Tim Conley
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Tim Conley
@TimConley
Everything I know and some of what I believe. Host of https://t.co/72DFWbTxrz / Investor in https://t.co/4uKaEvERnR.
Austin, TX Присоединился Ağustos 2008
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California's fraud problem is so bad the DOJ will 'never have enough' prosecutors to fight it trib.al/wd230RT
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@lessin FSD will lead to more car ownership.
The level of convenience that fully autonomous vehicles will give people will lead to more daily trips.
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I Really Want My Own Private Waymo (yes, that is funny… but I am serious)
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@Indian_Bronson Haha, never thought about this before, but I have never met any born the same day and year as me.
Though my cousin was born on the same day 2 year later.
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@StatisticUrban Everyone silences their phone in movies and TV, even people expecting a call.
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The reason so many shows are set in the 80s and 90s is cellphones make like 50% of plots obsolete. Contact anyone at any time, find almost any piece of knowledge, it's very difficult to get lost.
Same reason Star Trek has "oh, communications are blocked" every 2nd episode.
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Experts that send AI written newsletters are retarded.
You’ve got a human who wants to know what you know, but instead you publish AI slop.
Human experts are making themselves extinct.
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My favorite part is
when the government website has "office hours"....
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Adding Alpha-GPC to my dementia prevention stack.
Chose it over dietary choline because of its short term nootropic effects.
Tim Conley@TimConley
My brain boosting daily supplements: 5mg lithium, 30g of creatine and 5mg melatonin. I added the melatonin 2 weeks ago. Instant REM sleep improvement. Having nightly vivid dreams I used to have when I was under 40. Goal: attempt to stave off dementia when older.
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Ignore Gmail's recommendations on how to 'improve' your emails.
All it'll do is make you sound like a bot (exactly what you want to avoid when emailing people).
Leave the text underlined and fire the email away as-is. Imperfections make us human.
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@peterdog15 In the year I’ve owned my Tesla it has avoided 3 drivers entering my lane. I wouldn’t have seen them in time to not get hit.
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My guess is once robotaxi rolls out and Waymo expands and lowers prices to compete, many public transit patrons will stop using buses as the marginal cost + time savings will outcompete the cheaper bus fare.
The only people who'll remain on buses will be the junkies who get their fare paid for by the homeless industrial complex.
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@TimConley @austintexasgov @CapMetroATX @Tesla When it's subsidized people will ride in it. It's gonna be significantly better than the current offering, which is a bus.
The people who want better quality will go with Uber or Tesla's product.
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The @austintexasgov could replace @CapMetroATX buses with @Tesla Robotaxis.
Here are the perks
* Lower costs
* No more bus stops
* Support an Austin company
* Point to point rider experience
* No more buses blocking street lanes
* No more stabbings by unhinged riders
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@bandholz @austintexasgov @CapMetroATX @Tesla No one is going to ride in a cab that's trashed or smells like a sewer even after a public worker hosed off the seats.
A tiny percentage of riders would make it a horrible experience for everyone else.
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@TimConley @austintexasgov @CapMetroATX @Tesla Na, Capmetro would run it not Tesla. They buy the cabs and run it.
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@brettvachonn I'm not watching any one in particular. I just type in absolute beginner guitar lesson and playing around.
I haven't made a hard decision to learn.
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@TimConley Beginners should start with chords, not notes. The series by Andy Guitar is good because he does this. Who are you watching?
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why are all absolute beginner guitar lessons on YouTube like:
"To get started all you have to do is memorize 120 notes like this... see how easy that was?"
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@michael_kove @lennysan Graham wrote makers and managers to get the managers to leave the makers alone so they could focus. Now he needs to write how makers can be the managers.
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I think i understand why devs are having this issue.
Their entire job was writing code and building things, suddenly they now have to do management and orchestration. Even if it's just an AI agent.
So the flow state and deep work is impossible now (from my experience as dev and manager, completely two opposite skill sets)
So AI gave those guys a job they never wanted.
I've been seeing this over and over how devs are burning out.
And a day ago i watched this video by Hormozi that finally clicked why:
youtu.be/GIRkQQHzsxI?is…
It's builders having hundreds of "micro meetings" entire day
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"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.
I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.
There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer." Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Django, coined the term "prompt injection," and popularized the terms "agentic engineering" and "AI slop." In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why November 2025 was an inflection point 🔸 The "dark factory" pattern 🔸 Why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are the most at risk right now 🔸 Three agentic engineering patterns he uses daily: red/green TDD, thin templates, hoarding 🔸 Why he writes 95% of his code from his phone while walking the dog 🔸 Why he thinks we're headed for an AI Challenger disaster 🔸 How a pelican riding a bicycle became the unofficial benchmark for AI model quality Listen now 👇 youtu.be/wc8FBhQtdsA
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@landforce TBPN made a business. The product they sold was 20-ish ad reads per show. The content was the delivery mechanism.
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You "get" content.
You think its useful.
You understand it's value for your brand/business.
But I promise you - you are drastically undervaluing it at every step of the way.
Especially as AI content outpaces human content.
Like you are MASSIVELY misunderstanding the value of content.
This is amazing LFG.
John Coogan@johncoogan
TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.
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@Cernovich Elon needs to bring the Model YL to the states so you can have room for the whole fam.
Even better would be for him to make a van.
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Last time I was in a Tesla, FSD was so-so and no Grok.
Feel like I time traveled.
Cernovich@Cernovich
Rode with a friend who has a Tesla FSD and kept asking Grok questions to fill in some gaps he had and man this is living in the future. How the hell is anyone still an Elon doubter.
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@michael_kove @lennysan It’s similar to entrepreneurs learning to manage their first hires especially when they grow quickly.
You’ve got to figure out end-to-end workflows that you can trust the employee will complete without any devastating screwups.
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the context switching is really taxing and he's correct.
I've been coding for 25+ years. I found that just working on one feature, one session at a time is more productive than the "4 parallel agent" thing.
Yes, it takes a bit longer to ship features, but the burnout juggling those agents is worse imho
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Pro tip for Manta sleep mask owners:
I threw my MyPillow into the dryer to fluff it per instructions.
But also tossed my Manta sleep mask in, too, as the eye pads had flattened a lot.
Dryer made my sleep mask like new. Don’t sleep on this.
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