civilization is driven by the uncovering of positive-sum forces

> be Windsurf employee #12 > sitting in Google Meets call titled “Acquisition Update” > excited to join my new team at OAI > CEO joins call > deal is dead, leadership jumping ship > everything going to zero > no early retirement > mfw

If this is true why would anyone join an early-stage startup ever again? Founding engineers and early employees need protection in writing

What does this have to do with "understanding the universe"? x.com/cb_doge/status…

Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an important lesson about how to live my own life. One of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people’s

whoever implements excalidraw --> full-stack application wins it all

Absolute banger of a quote. we're so early x.com/bearlyai/statu…

It's a multi-billion dollar company because they focus on the issues that actually impact revenue

How am I just learning of this article now? "AI is the new plastic" (in a good way) x.com/thesephist/sta…

The litmus test for a bad AI product:

The Windsurf story just keeps getting worse... Employee #2 gets an exploding offer for the 1% value of his shares after 3.5 years of vesting x.com/premqnair/stat…

Just for a sense of scale, a $20 Venmo to reduce the national debt ($36T) is like digging a 1m³ hole into Mount Everest x.com/jackcorrbit/st…

Building productivity tools seem like a good way to align financial incentives with positive impact "I'll do a lot of work so you don't have to" is a great motto to live by thinking about Bun Ramp Rippling and others

TypeScript is eating the world x.com/seveibar/statu…

Ironically, the chart itself is deceptive x.com/Teknium1/statu…

real productivity gains for prior technological advances came not from individual workers learning to use eg electricity, the internet but entire workflows, factories, processes, businesses being set up around the use of new tools (in other words, management)

"It's as if humans stored a compressed kernel of deduction and logic that we call upon for everything, while LLMs store this kernel fragmented across domain-specific embeddings." jeremyberman.substack.com/p/how-i-got-th…

As we designed the component API I'd make a component and then throw it at an LLM as "a new JSX-based component model" and ask it to "explain the runtime semantics of the APIs you see" If it got anything wrong, I'd go back and redesign/rename things and try again.