the secret is having fun (but have fun urgently, as quickly as possible lol)

xAI team works all day, everyday. OpenAI pauses "12 days of OpenAI" on the weekend and "resumes Monday". One of these is not like the other. Vibes are different.

Just saw someone tweet something to the tune of “OpenAI will win because the xAI team will end up burning out with how hard they are working” You do realize people worked just as hard in the early days of SpaceX and Tesla? Same with Apple? How did those companies turn out?🤣

husbandt.. why haven’t you secured more compute? You promised to provide for our future and you perform like this?

Am I the only one whose internal feeling (good or bad) is in direct proportion with how much progress I’m making?

not too long from now writing code by hand will feel like doing manual punchcards that got fed into a mainframe back in the day. people will look at what we're doing now and it will feel absolutely absurd

From Amancio Ortega ($120BN networth) Wild how many geniuses say different variations of this same thing. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Da Vinci / Steve Jobs Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy - Issac Newton Simplicity is our motto at

You know who the best managers are? They’re the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them. - Steve Jobs

Optimism is a self fulfilling prophesy. Pessimism is the same.

Feel this on an atomic level. In my bones.

It’s wild we are living during the grand finale of human-made technology.

My favorite pleasure: progress

"Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman." - Henry Ford Hits even harder nowadays.

cursor after I send “still broken” for the 15th time:

one interesting way to improve performance on coding w/LLMs is to have it generate 3-5 responses at same time then have another model review it's answers and select best one (or ideally be able to test all it's solutions in parallel somehow and choose the one that works) i find

Pain is a moat

Obsession.

bet you could run a very successful vc fund with one simple rule: never pass up investing in a founder who is under 25 and balding