“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.” — Kurt Vonnegut

the single strongest signal of a good friend is their ability to give the benefit of the doubt this is very rare in people, and if you find them don't fuck it up. it's hard to find

It seems a mistake to call oneself a "non-technical founder." You're treating not knowing how to do something as a part of your identity. Surely it's better just to fix that.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.” — Colonel David Hackworth

I think this asks for marble: “If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort” tombedor.dev/human-attention…

If your personality was a board game mechanic what would it be?

3/Por qué cuento esto: La moda de los sintéticos va a pasar, y esto avanza tan rápido que guardar mis secretos sería coleccionar fósiles. La ventaja técnica caduca en meses. El criterio no caduca. Y el criterio no se copia leyendo un hilo. Así que servíos.

I wonder if in retrospect it will turn out to be one of those very important accidents of history that we got the EU, with its culture of regulation, at about the same time (on a historical scale) as we got AI.

"Solo mientras duerme uno no comete errores. Cometer errores es el privilegio de los activos, de aquellos que pueden corregir sus errores y arreglarlos". -Ingvar Kamprad, empresario y fundador de IKEA ☕️

The more interactive, the better. So, generally, watching/listening is beaten by reading, which is beaten by discussing, which is beaten by doing, which is beaten by teaching.

if you have ADHD you're naturally advantaged in using llms bcs crafting context for your agents is not unlike how you have to keep crafting & feeding context to your brain, as it otherwise completely forgets what it's meant to do & will keep trying to rederive things from scratch

No habléis con un chatbot. Repito: no habléis con un chatbot. Aún más: cerrad el chatbot. Instalad un asistente de codificación con IA. Y pedidle cosas.