Isaac Faber

@pmarca @eladgil I wish it wasn’t true… but it is.

People get mad when someone says this out loud, but it’s true, and @eladgil is doing a lot of people a huge favor by saying it. Co-sign.

This isn’t true. Geography has some similarity’s that might not have existed before but variation has never been more extreme. The view expressed here doesn’t realize that online culture is not homogenous but a vast array of subcultures that seldom interact. So this can be interpreted as ‘my subculture is very similar’

if you’ve read my content, you know that i talk about aesthetic convergence a lot which i find truly fascinating. cuz wherever you go now you’ll notice tons of ppl look exactly the same (esp in dense places). the reason is pretty simple… you see the old world had local weirdness because taste formation had friction. you had to find the record store, the zine, the older cousin, the weird bar, the badly lit bookstore, or the regional scene. style was embedded in place & transmission was lossy. lossy transmission creates mutation. mutation creates subculture. the feed destroys that by making everything instantly accessible, comparable, rankable, & purchasable. by anyone. memeticism + algorithms are like steroids for human desire.. so now the moment some aesthetic emerges, it gets: seen → copied → named → packaged → linked → sold → exhausted. that cycle used to take years. now it takes days. sometimes hours. that’s why every subculture now feels stillborn. it gets merchandised before it gets a mythology. this has so many other downstream effects on almost the entire human desire set, like wanting only certain aesthetics of ppl (& now you see why dude looksmaxxxing is a thing too).

@garrytan Remember when @dhh was like; just because you use my open source thing for free doesn’t mean I work for you. My only critique of gstack is that I’m too old for YC @garrytan so stop asking, I’m trying to get to /ship.

I don't understand all these people using their real name to be an asshole to me I've been committing every day and I also have a full time job What do you want from me David? Also you can check github commit log yourself

@thesamparr It’s one of the basic American truths that is deeply misunderstood. Money is not power here and never has been. If it were Michael Bloomberg would be president. Trump spent no money getting elected, fwiw.

While I am not in favor of a wealth tax… One perspective on this is…It’s crazy how powerless billionaires. Uprooting their life and leaving their home. Isn’t the point of being rich so you can whatever the hell you wanna do?

@PJaccetturo This is incredible.

We are about to see a massive explosion of books turned into cinema. I used Luma’s new agent to build this ‘Red Rising’ teaser in less than a week. Previously, this series would've needed a $200M+ greenlight. Not anymore. Bookmark my full workflow + Seedance 2.0 prompts 🧵👇

I’m just going to comment on this so in a few years I can tell you it was obvious this guy is going to be the democratic nominee. He will bring that party back from total irrelevance.

@yacineMTB There is no such thing.

Is Claude NDAA compliant

@tszzl This is such a great point. Disagreements are messy and public ones shed light on otherwise backroom manipulation.

strongly disagree: the open hot mess is a great strength of democratic countries. it seems clear that optimal level of public chaos is far above what people find intuitive

@space_colonist @SecWar Yes they have…

@SecWar It's insane to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk when you have not designated Deepseek or Moonshot or any other Chinese model providers a supply chain risk.

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

What are we calling the unsettled feeling that you have when you don’t have at least one agent running at all times?

@Austen But Google did build a lot of things that killed whole categories. I was creating a collaborative workbench for data science when Google just offered colab for free…

I remember for about a decade every other VC would ask, “What if Google builds this” with a look of fear in their eyes, not realizing how hard it would be for Google to build 99% of things at the same time as it ran its core business. I think we may be seeing a repeat of that.

@IMAO_ Smells like teen spirit… not even a competition.

I think there is a good argument that “Take Me On” is the most 80s of 80s music. What’s the most 90s of 90s music, though? I feel like it has to be something alt-rock expressing angst about vague problems.

@thdxr @dillon_mulroy It kinda works on brand new problems but in even modest complexity…

@dillon_mulroy yeah this has been my confusion everyone is into this spec writing thing and i've been wondering if i'm just impatient or lazy or something my brain just cannot figure out what we should be doing without playing with stuff

i continue to learn this lesson w/ ai

@pmddomingos Pedro doesn’t understand innovation.

Anthropic has no strategy. Claude Code started as someone's side project, and so did Cowork and MCP.

@grok remind me of this post after the crash.

The more I use @claudeai the truer this gets.

@andrewchen So many bugs! I’ve tried everything to automate this from 100% test coverage to full browser control and it does not work…

vibe coding: 100,000x faster vibe debugging: 1x? 2x? Reminds me of the windows 95 progress bar that gets stuck at 99%… that’s the last part of any Claude coding project lol

@tszzl I held a high level position in the Army last year. It is actually incredible how few people reach out at those levels.

messaging the top brass: guaranteed response within a few hours, p90 is under 5 minutes. messaging mid level: you may never get a response

Codex is clearly a better developer than Claude Code because it asks me condescending questions that I do not understand.

@nateobrienn Wait until you hear about what’s happening on LinkedIn

The worst part about this app is 99% of replies are AI just restating the original post. It's ruining the platform