Dean T. Barker

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@BuildsTim @r0ck3t23 “CEOs should measure success by dollars spent on compute” says a CEO selling compute. This tracks.

@r0ck3t23 count me as not wowed by the CEO of a company wanting me to use his products to an extraordinary level. this is not a wake up call, this is a grift.

Jensen Huang just gave every CEO on the planet a single number to judge their engineering team by. Not lines of code. Not features shipped. Dollars burned in compute. Huang: “If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed. And this is no different than one of our chip designers who says, ‘Guess what? I’m just gonna use paper and pencil. I don’t think I’m gonna need any CAD tools.’” Half a million dollars in salary. Five thousand dollars in token spend. That ratio should be keeping every hiring manager awake tonight. It means your most expensive engineer is solving problems by hand that a machine could close in seconds. You are paying Formula 1 money for someone pedaling a bicycle. Huang is not suggesting engineers use more AI. He is saying if they are not consuming massive volumes of inference, your organization has a structural failure it has not diagnosed yet. And if you are the engineer in that seat right now, the math is staring directly at you. Your value is no longer measured by what you can build alone. It is measured by how much machine output you can direct, evaluate, and multiply. The ones who refuse to let go of the keyboard are pricing themselves out of the conversation. Calacanis pushed him on what this looks like two or three years out. Huang didn’t give a forecast. He eliminated three assumptions the entire industry still plans around. Huang: “‘Wow, this is too hard,’ that thought is gone. ‘This is gonna take a long time,’ that thought is gone. ‘We’re gonna need a lot of people,’ that thought is gone.” Too hard. Gone. Too long. Gone. Too many people. Gone. Every planning conversation in every boardroom in the world is built on at least one of those three constraints. Huang just declared all three obsolete. Huang: “This is no different than in the last Industrial Revolution somebody goes, ‘Boy, that building really looks heavy.’ Nobody says that. Everything that’s too big, too heavy, takes too long, those ideas are all gone. You’re reduced to creativity.” The Industrial Revolution made it absurd to say an object was too heavy to move. This moment makes it absurd to say a problem is too complex to build. Once you saturate your workforce with enough inference, the only bottleneck left is the quality of the idea itself. Not the team size. Not the timeline. Not the technical difficulty. The idea. That is all that is left. Huang: “In the past, we code. In the future, we’re gonna write ideas, architectures, specifications. We’re gonna organize teams. We’re gonna define how to evaluate the definition of good versus bad. And I think that every engineer is gonna have a hundred agents.” The engineer of the next decade does not write code. They write intent. They define what good looks like. They architect the problem. They evaluate the output. They direct a hundred agents executing in parallel across every layer of the stack. The companies still hiring engineers to manually write syntax are staffing a typing pool in the age of the printing press. The engineer’s job is no longer to build. It is to command.

@ClueHeywood Or Roundball Rock

I know we shouldn't put Elon's chips in our bodies BUT what if it played the CBS March Madness jingle whenever we got horny?

@GandalftheGren @KySportsRadio @espn That’s a brilliant idea

@KySportsRadio We need an @espn stream of the university student radio hosts for every March Madness game!!!

High Point student radio call of the game is what it is all about

@jwalkermobile No A&W Teen Sauce?

For those looking to make their own homemade “secret sauces.”

@readforyourself @HannahWardEdu @GeorgeWill Back at you! And yes, passing it down is so very critical. This was a nightly read with both my lads when they were young. And now they’re college superstars. Reading is fundamental!

Again, true kindred spirits. Have both the EB and OED, and the Great Books series. The only thing I enjoy more than reading and using these wonderful resources is sharing them with my children, grandchildren & others. My bookplate reads "I enjoy sharing books as I do my friends...Asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home." Best wishes always.

How does your home library stack up? In 2023 YouGov surveyed 29,000 Americans to see how many books they have in their homes. The results were disappointing to say the least. - 0 books: 9% (no books AT ALL) - 1–10 books: 20% - 11–25 books: 14% - 26–50 books: 13% - 51–100 books: 12% - 101–200 books: 10% - 201–500 books: 7% - 501–1,000 books: 4% - More than 1,000 books: 3%

@readforyourself @HannahWardEdu @GeorgeWill Love what you’ve done all the way around by the way! You may appreciate this…my reference section includes the last print edition of both the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the Oxford English Dictionary. Also have an early Harvard Classics set and set of Harvard Classics Fiction.

@deanzilla @HannahWardEdu Work in progress: subject/chrono (e.g., Presidents 1-40s, wars BC-modern) then author by genre (non-fiction, Straussians or @GeorgeWill ; fiction, classics to modern & then genre). Special sections for autographed/inscribed, children’s, sports, outdoors, exploration, etc. You?!

@readforyourself @HannahWardEdu @GeorgeWill A modified Dewey Decimal System, originally designed on one of the boxes while unpacking from a move and tweaked as I’ve grown the collection. My retirement project will be getting a proper antique card catalog and putting everything in there.

@readforyourself @HannahWardEdu How do you organize the stacks?

@deanzilla @HannahWardEdu A kindred spirit. Below is a picture of one “reading corner.” 5,000+ titles total. #Blessed

@jwalkermobile C, obviously. I confirmed with the French fry zodiac. bakedmagazine.com/2024/02/16/wha…

Which fry is best? a - steak fries b - waffle c - crinkle cut d - straight fry

@SBakerMD 14

How many points?

@DerbyCityPhil Balvenie 21 YO Portwood

Saturday night census. Don’t over think it. Just trust you gut and your palate. Favorite all time whiskey. GO! ➡️

@jwalkermobile I have a place in Puerto Peñasco, so I’m spoiled by regular trips for great Mexican food and wine. But tagging you just in hopes of spreading the word. Valle de Guadalupe is like Napa Valley 75 years ago. Hidden gem, tons of potential.

I love Mexican #wine. Look for it whenever you can find it and if in Mexico, make sure you sample as much as you can! wineenthusiast.com/culture/travel…

@jeffreym_nelson I see what you’re doing. And I like it.

Arizona averages 120 degrees year round. It doesn't snow, not even in the Grand Canyon.

@mrmikeMTL Carrots. Always carrots. No idea why, but that’s what mom made.

If you grew up in a “vegetables at every meal” household….what did you eat with spaghetti?

@TheChiefNerd With electrolytes?

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Hounds released…

@jwalkermobile Hot take: Paris is overrated

All expenses paid, where you going?

@jwalkermobile To share!

Would you eat this Cinnamon Roll?