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@sporadica @AndreasSch52269 It’s possibly one of the most sophisticated technologies humans have developed that uses a lot of quantum effects. It may not be easy to reverse engineering unless you already knew how it was made.

@AndreasSch52269 i would think the main concern is not them operating it in the short-term, but reverse engineering it in the medium-term

correct me if i'm wrong, but China getting their hands on an ASML euv machine is a WAAAAAYYYY bigger deal than like some Nvidia chips finding their way over there, fuck

@realfrugalmogul I hunjnive saved about $1000 in the past month by having Claude scan reviews for hvac, vets, mechanics specifically to call out the places that people think are honest. 2/2 hits so far on jobs I was cringing at cause I knew they would lie but I wouldn’t be sure and just pay.

HVAC Guy: I’m here for the $50 HVAC tune up Me: Sure, furnace is in the basement * 10 minutes later * HVAC Guy: Bad news. Something is rusted and cracked inside. That means CO2 is leaking into the house. I have to condemn your furnace, put a tag on it, and turn it off Me: You will do none of those things. HVAC Guy: I have to by code… Me: You will not touch my furnace, let me show you the door 🚪

@Michaelzsguo I did a strategy project on decentralized compute - bluf it is about as economical as it would be to make your own cars instead of buying from a car factory.

Apparently I can rent out my MacBook Pro for inference and make ~$423/month. That means the machine could pay for itself in roughly a year. Sounds too good to be true. Has anyone actually tested Darkbloom as a provider? Real demand, real payouts, or just optimistic marketplace math?

@DanielSmidstrup Anthropic - they were like the anti effective altruist AI and now they seem to have completely flipped

Name a company that have completely lost its original vibe

@mattpocockuk Is it really close to gpt 5.5?

Folks who are running GLM 5.2, how are you doing it? What harness/provider are you using? Getting FOMO about an open weights model for the first time

@Austen Yep when people say AI slop they just mean bad. Nobody calls our sites slop.

While it’s very cool that a cheap model can design a webpage almost as well for 46 cents less, doesn’t virtually everyone just pay the extra 46 cents to get the best design they can? I feel like “second place in quality but way cheaper” will be death for almost everything.

@Rainmaker1973 Crazy!

This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.

In 2018 I tried to convince VC's that people would prefer video chat over in-office work Here’s why idea 2/18 DIDN’T strike gold during COVID👇🏻 💡 Idea (2/18): "Tribe" It was 2018, and I wanted to basically make Zoom I wasn’t aware of Zoom at the time, and I had convinced myself that my thing would be way cooler than Zoom is now But the idea was basically Zoom I had a deep belief that in office work was terribly inefficient and remote work just made a lot more sense I submitted the idea to my MBA "Innovator" class where it was was ruthlessly mocked anonymously, a lot of people scoffing at the notion they would ever want to work remotely I pitched the idea to VC's. Their response was "yeah, that makes sense, but how is this different than Zoom?" "Do you even have a way to build this thing?" I didn’t know how to code back then, and I guess I was discouraged by the apparent market rejection from my classmates, so I just moved on ⛔ Why the idea failed: I would argue this was a case of quitting too early Hindsight was literally 2020 on this one, COVID hit and proved that I really WAS right people would prefer remote work I have confirmed several of the people who blasted the idea in the class now admit they prefer remote work themselves It really is hard to say what could have happened if I paired up with an engineer and built something Of course it would have been pure luck, as pushing this idea without COVID would have taken decades to change in-office work beliefs But we would have had an MVP in the juiciest part of one of the most inflated markets of all time… ✅ What I learned: I learned that it really is possible to see a human preference that people can’t even see in themselves The VC rejection taught me that if I focused on solving vague societal problems like "driving to work sucks", I would look absurd in real conversations The VC rejection also made me ask myself "Why don’t I learn how to code, why do I feel so dependent on finding somebody technical?" I probably should have asked myself "Why don't I walk across campus to the engineering department and make some friends?" 👉 Takeaway: Don't assume you’re wrong because you’re against the crowd. It's worth it to find out the truth if you can do so quickly and cheaply Does anybody have an idea like this they have been sitting on? Curious to hear in the comments:

@markproduct There is no argument, and a founder can build an MVP in 1 hour on vibe otter.

If a founder can build an MVP in 3 days with AI for $200... Why would they pay a developer and designer $25,000 and wait 2 months? What's the argument?

I had the opposite experience, I hate Reddit. I realized nearly everything you see is astroturfing or vote manipulated. So if you look for ideas very often your just reading complaints of your future competitors who are complaining on one account so they can respond with their product on another. Then if you try to do the same thing everybody else is you get banned. In my industry (web design) apparently some of the moderators are literally on payroll for some major companies so they just permaban competitors.

unpopular opinion: reddit is more valuable than any startup accelerator. i wasted months on 3 failed products with no validation, no users, and no feedback from anyone real. then i just... read reddit. found people complaining about the exact problem i could fix. got my first 10 users in a week. the whole tech world is optimizing reddit for AI search rankings. they're missing the real gold: thousands of people telling you exactly what to build and exactly who will pay for it.

@Rainmaker1973 Just build a site with vibe otter and use your platform here to link to it, then you can monetize yourself and not have to deal with being dependent on someone who you don’t like.

This account has been destroyed by the demonetization and by the public execution explained below, reserved for me only. This account cannot reach its followers, therefore there's no way some of them decide to support it by subscribing. In some months (from 4 to 6), if this situation persists, I'll leave this platform. I'm still posting AS I ALWAYS DID, and this demonstrates I was demonetized upon improvised rules applied to my case ONLY while hundreds or thousands of dear "aggregators" still upload, use fake watermarks and are still monetized. I'm still posting as AS I ALWAYS DID and I added new posts for subcribers only, many more vs the previous periods. This account needs support, but given what above, it won't come, and as a consequence, my activity has a countdown, now. Thanks to the ones who are still subscribing, this message is manly for them.

Looking for pivot ideas? Just spoke to a small business owner customer of mine who is many local networks and he estimates 5% of small business owners are substantially aware of AI l much less use it. If you step outside the tech bubble and make products for normal people you will see why we have 0 concern about competing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Lovable, Replit, or whoever. You shouldn’t worry about it either if you’re dealing with normal people. Think about it: 80% of people hate AI, which is another way of saying 4/5 people hate OpenAI and Anthropic. Ie all normal people. Just brand AI in a way that isn’t hated and creepy and bam… you have some of the most obvious business ideas of all time. It’s such a gaping hole in the market I can talk about it publicly and nobody will try it.

@WarMonitor3 Playing whack a mole with ADA as the hammer.

Informed sources have told me Russian authorities are urgently relocating air defence systems from other regions and now are having to divert fuel to the Capital city Moscow leaving some concern of other regions air defence layers being compromised.

Hunters need a better way to find hunting spots This was 1 of 18 failed startup ideas I've tried Here's what I learned from my comically bad first idea: 💡 Idea 1/18: "GameChanger" I wanted to make an app that analyzed terrain to tell you pinpoint areas deer were likely to walk This could help hunters who usually walk around the woods for weeks searching for spots To test it, I used a technique I had learned about in class called "Rapid Concept Testing" where you make a fake website and drive traffic to it with google ads to see if anyone buys Nobody did. Almost nobody even went to the site. ⛔ Why the idea failed: This was just an awful idea I came up with the idea because I loved finding spots So I was basically proposing to make people pay to stop doing what they found enjoyable about the hobby It was almost completely backwards logic from the customer perspective ✅ What I learned: I learned how to make a website and use google ads to test if people thought an idea was good or not I learned how valuable quickly testing and rejecting an idea can be, I stopped this idea after only 1-2 weeks 👉 Takeaway: You really can start out with an idiotic idea and it isn't a big deal if you realize it soon enough Follow me to hear parts 2-18!

@jaiyagill Who likes cyber trucks?

contrarian take: the internet’s first reaction to something new is almost always wrong - people hate on new designs then become the biggest fans (i.e. airpods max, cybertrucks) - meta raybans functionality is primarily for photos and videos - wearables are going to look different on everyone so focusing on flattering one person (even the ceo) doesn’t make sense - sometimes you need to sit with something and let it cook (i.e. taylor swift albums after the first listen) also it’s usually the same people who come back when something’s hot and say they were always day ones

@shaneparrish My 4 year old has built more websites than many people have

People have no idea what's coming with the next generation of kids who are AI native. My youngest teen just started an internship. On the first day he was given a "challenging" two weeks worth of work with very specific objectives, timelines, etc. By 10am the next morning he was done the entire list and asking for more work. They didn't think he could possibly be done. How? He used AI to help (with their permission). And he KNOW how to use AI (he's not using it like a google search bar). These AI native kids are gonna run laps around 25-40 year olds that are not using AI.

@ohioaustyn @framer Yeah we just released the feature last week, let me know what you think. There’s several builders reskinning apps they thought were going to be one offs right now. We may facilitate licensing to connect people who can sell the same thing in different geos also eventually.

@nick_rackley @framer Kinda, what I am thinking except a tiny bit different. Little more boring, but very useful and this is where I think the market is headed. We shall see.

Everyone’s panicking about not being able to sell @framer templates anymore. But what if website templates aren’t the product anymore? AI can generate pages in seconds. So ask yourself: What’s the biggest problem for the people generating websites with a few prompts? The answer isn’t better templates. Figure that out, and you’ll know where the market is heading.

@MCovBrown Interesting observation. I think all my conversions on LinkedIn so far have been silent observers, zero engagers. Although engagers have entered my pipeline and wasted time.

I think creators massively underestimate “silent observers.” For every person liking or commenting, there are way more people quietly observing. Every once in a while, they’ll pop up in your DMs with a cat profile picture and tell you they are running an 8-figure business.

@petegarber I’m just trying to figure out if there’s actually anyone who likes them or if they spent 10% of this raise coordinating a bunch of influencers to pump them.

My whole timeline now is just people dunking on this woman like they’re the Knicks in 5

Because you’re just bullshitting to avoid admitting you misread or misrepresented the statistics in the guys article in the first place and support your own anecdotal point of view. You never acknowledged the fact the statistics said it was a dad change not a mom change. You just followed up with your own view as a dad then claiming it was the data backed view with no evidence. There’s nothing wrong with your view, but don’t present it like it’s statistically based vs. other people’s views.

@BaconEggsThrees @nick_rackley @aakashgupta Yes, of course I’m generalizing. Data analysis generalizes things. Nothing is universal for everyone all the time. Why am I explaining how statistics work to people?

We invented the washing machine, the dryer, the dishwasher, the microwave, frozen dinners, online grocery, the robot vacuum, and DoorDash. The married household with young kids spends more total hours on chores and childcare today than it did in 1965. Dads went from under 10 hours a week to 28.7, the 300% everyone is quoting. Moms went from the high 40s to 42.5, a slide of five or six. Stack the two and the household total rises. A full century of labor-saving invention, and the modern family with toddlers logs more unpaid hours at home than the family that did the laundry by hand. Here is the part that should stop you. Every one of those machines did its job. Core housework genuinely collapsed. Mothers do roughly half the cooking and cleaning they did in the 1960s. The dishwasher worked. The dryer worked. The hours got freed. Then the culture spent them. The time the appliances saved flowed straight back into the children. This is the same law that governs every efficiency gain modern life has produced. Faster email bought us more email. Automation at home bought us a higher bar for what a parent owes a kid. Watch what childcare even means now versus then. In 1965 a kid got sent outside until dinner. Supervision was loose, the neighborhood raised half of them, and a parent hovering every waking hour would have looked unwell. Today the job is continuous. Driving to practice, sitting through homework, managing screens, booking the enrichment, never leaving a small child unwatched. The one activity that exploded is the one no machine will ever touch. You cannot DoorDash attention. So pull back and the chart stops being about fathers. It is a portrait of a species that refuses to bank its own productivity. Every tool we built to do less at home, we spent on doing more for the kids. The washing machine freed the afternoon. We handed the afternoon to the children and quietly renamed the old, looser way neglect. We automated the housework and poured every saved minute into the one job we decided can never be done well enough.