Nick DeJesus 🛒🎉 - Former Unpaid CTO @BTPipeline

Good lord this edit. Insane.

is there interest in a 4k+ word deep dive in building reliable agent loops (on cloudflare and elsewhere) writing down what I've done for building agents resilient to catastrophic failures on clients/servers/inference (with zero user code) and I need to get it out of my brain

Some thoughts on the crazy AI money being made right now I have a close friend who had the opportunity, offer in hand, to be a very early employee (<25) at what is now a trillion $ company. Probably would've made a few billion dollars. Looking at his general talent level (he's extremely successful although he doesn't like, own a Hawaiian island), he probably would've risen high and it's not inconceivable that he would've made even more. Over the years, we've had a few discussions about what could've been. Including before he found his very significant success. Every single time he's basically said something like "yeah having a billion $ would be amazing but then I wouldn't have met my wife." As the years have gone by, he seems to have become even more content with how things went down. I suspect he literally never thinks about it. There were also years when it was clear he'd missed a generational bag and was *not* yet successful, and he just worked harder. Things could always have gone better and it's just not a productive thing to dwell on. And money just gives it an unfortunate scorecard. If someone said "maybe in another life I'd have kids I loved more," we'd write them off as a psychopath but when it comes to "what if I'd made more money" we excuse it. So if you missed that Anthropic offer but you've got a hot gf and loving parents and a cool dog or whatever, you gotta just keep it in perspective.

the fact that i’m still unemployed shows that no one actually cares about taste