I love Replit ⠕ but I've barely used it this month. I'm doing iOS dev work which Replit can't really do, and Cursor is notably cheaper. This made me ponder the bull and bear case for Amjad Masad's company as they eclipse $100M in ARR. Chk it here... jeffbrines.com/2025/06/30/bul…

Congrats Amjad Masad for JRE! Listening now. Awesome stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Literally nothing stopping you from working this way. #telluride Amjad Masad

What do you all think of my new personal site? Should I commit to it or are your eyes 👀 in fact burning and your brain 🧠 going full ptsd from awful 90s OSs? — More fun times with Replit ⠕ Amjad Masad - win98.jeffbrines.com

Could very much imagine a world where a lot of us end up buying on prem inferences engines running open source LLMs for a variety of cost reasons on the not so far off future

I turned 40 a couple months ago, without much fanfare Since then I’ve had a lingering sense of sadness, and I think I’ve finally put my finger on the source My whole life, from my teens through my 20s and 30s, I felt like I was preparing for a future life I’d one day lead That

Wild for The New York Times to infer Apple is a better bet with respect to AI than Anthropic or xAI - how does one even pretend to be a journalist there? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Sam Harris, love him or hate him, has a point here…

Why am I wrong to think in due time we will run local LLMs that are good enough at codegen using open source agentic frameworks that the likes of replit and cursor will be an afterthought. Struggling to see otherwise.

What model would the cracked kids on X pick to run on device to analyze video footage like a video logging intern? Too soon to do this? Currently running SmolVLM2 - Apple Silicon

Instead of AI hot takes here is a video of my dog popping a beach ball.

Powered by smolVLM2 - jeffbrines.com/2025/10/14/vid…

Boxxer + Enduro bike = best setup ever? Why isn't this more common? youtu.be/EN77kBFvAGE

Unpopular opinion: If every techbro startup founder did this kind of work for even a day it’d totally change their perspective for the better.

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the

Why can’t auth follow me site to site, app to app, if I so choose? Like I get it, you get access to my email and whatever else. I never care, so just let it happen silently in the background for weirdos like me. It’d be a big unlock for UX for niche projects, too.

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Are family offices better for skiing than Wall Street? jeffbrines.substack.com/p/the-greedhea…