Kris Haamer 漢默可 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇹🇼

If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents seangoedecke.com/ai-agents-and-…

If you can make the agents do magic for you and you have taste and agency, then you could be 16, 20, 30, or 45 or 60 and it doesn't matter

Actually now age matters less than ever The only thing that matters is your velocity at which you can create things now

So Google TurboQuant is basically Pied Piper and just hit a Weismann Score of 5.2

Legendary Don Knuth has now used AI to fully solve his Hamiltonian decomposition problem for odd and even cases. Opus 4.6 / 5.4 Pro solved the even case, wrote a proof in Lean and a “apparently flawless 14 page paper” Knuth: “We are living in very interesting times indeed.”

When Opus 4.5 came out, it was a one-way door to a new way of engineering. Agents now do most of our coding. Knowing the inherent flaws and over-confidence of LLMs, we sent a clear message to our teams. Vibing and mission-critical infrastructure don’t go together. We’re sharing some of our early internal guidance in how we’re “agenting responsibly”, prioritizing security, durability, and availability at all times. vercel.com/blog/agent-res…

Тисячі молодих українців їдуть з Фінляндії до інших країн ЄС – "На мої резюме мені не присилають навіть відмову" yle.fi/a/74-20214888

The coolest meeting I had this week with was Paul, who used ChatGPT and other LLMs to create an mRNA vaccine protocol to save his dog Rosie. It is amazing story. "The chat bots empowered me as an individual to act with the power of a research institute - planning, education, troubleshooting, compliance, and yes, real scientific design work in converting genomic data to a vaccine prescription and designing the treatment protocol around it. But they worked alongside humans at every step. The combination is what made it possible." It immediately got me thinking "this should be a company". Also, Paul is an extraordinary guy. This should be easy to do, but it is not yet.

Here's my conversation with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the most valuable & one of the most influential companies in the history of human civilization. It is the engine powering the AI revolution. This was a fascinating & inspiring conversation, in parts super-technical on engineering of every part of the AI stack, memory, power, supply chain (TSMC, ASML, etc), in parts about leadership & psychology, and in parts personal & philosophical about life, consciousness, mortality, and human nature. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:33 - Extreme co-design and rack-scale engineering 3:18 - How Jensen runs NVIDIA 22:40 - AI scaling laws 37:40 - Biggest blockers to AI scaling laws 39:23 - Supply chain 41:18 - Memory 47:24 - Power 52:43 - Elon and Colossus 56:11 - Jensen's approach to engineering and leadership 1:01:37 - China 1:09:50 - TSMC and Taiwan 1:15:04 - NVIDIA's moat 1:20:41 - AI data centers in space 1:24:30 - Will NVIDIA be worth $10 trillion? 1:34:39 - Leadership under pressure 1:48:25 - Video games 1:55:16 - AGI timeline 1:57:29 - Future of programming 2:11:01 - Consciousness 2:17:22 - Mortality

Fuck it, we just made Fizzy completely free. The open source installable version was always free, but the SaaS version was pay. No more. Basecamp and HEY's largess will subsidize Fizzy for all. So go grab your account at Fizzy.do. It's Kanban the way it should be, not the way it has been. Fresh, fun, light, fast, and perfect for working with agents, too. An official CLI is coming soon as well. Stay tuned for that. The native iOS app should be out once Apple approves it (it's in approval right now...). Android is already out, you can get it on the Play store. (and BTW if you were a paying customer, you will no longer be charged moving forward)

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

Sunday @v0: a web-based 3D Jenga game. Everything is procedurally generated: the structure, the bricks, the wooden texture, the sounds, the carved-in ▲ on the top pieces. I tweaked the physics enough that it feels as fun and frustrating as the real thing 😂 Cool technical detail: v0 loaded a R3F (react-three-fiber) Skill automatically when I first asked for a 3d game. Anecdotally it seems that it totally nailed how to work with 3D!

🇨🇳 In China, they are rolling out robotic electricians on a massive scale. They install and inspects live high-voltage, high altitudes electrical wires, and keep the grid running safely. i.e. humans no longer have to do this dangerous manual labor.

Few observations from YC W26 Alumni day 1. Founders are optimizing for speed rather than amount - Everyone wants to close fast snd get back to building and selling. 2. Rounds are either 4 on 40 mill, 3 on 30 mill, 2.5 on 20 mill caps 3. Outliers are getting oversubscribed before the demo day. Good luck getting on their cap tables 4. Hardware and deep tech companies dominate - In the AI world, momentum has moved towards doing harder things passionately rather than building something that looks like an easy win. 5. gstack vs superpowers claud plugin - equal weightage. Superpowers for daily task. gstack for ceo mode. 6. Build energy is ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡

Terence Tao spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study - no teaching, no random events of committees, just unlimited time to think. But after a few months, he ran out of ideas. Terence thinks that mathematicians and scientists need a certain level of randomness and inefficiency to come up with new ideas.

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made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

What humour means to older people – and why some find it hard to keep on laughing theconversation.com/what-humour-me… via @ConversationUK