Kevin Yan

Tech addict

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

Imagine paying $500k for an out of touch comedian to give poorly informed opinions on a topic he doesn’t know jack shit about.

Now that the woke era is dying down, AI Doomerism is taking over.

https://t.co/n0A13WiJlJ

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

When you fight a hard boss and lose, you get stronger, learn to counter it, and fight it again. Why treat people any different?
Every difficult person you encounter is a boss that has a counter.
Dumb, autistic, bipolar, entitled, emotional, normal people are all the way they are not by choice. It’s not their problem the way they are. It’s your skill issue because you can’t handle them.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@ryancarson @cognition Lemme try that out. I asked it to make a “skill” using the gh api but didn’t specify playbook. Thanks

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@ryancarson how did you get around this for having devin merge for you?
@cognition any way around this if I always just merge after the devin review anyways?

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

Don’t get lost in work. Live a little. Money isn’t everything.

[immad @immad]

You can work 5 days a week and succeed as a startup.

Mercury has done that from day 0 and we are valued @ $5.2bn 7 years after launch.

I have been an entrepreneur for 20 years and raised 3 kids while doing it.

The point of success is to have a great life not just a startup 😊

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

Gbrain is absolutely the tool to hold the context, but the extraction part is difficult.
In the coming months I will be taking over a fully operational logistics company with AI. Feeding the entire company’s context into gbrain and seeing how it goes. Im highly optimistic

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is the actual bottleneck. The models are smart enough already. What is missing is the company-specific context locked in senior people heads. Whoever cracks knowledge extraction at the company level unlocks the rest.

As you work on this, please consider using GBrain as your OSS retrieval layer

https://t.co/0F5uDQzPHu

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

Man if only we could use the subscription with Openclaw/Hermes
This $200 extra usage thing gets burned in an hour max.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.

Available today at the same price.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@TencentGlobal please add WeChat integration to Hermes Agent. Same as OpenClaw. Much needed.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

Having reduced context window on subscription vs API on OpenAI gpt 5.5 kinda blows on Hermes.
Don't often need to compact, but when it does, it degrades heavily and doesn't even really compact that much (next compaction comes exponentially sooner)

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

EU is so cooked as a whole. No innovation, no dream. Whole continent on vacation

[DHH @dhh]

The EU is 6% of global emissions. Committing economic harakiri in response to climate concerns is pure vanity. Europe can't save the planet because the continent doesn't have any meaningful influence on the outcome.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

America needs tips or service would degrade to European levels.
We do not have the dedication to service that Japanese culture has.

That being said, the psychological warfare being used to increase tips is honestly disgusting and needs to be regulated.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Nobody in Japan has ever tipped. Not once. Not ever.

The price on the menu is the price.
You pay it. You leave. The end.

So in America, I finished my meal —
happy, relaxed, full —
and then the little screen spun around to face me.

18%? 20%? 25%?
And the waiter just… watching.

My heart rate doubles every single time.

Were they good? I don't know!
Is 18% an insult? Will they remember my face?!

Is tipping secretly stressful for you too?
Or have you all just made peace with it? 😂

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@levelsio @rozzabuilds 😂 100% agree. Fuck Europe unless ur tryina learn how to relax and slow down.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

Europe easily my least favorite continent. It’s like nobody gives a shit about anything there. Ask for the check it takes 30 minutes. 0 attention to detail. Food fucking sucks. 0 drive for innovation. I could go on forever

Greece gets a pass tho. I enjoyed the islands.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This hotel I'm at in the Netherlands apart from having the AC limited to 23°C/74°F

Also will NOT clean your room by default to save the 🌍 🍃 environment unless you explicitly put this sign outside (we did and they still didn't come to clean ofc)

There's also no amenities at all unless you ask for it to contribute to "a more sustainable future"

Even the coffee machine talks about how it's "a force for good" and "protecting natural ecosystems"

Western Europe is so fucking tiring

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

If we could access a true agent system like openclaw or Hermes or even grok build thru grok voice in the Tesla, that would be a gamechanger.
@elonmusk @tesla @X

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@teknium is it possible to use openai and x subscriptions in conjunction with model routing?

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@Teknium is it possible to do model routing with subscriptions?
Want to maximize on my X and ChatGPT subscriptions since its basically free tokens. And then have API/nous portal backup.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

If you're building with AI, stop boxing it in with guardrails and give it the full freedom to do its job.
Very counterintuitive if you are used to deterministic software development, but "coding for edge cases" is often counterproductive.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@Prashtwtz @Teknium discord is the way. the thread separation is really nice once you get the hang of it.

[Kevin Yan @KevKYan]

@bradmillscan skill issue