basedtom

gradatim ferociter

[basedtom @Basedtom]

the world is a museum of passion projects

[basedtom @Basedtom]

@aceddeca1 With shuckering you just hope to become an expert before you gash your hand

[dr cavey phd ∿ @cavemanloverboy]

elite engineers make more efficient use of tokens

elite engineers go from 10x to 100x on a single pro plan

mid engineers stay mid

[Chris Buskirk e/acc @thechrisbuskirk]

This spirit of theft, brutality, stagnation, and decline is anti-human, anti-American, and must be defeated.

[Sean @sean_from_earth]

Ah, sweet dystopian hell. The feds now get to decide whether you, specifically, get access to intelligence.

Thank you safety people everywhere for helping to ensure we go down the worst path possible.

[basedtom @Basedtom]

CEXs are responsible for collecting and remitting 💀

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

So you know this is a 0.2% tax on EVERY transaction you make. No matter what. Including transferring between wallets that YOU control. It’s also a 0.2% tax on ANY CRYPTO YOU HAVE. Not on gains. On ANY AMOUNT you have. Illinois has lost their fucking minds.

[The Crown Club 👑 @CrownClubCLT]

Great. Now every kid who moved to your town from New York in the 2nd grade won’t shut up for the next 53 years.

P.S. He’s got an uncle who still lives there that he visits every 4 years so he’s “from New York”

[basedtom @Basedtom]

Kyc is never the answer

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Game theory from here is super interesting:

Original Mags (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta) now have a serious non-zero opportunity to tank the frontier labs.

Go to the government, kneecap the labs’ motion of putting the latest models out in the wild, become the trusted gatekeeper between the labs and the public at large (including internationally) by having the labs go through their clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and implement strict KYC to seal the deal.

The frontier labs should have seen this coming years ago and implemented a robust KYC for just this moment. The fact they didn’t is kind of concerning.

Why did they not do it?

Best guess is because it would have changed the run-rate revenues (downward) which would have then changed funding dynamics - lower valuations, more dilution, less secondary.

A valuation reset may happen now anyways, except the labs may end up with less control and more restrictions at the end of it. At the same time, everyone is already clamoring about token prices of the old models from the labs anyways…

This couldn’t be a better setup for open source and neoclouds. Big question is can they meet the moment?

There are too few of them and their progress seems sporadic at best.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Anthropic TLDR

[ludwig @LudwigAhgren]

did fifa really add hydration breaks just to run more ads this shit is insane lmao

[basedtom @Basedtom]

Subsidize employee personal accounts , save money

[Marty Kausas @marty_kausas]

Our Anthropic bill is about to jump from $400K → $1.4M/yr.

Not because usage exploded, but because we're about to cross 150 seats.

Past 150 seats you're forced into Enterprise tier. Seats stop including any usage, every token bills at standard API rates. At our current run rate that's 3.5x overnight.

Unfiltered thoughts on AI spend:

1. We should spend tokens to grow as aggressively as possible. But most people (me included) aren't conscious of what they're spending.

2. Visibility comes first. People see their personal number and they're shocked. I accidentally spent $4,000 in 3 days in Claude Code.

3. For engineering the spend is clearly worth it. Pay for the best model, it saves more than it costs.

4. For a lot of other roles it's questionable. Apps nobody uses, skills someone already built. No ROI.

5. Spend limits are coming. We already require approval for more tokens on our support team.

The era of token-maxxing is coming to an end.

[basedtom @Basedtom]

Audible still not showing chapter names is pure incompetence

[basedtom @Basedtom]

@Stupifff Consensus algo isn’t a moat?

[basedtom @Basedtom]

We simply can’t let a Frenchman dominate the league for the next 10 years. Knicks are patriots.

[basedtom @Basedtom]

@web4O Or

[basedtom @Basedtom]

there's a compelling case for spaceX as the next Dutch East India Company.... I am underexposed

[Sean Bowe @ebfull]

Late last year, we decided to use simpler and more conservative cryptography for Tachyon to reduce the chance of bugs. Earlier this year, we hired @zksecurityXYZ to help configure our circuits for formal verification.

Zcash's future shielded pools will all be provably sound.

[basedtom @Basedtom]

@web4O if they put tickets in orchard pool everyone could go

[Cameron Winklevoss @cameron]

It's still Zcash or communism.

[basedtom @Basedtom]

💀

[Frank @frankdegods]

bro basically said "look for bugs that could exploit zcash"

that's the prompt that found an exploit in a 10 billion dollar protocol

[basedtom @Basedtom]

re: whispr + claude..

there's a reason for the saying "clear writing is clear thinking." if you're just babbling off the top of your head to claude you're just burning tokens.

stop and think.

[basedtom @Basedtom]

tahoe 26.5 is sick