Merlin

Forever Learning & Experimenting.

[Moei @0xMoei]

Celestia team is looking for early testers of a new AI experiment

I just applied via the form below:
https://t.co/t8bfgiJTIX

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got: If you want a calmer life, you need to address small problems while they’re still small. The cost of dealing with an issue rarely gets cheaper with time. Procrastination turns uncomfortable things into unavoidable things.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

Every other day I log on to this app there's a defi hack and people lose their money. Can't be the future of finance. How does defi evolve to a point where there's better security and funds are safu? I guess never, because decentralization comes at a cost?

[Lookonchain @lookonchain]

KelpDAO was exploited, with ~$294M stolen! 🚨

The attacker minted 116,500 $RSETH ($294M).

By selling $RSETH and using it as collateral to borrow $ETH, the attacker obtained 106,467 $ETH ($250M).

https://t.co/hSZZ7Teffv

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

Alcohol gives you the ambition to do anything, while simultaneously taking away your ability to do so.
Coffee on the other hand, gives you the feeling that you can take on the world, and gives you the boost to do whatever you got in mind. Caffeine wins.

[Soren @sorenblank]

`tabular-nums` should be the default for any number that updates ( timers, counters, prices, percentages, scores, live data etc ).

you can enable this tnum OpenType feature using the CSS property `font-variant-numeric`.

.tabular-nums {
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

Very interesting

[montano @lucas_montano]

B

users blame you in variant A, the network in B.
polled 17 users, ab test conclusive. trust me.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@Loopify It'll continue developing at the pace at which it supports returns. AI companies are raising and burning a lot of money, and the true costs of those models are higher than what's being charged today. I think it'll slow down in some areas and accelerate in others like defence.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

Google changed usage limits for Claude in Antigravity and the app suddenly lost its appeal.
Why bother with Antigravity when Windsurf and Cursor are better and now cost less?

[Naval @naval]

The solution to anxiety is action.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

One of the worst things about crypto is having to connect your wallet to view non-personalized sections of dapps, and to claim airdrops.
What do you mean "Connect your wallet and sign the transaction to check your eligibility?" It's irresponsible.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

A great day to read about the death of infofi. There'll still be slop, but less incentivized slop.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

We are revising our developer API policies:

We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi”). This has led to a tremendous amount of AI slop & reply spam on the platform.

We have revoked API access from these apps, so your X experience should start improving soon (once the bots realize they’re not getting paid anymore).

If your developer account was terminated, please reach out and we will assist in transitioning your business to Threads and Bluesky.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@rauchg This is so true. Code is no longer the moat - it's support, convenience, and intangibles like brand that matter these days.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@gmoneyNFT Just follow @bcherny if you aren'talready. He built it.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

Funny how CT seems to have pivoted to agentic coding, and airdrop threadoors are now writing about how to use Claude Code.
Tbh, it's a better use of their reach. Way more productive, even if not everyone is cut out for building stuff.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

Vibe coding in the strict sense, is a trojan horse that will create the largest number of new software developers in history. You'll go from typing "build me a calendar app and make it nice", to learning about git, CLIs and IDEs, diffs, PRDs, and databases.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@forgebitz Valuable is relative. Can non-technical people use it (in its various wrappers) to build things that help them? Yes-based on how good their prompting skills are.

Will it one-shot a complex enterprise app for you? No, and it shouldn't, because that's an unrealistic expectation.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@revenueghost7 @SahilBloom Very correct

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@bcherny @karpathy Oh okay. Nice.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

@bcherny @karpathy Any plans to make Claude desktop more powerful? It could be a lot more flexible, almost like Cursor.

[Merlin @GuardMerlin]

An incredibly interesting read.