Alex Mason

iOS developer. Spatial computing + digital art enthusiast

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

My side project is coming along. Custom game engine for Vision Pro. You can define scenes in a Mac app and then run them on Vision Pro. PBR.

All Swift.

Progress!

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Jim Rogers said the best advice he ever received on Wall Street was to read and think critically about what you consume

Ironically, this advice is now more relevant than ever

Cannot tell you how many hedge funds and institutional analysts are simply asking a chatbot to summarize the 10K/Qs for them

If you are one of the few people going to the source materials, you will pick up things that the rest of the market will miss. There is your alpha

[Pieter Garicano @pietergaricano]

Everyone's seen the old Harvard entrance exam, but how would you do at the 1878 exam to join the British Indian Civil Service?

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

Everything has moved to the eval area.

Doesn’t matter how it gets done, just grade the output

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

So proud of our security team! They caught, contained & publicly disclosed an attack unlike anything we've seen before, and did it at record speed.

Also massively grateful to @Zai_org: they shared GLM5.2 as open weights (for free!) with the world and it became a key part of our defense.

This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents & we're all learning that secrecy is not the answer & that all defenders (not just a few selected ones) everywhere need more powerful models without restrictions, especially open ones!

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

Remember when Ray Dalio moved to the UAE and months later Iran started launching drones at it…

Being in between Russia and China and one country away from Afghanistan does not seem like a good move!

[Balaji @balajis]

I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School.
Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent.

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

Insane number of likes in 2 hours

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

@micsolana man who likes technology scoffing at burger technology

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

I'm feeling the takeoff.

I can't believe I doubted

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

Ochocinco breaking down the athletic failures of a 65 year old man who was trucked by a bison. No other website like it

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

@sama A custom game engine and authoring tool for downloadable games on Apple platforms. I am shocked! It took ~1.5 days

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

The concept that a mildly profitable business is an “infinite money glitch”

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

It seems like a lot of zoomers at work simply do not have the sauce.

Just show up to meetings on time and have your camera turned on and you’re in the top 10% of zoomer employees

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

Officer and Laughing Girl
Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1657

[Tyler @tjshibata]

I had Muse Spark 1.1 teach me about the history of US men's soccer across all World Cups, and it one-shotted this presentation

Super impressed. It did research using multiple tools, gathered images, and brought everything together in a cohesive (and engaging) way

This took literally 6 minutes and 1 prompt

Amazing work from @AIatMeta. Can't believe this model is already outperforming Opus 4.8 (esp at creating these presentations). Going to be game-changing for educators + knowledge work."

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

https://t.co/L7tew4UxMt

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

People don’t realize that Zuckerberg is all in on AI because he refuses to pay a 30% tax to platform owners for the rest of his life

Meta caught the shift towards mobile back in the early 2010s, but they were never able to create their own hardware platform to capture users in their ecosystem

As a result, they got stuck paying a 30% tax to Apple on in-app purchases, which has cost Meta billions of dollars in profit

Zuckerberg is keen on making sure this natural monopoly or duopoly structure doesn’t emerge again in AI where a couple of players can become the toll booth for accessing every platform on the web

For Zuck, this is existential, and if he has to burn every last dollar of free cash flow today to achieve this, he will do it

If that sounds crazy, look at it from the perspective of Zuckerberg

He has never held a job in his entire life. Being Meta’s CEO is all he has ever known since he was 18 years old. He has nothing to lose

He is the exact type of person you should never bet against, no matter what odds someone gives you

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

@nabeelqu I got hit with “that’s the belt-and-suspenders of it” today

[Moderate Centrist @TerroirDuGolfe]

My all time favorite Haaland quote: "I try and tell myself it doesn't matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesn't matter-like you do shows, you do this, you do that, and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly it doesn't matter."

[Alex Mason @mason_ap]

Has AI coding led to any major crypto hacks? Or made it easier for crypto projects to succeed? Me thinks not