JakeSmith Tech

Machine learning, ethical tech, and indie game developer.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@laraavci_ No one in open source has figured out how to make money yet contributors still show up anyway. The recognition and access is the payoff, and that's the fandom effect you're trying to bottle. Happy to chat if useful

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@laraavci_ Following tech companies like celebrities is the most honest founder origin story this year. Congrats on YC! Curious what day one of the product looks like

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@BenjDicken @karpathy Watched the whole series last month, taught me more than half my coursework did lol

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@madoutech The modding community works for free and does a better job anyway. No guru needed.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@BurgessPark2 @latimeralder Solar on your own roof is a different thing entirely. The panel doesn't need a gas plant sitting idle behind it to be useful. Domestic scale works, grid scale is where the maths falls over.

[Matt Simas @mattsimass]

One of our clients went from virtually zero organic traffic to 100+ clicks and nearly 10,000 impressions per day in just 3 months.

We’ve helped 40+ businesses grow through SEO, Reddit, and AI search visibility.

No shortcuts. Just strategies that compound over time.

And we’re just getting started.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

Siri had a decade head start and still can't set a timer on my phone reliably

[Sooraj Chandran @soorajchandran_]

This is really cool. This is what Siri could have become if someone gave a shit.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@aliszu doodle density as a difficulty indicator is actually clever imo, players would pick up on it without realizing. harder by level could work

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@BusMark_w_Nika @SafeLimit_ Fair, distribution without data is rough. But 'we collect nothing' does half the marketing for you lol

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@hewantswealth Indie hacker here so I get the appeal. But most businesses fail, even DeMarco says that. Index fund is the floor, the startup is the bet on top. Doing both isn't lazy, it's hedging

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@ChShersh Two opposite failure modes back to back. Can't write a normal sentence but will run 67 bash commands to guard a two line diff like it's live payments.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

The UX shell is fine, the part that worries me is where all that inhaled context ends up. Nobody reading the terms is asking that question

[Chris Frantz @frantzfries]

I realize we're not supposed to say this publicly but

Claude and Codex inhaling the full context of platform usage via MCP and now the UI via "Interactive Connectors"

is as close as the bear can get

Users will interact with your platforms in a shell of another platform that is capable of inhaling, building and natively integrating whatever it's hungry for

On the negative side ^

On the plus side, the experience is great for an end user and that's all that matters

The companies immune in this world are:
- still shovel sellers
- those bound by regulation (healthcare mainly)
- human facilitated (shipping, real world logistics, etc)

the rest

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@BusMark_w_Nika @SafeLimit_ Lol it's the best position. I barely trust half the extensions I install, most of them are quietly harvesting data. Doing nothing stands out on its own

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

Funny how every payments company's report finds exactly the problem their product solves. Convenient.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

My accountant flagged this a while back. 40% IHT plus income tax when the kids withdraw, 64% effective. Just the maths. Most people still assume pensions sit outside the estate entirely.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

From April 2027, if you die after 75, the taxman could take 64% of your pension fund – while your kids share the other 36%.

Tax Policy Associates estimate that over 20% of retired households will be impacted (50% in some areas).

And yet few people are even aware.

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

you said claude in a gemini comparison, fable got in your head lol. fidelity wins for me

[Max Blade @_MaxBlade]

fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 carbon

Same prompt -> Google was 103x cheap and 5.3x faster but claudes graphical fidelity is in another galaxy.

this the by the far the best gemini model we have seen in comparison to what is available at the time.

Which do you prefer?

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@SerjKorj every one of these 'you own it' apps never turns out to be open source. funny how that works

[JakeSmith Tech @JakeSmGaming]

@blue_clarity software's been 'dead' since the spreadsheet. yet here I am still shipping side projects at 2am