Essam Hassan

Builder // Angel. prev R&D @Lightshift_xyz Core @Chainlink, OS/Search @Google

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. (1/2)

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Keeps getting better

[Moritz Wallawitsch @MoritzW42]

holy shit - their api is leaking customer data

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

https://t.co/a6cTaFLFXS

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

We just published internal data on how much of Claude's development is already being done by Claude:
- Over 80% of all code merged into our codebase is now written by Claude
- It's been months since many researchers at Anthropic hand-wrote code
- The typical Anthropic engineer ships 8x as much code as they did in 2024
- On the most open-ended engineering tasks, Claude's success rate jumped from ~26% to 76% in 6 months
- When research sessions went off-track, Claude proposed a better next step than the human took 64% of the time

We're not at recursive self-improvement yet, but it could come sooner than most expect. I highly recommend reading the full blog post.

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

@ahmd3ssam https://t.co/dup6PFSBEx

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

https://t.co/a6cTaFLFXS

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

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[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Do benchmarks mean anything anymore?

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

@mahssalem I approve, Prince deserves milking

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

@mahssalem One more monitor, bro

https://t.co/P9WKqJnQMZ

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

@ahmd3ssam https://t.co/fnDvZwPUJS

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

@ahmdelemam @mtantawy توقعي الغير ملزم: حوار ال AI driven layoffs خصوصا في الشركات المتوسطه قدامه ٣ كوارترز كمان و هتلاقي كل الشركات دي بترجع ال headcount بتاعها زي مكان ب job descriptions جديده و rubrics جديده

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Fun times
https://t.co/p5nqsroVNG

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Prepare yourself in Q3 for investors and founders doing a historic U-turn on their AI psychosis and dropping "insight" content signaling ahead of the curve thinking on AI "realism" which is practically 3 quarters delayed from the builder status quo.

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Annnnnother one

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

We keep hearing about 10x or 100x productivity gains in engineering and knowledge work.

But outside the model labs, I haven’t seen the corresponding 10-100x revenue growth across the market or increase in quality.

So where is the productivity going?

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

[insert vc here] request for startups is ngmi.

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

For the curious: https://t.co/DPt46hDfBb

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Software devolved so bad from 2022 “5 nines or bust” to Github DevX instagram content telling vibe coders they should put a quote in every form field before deploying their app to make sure it’s secure.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.

So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.

“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.

“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.

The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

It’s cool that they are trying to reach out to a claudemaxxed and codexxed audience but around 70-80% of the creator reels I got on my instagram failed to disclose that it’s a paid sponsorship. One reel literally flashed some text the last half second in the reel.

[Essam Hassan @0xEssam]

Looks like @cursor_ai is using the money they saved using musk’s training infra on UGCs. I’m seeing composer stealth ads everywhere.