get off twitter bro you're 28 years old

sometimes you gotta go broke, lose the person you love, watch your day 1s turn into weirdos just to get where you’re going

Twitter's Eng org used to be TWO THOUSAND engineers. Now it's ~25 engineers and a few designers and PMs. I knew the cuts were big but this is blowing my mind.

everybody wants to start an AI business and raise money and be a hot shot just start a regular small business and use AI to help you build the funnel and do SEO you don't need to be shilling saas tokenslop, you have no moat and the big players will eat you do something local

I hate californians dude they live their lives backdropped by the most beautiful mountains and oceanside views and all they talk about is valorant and ketosis

In January, HVAC and plumbing contractors paid an average of $104 just to show up at the front door of a new customer. Before paying for wages, vehicle, insurance, overhead… The “Google tax” is real, and painful for customers and contractors alike.

man, it turns out all you really need to bootstrap a frontier lab is impeccable research taste, world class engineering talent, a single pretrained base model and enough compute to both serve and train that model at the same time

You need to fill your home with taste and warmth, knick-knacks, heirlooms, antiques, you need to be rejecting ugly stale interiors at all costs

mentally i'm here

we spent 40 years building GUIs just to go back to typing texting into a terminal

The Accenture of robotics doesn't exist yet. Someone will build a billion-dollar services business just deploying other people's robots.

The people who built this weren’t motivated by profit

Humans really saw this and then invented minimalism

This is what happens when architects actually care about beauty

when we develop clankers that can lay bricks correctly we can have this again

Unpopular opinion: home services sucks. 20% of my biz is home svc and it’s a grind, the marketing is obscenely expensive, and it could just drop in days without the right spend and daily focus. Commercial - relationship based, budgeted, schedules out for mo’s. Am I right?

claude SWORE UP AND DOWN it knew how to fix my blinds i followed step by step instructions and literally destroyed them the electrician is coming now. i dont feel like i should have to pay for this

Your job is now writing tests

People enjoying their father's money will never get what we're building from scratch.

Engineering before AI: ◉ Ability to focus > ability to parallelize Engineering post AI: III Ability to parallelize > ability to focus