drunk.

@arvidkahl @tekbog

@tekbog Siri, remind me to write an offended retort tomorrow morning.

idk how to explain this but openclaw is for the same people who use notion

@MatthewRideout that's an upgrade considering this is what it was before

They're doing drone strikes with a KANBAN board and story points

@melissa never could've guessed this one (^_~) fun list!

i keep a list of good bios when i tell this to people, everyone starts sending me good ones too so i made a page of good bios, you tap to reveal whose

@codyaims that sucks what are you moving to?

Resolved. Moving off of AWS, ASAP. 12 hours down because their new vibe coded slop auto-opened tickets, then tried to auto-close them unsuccessfully Not one person in America responded to us. 12 hours of third world support for government-tier access...

Come through next week if you’re in town for SXSW! You’ll be able to check out our prototype rowhome and touch real hardware from a bunch of really awesome Austin startups!

written by @maxolson futureblind.com/p/atoms-are-ch…

“The real output is a generation trained to build hard things. Engineers who internalized these memes — question requirements, fail fast, tip of the spear — are now scattered across the frontier. Space startups, defense tech, manufacturing automation, energy. The cultural memes are spreading. The lessons aren’t trapped inside one company.”

@___4o____ what’s the difference?

OAI and Claude both dropped to 98% uptime during February. Another data point: Github has had more outages in Q1 2026 than the entirety of 2016-2019, according to their status page. Software is objectively getting worse.

@bscholl pretty sure it’s called a waypoint

To all of those saying Boom has pivoted from supersonic jets to power turbines: please stop, this is an important misunderstanding. A pivot is when you switch from X to Y. Boom has added Y along the path to X. We're shipping one part of our jet (the engine) first as a standalone product (Y), then as an integrated part of our jet (X). Maybe someone someday will invent a term for this kind of strategy shift. It is not a pivot. For now, I'm calling it a boomerang. I hereby swear on my tombstone that we're not just shipping a supersonic jet, we're building a whole product roadmap of them. And we're not done until we have to teach our kids that supersonic flight wasn't always normal.

@jawwwn_ @USWREMichael @theallinpod @Jason @friedberg genuine question: does Anthropic actually have the ability to shut down the government cloud they’re running on? are the ops people government employees or Anthropic employees 🤔

.@USWREMichael says the Maduro raid was the trigger point for the DoW’s conflict with Anthropic: “Palantir’s the prime contractor. [Anthropic] is the sub.” “One of [Anthropic’s] execs called Palantir and asked, ‘Was our software used in that raid?’” “So— they’re trying to get classified information. And implying— if they were used in that raid, that it might violate their terms of service.” “It raised enough alarm with Palantir, who has a trusted relationship with the Department, to tell me, and I’m like, ‘Holy shit— what if this software went down? Some guardrail kicked up? Some refusal happened for the next fight like this one and we left our people at risk?” “I went to @SecWar @PeteHegseth and told him what happened.” “That was like a ‘Woah’ moment for the whole leadership at the Pentagon that we’re potentially so dependent on a software provider without another alternative that has the right or ability to not only shut it off— maybe it’s a rogue developer who could poison the model to make it not do what you want, or trick you, or hallucinate purposefully.” “That culminated in the Tuesday dramatic meeting with Secretary Hegseth and me and Dario with the Friday deadline that got blown.” “I never really thought they wanted to make it.” @DoWCTO @emilmichael on @theallinpod

@Al_Grigor “look at this scary hypothetical” follow me for more campfire stories!

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@bobbyfijan that breakfast nook is gorgeous

Even more novel idea: Use manufacturing to build NICE housing in the places people want to live

@JacobyBrandon @nivi don’t wanna play broken telephone with a person in the middle

@nivi What about agents that need to be prompted what to do

The opportunity cost of employees who need to be told what to do has gone through the roof.