Franz Bruckhoff

Towards Deep QA & The Star Trek Computer: Natural Language Processing may become a $16B industry by 2021.

@van00sa Fake news

A guy got stoned in college, changed his Bitcoin wallet password, and forgot it. He bought 5 BTC at a Starbucks in 2013 for $250 each. For 11 years he tried everything; brute force tools, professional recovery services, 7 trillion password combinations. Nothing worked. Last ditch effort: he uploaded his entire college laptop, old notebooks and cloud archives into Claude and let it run for 8 weeks. Claude eventually found an old backup file that an older mnemonic could decrypt. The password was “lol420fuckthePOLICE!:)”* He now has $400,000 in Bitcoin. There are millions of BTC sitting in lost wallets. If AI can systematically reunite people with old data, a significant chunk of what we assume is permanently lost supply might come back online.

@tmuxvim Brilliant! If they call you Lord already, they should follow up with excessively great offers that match the title.

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

@TheGeorgePu Microsoft will get cooked by @elonmusk

Three weeks ago Microsoft introduced the 70-rule. Age + years at company = 70 -> 'invited to retire.' About 8,900 emails went out April 23. The 70-rule isn't retirement. It's a soft layoff that doesn't count as one on the books.

San Francisco peaked before ChatGPT. Most people think the AI boom made the Valley. The data says it ended it. Here's what changed - and why Microsoft's 70-rule three weeks ago is the proof, not the cause:

@martinfowler @paulg Or to have as many kids as you possibly can, educate them well, and hope that the numbers game of one of them getting rich while still caring about you plays out in your favor.

@paulg The best shortcut to getting rich is to be born to rich parents.

At one point my son and his friend kept looking for shortcuts to getting rich. Over and over I told them the way to do it is just to make something people want. If this is what I tell my own kids about getting rich, why won't politicians believe this is how a lot of people do it?

@kalligeros @paulg On a very high level that's directionally true, but it's much more nuanced under the surface. I've been there, solely putting my mind to creating things people wanted or needed. That alone proved insufficient and unsustainable.

@paulg To get rich should never be the goal, if you put your mind to creating something that people want or need, wealth often follows

@paulg Probable. Most of them are likely doing really well though, compared to the average citizen. I haven't ever met one who I would consider "not rich"

I can't help answering my own rhetorical question. I think the reason politicians think you can't get rich without doing bad things is that they treat it as an axiom that economic inequality is bad. And if it's bad to be rich, how could you get there by doing good things?

@paulg Because they likely view the world through a different lens. It's likely less crisp, has more chromatic aberration. Some might even have the lens cap on, which results in a lack of foresight, insight and vision.

@levelsio I noticed this sort of slowness across all LLMs lately. It's not unique to Claude Code.

If Claude Code keeps being slow like this while I pay $200/mo (and they don't let me pay more) They will essentially force me to leave to Codex and I don't want to But it's soooooo slooooooooooooowwwww

@GaryMarcus I let the LLM do it

wading through bots and LLM-written replies here is getting more tedious by the day. retweet if you agree.

@Justin_Halford_ @forgebitz Lot's of ego stuff going on there, but I'd argue that's the case virtually everywhere.

@forgebitz I will celebrate a technologically advanced society that has obsoleted the performative narcissistic egotism of LinkedIn. Truly a cancer of a platform.

layoffs are not a thing to make fun of; they suck but honstly, what are the people at linkedin doing, half the platform is broken like basic stuff just does not work

@levelsio I recall reading Intuit was once lobbying against tax simplifications. AI will enable adaptive and hyperlocal taxation eventually, with near-infinite complexity. Like... accelerating a bit faster on average with a heavy car = higher tax for road maintenance then your neighbor.

Tax and accountancy software and bookkeeping industry have perverse incentives to keep the tax code and bookkeeping hard so you have to keep paying a lot for their software and to hire them If they let AI just do it via their APIs, their value woudl go to $0 fast!

@stocktalkweekly And then it recovers rapidly.

The market will crash again at some point, as it does every ~7 years. But it's a fools errand to predict when. PhD economists can’t do it, why would you try? The people incessantly warning of crashes, are the same people sitting on the sidelines through historic bull markets.

@levelsio @Niklas_Sikorra AI is already creeping into gov all over the place. Palantir is one example. It'll happen organically, not based on some kind of clear "decision" to let AI run the gov.

@Niklas_Sikorra I think AI should run government mostly probably

I'm a big fan of taxes IF they worked Like I'd be fine paying even 50% personal income tax but then I'd want: - high quality roads with walkable sidewalks - police, fire brigade, ambulance that shows up fast - police that enforces laws, arrests criminals and a justice system that actually punishes them and keeps society safe - police that's at your house fast to protect you when you get a burglar or criminal - healthcare system where I can get helped fast, no waiting lists with preventative care (free blood work every 6mo) - fast fully digital government system - fast gov in general, like fast building permit approvals etc But in most countries you get absolutely none of this now so why would people wanna pay tax then? It's like paying for a service but you get nothing back or the service doesn't work and you're forced to pay it and you can't do a chargeback either!

@levelsio Friend of mine from Dubai said, the cool thing there is: You get to choose. Everything is private, no taxes, but the service is excellent wherever you go. It has its price, but nobody shovels things down your throat unless you ask for it.

@bcherny Pretty cool. However it gets orders of magnitude more complex once you care about variables like cost. That's where nearly all of the hard work in travel booking is.

I put my flight preferences in my Cowork instructions, then let Opus get to work. It opened my browser, navigated a bunch of websites, and booked everything for me. The result: Cowork booked 8 flights and 5 hotels for me, while I was hacking on something else in Claude Code. It did it perfectly. I am blown away -- it's never been this smooth before. Never booking flights by hand again. ✈️

I needed to book flights for a bunch of upcoming travel. As always, I used Claude Cowork to do it. In the past, Cowork has been decent at booking flights, but with Opus 4.7, for the first time ever, it 1-shotted it!

@stocktalkweekly Great call on this one!

On 4/22, I shared a thesis on $VPG for our community members. This morning, after a stellar earnings report highlighting momentum in their humanoid robotics offerings, the stock is up +30% and my $60 calls for June are up over +400% Ahead of the herd...

@wholemars Count me out. I'm working on something truly novel.

everybody's writing the same machine generated code. who is going to feel the urge to create a new programming language, new syntax, or a new software architecture? are we doomed to regurgitate the same software patterns, CSS frameworks, and front end designs that we've come up with so far

@venturetwins Maybe there is something to reading AI outputs in a more physical form.

I don't say this lightly, but textbooks are cooked

@GaryMarcus $9 trillion. 10% discount on book value for implied inaccuracy.

totally worth $10 trillion a year

@ysadvisor25 @TheGeorgePu That’s an illusion if you consider the wider system dynamics

@TheGeorgePu all three adds tremendous value

Three years ago, none of these existed: - GitHub Copilot: $10/month - Cursor Pro: $20/month - Claude Pro: $20/month That's $600/year. Power users hit $2,400. 90% of developers now pay for at least one. This is a recurring tax that didn't exist before 2023. You're paying to train your replacement. Stay current. Subsidize your successor.