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It's pretty crazy how little this guy has been able to capitalize from a meme perspective

@anothercohen This was the first app I vibe coded. Great use case with so much playing field to connect APIs, analyze the data, etc. Funny to see the overlap with the exact feature set I have... Transaction categorization was a huge unlock. Can't believe banks still show "Shopping"

Less planning, more tokens

I know it's trained to do so, but I still get a kick from Claude saying "This is an impressively thorough proposal. The architecture document is one of the more well-structured agent orchestration designs I've seen from an individual builder"

👀 Getting real

Geek porn in 2026 be like

Viva Venezuela carajo!

@jasonfried 100% - The annoying part is it repeating “I’ll be as direct as possible” in every response

One of the best upgrades to ChatGPT is simply changing the base style and tone to "Efficient" and giving it a simple "Get right to the point. Be practical above all" instruction. No more praise, no more flourishes. Just the answers.

I keep thinking about a theme from Ready Player One. In the book, wealthier players buy better rigs. Better rigs create better outcomes. The wealth gap inside the virtual world grows just like it does in the real one. That idea feels like a preview of how AI will play out. We are all about to have our own AI rigs. Some will have massive context windows, private models, on device compute, neural interfaces, and fleets of agents running in parallel. Others will rely on slow models, capped usage, and basic hardware. This difference is not cosmetic. It is cognitive leverage at scale. Those with the best rigs will think faster, learn faster, build faster, and earn faster. They will have continuous optimization across work, health, finances, and creativity. Their output will compound. Their advantage will widen. AI might democratize knowledge inside each tier, but it will likely deepen the separation between tiers themselves. The real divide will not be who uses AI. It will be who has the strongest rig behind them. In a world where intelligence can be multiplied by machines, the quality of your machine becomes a multiplier on your life.

History is right there to learn from, yet here we go again. Sad to watch NYC head into the same trap under Mamdani

The #1 sign something might be written by AI, just from skimming, is the use of '—' to join sentences. Most people don’t naturally write like that

Had one of those “there’s got to be a better way” moments today—asked GPT how to change a setting on my iPhone, then mindlessly followed its instructions. How long until I can just say what I want and the platform handles it? Digging through settings should already be in the past

For the first time in my lifetime, a lot of successful Jewish friends called me worried this week - names we all know - asking what is going to happen as these libels re-enter the mainstream, and are shared by millions. Sadly, Tucker, Rogan, Candace Owens, and others platformed slanderous conspiracies and blood libel to tens of millions of followers - maybe they all know it, maybe one or two of them are just naive and don't get it. Personally, I'm not a victim, I'm a fighter, but we know our family history, and we didn't just die in the Holocaust. Jews as a successful "outsider" minority have been hunted and murdered for centuries based on libelous anti-Semitic tropes that implied that we wanted to hurt Christians or were scheming against them. My great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents and their siblings around eastern Europe each grew up facing commonplace rape and slaughter fueled by similar lies, long before our grandparents' generation was systematically exterminated. Lucky for me, the Jewish branch of my family escaped to the USA by 1920. If you don't believe we're dealing with extreme anti-Semites and insane conspiracy theorists, just look at this quote tweet from an account with more followers than me and the replies - or the replies my post is sure to garner. Or thousands of other accounts this week, innocently asking why Jews don't care about Christian deaths around the world (we do, and Israel has worked to protect Christians, as should the USA). Many accounts are obsessed with Jews being tied to communists. I'm about as strong a fighter against Communism as you can find, not least with my work with the Reagan Library, but it's true, in response to being beat the crap out of by various regimes including the Tsar in Russia (it was once said of him he had no religion, but if he did, it was anti-Semitism) - many Jews ~120 years ago became communists. I don't excuse it - Communism is not just misguided, but applying it is evil and wrong. But it's not some wacky conspiracy, the history makes it obvious what happened and how this reaction occurred. Today, the majority of Jews have learned why that philosophy was evil, as have others: and millions of us fight for liberty and our constitution in the USA as fellow citizens. As did many Jews at the founding of the USA. It's a red herring to say you can't criticize Israel. I criticize them all the time, as do most Jews, in fact; we have a lot of opinions, and it's a horrible, complex situation that Israel as a whole generally faces with dignity and strength. But age-old blood libels of Jews wanting to hurt Christians are false, totally inappropriate, and also weird in the context of the fact that it's Islamists slaughtering hundreds of Christians and forcing them out of many areas as we speak. Jews and Christians are natural allies, and our civilization prospers when we stand up for each other and our shared values. Our enemies hope to drive us apart, but our shared understanding of the radical equal dignity of all human life and associated values led to the enlightenment and to our prosperity in the west. Our alliance is too strong for any of this nonsense to destroy.

Haven't felt such anger and indignation since the beginning of the war in Israel. Seeing the coffins of a baby and a young child paraded around with dozens of cameras, drones overhead, and loud music blasting cuts deep into my heart. Today will once again mark a before and after

Play ball! Bullish AF

Hey @JetBlue - the intentional miscommunication onboard flight 1801 has been unacceptable. First lied about “a quick mechanical failure,” that will take a few minutes to fix, then, after going back to the gate and waiting another 1h, asked us all to sit down and buckle up because we’re leaving; now it seems our departure window had already expired. I guess the Jeblue employee sitting next to me on the flight was informed ahead of time, because he deplaned earlier. What is going on?!? I’m specially concerned after what happened yesterday on this same flight.

Collaborating on a prompt feels a lot like co-writing an essay; I can offer real-time feedback, but ultimately, only one person shapes the final tone. It’s all about resisting the urge to completely reshape the approach and working with what’s already there

September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough. I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible. This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent. President Trump would often say, “Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.” The Islamic Republic’s regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own. Their foolish efforts to assassinate President Trump and hack his campaign reek of desperation and are hardening a large coalition against them. Iranian leadership is stuck in the old Middle East, while their neighbors in the GCC are sprinting toward the future by investing in their populations and infrastructure. They are becoming dynamic magnets for talent and investment while Iran falls further behind. As the Iranian proxies and threats dissipate, regional security and prosperity will rise for Christians, Muslims and Jews alike. Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity to neutralize Hezbollah in the north. It’s unfortunate how we got here but maybe there can be a silver lining in the end. Anyone who has been calling for a ceasefire in the North is wrong. There is no going back for Israel. They cannot afford now to not finish the job and completely dismantle the arsenal that has been aimed at them. They will never get another chance. After the brilliant, rapid-fire tactical successes of the pagers, radios, and targeting of leadership, Hezbollah’s massive weapon cache is unguarded and unmanned. Most of Hezbollah fighters are hiding in their tunnels. Anyone still around was not important enough to carry a pager or be invited to a leadership meeting. Iran is reeling, as well, insecure and unsure how deeply its own intelligence has been penetrated. Failing to take full advantage of this opportunity to neutralize the threat is irresponsible. I have been hearing some amazing stories about how Israel has been collecting intelligence over the past 10 months with some brilliant technology and crowdsourcing initiatives. But today, with the confirmed killing of Nasrallah and at least 16 top commanders eliminated in just nine days, was the first day I started thinking about a Middle East without Iran’s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel. So many more positive outcomes are possible. This is a moment to stand behind the peace-seeking nation of Israel and the large portion of the Lebanese who have been plagued by Hezbollah and who want to return to the times when their country was thriving, and Beirut a cosmopolitan city. The main issue between Lebanon and Israel is Iran; otherwise there is a lot of benefit for the people of both countries from working together. The right move now for America would be to tell Israel to finish the job. It’s long overdue. And it’s not only Israel’s fight. More than 40 years ago, Hezbollah killed 241 US military personnel, including 220 Marines. That remains the single deadliest day for the U.S. Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima. Later that same day, Hezbollah killed 58 French paratroopers. And now, over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years. Including Ibrahim Aqil, the leader of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization who masterminded the 1983 killing of those Marines.

They're trying to get in touch with Hezbollah for confirmation, but nobody dares pick up the phone...