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Jun 13
Survival of the fittest …
… fit enough to survive
Meaning: only mediocrity survives
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Jun 11
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
-- Alan Kay
Prediction markets add one wrinkle:
if you invent the future you predicted, the CFTC may want a word about your MNPI.*
* Material Nonpublic Information
#PredictionMarkets #CFTC #Kalshi #Polymarket
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18 Nov 2022
Mental models for termination:
- Everything that has a beginning has an end
- Memento mori
- Chekhov's gun
- Lindy Effect
- Armageddon
- MAD (Mutually-assured Destruction)
- Nick Bostrom's Existential Risks & Doomsday Scenarios
- Paperclip Maximizer
- Halting Problem
- Lyapunov f
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May 10
In refining 0x328519 : 0xB81C6 (Longbranch) in 00h 05m 13s 462ms I have brought glory to the company.
Praise Kier.
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#mdrlumon #severance 🧇🐐🔢💯
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Apr 15
"Build a company that even idiots can run, because eventually they will."
-- Warren Buffet
"Build a company that even agents can run, because eventually they will."
-- @nivertech
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Apr 21
The part about idiots/agents is about value conservation.
You'll still need geniuses/Humans for value creation.
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Apr 20
AI flipped hiring.
Engineering/Design/Product → seniors
BDS&M (BizDev, Sales & Marketing) → young & hungry
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Apr 20
"Prediction markets” is a misnomer.
The standard narrative says traders predict outcome probabilities.
But so does anyone buying stocks, real estate, or gold.
Markets optimize for payoff, not truth.
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27 Apr 2025
Modern Data Engineering:
#EiaFS3
Everything is a File on S3
x.com/luminousmen/status/191…
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Mar 16
Q. What is the company policy regarding coding agents?
A. Coding Agent Policy
The company welcomes coding agents that are ...
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Mar 16
CC is still a tool, it cannot set goals & achieve them autonomoulsy
For that u need a Dark Factory & that beyond a huge R&D CapEx of $200K, will also cost u $1000/day per dev, for 6-9-9 it will be $30K/mo per employee
Humans r much cheaper, esp. offshore
x.com/trikcode/status/203315…
Software engineers are the happiest people on Earth now.
They pay $100/month for Claude Code to do the work.
Their employer pays them $10,000/month for the results.
$9,900 profit for sipping coffee and talking to AI.
The funniest part?
Not a single dev with a full-time job will ever admit this publicly
What a time to be alive.
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Mar 13
me to ai code review agents
Mar 13
You're a bot paid off by private equity to try to tarnish our name.
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Mar 14
🧵dark fiber
💻dark silicon
🗄 dark data
🕸 dark web
₿ dark money
🏦dark pools
📦 dark stores
🍔 dark kitchens
🏭 dark warehouses
🚁 dark drones
🖥 dark IT
📋 dark Jira
⚙️ dark factories
🕶 agents went to the dark side
🌑 the future is dark
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18 Jan 2022
Financial/trading/gambling terms/methods in SW Engineering:
- Tech Debt/Credit
- Budget
- Betting table (in Shape Up)
- Planning Poker (Agile)
- Risk Management
- Monte-Carlo simulation for time estimation
- YAGNI: writing call options on future requirements
- YGNI: buying them
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19 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022
Enough with poker metaphors: Big bets, Doubling down, Going all in. a) Building products isn't a bet - we have ways to validate ideas and assumptions. b) Professional poker players never bet out of intuition or gut-feeling. They bet based on available info and probabilities.
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