Alex Pilon

@nejatian What is the difference between buying "a Tesla" and buying TSLA?

I've literally never owned a car in my life. I'm buying a Tesla now *just* to give money to Elon.

@KatieMiller @kayleighmcenany I always thought Musk himself put it best when he referred to such wealth as "labour allocation" - namely when you successfully allocate labour to yield fruit, you receive more labour allocation to further your aims.

KAYLEIGH MCENANY: “I want to emphasize Elon Musk and what he has done for the world. “I stood alongside President Trump as SpaceX achieved America’s first crewed rocket launch in nearly a decade. It was SpaceX. “When Butch Wilmore and his crew were stranded, who saved them? It wasn’t the public sector — it was the private sector. It was @SpaceX. “@elonmusk’s companies — SpaceX, X, and Neuralink — are pushing humanity forward. “@neuralink is already helping restore communication and mobility for people with paralysis. That is Elon Musk. That is innovation. “And with innovation comes profit, and with profit comes the creation of millionaires and opportunity inside companies. That’s how capitalism works. It is not the great evil Bernie Sanders wants you to believe it is.”

@seekingprotein Quick was built and is maintained by two people! @xaptronic and myself. And the maintenance now is very part time. Thing runs smooth due to so few moving parts

The wildest part? All of Quick runs on a single VM with a single cloud database. In a high-trust environment, all the complexity you'd normally engineer around simply disappears. This thing only works because its internal.

Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML. But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc? We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work. We call it Quick 👇🧵

@yacineMTB Can I be a programmer with no degree and not do this 😛

hot take: if you are a programmer you should be able to invert a binary tree from memory, AI or not. It's ridiculously easy and if you can't do it, you should not have a computer science degree

@Martinsmora3 @pmarca @tobi <this>

@pmarca @tobi Founders are great dictators (which they can be within their business), politics is a completely different game. You need to negotiate and end up only ever half solving problems.

Rare @tobi error.

@VivekGRamaswamy Lol blllllaaaahhhhh blah - there's been basically two political platforms. The people with scissors and the people with tape. Imagine what it would be like if there was something actually novel that could be said.

Ohio has over 2,000 taxing authorities, that’s way too many layers of government. We’re going to shrink bureaucracy, cut red tape, and put that $$ back in your pockets.

@junonewscom Can we just have income splitting back instead

A reporter asks how the federal government is funding the $25B "Canada Strong Fund" endowment. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne points to the country's AAA credit rating and ability to borrow at low rates on international markets.

@shaunmcquaker @bluehost Why don't you just get a DO droplet lol

Sachin Puri ... @bluehost is terrible. Every week there's an outage. Refuses to allow OpenAI crawl hosted websites. Customer service is clueless. You going to fix it or do I need to continue the public shaming for several more weeks for you to get your ducks in a row and fix it?

@LeverCRO @Shopify @harleyf I found how many of the AI message founder responders are selling candles from their garage on Shopify 🤔

The president of @Shopify is laughing at my founder loneliness solution. @harleyf, I automated human connection at scale. You built an entire platform so people can sell candles from their garage. We're not that different.

@himanshustwts @muratcan haha "if it's derivable don't post it"

@muratcan too lazy for an X article, too fast for a scrappy tweet.

Based on everything explored in the source code, here's the full technical recipe behind Claude Code's memory architecture: [shared by claude code] Claude Code’s memory system is actually insanely well-designed. It isn't like “store everything” but constrained, structured and self-healing memory. The architecture is doing a few very non-obvious things: > Memory = index, not storage + MEMORY.md is always loaded, but it’s just pointers (~150 chars/line) + actual knowledge lives outside, fetched only when needed > 3-layer design (bandwidth aware) + index (always) + topic files (on-demand) + transcripts (never read, only grep’d) > Strict write discipline + write to file → then update index + never dump content into the index + prevents entropy / context pollution > Background “memory rewriting” (autoDream) + merges, dedupes, removes contradictions + converts vague → absolute + aggressively prunes + memory is continuously edited, not appended > Staleness is first-class + if memory ≠ reality → memory is wrong + code-derived facts are never stored + index is forcibly truncated > Isolation matters + consolidation runs in a forked subagent + limited tools → prevents corruption of main context > Retrieval is skeptical, not blind + memory is a hint, not truth + model must verify before using > What they don’t store is the real insight + no debugging logs, no code structure, no PR history + if it’s derivable, don’t persist it

Huh, so that's why text is called a string

@garfield628 @harleyf @manofbird Worst take ever: technical innovation results in creation of more opportunity surface area than "drudge work" that it solves for. There's never been more possibility and opportunity for a larger number of people to tackle enormous unsolved problems.

@harleyf @manofbird the tech dudes only focus one-side view yet ignoring the fact that young people don’t believe in capitalism because the system doesn’t work in their favor. Look at how AI has diminished their prospects significantly.

The NDP leadership convention - an unintentional mockumentary at the level of Spinal Tap - concludes with a party that hates old white guys and Jews electing an old Jewish white guy as their leader. On a scale of 1 to 10, the irony goes to 11.

10 billion dollars in tax wasted trying and failing to make software that generates a CSV file with 450k rows in it twice a month.

@esrtweet @CollingsMaccrae He meant good writers as in people who write vapid non-sense with great frequency.

I am a rather successful writer, and I never touch Grammarly, because my grasp of correct usage and my judgment of when to break the rules are better than its. I haven't heard of these other tools but I would be quite, quite surprised if they could exceed my competence.

Listen. I’ve said it before, but here goes. Virtually all good writers use Ai as a tool. It’s in your auto editors such as Grammarly, PWA, AutoCrit. If you’re not using some tools, I’d say you’re working hard and not smart. I know some writers have blocked me for saying it: C’est la vie. You do you. However, this #ShyGirl kerfuffle is not the same. I have lots of questions. Lots.

@karpathy @Yampeleg @RhysSullivan Sounds too prescriptively micro managerial lol.

I'm not very happy with the code quality and I think agents bloat abstractions, have poor code aesthetics, are very prone to copy pasting code blocks and it's a mess, but at this point I stopped fighting it too hard and just moved on. The agents do not listen to my instructions in the AGENTS.md files. E.g. just as one example, no matter how many times I say something like: "Every line of code should do exactly one thing and use intermediate variables as a form of documentation" They will still "multitask" and create complex constructs where one line of code calls 2 functions and then indexes an array with the result. I think in principle I could use hooks or slash commands to clean this up but at some point just a shrug is easier. Yes I think LLM as a judge for soft rewards is in principle and long term slightly problematic (due to goodharting concerns), but in practice and for now I don't think we've picked the low hanging fruit yet here.

Thank you Sarah, my pleasure to come on the pod! And happy to do some more Q&A in the replies.

@GergelyOrosz MCPs are opposite of dead because large slow moving companies use them? Skills+CLI replaces that complexity of maintaining additionally running services. Extract knowledge and skill from function.

MCPs are the opposite of dead. They are the life blood of how AI agents use services inside mid-sized and above companies. Case in point: Uber runs on MCPs internally, for good reason. Details: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-uber-use…

@strzibnyj Anthropic?

Which project management software is more profitable? 1. Basecamp 2. Attlassian

@nejatian Build is buy. Welcome to the pill shop.

I am among the most AI-pilled human beings on the planet. Please don't try to build a CRM from scratch just because you can. Just use Hubspot. Or if you must, use something else off the shelf. Don't build. Buy.