Bennallack

I make magazines, websites, conferences, investments, decisions, and fajitas.

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

Many AGI-doom naysayers don't seem to understand what super-intelligence means

Guys, it's much smarter than you. It'll anticipate your countermeasures. (If it doesn't just read them on X)

If you've ever seen a hamster hide from you by sticking its head up a tube then you get it

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

Forget the palm trees, I have a new address goal

https://t.co/nP9gqFCJVr

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

I'm still here. I'm ever more homogenised.

https://t.co/bzUDk7hntH

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Wild: When the BYD Zhengzhou factory is fully complete it will be larger than San Francisco (but smaller than the Denver airport!)

~10x larger than the Gigafactory Nevada. Not apples to apples because it's effectively a city - employees live there in dorms.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

No longer hiring junior or even mid-level software engineers.

Our tokens per codebase:

Gumroad: 2M
Flexile: 800K
Helper: 500K
Iffy: 200K
Shortest: 100K

Both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o3-mini have context windows of 200K tokens, meaning they can now write 100% of our Iffy and Shortest code if prompted well.

It won’t be long until AI will be writing all the code for Helper, Flexile, and Gumroad. My guess is by the end of 2026.

Our new process:

1. Sit and chat about what we need to build, doing research with Deep Research as we go.
2. Have AI record everything and turn it into a spec.
3. Clean up the spec, adding any design requirements / other nuances.
4. Have Devin code it up.
5. QA, merge, (auto-)deploy to prod.

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@ToddWenning Amazing Todd!

[Monevator @Monevator]

Imagine losing us our EU citizenship and rights, costing the UK £100bn+ a year for ZERO gain, taxing us to the highest level since WW2, going through five PMs in a decade, crashing the economy, and partying through a pandemic – and still thinking voters are scared of Labour 🙄

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@AmInvestorDiary @Monevator Hi! Yes, I'm still out here haha thanks ;)

I agree re: constituency issues, there was a typo in my comment -- I meant "locally for me" not "lovely for me"!

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@AmInvestorDiary @Monevator Because they won’t win, narrowly nor lovely for me. Sad perhaps but how it is.

[Sir Godfrey Lawson 🇬🇧 @godfrey_lawson]

The Tory party have received unfair criticism this last few weeks. In the interests of balance,I’ve posted some charts below which show performance in various key areas such as life expectancy, the NHS, trade, immigration and the economy

🧵

#GeneralElection2024

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@casparfield You're assuming the voting machines will work

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

Eight years on and they're still at it. You cannot make this shit up...

George Orwell must be turning in his grave

/collecting royalties and consulting fees

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

These checks are an unnecessary act of self harm that will increase prices in an era of inflation.  Brexit is an opportunity for deregulation not becoming a mini protectionist EU.
https://t.co/MXTDuwMsNk

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

"I have my favorite crazies, and you have your favorite crazies, and we get together and all become crazier as we hire people to tell us what we want to hear... it’s a terrible thing that’s happened to our country."
– Charlie Munger, R.I.P.

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

First Sam Altman, now the founder of Cruise. I'm not saying John Connor is sending back emissaries to squeeze these guys out with offers they can't refuse, but let's look out for rogue Austrian cyborgs in the weeks ahead

https://t.co/RgseIQBmA7

[Emily Britt @Emilyloolah]

OMFG - it’s just a bunch of blokes propping up the bar at a shit golf course now isn’t it?

[Monevator @Monevator]

Discover how one Monevator reader retired at 40 with just £210,000 in the pot to travel the world on the cheap, and has still ended up a millionaire through judicious investing – and a healthy dose of luck!

https://t.co/MH1JNgx91L

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@WyndhamWallace The irony being there are remote tribes in the Papuan New Guinea rainforest who are still on a barter system who could have improved on their economic thinking since 2016…

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@WyndhamWallace Careful. That’s exactly how Coutts felt and look where it got them.

[Bennallack @Bennallack]

@notken Oh I’m so sorry Steve she’s a beauty for sure. Lucky to have you looking after her, and I’m sure keep rewarding you for your care!