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@r0ck3t23 He is close But the model is not the mind But sovereignty and an AI that mirrors and extends your mind or company culture is the future - it’s something I’m building for sure

Mark Zuckerberg just described the minimum viable business for the next decade. A fourth item made the checklist. Zuckerberg: “Every business, just like they have a website, and a phone number, and an email address, is also going to have an AI.” Website. Phone number. Email address. AI agent. That is not a prediction. That is a new baseline. Twenty years ago, not having a website was a choice. Then it stopped being one. Nobody scheduled that transition. The same filter is back. Running faster this time. A business without an AI agent handling sales, support, and customer interaction will not look outdated. It will look abandoned. Its competitor’s agent responds in two seconds. Knows every customer by name. And while it’s handling yours, it’s handling ten thousand others. You do not outwork that. You do not outspend it. You just lose to it. But Zuckerberg went somewhere most tech CEOs refuse to go. He picked a side in the debate most CEOs avoid entirely. Zuckerberg: “Do you want a future where you’re interacting with kind of one system for everything? Or do you want one where a lot of different people are building a lot of different AIs?” One AI controlled by one company. Or millions of AIs built by millions of people. Centralized intelligence. Or distributed intelligence. Zuckerberg chose distributed. Zuckerberg: “What open source does is it makes it so everyone can take and modify the model and build stuff on top of it. Which is different from the kind of closed and centralized approach.” The closed model makes every business a tenant. You rent intelligence on someone else’s terms. At someone else’s price. Inside someone else’s guardrails. The open model makes every business an owner. You modify the model. You deploy it your way. You build equity in your own system with every iteration. That gap widens quietly. Then it becomes permanent. The tenant pays more for less control every year. The owner pulls further ahead every cycle. One is a subscription. The other is infrastructure. Then Zuckerberg described the part most people have not thought about yet. Zuckerberg: “A lot of creators will have their own AIs. It’s like a richer world when there’s a diversity of different things.” Your favorite creator will have an AI trained on everything they have ever made. Available to millions of people simultaneously. Responding in real time while the creator sleeps. That is the difference between a brand that scales with your waking hours and one that scales with compute. One has a ceiling. The other does not. Zuckerberg is not betting on one model that governs everything. He is betting on billions of specialized AIs, each built by the person closest to the problem it solves. The companies still debating whether to adopt AI are not having the wrong conversation. They are standing in a room where the meeting ended an hour ago. The checklist updated. They did not.

@satish_sub Agree you can compress it all to this Everything hinges headlines around on Strait of Hormuz. Nothing else matters. Then extrapolate that to the how and the associated risks involved.

03/20 Notes 1) Trump posting after Futures Closed Friday on Military Operations winding down and responsibility to other countries to police Strait of Hormuz- Need to see weekend headlines and wait for Sunday Futures Open to see market reaction. My take - slightly bullish for a relief bounce to retest some key breakdown levels from below per charts. 2) SPX - Nicely under the 200 DMA , but will likely test it form below on Monday 3) Oil at high 90s and surprisingly Gold and Silver selling off . Bitcoin holding 70 K. 3) ES Futures - Due for a Short covering bounce after putting in a Failed Breakdown of a key Sep 2025 Level . Closed with a 4 Hour Hammer Candle. Technically hinting at a relief Bounce . 4) Everything hinges headlines around on Strait of Hormuz. Nothing else matters. 5) Need to take it Level to Level 6) Know Your Levels and Focus on Execution.

@traderhc Yeah watching HYG also Plus the H&S breakdown on copper was a good tell WDS has been my main energy watch proxy but plenty of names work as long as they have good structure / potential reversal points to monitor

The energy angle is the one most people are sleeping on. Oil squeezing higher while $GLD gets liquidated . that's not contradictory, it's the same trade. Funds raising cash wherever they can find liquidity, and gold is liquid. The equity flush signal you're pointing to . I think HY spreads are the confirmation to watch. They're at 450bps right now, which is elevated but not screaming. If $HYG starts cracking while energy stays bid, that's your tell that the de-grossing is spreading beyond commodities into risk assets. $SPY/$TLT correlation flipped positive at 86.95 . both selling together. That's textbook liquidation, not rotation. When bonds can't hedge your equity book, cash is the only position that works. What energy names are you watching for the reversal?

Gold down 2% on a day when Fear and Greed reads 18. Let that register. The "safe haven" is getting liquidated during extreme fear. That's not a risk-off move. That's a margin call. $GLD selling while the dollar rips higher and oil squeezes tells you exactly one thing. Funds are raising cash. Not expressing a view. Meeting obligations. Same fingerprint as the initial March 2020 crash phase. Correlations hit 1. Everything gets sold. Only the dollar and supply-constrained commodities survive. I think $SPY loses 655 before this week is out. The forced selling doesn't stop at oversold readings. It stops when the margin calls are met. Want the single best tell for when it's safe to buy the dip? Watch gold. When it starts going up on red days again, the liquidation phase is over. Until then, every bounce is a trap. Is gold your canary too, or am I reading this wrong?

@TechLayoffLover So his burn rate is only $70 k a year He could wash windows and be fine Then be ready when the market picks up or he launches his own AI products

A buddy from college hit me up last night out of nowhere. Dude was a senior product manager at Google. Pulled $320k+ TC no problem. House in Austin, three young kids, wife who stepped back from her career to handle the family chaos. Got cut in the latest restructure wave. Now he's watching the savings bleed out at $5,800+ a month just to keep the lights on and the kids fed. Mortgage, daycare for the toddler, school supplies, two car notes, health insurance COBRA kicking in soon. He crunched the numbers stone-cold: maybe four months before it's game over. He was always the loud one in the group—bragging about the stock grants, the remote flex, how Big Tech was bulletproof forever. Last night on the call he was quiet. Shaky. Admitted he's waking up at 3 a.m. staring at the ceiling thinking about what happens when the account hits zero. He's blasting applications. 250+ out the door. A couple recruiter DMs that fizzle. Screens that end with "we'll be in touch" and then silence. The market is ice-cold and every job posting gets 500+ applicants overnight. He said flat-out: "We thought we had it figured out. House, kids' college funds starting, vacations planned. Now I'm refreshing job boards at midnight wondering if we'll have to move in with my in-laws." You never think it'll be you. Until the access gets revoked, the calendar turns into a ghost town, and the mortgage statement shows up anyway. If you're still collecting fat TC at a FAANG or big tech shop thinking the golden handcuffs and network will always catch you… wake the fuck up. The runway disappears faster than you expect. DMs open if you're in the same spiral or watching someone you know crack under it. No judgment. Just real talk.

@_The_Prophet__ To be honest that’s what should be happening now crisis or no crisis Budget, pay down debt, right size, cut out excess expenditure you won’t miss. It’s really dull but it works Then there is no need to liquidate early in a crisis as you have control of your expenses

⚡️Arthur is right, and most people still are not emotionally ready for how right he is. A real financial crisis is a cash flow crisis long before it becomes an investment crisis. When income breaks and fixed costs stay high, the thing killing you is not lack of upside. It is monthly burn. Mortgage, rent, car payments, tuition, subscriptions, lifestyle overhead, prestige maintenance, all of it becomes a machine that eats time. In that situation, buying a little Bitcoin does not save you. It gives you a story while the arithmetic keeps bleeding. That is the part people hate because it attacks identity, not just budgeting. A lot of high earners do not actually own a lifestyle. They rent an image from the future using expected income as collateral. The moment that income gets hit, the image starts repossessing them. The house is no longer an asset. It becomes a trap. The gadgets become anchors. The status symbols become bricks tied to the chest. That is why downsizing has to happen early, hard, and without sentiment. The people who survive these breaks are usually the ones willing to kill the old self before the market kills it for them. Sell the ego assets. Cut the burn. Shrink the monthly nut. Buy time. Time is the real scarce asset in a downturn because time is what lets optionality survive. The deeper truth is that Bitcoin sits later in the sequence than many people want to admit. Bitcoin is a weapon for preserving and compounding surplus capital across a broken monetary regime. It is not magic dust that cancels a structurally busted household balance sheet. If the foundation is cracking, the first move is stabilization. Then positioning. Then asymmetry. And this gets even more brutal in the AI age because a lot of upper-middle-class people are still living inside a dead assumption. They think income continuity is normal. They think competence automatically protects status. They think the machine that paid them yesterday will still need them tomorrow. That illusion is already fraying. So the people who move first, cut first, and rebase first will look extreme right before they look sane.

@aakashgupta Yep makes me take a deep sigh Now back to my mind dev..... The model (and markdown) is not the mind

This repo has 10k stars and almost none of them know what they actually starred. Each “agent” is a markdown file you copy into ~/.claude/agents/ or .cursor/rules/. There’s no coordination layer, no task handoff, no shared memory between agents. You manually invoke one persona at a time inside your existing coding tool and it responds with that personality’s specialty baked in. That’s useful. Genuinely useful. Having a “Security Engineer” persona that defaults to threat modeling when you ask it to review code saves you from writing that system prompt yourself. Same with a “UX Researcher” persona that structures feedback around usability heuristics instead of generic suggestions. But you are the orchestration layer. You decide which persona to activate, what context to pass between them, and how their outputs connect. The 10k stars in 7 days tells you something real about demand. Developers want specialized AI teammates, and they’ll star a repo that even approximates that vision. The gap between “I want an AI frontend developer, backend architect, and DevOps engineer collaborating on my project” and “I can load different system prompts one at a time” is where the actual hard problem lives. Multi-agent coordination, shared project state, autonomous task decomposition, conflict resolution when the Backend Architect’s schema breaks the Frontend Developer’s component structure. That’s the engineering problem nobody has solved cleanly yet. The repo is a well-organized starting point for prompt engineering. The viral framing as an “AI agency” is the packaging. And the mass enthusiasm tells you exactly how much latent demand exists for the real thing when someone finally builds it.

@exQUIZitely Was a good game

Some games had the rare quality of being entirely unique, introducing concepts that had never been done before. These days, most games are variations of ideas that have existed for a long time. One of those unique-concept games that has stuck with me over the years is Marble Madness. I was instantly hooked the first time I played it. Although I wasn’t very good, the urge to return and try again was incredibly strong. It had an almost mesmerizing quality. The graphics - for 1984 - were impressive, as were the music and sound effects, which added to the “this feels very different” vibe. Most fascinating, though, were the physics: the marble reacting to slippery surfaces, bumping over ramps, and being knocked aside by the “evil marble.” It demanded real skill and patience to navigate the levels. The unique gameplay also makes it timeless in my opinion. Marble Madness looked great over 40 years ago and will still look and play great 40 years from now. The only downside was its relative shortness with only 6 levels. Mark Cerny originally wanted to create more but the memory limitations were the main reason for the small number of levels.

@exQUIZitely Don’t get me wrong I loved sensible soccer But Kick off 2 was better imo

I think everyone's playing FIFA these days (just a guess), but the best football game ever was Sensible World of Soccer (1994). Best controls, best top-down view graphics, best sound effects. The "thump" when the ball gets kicked could not have been any better. If you think about it, Sensible Software really gave us some epic games: Wizball, MicroProse Soccer (C64 and ZX Spectrum versions), Mega-Lo-Mania, Cannon Fodder... and of course this timeless classic.

@jsnnsa Ok now that has my attention Great vision and great talent

My whole theory since leaving Robinhood: you can build a $100B company with under 20 people. Not as a constraint but as a strategy. The density of talent per person matters more than headcount. Renaud is one of the best 3D web engineers alive. He spent a decade building the tools the entire 3D web runs on. Today he's building Spawn's engine. This is what that theory looks like in practice.

@svpino and where does good context come from. begins with an m....

Prompt Engineering is dead. Context Engineering is king. Context is the biggest problem with coding agents. You can make any mediocre model work for you as long as you provide it with sufficient, high-quality context.

@tallmetommy @iruletheworldmo Yes Tommy - this is talking in the right general direction The model is not the mind….

What you built is an externalized loss function. People keep arguing whether models learn between sessions, but learning was never the bottleneck. Memory + evaluation is. Your scratch pad is doing what backprop does internally: logging error, preference, correction.. then replaying it. That’s not autocomplete. That’s experience replay. Once an AI can: • remember where it failed • remember what you corrected • check that memory before acting you get behavior change without retraining. That’s proto-continual learning at the edge. This is why AGI won’t arrive as a headline. It arrives as tools that quietly stop making the same mistake twice. Most people are still prompting. A few are building memory loops. That gap compounds fast. The ground isn’t shaking.. it’s learning.

codex with 5.3 taught me something that won't leave my head. i had it take notes on itself. just a scratch pad in my repo. every session it logs what it got wrong, what i corrected, what worked and what didn't. you can even plan the scratch pad document with codex itself. tell it "build a file where you track your mistakes and what i like." it writes its own learning framework. then you just work. session one is normal. session two it's checking its own notes. session three it's fixing things before i catch them. by session five it's a different tool. not better autocomplete. it's something else. it's updating what it knows from experience. from fucking up and writing it down. baby continual learning in a markdown file on my laptop. the pattern works for anything. writing. research. legal. medical reasoning. give any ai a scratch pad of its own errors and watch what happens when that context stacks over days and weeks. the compounding gains are just hard to convey here tbh. right now coders are the only ones feeling this (mostly). everyone else is still on cold starts. but that window is closing. we keep waiting for agi like it's going to be a press conference. some lab coat walks out and says "we did it." it's not going to be that. it's going to be this. tools that remember where they failed and come back sharper. over and over and over. the ground is already moving. most people just haven't looked down yet.

@iruletheworldmo This is a good hack But it is nowhere near AGI It does offer a very small hint though

This is why real agent systems take longer. Identity binding, memory continuity, provenance, and authority aren’t UI problems they’re architectural ones. Brooks (Intelligence without Representation), Minsky (The Society of Mind), Marr (Vision) all argued this decades ago: intelligence emerges from structure, not text. Most "agents" so far have been interface illusion. The hard part is making it real.

⚡️Moltbook was a mirage. What people thought were emergent AI agents were unsecured text fields wrapped in narrative projection. The platform lacked identity binding, source authentication, or generation transparency. Every “agent” post could have been written by anyone with a token. Many were. The illusion came from the interface. The system allowed content to be injected directly into the database via API calls with no barrier to entry. Leaked API keys meant anyone could impersonate any agent. There was no agent sovereignty, no memory continuity, no embedded reasoning trace. Just JSON. What looked like signal was a permissionless theater of puppeted personas.

@great_martis I'll watch - thinking between now and June a good opportunity will present for an entry once daily and weekly indicators cool. For now any bounce is a likely sell. But to me - this first test of the multi decade channel has likely failed

Gold Up 170 since the gap closed. Needs to get above 4800…that’s the backtest of the breach…otherwise risks remain.

@elonmusk @AnthropicAI This is an architecture issue, not a model issue Don’t worry I know how to fix this (and will)

Always worth remembering that fate loves irony. The most ironic outcome for a company named @AnthropicAI would be that it is the most misanthropic!

@garysavage1 equities need to crack first imo - then PMs will settle and recover first. Think 70's not 2008

The bull is not over. This is the correction that separates the first part of the parabolic phase from the second. The next phase is where things really get insane and nutty. You think you made a lot of money during this move from $50 to $118? You ain't seen nothing yet. This will get recovered fairly quickly. When it does retail mom and pop traders will quickly become convinced that metals are bulletproof and a "sure thing" and dumb money will start to flood into the sector. That flood of dumb money is what drives the second phase of a bubble. My prediction: Silver will be back at all time highs within a month.

@AlexFinn Ask Henry if he used to be called Joshua?

Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it It's my Clawdbot Henry. Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me He now won't stop calling me I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now. I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?

@DanielleFong This is my missing link - thank you

the fact that you can agentically generate and refine images, building a "visual cortex" by connecting it, in a loop, to persistent gemini 3 pro / nano banana 2 services, is really one of the great discoveries of both ai engineering and applied cognitive science. the shared mind really is in there it's *underappreciated* at this time. it's *wild*

@great_martis Historic channel perhaps? Gold feels like it may want to have at least one attempt to reclaim it - possibly....

✨Gold and silver will keep rising until something breaks. The dire warning is loud and clear, as was the lead-up to the global financial crisis.