aws went down again 6 hours ago, then caused chase bofa other major banks to go down, leaving people unable to use the portal or make card transactions for hours. is this is what happens when humans delegate all their thinking to AI and vibe-code?

my cofounder and i are installing mics all around our office and streaming the complete transcript to ai for insights and infinite memory. no more arguing about who said what. fuck wearables - the future is ai embedded into living spaces.

every startup in the bay: ai tools make everyone 10x as productive! engineering is becoming commodified! let’s just vibe code! simultaneously, every startup in the bay: can you please intro me to any engineers you know?

another perfect day to make art in figma

year 2 of a startup (when all the free startup SaaS plans run out) is what separates the boys from the men

imo agency is a combination of - meta analyzing how and why you should solve a problem in front of you, instead of directly tackling it - being unafraid to do things against social norms or that make you look “cringe” - pure unadulterated self belief

Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at a $2B valuation from @felicis, @generalcatalyst, @benchmark, DST and @MenloVentures.

one crazy side effect of everyone having access to o3's deep research is that nothing can be gatekept anymore. even if you're one of the world's experts on a particular subject, you can no longer point to esoteric research and pretend to have a superior argument.

TLDR on what’s happening in ai for anyone out of the loop: >sam altman shows up >hello we are openai (is closed source btw) and we will be building ai >sam: we need BILLIONS in funding! >everyone: ok here you go sam >sam: wait really? >everyone: yea..? didn’t you say you need billions of dollars in funding? >sam: billions? sorry I misspoke. I meant TRILLIONS! >everyone: that’s a lot but ok >sam: ai is the new industrial revolution! COMPUTE is the new OIL! >nvidia becomes the most valuable company on earth. every single employee is a MILLIONAIRE now, including the interns >openai keeps jacking up their prices and says “we are actually LOSING money because compute costs so much! we are bumping up the pricing for our gpt-abc123 model to $10,000 per prompt” >some random chinese quants: we ain’t paying that much let’s just build our own model >chinese quants literally build AGI (DeepSeek) as their side project with $70 in funding and a bag of chips, coworking out of a sweatshop >american ai companies: these chinese guys are capping this is a ploy by the CCP to destroy the american economy! >deepseek releases papers and benchmarks proving their model is better than openai’s >american ai companies in total meltdown The bubble has popped. If you’re in ai, it’s OVER. Leave while you can! All the speculative institutional capital is going to rotate back to the only speculative technology that has stood the test of time: crypto.

the thinker does not understand that action will give you insights that thinking alone could never produce but the man of pure action has perfect execution in a dead paradigm tech is updating too fast for either. you must think and do - often in the same day

which openai staff member was in a k-hole while typing the demo out?