Pranav Maharaj

I used ai to vibe code an embedded system attached to my window that shows the constant intrusion of bass into my home (and soon the home of others) in Trinidad and Tobago. This won't pick up on a decibel level, but the constant bass has been part of many people's lives for many years now, including the sporadic P'sOS who blast the loudest nonsense they can from their cars and bars on non private property. I'm hoping it can build up to a mesh system so eventually we can see the live heartbeat of the intrusive noise pollution that affects families constantly. People are threatened with violence when they complain or make reports. Bad actors try to spoof passing cars by blasting loud music for 10-30 seconds then cutting it and changing the tune, but there's no doppler effect - stationary cars. Even they can't enjoy what they are doing from a 'culture' perspective. I would like if the whole world could see a live map of the country , no microphones or privacy violations, just the vibrating material in real time, on the map, which constituency, which police station, down to every bit of public office data that can be presented, officers etc. Literal intrusions into homes, war tactics. At this point if you've seen 'Hoppers' you can grasp the concept of torturing people to run them out of their own neighbourhoods, all over the country. Let everyone see what does be going on.

@aschmelyun People who think the models actually remember the MD files four prompts in, Think strippers love them And politicians care about them.

Feel like I'm missing out because I don't use skills, or a lot of MCP, or multi-agent orchestrations when using AI dev tools. I'm just like "implement this feature" or "how do this work" or "no not like that, do this instead". Idk, I feel fast and accurate so why change?

@petergyang Even if you meticulously kept those files within strict margins, at any point the system can and will just ignore it as well.

Here's a common trap with AI if you're not careful: 1. You ask it to generate some markdown files (maybe to build some skills). You skim them and they look ok. Sure, there's a bit of slop in there, but you're too lazy to edit them manually. 2. Over time you ask it to generate more markdown files. Except now it's referencing the previous files to write the new ones. 3. What started as 5% slop becomes 10% and then more. Before you know it, you've got a pile of AI-generated slop that feels overwhelming and have no idea how any of it actually works. 🥲

Herding the stock price down to where it is now, may arguably turn out to be, what makes it more stable long term, vs a runaway freight train in November 2025. Would've been interesting to see a split though. Right now, language models can't even properly guide a user thru the pokemon yellow game without making mistakes, hallucinating and forgetting the immediate priorities. ... Extrapolating that, quality of work is unpredictable at best, imo as nobody.

Credit, where credit is due. "The public swipes Palantir executives are taking at the quality of work coming from the AI labs these days reflect a concern increasingly familiar to the American worker: Palantir is at risk of being replaced, or at least rendered less necessary, by AI, according to AI company executives, current and former Palantir employees, and analysts who follow the company." As Palantir CEO Alex Karp derides AI “slop,” investors and some employees see a real threat of the company ceding business to artificial-intelligence models wsj.com/tech/ai/for-pa… $PLTR @WSJbusiness

@homegymcoop This is my secret plan. "build a place of fitness in every home you visit"

I gifted my brother-in-law a functional trainer squat rack a few months ago. I’m staying at their house for the first time since I gave it to him. I’m worried he’s going to quickly realize that the gift was as much for me as it was for him…

Twitter in a nutshell. But with multiple permutations and combinations. youtu.be/akUdEi62Uqo?si…

@fau1in @Tesla @KissIsTheKey My first thought was that it would be so much fun to be an in house tester for this exact reason.

@Tesla @KissIsTheKey Has this ever led to a false deployment?

Tesla Vision allows us to deploy airbags up to 70 milliseconds earlier if your Tesla detects an unavoidable collision This can be the difference between serious injury & walking away from a crash

@OKT_OMC "it's a basic game mechanic put in place so everything and everyone isn't just floating around like useless idiots. If they solve enough problems like world hunger, they'll get the codes to turn it off whenever they like"

物理勉強してて思ったんだけど 重力の正体ってなんなん

@muscleforlife that's not necessarily a one way trip, but yes

No matter how strong you are now, one day, you too will need to lift lighter weights to keep your joints happy.

I remember some of it well. It read mostly as bullied kids parroting the social demeanour of their bullies. I had no problem with the dudes who were genuinely frustrated and just trying to help others who lacked proper communication skills. But like with most things, the bad actors know how to use genuine scenarios as cloaks to get away with toxic spread.

@jayhemz Chai you just took me back to those times when I'll see those assholes on SO dunking on people for asking the most innocent questions.. The only difference was I couldn't drop answers because my reputation was low and I was a junior 🙂‍↔️.. SO was toxic mehn

This guy reminds me of those "elders" on Stackoverflow that year who started getting overbearing because they received 20k upvotes on their answers about "null pointers." Until LLMs came around and swept them away into irrelevance. If you look at his face sef, you'll just know this one has never been poached by a proper global company. Just local, but vocal, and vile.

This movie had my attention from start to finish. It inspired me to seek out and read old material that was presented in the sub plots of the film. Certain concepts have become a permanent part of my now upgraded thinking. In many ways, it vindicates a nation through a presentation of the banality of evil and how it knows no one nation, culture or genotype. A message that may fall on deaf ears, again. Good cinema, imo

Hello to my friends in Germany. This week Nuremberg opens in cinema’s. I hope you go and see it.

@om_patel5 that's...literally....how greed....works?

ANTHROPIC'S CEO JUST ADMITTED WHY CLAUDE HAS BEEN SO BAD LATELY dario amodei at anthropic's developer conference in san francisco said the company saw 80x growth in Q1 on an annualized basis they planned for 10x. they got 80x that's why: > the throttling happened > the usage limits got nerfed (silently ofc) > opus 4.7 felt slower > max 20x customers were getting less than they paid for > support was replaced with bots > they had to rent GPUs from spacex they literally couldn't keep up with how many people started using claude this also explains the spacex GPU deal. they weren't shopping for compute because they wanted to, they were desperate for it because 80x growth broke their infrastructure and it explains every single pricing change from the last 2 months they weren't being greedy, they were drowning in demand they didn't build for doesn't make the user experience any less frustrating but at least now we know the actual reason 80x growth sounds incredible on a slide deck for the users it meant 2 months of degraded service while anthropic scrambled to catch up and the models still feel weak compared to prime opus 4.6 claude PEAKED when opus 4.6 was released. everything since then has been anthropic trying to scale a product that got too popular too fast while the quality fell off

@timecaptales I remember this... I think a certain other contestant said, wear no clothes.

Miss Universe 1997 gave one of the most genuine answers of all time

@BlastingThrough also, I'm nobody and not an expert, just answering an open question.

insecurity. From childhood I noticed some of the best leaders knew how and when to follow or let people do their thing for overall success. The concept of big, loud, always large and in charge teachers seems like a ghastly myth. As soon as people start wanting the spotlight to...be in the spotlight, good luck to that team, whaever they're doing. Overcompensation is another extreme. I've seen people in leadership positions who do nothing...the teams still figure things out, then the fake leader comes in and overcompensates the heck out of dragging the team down. Most other things seem to flow from or interplay with that. Every so often I come across a person and think, hey, it's a member of the league, the LIM. Time to put some distance between us. *League of insecure men **not gender specific

In your experience, what are some of the greatest threats to achieving optimal leadership?

if you think that's bad, I'm seeing youtube 'content creators' just using summary tools to automate scripts based on automated scrapes and reading that with a teleprompter. Throw in a few generic, relevant images, thousands of views per day. I'd be impressed, but i'm more disappointed in the audience tbh.

AI startups today are basically: 90% Claude 5% landing page 5% praying a tweet changes their life

@benitoz so it took less compute to nab the ruler of Venezuela than it did to accurately read its own csv file from a basic html page? amazing.

Today Dario admits that Anthropic only planned for 10x growth but got hit with 80x instead Internally called a “success disaster” Their compute effectively is off by a factor of 8x or more Now do the outages, rate limits, nerfed performance make sense? We need more compute!

@kzitouni1 if you already follow best practices, it can be done quite easily with professional human scaffolding and preparation. If you're following the hype and trying to casually go from high level instructions to simple, accurate results, "you're gonna have a bad time"

alright genuine question: AI was supposed to make us work less, is that the case with you?

When we suddenly made everyone's cash illegal overnight during demonetization, with rushed deadlines instead of open timelines, we forced people into banks to fight a vague threat that still exists. We demonized small vendors and lifelong savers, and mocked those who raised concerns. Phase 2 with these bank fee hikes naturally followed Phase 1. Why expect stronger regulations to protect us now? Look at the new polymer notes in your pocket and ask: what did we actually win? Even those on the lower end show little empathy for others affected, claiming they can afford it. That explains why nothing changes.

THE PEOPLE'S SAY “Do you think there needs to be stronger regulation of bank fees in light of the latest Republic Bank fee increase?” Here's what some of you had to say...

@Tech_girlll it's popeye and bluto and everyone is olive oyle

Why are people switching from Claude code to codex and back to Claude code again? What’s happening?

@ericweinstein I'm guessing the same logic applies to movies/documentaries

Your periodic reminder of how narrative engineering changed the very landscape of human thought. Moral: read older books.