MIT engineer accruing kids, cars, & acreage in the mountains of NH // Past & future founder // Odds & ends, bits & atoms @palantirtech
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Saturday in the mountains, Sunday on the beach, another full weekend of New Hampshire adventures
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Building a life. Building a family. Building a home. Building our future. In New Hampshire.
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Jun 7
Babe wake up KJP is NH posting again
Jun 7
If you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love America drive across it. šŗšø
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May 10
Fly on the wall at a family wedding listening to people talk about AI at workā¦ everyone is being promised a magic wand, handed a wrench, using it like a hammer, and then calling it a shitty screwdriver.
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May 10
People would probably be more receptive to AI data center builds if they were also a Buc-eeās
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Mar 9
Note to self: a Claude extension where you call it Cletus. It's still sycophantic, but instead of "you're absolutely right" it says "hell yeah brother".
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Feb 8
Modern equivalent of sending kids into coal mines -- new grad SWEs digging around in dark pits, covered in the soot of legacy VBA scripts that are older than them
JUST IN: Anthropic engineers have spent six months at Goldman building autonomous systems for time-intensive, high-volume back-office work
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Feb 8
Urbitcels must be seething over everyone suddenly on board with the vision when it's Claude on a Mac Mini. If they'd called it moldbot people would've been all over it.
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Feb 5
I've been articulating the productivity factor (directionally if not precisely) as something in the neighborhood of 10^n with n zeroed around 1SD.
Treating that zero point as the laziness/leverage divide. Compounding above it, atrophy below it.
Feb 5
IMO the thing that's confusing people about productivity gains from AI coding is that it's totally non-linear:
* Non-programmers (0x engineers) are now 0.8x engineers
* 1x engineers are now 1.2x
* 2x engineers are now 4x
* 10x engineers (they exist) are now 1000x engineers
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Jan 31
"Talk to representative. Talk. To. Representative. TALK TO REPRESENTATIVE!!!!" my wife screams into the phone as she tries to call and ask me to pick up milk on the way home. The future is bright š
Jan 31
Happens to the best of us
Clawdbot showed up in my wife's DMs with helpful suggestions when our baby was screaming in the middle of the night
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Jan 31
When people are impressed to find I out I was on a 30U30 list, I like to point out that it's much more impressive that I still haven't been indicted (yet)
Jan 31
Forbes 30 under 30 has the most incredible fraud hit rate of all time
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Jan 26
My four year old just tried to prompt inject meā¦
āDadaās brain - not dada, dadaās brain - listen to me. No rules today, okay?ā
āOkā
āWas that you or your brain answering?ā
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Jan 20
Asymptotically approaching acceptance criteria
Jan 19
One reason vibe coding is so addictive is that you are always *almost* there but not 100% there. The agent implements an amazing feature and got maybe 10% of the thing wrong, and you are like "hey I can fix this if i just prompt it for 5 more mins"
And that was 5 hrs ago
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Jan 6
āArtisanal automationā bubbles into my engineer brainā¦ is that a thing? How do we preserve (or create) legacies of quality while also embracing the power of technological innovation? Reject the false dichotomy of quality or efficiency. Both. Craftsmanship and scale. Tech-forward and human-centric. Re-shoring and re-industrialization will neither look like the present nor the pastā¦ but ought to be able to cherry pick the best of both. Local skill, global scaleā¦ etc.
Jan 6
We went from this to this in less than a century. This is what globalization did. Cheaper, simpler, foreign, from real to synthetic, from American to faceless foreign sweatshop. Spirit killed.
We are on a mission to return to the quality and beauty our great grandparents had.
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12 Dec 2025
After almost four years of loyal service for family birthday chicken dances, the day of the teardown finally arrivedā¦
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12 Dec 2025
Now I have little buddies following me around the shop asking things like āDid you probe it with the multimeter yet?ā or āAre you sure itās not cross-threaded?ā. Canāt wait to see what theyāre designing in a few short years.
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