Michael Brant

I tweet about building micro-saas businesses (sold 2022) | x Lockheed Martin | x Redesign Health

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

The difference between the web3 hype and the more recent AI hype is:
Instead of asking what CAN we do with web3, we're asking, what CAN'T we do with AI?

[AI Philly @aiphilly_]

Context resets. Rework your already finished code. Agents that forget by session 2. @jamesonhodge shows the fix at AI Philly, next week.

RSVP here to attend: https://t.co/yRP3SRhKHY

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@ryancarson Doesn’t work with openclaw yet but they’re working on it. Defaults to a local setup so if you’re running in a VPS it requires some set up. Looks promising

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

Apparently it’s controversial to be pro America? 😂😂

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@bryan_johnson As someone who has completed an HTML and JavaScript coding bootcamp, let me tell you why AI will be taking all developer jobs… a thread 🧵

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Explained to a rather surprised English woman that Elon isn't actually evil — that evil people can't survive long as founders of tech cos, because they need smart people to work for them, and smart people can work anywhere.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

lot of non-programmers with a lot of big opinions about the future of programming these days

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

One way to know someone isn’t a developer is they are very confident developers jobs are all being replaced.

As someone who has made developing my career, I’m not so sure about this. He must know something I don’t.

[signüll @signulll]

if you were a software engineer for the last 15 years & reaped all of the insane benefits of being a SWE, you effectively drank the nectar of the gods before the all of the wells suddenly got poisoned.

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@mreiffy Yeah I can see APIs having a big moment

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@mreiffy I wonder how that would be different from a normal API service

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

I think I like “AI hype horizon”.

“From a distance, the future looks like replacement, but up close it’s adoption”

the further you are from an industry, the more it looks like replacement.

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@Scobleizer @Suhail “Computer end program!”

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@Austen Or they even grow! 📈

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@gunsnrosesgirl3

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

The corduroy appreciation club is real and they fucking HATE velvet. The annual meeting was november 11th, the date that looks most like corduroy.

https://t.co/1M4mYyss8Y

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@Shpigford https://t.co/agMFUl8pkS

Portal. It just works and it’s free

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@MiguelSarenas Is it a machine where you can go one arm?

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@noahkagan Def C. Was your profile picture the inspiration? 😃

[gaut @0xgaut]

If you want to build a big company, you must master user interface and experience.

Here's 5 of the best designed websites to help inspire you:

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

Yes I listen to the All In Podcast, that’s where I get my opinions

[Michael Brant @MichaelDBrant]

@heyecs limewire: 03 Lil Wayne - Got Money ft. T-Pain.exe (2GB)
me: lgtm