. Al’s Lacrosse "THRIVING IS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE" well said

Claude Code (Claude) estimates 3 weeks I estimate 7 minutes. you've got this! 🙌

We hit some snags today but we managed to get our target built out of band: What we built—Pledge2Pay A simple web app that allows 2 players to stake some bitcoin to play a game which pays out the pot to the winner. Code: github.com/matbalez/Pledg… Live: pledge2play.replit.app

- be me - build an app on Replit ⠕ - another app with Claude - while riding my virtual bike on Zwift

PBJ: Google Cloud Universal Ledger, Tech Companies Posing Threats to Banks, Apple Zero-day DK Max Webster Steve Lee x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

what if chatting with an AI were a video game?

if you're building WestWorld you should be building with Warp

beautiful thing about tech: you can pay attention to all the stuff that interests you you can ignore all the stuff that other people may be really into, but just feels like noise to you and there's still just an insane amount of opportunity and interesting stuff all around

Going live in ~10 minutes for this week's episode of the PBJ podcast with Steve Lee DK Max Webster We have a fantastic agenda: - Comparing Bitcoin L2 tradeoffs - Google Antitrust - TechLead’s AI bubble claim Streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube at 12 pm-ish PT

PBJ: Comparing L2 tradeoffs, Google antitrust, Stablecoins on Spark x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

vibe coding is way better when you speak to your computer you express more of your thoughts, more detailed bug reports, more free flowing brainstorms free/open-source: OpenSuperWhisper on GitHub

if you're vibe coding an iOS app I recommend having the LLM also build a full XCUITest suite it's easier for the agent to see what it's doing wrong and fix it

they promised us self-driving cars, instead we got thinner phones

did Claude Code kinda rug me after I upgraded to the $200/mo for the Max plan? feels like things got worse. anyone else with relevant experiences to share?

[New Essay] It's Time to Build a New Grid 🌞🔋🏴‍☠️ hivemind.vc/grid The old grid is sclerotic. It's time to build anew In this essay, I outline a vision for TW scale solar macrogrids that can handle the coming demand for compute & the electrification of everything

Last night's Founders You Should Know was a blast. Thank you Founders You Should Know! Here's a thread of my favorite moments, starting with Jack Dent (cofounder Chai Discovery) showing Eroom's Law: the cost of bringing drugs to market is growing exponentially. (Eroom = Moore backwards)

Type 1 Energy Summit, The Billionaire Flippening, and iPhone 17’s Memory Upgrade Steve Lee, DK, @MaxAWebste x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

AIs will collapse the status game e.g. 80 IQ and 150 IQ will round to about the same

if something has been possible long enough in technology it will have been in art, not so