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Alex
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The Liberal party has Patrick Pichette a former Senior VP of Google on stage who lives in Europe by the way, say that if Canadians want to leave Canada to work in the US they need to pay an exit tax of half a million dollars. The guy did the very thing to get a Microsoft job decades ago and paid 30 bucks. Now he wants young Canadians to be trapped here. The Liberals are nuts.


The degree to which you are awed by AI is perfectly correlated with how much you use AI to code.



Tried to go to SB again. Got lost 6 times looking for a Starbucks 3 streets away, trudging over canals in the snow; was worried I was cracking up & it wd get worse. Msg on cellphone saying I was nearly out of data, so cd not do all the phoning needed pre-production


We released Claude Opus 4.6 just two months ago. Today we're sharing some info on our new model, Claude Mythos Preview.

Pour le coup, c’est totalement normal que les restaurateurs répercutent les charges sur le consommateur. Les charges sociales sont comme un droit de douane sur les échanges entre individus. Si vous cuisinez vous-même, votre travail domestique n’est pas taxé. Si vous travaillez une heure de plus pour vous offrir un restaurant, cet échange est taxé deux fois : d’abord votre travail, puis celui du restaurateur. Dans ce contexte, il est logique que les Français, plutôt que de se spécialiser sur leur cœur de métier, deviennent leurs propres bricoleurs, jardiniers et cuisiniers. Les charges encouragent une économie d’autarcie à l’échelle de chaque famille. Pour que l’échange marchand se justifie, il faut que l’écart de productivité entre individus dans leurs professions respectives soient suffisant pour couvrir le désavantage fiscal de la spécialisation. Sur la cuisson d’une cuisse de poulet, c’est loin d’être évident. C’est pourquoi beaucoup de ces services se retrouvent défiscalisés ou subventionnés : sinon, ils ne pourraient pas survivre.

This is Farzapedia. I had an LLM take 2,500 entries from my diary, Apple Notes, and some iMessage convos to create a personal Wikipedia for me. It made 400 detailed articles for my friends, my startups, research areas, and even my favorite animes and their impact on me complete with backlinks. But, this Wiki was not built for me! I built it for my agent! The structure of the wiki files and how it's all backlinked is very easily crawlable by any agent + makes it a truly useful knowledge base. I can spin up Claude Code on the wiki and starting at index.md (a catalog of all my articles) the agent does a really good job at drilling into the specific pages on my wiki it needs context on when I have a query. For example, when trying to cook up a new landing page I may ask: "I'm trying to design this landing page for a new idea I have. Please look into the images and films that inspired me recently and give me ideas for new copy and aesthetics". In my diary I kept track of everything from: learnings, people, inspo, interesting links, images. So the agent reads my wiki and pulls up my "Philosophy" articles from notes on a Studio Ghibli documentary, "Competitor" articles with YC companies whose landing pages I screenshotted, and pics of 1970s Beatles merch I saved years ago. And it delivers a great answer. I built a similar system to this a year ago with RAG but it was ass. A knowledge base that lets an agent find what it needs via a file system it actually understands just works better. The most magical thing now is as I add new things to my wiki (articles, images of inspo, meeting notes) the system will likely update 2-3 different articles where it feels that context belongs, or, just creates a new article. It's like this super genius librarian for your brain that's always filing stuff for your perfectly and also let's you easily query the knowledge for tasks useful to you (ex. design, product, writing, etc) and it never gets tired. I might spend next week productizing this, if that's of interest to you DM me + tell me your usecase!

URGENT PSA - New supply chain attack vector that I found WILD > AI LLMs hallucinate package names roughly 18-21% of the time. Hackers have started pre-registering those hallucinated names on PyPI and npm with malicious payloads; they call it "slopsquatting" You can only imagine what's next









The PM didn’t need to be bilingual until Pierre Trudeau decided it. Now every CEO needs to be bilingual? France lost. I’m so sick of having to pander to the Montrealese in this country.



When @karpathy built MenuGen (karpathy.bearblog.dev/vibe-coding-me…), he said: "Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services, docs, API keys, configurations, dev/prod deployments, team and security features, rate limits, pricing tiers." We've all run into this issue when building with agents: you have to scurry off to establish accounts, clicking things in the browser as though it's the antediluvian days of 2023, in order to unblock its superintelligent progress. So we decided to build Stripe Projects to help agents instantly provision services from the CLI. For example, simply run: $ stripe projects add posthog/analytics And it'll create a PostHog account, get an API key, and (as needed) set up billing. Projects is launching today as a developer preview. You can register for access (we'll make it available to everyone soon) at projects.dev. We're also rolling out support for many new providers over the coming weeks. (Get in touch if you'd like to make your service available.) projects.dev




BREAKING: Iran fired two ballistic missiles at US-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, according to Wall Street Journal report.


I get this question very often: "How do you find the time to do everything that you do?" So, I thought I'd list down a few important principles and numbers on how I run my life, that (if you need and want to) you can use as a high-level blueprint to draft yours... > I think in weeks, not in days or months > There are 24 x 7 = 168 hours in a week > As per my Apple Watch, I sleep an average of 7 hours per night (Active Weekly Hours Left: 119 hours) > I practice karate 2 hours a week, plus 1 hour for commute and shower (AWHL: 116) > I play soccer 2 hours a week, plus 1 hour for commute and shower (AWHL: 113) > I write for 1 hour a day (AWHL: 106) > I read books 4 hours a week (AWHL: 102) > I spend approximately 14 hours a week eating - I only do lunch and dinner, my breakfast is a cappuccino (AWHL: 88) > I work on average 55 hours a week (AWHL: 33) > I practice piano 3 hours a week (AWHL: 30) > I do Consulting Intel stuff (my newsletter), and personal creative projects about 1 hour a day (AWHL: 23) > I walk my beloved dog Tank 1 hour a day (AWHL: 16) After all of these, I'm still left with more than 15 hours a week to do even more stuff! When people tell me "I don't have time to do this and that" I truly can't believe them. They choose to do something else with their time, but they most definitely do have time. I don't spend my time watching Netflix, or watching TV, the news, going out drinking, or sitting on the sofa watching sports... That really doesn't do anything for me. I need action. I need to do stuff that is nourishing, and a bunch of the things I do is also in combination with my family (eg, having dinner, sometimes walking the dog, the Friday karate session, etc) But also, it's pretty evident from this list how my contribution to the "household element" is limited. I often cook and wash dishes (those that can't go in the dishwasher 😂) but that's pretty much it... I don't clean the house or wash clothes. I'm very grateful and incredibly lucky that my wife looks after that, and this gives me a bunch of more hours to do everything else I do! If you think you don't have time for something that truly matters to you, think again. Would you be able to detail a similar list for how you run your own life? How would that look like? Curious to see!! 👀👀👀







