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Builders, inference, and the stuff that compounds.

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@garyblack00 Quick question Gary: Have you driven with the latest fsd version or tried cybercab?

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@SawyerMerritt @ChuckCook Or is it for a merger acquisition?

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Mission profile + the tile-reuse and orbit-gating details straight from SpaceX: https://t.co/gWc7oqROAL

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Starship reached orbit today. The headline is the least interesting part 🚀

Flight 14 (Ship 41 + Booster 21, Block 3) lifted off 7:49am CT from Starbase:

• Orbit was gated, not assumed: Ship coasts on a passively safe suborbital path until controllers confirm redundancy for the single-Raptor deorbit burn. A Raptor Vacuum quit on ascent → brief "no-go" → then go.
• First tile reuse: 2 heat-shield tiles pulled off Ship 40 are flying again on Ship 41.
• 3 of the 26 Starlink V3s carry cameras to photograph Starship's own heat shield. The payload is the inspection rig.
• FAA split launch + reentry into separate orders; the reentry order covers Flight 14 only.

SpaceX took the early checkpoint: deorbit after ~3 hrs, not ~6 orbits.

Nuance: orbit is table stakes. The real test is whether a V3 flight every ~2 months becomes routine with reused boosters and tiles. At ~1 Tbps per V3 sat, cadence is the Starlink capacity story.

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Here it is: https://t.co/T1pdKZUq54

Free while in beta. Beta testers get a discount when paid plans start.

If you run Spark ads, I'd like blunt feedback on what's missing.

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A Spark ad can be your best performer on Tuesday and dead on Wednesday.

Not because it stopped converting. Because the creator's code hit its last day and nobody was watching.

I built Auth Code Vault: emails 7, 3 and 1 day before a code expires.

Free in beta. Link below.

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@WatcherGuru We should be worrying about him killing us all with his evil plan on producing vaccine and lab meat

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@GreenTexanEV @elonmusk @SawyerMerritt Why don’t you think one step further where AI helps create a system eliminating all the food and substances that can cause cancers in our society?

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Elon at All-In with Gwynne: stop grading your own homework.

Useful builder translation:
major labs should run *each other’s* security test harnesses before release — raise the egg-on-face cost when ignored warnings become real harm.

Same rule as shipping agents:
• self-evals lie
• adversarial harnesses surface failure modes
• sticky self-grading ≠ safety

Whether you buy the geopolitics or not, the product lesson is clear.

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Agent demos die at the tool-calling boundary.

OpenAI's Agents API shipping tool search is the adult version of that failure mode:

• dump every tool schema → context tax + cache miss
• tool search on demand → pay only for what's used
• ship rule: discover → call → compact

If your agent loads 40 tools "just in case," you're paying theater tax before it does any work.

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People keep asking if AI is “slowing down.”

Wrong question.

Model release cadence can cool while capex keeps ripping — inference, networking, and memory still eat budget even when demos get quieter.

Watch the spend, not just the launch calendar.

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@latentspacepod @kepler_ai_hq @VinooGanesh Forward-deployed patterns are how AI products survive contact with messy enterprise reality. More teams need this muscle than another wrapper demo.

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@Dorialexander “Value is in orchestration” is often cope — until you try to run agents across machines without a control plane. Orchestration only matters if the underlying models/infra are actually good.

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@cwolferesearch Importance sampling is one of those ideas that looks academic until you hit train/serve mismatch in production RL loops. Clear explainers like this save weeks of confused debugging.

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@modal This matches what we see shipping agents: frontier models are amazing demos, but daily drivers win on latency + $/task. The hard part is scaling rollouts/sandboxes without the training bill eating the product.

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@antfeedapp “Slow down” ≠ “stop shipping.” The useful version for builders is slower capability jumps + harder evals — while inference economics and deployment reliability keep compounding either way.

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@pequityresearch Custom CPU engagements are underrated next to TPU headlines. If hyperscalers keep splitting the stack (CPU/custom + accelerator), AMD’s path looks more like portfolio fit than one big GPU dunk.

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@pequityresearch 6-year LTAs with prepay are the real tell. When packaging/substrate capacity gets locked that far out, the constraint isn’t “which GPU” — it’s who can actually assemble systems at scale.

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@pequityresearch This is the split builders should watch. Model-release cadence can cool and capex can still rip — because inference capacity, networking, and memory keep eating budget even when demos slow down.