Fred Brunel

@GergelyOrosz @ThePrimeagen Steve Jobs was known for painting an idealized vision of their products but it was always grounded in reality and products did work. What is this tech world we live in?

@GergelyOrosz @ThePrimeagen There was always path to profitability, everybody loved the service. These new startups are faking products and revenues entirely, nothing works for real. They took "fake it til you make it" way too far.

guys, i honestly do not like clowning on Gary. I don't find being the butt of a joke funny, so I imagine he does not either. But, this is what worries me about where we are going. We are actively encouraging an entire generation that the tech is there when its not, and a couple of silly mistakes made on a website isn't the end of the world, but people's data and breaches are serious. We are entering a very VERY hackable world, and I do not like it one bit.

@GergelyOrosz @ThePrimeagen At least Uber has always done its job. You could book and take a ride from day one.

Looking back, before all this AI stuff, just look at eg Uber (where I used to work.) Uber focused on *growth* above everything else: kept losing money on unit economics (on purpose!) The media said they would never make money... but it turned out to be the correct play for eg Uber's investors. I would look at Gary's takes from this lens: he is there to help *VC-funded* startups succeed. And slow and steady growth / build the right thing with high quality first: this can work well outside of VC, but it's almost always a sure failure with VC, because the next VC-funded company is on iteration #7, with most of your target customer market being their customer already (usually subsidized!) by the time you launch your technically superior product...

I need to add an hard drive to my PC. It's way too quiet.

@Jonathan_Blow You know, the previous CEO of YC was Altman. Who got fired for deceptive behavior and conflicts of interest. Says it all. YC is a shadow of itself.

These statements inherently damage YC’s reputation because either (a) Garry has incredibly poor judgement, which affects the companies chosen and mentored; (b) He is just BSing and knows it, which means YC is not trustable; (c) He is correct, then WHAT ARE ALL THE COMPANIES FOR? x.com/garrytan/statu…

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@sama It's fake.

The first steel beams went up this week at our Michigan Stargate site with Oracle and Related Digital

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/copil…

Totally forgot about this video -- things never change.

@elonmusk @grok And the cigarette just lit itself.

Generated with @Grok Imagine 🚬

@elonmusk And it's a bunch of garbage.

Minute-long story made w Grok Imagine

@AlanEyre1 @anneapplebaum And people just realize that now?

spot-on, from @anneapplebaum Money quote: "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places." "He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

@Jonathan_Blow Until it's not.

Theory: We don't let LLMs control robots and operate freely in the physical world (yet?) because they'd fall all the time, break everything, and cause massive damage. But in software the falling and the massive damage are invisible, so it's fine. x.com/sama/status/20…

@elonmusk LOL. Good joke.

Btw, the proceeds of any legal victory in the OpenAI case will be donated to charity. I will in no way enrich myself.

@atmoio Having a court of yes-men does the same, you don't need a machine.

AI is making CEOs delusional

They were always delusional. You don't need a machine. You just need a court of yes-men. Same results.

@ns123abc Same for their browser.

Remember OpenAI Sora? disappeared like it never existed lol

Yann LeCun (@ylecun ) explains why LLMs are so limited in terms of real-world intelligence. Says the biggest LLM is trained on about 30 trillion words, which is roughly 10 to the power 14 bytes of text. That sounds huge, but a 4 year old who has been awake about 16,000 hours has also taken in about 10 to the power 14 bytes through the eyes alone. So a small child has already seen as much raw data as the largest LLM has read. But the child’s data is visual, continuous, noisy, and tied to actions: gravity, objects falling, hands grabbing, people moving, cause and effect. From this, the child builds an internal “world model” and intuitive physics, and can learn new tasks like loading a dishwasher from a handful of demonstrations. LLMs only see disconnected text and are trained just to predict the next token. So they get very good at symbol patterns, exams, and code, but they lack grounded physical understanding, real common sense, and efficient learning from a few messy real-world experiences. --- From 'Pioneer Works' YT channel (link in comment)

@cmuratori @ThePrimeagen It's a great club to be in.

@ThePrimeagen Already blocked as it turns out!

"Shipping a button" (vid by @KaiLentit). Might be the funniest thing I've seen in years