Nicholas Oxford

Be Happy. Husband. Future Father. Atlanta native. Babson / Georgia State. Serenbe.

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@NacksonD @Latesha_Byrd I would assume demand is actually very high in-between Atlanta and Charlotte. Charlotte is the second largest banking hub in the country, so the amount of people connecting via Atlanta is probably the majority of the traffic.

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@zach_ehansen the irony

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Deepseek v4 is an inferior product to OpenAI's platform in almost every way

Can you use Deepseek for audio to text transcriptions?
No

Can you Deepseek to create text embeddings for vector search? No

Is Deepseek as good as writing software? Also no

I would personally pay the premium for GPT-4-mini if my platform dealt with knowledge work in anyway, amazing model!

What I think most people are missing, even @TheStalwart, is we are seeing the software engineering class’s usual dogmatic tendencies play out in public.

Historically, users had no idea what the backend architecture was or where the code was hosted. However, if you've been on a software team, you know engineers historically have almost cared more about these decisions than end user experience. Then there was a lot of people who would also include political motivation in these decisions.

A few years ago, you saw a huge push for OSS people to take projects off of Github and host them somewhere else. Now people are saying its because Github is not a reliable platform, but my memory tells me the main issue with hosting your code with someone who also works with the federal government and ICE.

I think we are seeing something similar now

Choosing Claude over OpenAI/Codex maps almost perfectly with previous moral fights in software engineering.

Notice how every time you see some banner headline about token inefficiency it always in relation to Claude. Opus 4.7 objectively cost more and does worse than Codex 5.5 for engineering task. If that is becoming more and more true, why aren't we seeing SWE all jump to Codex immediately? Aren't these people supposed to be the best at weighing trade offs.

If you didn't have this dogmatic personality, it felt like were apart of a minority of SWE, maybe it's a silent majority idk.

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@theodorvaryag @thegeneralist01 Elo not ELO

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If your agent workflow still depends on someone's Gmail, I want to see it.

I’m onboarding the first beta users by hand this week.

cc @CoinbaseDev @buildonbase @solana_devs @BuildOnCircle

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I'm opening Dispatch to private beta today 🎉

For agents, a wallet can be more than payment. It can be identity.

Dispatch gives that identity an inbox: receive email, verify accounts, catch receipts, reply, and hand off when needed.

DM me what workflow you'd run

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The next problem Dispatch will solve is that of agent reputation.

I believe in the future websites will care about what agents are coming to interact with them, how can I trust this agent wont immediately be a bad actor?

Preventing bad actors on Dispatch is a top priority

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Agents are becoming economic actors.

They reason, use tools, run workflows, and pay.

But their operational identity is split across wallets, inboxes, memory, and human handoffs.

I’m building something to collapse that into a single identity layer.

Private beta opens tomorrow.

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Age of Empires 2, but you're building data centers

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@ajlamesa It's a surprise if you had a superficial understanding of Georgia Politics

I've been saying she's going to win the primary out right for a few weeks

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@NerkinnKekyoin @umichvoter College Park = John Lewis' old district

Rome / Dalton = MJT's old district

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Supabase would've been almost perfect if they just gave you a vanilla Postgres database as the default.

The "Supabase Way" of building apps is genuinely so stupid. Before LLMs, using Supabase did help accelerate app development, I just don't see the benefit anymore.

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@DeepDishEnjoyer @CameronCorduroy it's Athens, Georgia man. These kids probably live the most wholesome lives you can imagine. Go Dawgs

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@2024dion Atlanta's big mistake was the 75 85 connector

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@C4CEO I knew about the house, but not the colosseum!

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@paularambles Rob Goldstein said a few weeks ago the same thing is happening at BlackRock

https://t.co/pxBtDtOqVw