Renato J. Mascardo

In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's. Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend. #YouGotThis

@fintechfrank Wild.

This is pretty wild: A 2025 Goldman Sachs report found that 40% of people earning $500,000+ per year say they’re living paycheck to paycheck.

We are City. ✊ 🩵 2-1 🔴 @okx

We have a serious title race on our hands. @ManCity defeat @Arsenal in a seismic encounter to close the gap to three points, with one match in hand.

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

@StockSavvyShay 😳

$BIRD is selling its brand and footwear assets renaming itself NewBird AI and using a new $50M convertible facility to pivot into AI compute infrastructure by buying GPUs. Going from selling wool sneakers to chasing AI compute might be one of the wildest pivots this cycle.

@TrollFootball 🤣

FIFA 27 will have new difficulty levels

The comfortable middle is over for software. Growth has stalled but true profitability still hasn't arrived — most of the sector is stuck: too slow for a premium growth multiple, too diluted for a fortress multiple. a16z's David George says CEOs have 12-18 months to pick exactly one of two paths: a16z.news/p/there-are-on…

Computer science will stop being taught as a useful craft; it has become an explanation of how the world works, like physics, biology and chemistry. This change is long overdue.

@Dan_Jeffries1 Agree.

The jobs apocalypse is the Population Bomb of our time. Instead we're seeing more hiring in the job most affected by AI: programming. That should have been clear and obvious to anyone with basic economics understanding and good handle on the history of technology but it's sadly lacking today. Fear sells. It drives clicks. It drive engagements. The jobs apocalypse scenario comes from catastrophizing personalities and people who think of life as a zero sum game. It's the same mistake the communist theorists made. They thought jobs and labor were fixed and there's nothing new under the sun. If we take one job that job is lost forever and that person is now useless. Wrong. Instead, what happens is that when something gets faster and cheaper we want more of it. Much more. There is so much software that we could not build before because there weren't enough skilled people and not enough time and it wasn't worth the time or money. Now it is worth it because it is faster and cheaper. Cheaper for SaaS builders, cheaper for individuals, cheaper for enterprises, cheaper for everyone. That's why were are seeing programmer jobs tick upwards. Right now we are not seeing juniors get hired but that is also always the case in a recovery. We just saw mass layoffs because of overhiring during COVID and cheap money printing that made lending essentially free. The unskilled, aka junior workers, are always the last hired. You want skilled verterans who can take on the new technology with experience and take off running not someone you have to train and babysit when you have been stuck in third gear for a few years. Job populists on the hard left like Sanders and many of his mirrors on the populist hard right are the enemies of actual working economies and must be resisted at all costs. They hurt the very people they hope to help by clinging to the past and thinking of life as a zero sum game. This increase in jobs is the reality that will increasingly play out over the next few years if AI keeps getting better, barring some other economic shock that changes the game. It will increasingly play out even when we have "geniuses in a datacenter." It will be a shock to some. Just not the jobs shock they were expecting. Sorry to disappoint but we're not getting UBI any time soon while the robots do all the jobs and you sit on your ass. Seems like we are all going to have to work a bit longer.

@agazdecki Hahaha.

CTOs after their entire platform gets vibe coded over the weekend:

@sytaylor Hahahaha.

Can Anthropic just CHILL for like a day so we can process this stuff? Shitting hell man

Damn.

46 YEARS TO THE DAY. GOLD AGAIN. 🇺🇸🥇 #WinterOlympics

@Jason Glad you are safe. Avalanches are no joke.

What a horrible season… so many lost lives from one storm. When skiing alone this past week, excited to challenge myself in deep powder, I made my first mistakes: alone is no bueno I lost a ski in the deep powder and went down Was right in the area where I took these photos and videos the day before I wasn’t off the trail, but the trail wasn’t groomed — second mistake I quickly popped back up instinctually (3rd mistake) seconds later the snow gave way beneath me and I flipped over I was now in my back with only my head and one arm above the snow I was in a mini-panic as I had now shifted five feet closer to the tree line Tree wells are no joke and I was feet from them I slowly dug myself out Positioned my skis correctly and walked slowly to someone else’s tread marks Was exhausted, but fine Next year I won’t go out alone I will wear a beacon I will carry a shovel I will get avalanche certified I will stop being an idiot my life is fantastic, I’m loved, I have purpose and I want to ski until I’m 80 I will stop being an idiot

Nice piece. We need to building for the “Agent Experience”.

@malinvested Haha.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….” The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

Very logical assessment @nicbstme. Nice post.

@sama @OpenAI Whoa.

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

@enchantedjess13 Geekiest joke ever! Nailed it.

me trying to win in catan except i just keep collecting wheat and nothing else