Ervin Chua
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Ervin Chua
@pancrisp
Likes tinkering with design and performance on the web. Product engineer @investorhub
Melbourne, Australia Katılım Mart 2012
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so let me get this straight
all of ai twitter was telling people to buy a mac mini to run openclaw, which is literally just a framework, an orchestration layer that sends api requests to actual ai models. something you can run on a $5/month vps. which is exactly what i do btw
but when google drops gemma 4, an actual large language model that you can run and fine-tune locally on that same mac mini, with no api costs, no subscriptions, no third party dependencies, completely yours under apache 2.0
the ai community is silent
you were buying $800 hardware to run a wrapper but ignoring the actual ai model that would justify that hardware
this tells you everything you need to know about the average iq of ai twitter
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@paularambles wildly underappreciated banger tweet. not enough likes
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We have too many VCs and not enough ACs
Noémie@FedericoNoemie
what it feels like to be in SF right now
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as of this writing claude is now #2 in the app store & there’s a real non trivial downside scenario here for openai that many aren’t really grasping.
it’s low prob but structurally interesting. lemme explain.
if a clean meme forms on tiktok & instagram tying openai to the department of war, & that framing hits mainstream liberal users, the reaction won’t be analytical, it’ll be fucking visceral.
most ppl won’t parse contract scope, defensive use cases, or historical precedent. they’ll respond to timing & symbolism. & if this perception hardens, the competitive alternative becomes emotionally obvious. an association that feels morally dissonant could trigger switching behavior, employee discomfort, media amplification, & even long tail brand drift.
i’m not even arguing companies shouldn’t work with the war dept. that’s not the point.
the point is that in a memetic environment, perception compounds faster than facts.
& if that perception locks in among a politically concentrated user base, the second & third order effects on consumer ai could be far more significant than most people expect. again low probability cuz switching is hard but damn if they haven’t opened a can of worms.

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@cloudxdev @FactoryAI I just hope Droid has the same Parallel Subagent ability like in CC
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Droid from @FactoryAI almost covers my whole workflow, barely need any other tool
It just need to be better at design and after that it will be the all-in-one tool
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The average CEO cannot tell you the difference between an automation and an AI agent.
This breakdown (h/t @wadefoster) makes it glaringly obvious.
An automation is anything that requires no-trust decision making (if this, then that).
An AI agent is anything that requires some-trust decision making.
The most powerful workflows that I’m seeing businesses use today are neither pure automations nor pure agents.
They’re agentic workflows.
Agentic workflows get the leverage of AI (read: intelligent decision making) that deterministic software never offered. But they also have the predictability of automations, where the cost of error is too high.
Knowledge work will continue to get pushed further right on this spectrum as the technology improves, but today living in the middle is often the sweet spot.

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@nope_its_lily I've had a position in AMD since 2016, once you've experienced the back and forth between Advanced Money Doubler and Advanced Money Destroyer enough times, you start to develop a tolerance to it I guess
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Hello Expeditionners,
Today we are three months after the release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! I’m happy to announce that pre-orders for the physical editions of the original soundtrack are now open! 🎶🎷
lnk.to/expedition-33-…
Thanks to the love and enthusiasm you’ve shared for the game and our music, we now have the chance of offering the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 OST in several formats:
🥁A 6LP vinyl boxset
🥁A 2LP vinyl edition
🥁An 8-CD boxset, featuring the full soundtrack and bonus tracks
Thank you for making these editions possible!
To celebrate this release, we’re publishing a 1h33 bonus album, available now on all streaming platforms:
🥁Discover “Nos vies en Lumière (Bonus Edition) today! lnk.to/exp33-nos-vies…
While we can't control the pricing on every digital download platform, we wanted to make sure that this album would be available to everyone for free.
So this bonus album can be accessed on free download on the official Expedition 33 website, it’s also available as a free download on Steam and Bandcamp!
expedition33.com/soundtrack
store.steampowered.com/app/3873750/Cl…
We also took this opportunity to release a remastered selection of tracks from the original soundtrack.
Huge thanks to Jake Jackson, Joe Caithness, Raphaël Joffres, and Laced Records for their amazing work on remastering the in-game OST files.
These remastered ingame tracks are available:
- on all streaming platforms
- on the physical editions of the OST, remastered by Laced Records for vinyls and CDs.
- on Lorien Testard – Topic YouTube channel
- as a free digital update on the platform where you purchased the OST
All platforms: lnk.to/clair-obscur-e…
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3405480/Cl…
For listeners who want to revisit the original mixes:
They are now also available as a free download on the Expedition 33 website and the videos remain accessible on Sandfall Interactive’s YouTube channel.
@sandfallgames" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@sandfallgames
I want to also share with you a quick note about the track "Our Painted Family" and the manor themes:
The project I’ve imagined around these tracks is taking time to complete so I’ll kindly ask for your patience before these songs are released on streaming platforms.
I’d love to share them with you in the way I imagined them when composing!🎺
That said, it was important for me to include them in the physical editions of the OST:
- You’ll be able to listen to "Our Painted Family" on the vinyl version of the soundtrack!
- "Honeymoon in Lumière", "Clea! Don’t Pull Your Sister’s Hair!", "Aline’s Glasshouse", "Alicia’s Birthday Party" and "Our Painted Family" are available on the full CDs edition of the soundtrack!
Thank you so much for your patience!
I also want to give a huge thank-you to all the incredible musicians who took part in this soundtrack, I’m deeply grateful to have shared my journey with them.
Thank you @SandfallGames, @Kepler_Interact and @Laced_audio for working so hard with me to bring this physical edition of the soundtrack to life. 🙏
I also want to make a huge thank you to Nicholas Maxson-Francombe for creating the beautiful artworks of the soundtrack, vinyl and CD boxset.
It was a passionate and long work to create these physical editions, and it was magic for me to discover the incredible visuals Nicholas brought to life.🎨
And to you, the players and listeners: thank you from the bottom of my heart. It's a profound joy to share the world of Clair Obscur with you.
Thank you for everything.
Lorien
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