Vlad de Ziegler

@RandallKanna Took <48h to go from X factory-settings to AI slop again.

To my 175 followers. I highly recommend you to try this at home

@LouiseDSadeleer I likeee

I can now re-create ANY viral video, word by word, with this teleprompter 1. Drop a (viral) video link + extracts structure 2. Replace each sentence 3. Record Don't re-invent the wheel, just personalise to your content :)

@BraedendotTECH @NotIlanCohen Training models on people always accepting changes must be a nightmare 😅

@NotIlanCohen genuinely 1:1 my experience, I’m even too lazy to fucking read what it got done. A few years back we had to go onto stackoverflow and figure out everything ourselves now we can’t even check if it did the right thing. Kinda sad

I'm 33 and I think Claude Code is melting my brain. For 6 months straight I've had 5-6 terminals open at once, waiting on responses just to smash "enter" 90% of the time. That's the whole job now. And it's doing something to me. A few friends and I keep circling back to the same thing in conversations: none of us feel as sharp as we used to. Maybe it's just us. But I keep wondering how many other people in their 30s feel it too. (And yeah: this is a me problem, how I lean on the tool, not the tool itself. Doesn't make the effect any less real.)

@LouiseDSadeleer @itseduvieira She's having the best croquettes ever.

@itseduvieira Cause she’s half French AND a Frenchie? She can mourn at her dad’s @ziegler_de 🩷

*Maggie enters the chat*

@BraedendotTECH I knew I was cooked the day I toggled off the Primary Side Bar and stopped reading the code.

"we’ve essentially found a way to make sand think. It’s miraculous." @demishassabis took a lot from developer best practices to come up with a protocol on how to evaluate, control AI in the future, without impacting innovation. Worth a read.

@demishassabis Do you think it'd be possible to come up with a watermark approach across all modals (text, audio, etc.)?

kind of insane to see ads on YT where people take 5s to explain they'll help you "strategize" & "ideate". who in the world clicks on this?

wrote a piece on how you can build an org that succeeds in the age of AI. seems to align with what @satyanadella & @PalantirTech have been saying in the last couple of weeks. elementsagents.com/resources/ai-c…

How companies create alpha: - Operators run the workflows. - Managers own the eval loops. - Leaders compound knowledge across the org. All of this is only possible if you own your learning environment.

@r0ck3t23 The risk is the lack of deontological depth from creators (and it's not their role) which may fuel our own algo echo chambers even further. In the case if Karpathy, it's not really contentiousbut I wonder to what extent this logic applies to softer sciences.

Marc Andreessen just named the lie that held for a hundred years and is collapsing in real time. We gave authority to the people who explained things. Not the people who built them. And nobody questioned why. For a century, builders created and journalists translated. The public accepted it because complexity demanded a middleman. But the middleman was never the expert. The middleman was the channel. And we mistook the channel for the source. Andreessen: “You set it loose and it will write you literally a 30-page answer. This is basically like a textbook on any topic.” Any topic. Infinite depth. Zero cost. No gatekeeper. He has a name for what comes next. Practitioner media. Andrej Karpathy doesn’t sit across from a journalist. He turns on a camera and teaches the world how the architecture works. No filter. No editorial framing. No one deciding what you’re ready to hear. The press calls it dangerous. They are not protecting the public. They are protecting the bottleneck that gave them power. The critic always needed the creator. The creator never needed the critic. They just had no other way to reach the world. Now they do.

@quasa0 Been using it but somehow i prefer to walk by the laptop and see what’s up once in a while :)

@ziegler_de install "amphetamine" mac app. it conveniently lets you keep the Mac running even locked or fully closed

When you’re on a family holiday

@Codie_Sanchez action is information.

If you master patience, and pair it with constant action, I can all but guarantee you will win.

Me: How long will this project take. Claude: About 12-18 months. Me: But you're an AI Claude: Ah yes if you leverage AI Coding then the estimate would be 6-9 months. Me: But you're an AI Claude: Even with AI, there are many aspect of coding that take time. AI can only do much to accelerate coding but it is not a magic tool. Now that we have a realistic estimate, would you like to get started? Me: Yes *3 hours later* Claude: Ok I'm done.

Link to all the modules. elementsagents.com/curriculum

1/3 of operators want to know how to master Skills. Company owners only care about accessing their company data securely. But both want to know how AI will impact their role and company. I started giving 1:1 sessions to traders, MD, SME owners. Full learnings below.

@Camp4 Training for a race is often more powerful than completing a challenge

> How To Be Successful At Anything < Listen to that primal scream. I caught a lifetime achievement on camera. After two years, 49 days of effort, 125 attempts, 124 failures, and 75,000 vertical feet of hiking just to reach the crag... My friend Matt sent his first 5.14. French alpinist Lionel Terray referred to climbers as “Conquistadors of the Useless.” It’s true—climbing rocks is pointless. Or is it? Let me ask you a question: Without knowing anything else about Matt except for this one climbing achievement… How do you think he fares in other areas of life, like his career? Acclaimed psychologist Angela Duckworth has devoted her career to studying why some individuals succeed and others fail across a range of pursuits. Her research found that one trait stands above them all. It predicts long-term success better than raw talent or IQ. That trait is grit. To explain why, Duckworth developed a formula:

Talent x Effort = Skill Skill x Effort = Achievement You’ll notice that effort appears in both equations—for building skill *and* applying it. Grit is the multiplier. So what is grit? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as “courage and resolve; strength of character.” In practical terms, think of it as sustained effort in the face of adversity. Many people confuse grit with toughness or think it’s a “high T” trait. But that’s not it. Some of the grittiest people are quiet and slight of build. Single moms have grit. A lot of jacked fitness bros don’t. Years ago, my wife and I climbed the Grand Teton in Wyoming. On the steep approach hike, we were passed by two cocky, muscle-bound alpha males. We called them “Hans and Franz.” They made sure we knew how fit they were. A few hours later, we crossed paths with Hans and Franz again at the saddle, where the technical climbing begins. Hans was in tears, suffering from altitude sickness. My 115-pound wife was suffering too—from severe nausea—but gave her Ibuprofen to Hans before we pushed on to the summit. Later that day, we ran into Hans and Franz one last time. They had bailed on the climb and were hiking down with their tails between their legs. The next week we found out why my wife was so nauseated—she was pregnant. Grit. So how do you become gritty? Unlike talent, which is heavily influenced by genetics, grit is an acquired trait—a muscle that is built. You develop grit by persevering through progressively bigger challenges. When you do something hard, you’ll inevitably experience fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Those who push through develop grit. Over time, it becomes a superpower—translating to success in anything you set your mind to. Long before Matt sent that route, he made a decision: He’d keep showing up—10, 20, 50, 100 times—and success would become inevitable. Most people run out of grit long before they reach the limits of their ability. So you tried a few times and failed? You feel like giving up. Good. That’s where grit begins and most people quit. Will you? P.S. Knowing when to quit is a skill too—but you're probably not there. Far more people quit too early than too late.

@chadwahl Those who control the present, control the past. Those who control the past, control the future.

“The way you dominate the future is you dominate the present” How he talks about moving time scales up to remove the latent BS is too real…..although at Palantir we don’t get quarters, we get hours (if we are lucky) to get things done.