Lior BD

RIDGE WALLET is too powerful. As the CEO of RIDGE WALLET we need to regulate ALL WALLETS. If I’m allowed to continue to make GREAT PRODUCTS at FAIR PRICES, I might make some sort of SUPER WALLET that could DESTROY the world. I DEMAND THE USA GOV GETS INVOLVED WITH RIDGE WALLET

I keep seeing this FRED graph posted to tell us that software engineering is dead. The decrease is more a reflection of Indeed more so than anything else. Hiring managers rely on application friction to discern intent. Job boards are worthless when AI can apply in seconds

If a vendor can’t even get SOC2 compliant it is highly unlikely they take security seriously. It is a meaningful signal; it should not be your only signal

A) Any enginer who has gotten SOC2 compliance understands it is security theater B) Your bar for software security should be magntitudes higher than SOC2 C) Certifications are still helpful because they filter out the worst security offenders

My workflow is increasingly: 1. Plan and then implement via Codex Output has a lot of unneccessary redundancy that comes from lack of context 2. Run through Codex's implemented code with a debugger, purging all unneccessary and overcomplicated code

On the other hand, giving a curious 8-year-old Claude is one of the best things you can do for them!

The same was largely true about the internet, though a lower magnitude. The incurious will graduate through primary and second education, learning only the causal relationship between prompts and grades.

AI is cruel to the incurious and loving to those who love to learn

When talking to people across roles about how they use AI, it is unsurprising that they outsource precisely the work they are bad at to make time for what they are best at. Comparative advantage at work!

I would never have expected to love TUIs as much as I do

Taste is formed by the absence of influences just as much as it is formed by the presence. A singular, all-encompassing LLM trained on the entire corpus of the literate world needs to be able to "ignore" large portions of its training data

There is some secondary effect here where AI usage signals a cheap brand -> Which signals that a business does not rely on an organic growth lever -> Which signals that product quality is too low for organic referrals That meta will probably change in 1-3 years.

Nielsen study: "Compared to traditional video ads, we found that memory-measured in the brain with EEG-was weak in most of the AI-generated ads tested, even those perceived as “high quality”" Maybe this goes away with model quality?

1984 is a victim of its own success; All its creative ideas (Thought police, Big Brother, memory hole) have become cliches to the genre

Hard to see the steady state of two firms with negative margins and minimal network effects, who will lose the market entirely if they don't match the other's capex

@jonchu Every engineer is a QA engineer because all you’re doing is reviewing AI code! 🧐

Twitch Plays Pokemon but it's claude code

Pictured above is U4, same holds for U3+U6. Trends aside, I'm not about to complain about 4% unemployment

This is notably the first time in a while that unemployment crept up slowly over the course of multiple years Typical pattern is a spike via recession, followed by a slow labor market recovery