Vivek Kumar

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The same data centers that run your email also run military AI. When tech infrastructure becomes a war asset, the line between 'private company' and 'defense contractor' disappears. It already has.

Users rated sycophantic AI as higher quality and came back more often. Product metrics can punish honesty. AI alignment isn't only a technical problem. It's an organizational one.

'Better prompting' plateaus fast. Durable value moves to repeatable context, workflows, and reliability. The income ladder in AI isn't about using tools. It's about deploying systems.

I think claude is down, my agents are in thinking state for long.

Same stated safeguards. Different outcomes. The variable usually isn't principles. It's public resistance vs. private accommodation.

@ItsAlexhere0 Debugger

I'm a vibe coder, scare me with one word.

@JoinBlind I read somewhere, good ICs must never become people’s manager.

@MHerskovitz Two things First I 100% agree with you on regulations, I am technologist but i refrain on political comments. Second I just googled you. ❤️from India.

@vivekk_tech That’s exactly what I’m saying, yes. Except the current administration will do the opposite, and in the next 2.5 years before a hopefully better administration, incalculable damage can be done. That’s why we need a popular movement now demanding AI be regulated.

Reminder: AI is not a fleet of alien spaceships overpowering earth's defenses. It's a handful of mentally ill billionaires desperate to get even richer by impoverishing millions. And a corrupt administration colluding with them. We've fought tyranny before. We can do it again.

Quiet disruption beats headlines. Unemployment can look stable while the pipeline breaks — fewer hires, thinner entry paths, missing 'next rung' jobs. Macro damage that doesn't spike jobless claims.

@justbyte_ So that you can tweet this directly or indirectly using his code 😂😂

Why he is still pushing code?

Hasn’t this been case for long sir, computers were controllled by few in past apple, microsoft and intel. Then now mobile controlled by only two apple and google. Same goes for social media. Once we have giants in the game, they capture it and make it their capitalistic venture. Shouldn’t we be directing our dissatisfaction towards making government put laws, governnence and safety around this.

@vivekk_tech It’s not about fighting advancement, it’s about who controls it. AI is controlled by an incredibly small number of people in an economy already rigged to work for the rich. We MUST fight this catastrophic imbalance. It was done once before, by Theodore Roosevelt, 125 years ago.

The path to useful quantum computing is less about bragging qubits and more about error correction that scales. Capability without reliability is a demo, not a product.

Promoted to manager, demoted in happiness 😅

I must say I am increasingly suspicious about the comments from the AI bosses - why do they need to make these completely over the top and so obviously unfounded predictions about how AI (or rather LLM) will impact economic development? To me it is an indication of something not being quite right in their own business models - they will need to attract more and more investors as they are likely going to face a funding squeeze sooner rather than later. And again let me stress - LLMs are great and can surely increase productivity, but presently AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are making heavy losses. This means sooner or later LLM prices need to go up, and potentially a lot. And what happens then with the case for LLMs? Might it be that the entry-level lawyer might be both a lot better AND cheaper than an AI "agent" that is priced at what is needed to make Anthropic or OpenAI profitable?

@AndrewYang Arw you suggesting, the economic graph will go steaper.

Conventional economic theory never accounted for intelligent machines that can do the equivalent of weeks of human work in minutes or seconds.

@girdley This is insane, someone said the truth.

The paradox of hiring more expensive employees: They’re often cheaper Because you don’t need as many of them.

@DrSuneelDhand Smart people will soon be 10x, dumb people will suffer brain atrophy

I have a theory about AI that nobody is talking about: It’s going to make smart people way smarter and dumb people way dumber

We can’t use this on various platforms due to grok watermark, opensource it behind paywall @elonmusk .

'Act as X with explicit don'ts' beats 'write me a post about Y' every time. Persona isn't cosplay. It constrains which distribution the model emulates. Constraints beat instructions.