Zhephod

@theo Terminals + hyprland works way better for me than anything else. Everything is in a terminal.

Are you still using the CLI versions of your preferred agent instead of desktop apps like Codex App, Conductor, or T3 Code? Tell me why below. Genuinely curious.

@artbypep waymos and the warehouse full of twinks are the only redeeming qualities of SF

(Also I would love for someone to argue with me on this and be like “ACTUALLY, here are 27 cool future things that SF has!”)

TBH I feel this sometimes! For being the epicenter of a ton of world changing tech, we have basically just Waymo to show for it, and at great cost. We’ve lost a ton of what gave SF personality. Lots of art galleries and restaurants and show venues and local flavor have all been priced out or shut down, but not to be replaced with cool future stuff or more housing. Somehow in one of the coolest cities to be alive in, we got the worst of all worlds where bureaucracy and financial incentives got us less accessible housing, less culture, and less cool future stuff.

If you are a true croissant connoisseur must head to Paris, spend a few days wandering the streets, trying a variety of croissants from notable Boulangeries. You must go back to the one you like best, and really remember it's taste, the texture, the resistance of the bite. Arsicault will not compare.

@zhephod @alyssakrejmas I don’t know what that means, but my two favorites in the Bay Area are Arsicault and Rotha

On a mission to find the best ham & cheese croissant in SF

@devahaz @alyssakrejmas what is your benchmark croissant?

@zhephod @alyssakrejmas Ok you’re not clueless, One65 is a very solid choice. You’re still very wrong about arsicault tho.

@devahaz @alyssakrejmas one65 is best in SF, still a bar below Carton in Paris though.

@zhephod @alyssakrejmas Absurd, it’s best croissant in SF. What do you think is better?

@alyssakrejmas ONE65 has the best crossiants in SF, closest you'll get to a proper Parisian croissant here.

@devahaz @alyssakrejmas Arsicault is mid

@alyssakrejmas Arsicault is the answer

@evanjconrad @lapislagoons you still need to spray down the radiators from liquid cooling

supercomputers need to cool off. they do it the same ways you cool yourself off. one way is a big fan. big fans use a lot of electricity. another way is to spray stuff down. this uses a lot of water, but a lot less electricity. if you use a lot of electricity before we can build more power plants, people nearby have to pay more. if you build a power plant quickly, you may pollute a fair amount. so most people like to spray stuff down. the water goes into the air, but doesn't necessarily fall down in the same place. so maybe if you used lots and lots of water, you could run out nearby. thankfully, it's not much water. it's more than your house uses, but less than a farm uses. there's a new way called "liquid cooling". this uses less water than spraying stuff down. you still have to use a fan as well. but sometimes, it's better.

can someone explain to me like I’m 5 years old the AI water thing like doesn’t literally everything we do use water and then it goes back into the water system eventually I don’t understand , it’s not an infinite resource but it is self renewing no?

@dhh I wish I could order it without windows, the dell website doesn't seem to give that option though.

"Year of the Linux Laptop: Omarchy on XPS. The Linux laptop moment has arrived. Inside Dell XPS, Omarchy, and the end of “wait for kernel support.”" Dell is leaning in! dell.com/en-us/blog/yea…

My first interview with @EricJorgenson, Author of The Book of Elon. 0:12 Why Elon outcompetes everyone 1:53 Not wanting to be CEO 6:15 Why there was a 1 in 100 chance of Tesla and SpaceX both succeeding 10:03 Thinking in lost future revenue 11:58 Living with a gun next to his bed 15:02 How Elon starts companies 19:23 Giving Larry Page an early demo of the Roadster 21:27 Why Elon calls people into the factory at 2am 25:01 The 20 people who execute Elon’s will autonomously - MrBeast clones 28:52 Working with Elon is doing a tour of duty 31:18 Creating a grand vision that people can believe in 36:42 How to thrive under Elon 37:30 The Algorithm - question every requirement, delete part or process, simplify and optimize, accelerate, automate 41:38 Setting up a tent factory in the Tesla Fremont parking lot 43:28 How Elon would play the game if he was born 300 years ago 45:10 Empathy for the individual vs empathy for the mission 46:57 Being feared vs being loved 48:38 The endless churn at Elon companies 50:49 Ruthlessness and having a willingness to be disliked 56:08 Creating enemies and chaos 58:37 Shifting SpaceX’s focus from Mars to building a base on the Moon 1:00:07 Justifying Tesla’s valuation by reseting the vision 1:02:21 The S-Curve of ambition - colonizing planets, Starlink, Terafab 1:04:44 Throwing billions of dollars behind new companies 1:06:22 A great team is just the sum of the individual vectors 1:11:09 The idiot index at an industry-scale 1:13:53 Why it’s critical for space companies to control launch 1:15:44 Thinking in limits 1:18:47 Expanding the vision until no one can measure it 1:23:41 Internalizing pain and dealing with setbacks 1:26:03 The evolution of Elon’s operating philosophy over the last 30 years 1:27:37 Effectiveness

@skeptrune performance number go up more give better dopamine than users who are annoying to deal with

PLEASE be a product builder. i am begging you. there are 100x more database-tuning devs than actual product wizards who know how to make things people want

@Clara_Gold >move to SF to work at a company >cool tech they say >accelerate humanity's extraction of value from data they say >it turns into AI slide generation >SLIDES! what kind of self respecting engineer wants to work on slides? SF is fked.

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

@chowtato are gpus valid tender?

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@mercury :(

Run: mercury hat Get yours.

@tiffanyyan_x no decent transit system, too car centric. too many linkedin maxxers.

SF TECH BROS I NEED YOUR HELP help me consolidate a list of reasons why my east coast swe female friend should STOP ROMANTICIZING SF (pls explain the culture) Not to say SF doesn’t have its good parts, it does, but there’s the bad bits too, just like every city

@arlanr @zocomputer k8s + gvisor is pretty effective for a lot of these things, much better unit economics than whole instance per user, much safer than 1 instance for all users.

question: for people who have built cloud computer startups (like @zocomputer) / cloud openclaws etc, how does the model usually work? does each user get their own VM so 1000 users = 1000 instances on fly/aws ec2, or is it one big instance that is shared among users?

@chowtato names are just verbal pointers in physical space, you can just point at people as an alternative

Someone just asked me what I did for work before asking me my name. SF is cooked, burn it all down

@braelyn_ai I think if it's sufficiently concise, it doesn't matter, ideally your dentist would also have an agent that processes it.

@zhephod is it not rude to have your agent send an obviously ai slop message to your dentist to move an appointment?

is it common courtesy so convert your agent output to your own words before sending to someone?

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