Peter T. Augustin

🌘 MY MISSION: Creating Simple, Human products from Complex Tech.

💡 AI, LLMs, ML | 👩‍🔬 Product Discovery | 🎚️ Design for AI SaaS

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@garrytan And file a complaint with a rep. most would be horrified how bad the customer experience got. Seen it before. “How is it possible our experience is so bad?” “well because nobody designs it, it just happened”.

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@jasonfried Strawman. It was a designer who created that cockpit out of nothing.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Elon Musk says the maximum amount of people who can retire from the federal government in a month is 10,000 because the paperwork is done manually at an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.

The mine in question is Iron Mountain.

"The speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government."

Iron Mountain is a 330,000-square-foot data center more than 200 feet deep. It uses a 35-acre underground reservoir to create a geothermal cooling system.

A report from 2021 reveals how the government tried (and failed) to digitize the process for decades. $106 million later, and failing to do so, the government decided to keep the old process.

"$106 million later, the OPM facility resumed functioning with the processes established back in 1977," STWserve dot com reported.

[James Potter (rephonic.com) @jamespotter]

Imagine being the designer at Amazon responsible for this war crime

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@andrewchmr @philkellr Pogs?

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@PereAyats wtf are you eating?

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@0x_ale It’s promising, but aligning all countries will take so much time. We’re talking law reforms for most countries. Won’t that take like 10 years?

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@itsloukman @maria_cocu @adamstatonsmith @moneymanbubba @zachpogrob That's crazy expensive compared to Europe for the 33sqm apartment!!!

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@lexfridman how much is the PRC communist party involved in the dev + censorship

[wordgrammer @wordgrammer]

“Is the US losing the war in AI??” I don’t think so. DeepSeek had a few big breakthroughs, we have had hundreds of small breakthroughs. If we adopt DeepSeek’s architecture, our models will be better. Because we have more compute and more data.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

My favorite thing about the AI agents is that they can help me get something done in half an hour, what used to take me less than a minute.

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@stephsmithio They are still people with civic liberties and rights. You can’t just force someone to get help. Plus it doesn’t work, addiction usually has a root cause and any pressure just creates opposition in a person. If you jail them, they’ll just rot in jail.

[NewsNation @NewsNation]

UAP Exclusive: Never-before-seen video shows an egg-shaped craft, the same kind of UAP a whistleblower says he encountered as part of a secret retrieval program. More: https://t.co/9g8PPAp6ID

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The fact TikTok didn’t sell, despite having many willing buyers, is a testament that it was an agent of the CCP.

[@jason @Jason]

Bruh, @tiktok_us had years to secure American data or take the company public/divest — you chose to do neither

Instead you’ve been caught spying on Americans and refuse to let American companies participate in your market.

This is 100% your choice

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@tom_doerr Agreed, most people are still hopelessly stuck at the bottom of the needs pyramid. If they have those handled, they are just consuming bc they're bored.

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

@ahir_amsha @sergeantsup @SalvMattera Seriously consider both though ;)

[Peter T. Augustin @PeterTAugustin]

Lex moving to another level in 2024/2025.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa).

It was an intense and heartfelt conversation, my goal for which was to do my small part in pushing for peace.

We spoke in a mix of 3 languages: English, Ukrainian, and Russian. It's fully dubbed in each of those 3 languages. The original (mixed-language version) is available as well. So the options are:
- Audio: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Original (Mixed)
- Subtitles: English, Ukrainian, Russian

It's available here on X and everywhere else. On X, I'm uploading the Full English overdub version. The other versions will be available on YouTube (see comment thread).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:29 - Introductory words from Lex
13:55 - Language
23:44 - World War II
40:32 - Invasion on Feb 24, 2022
47:07 - Negotiating Peace
1:07:24 - NATO and security guarantees
1:20:17 - Sitting down with Putin and Trump
1:39:47 - Compromise and leverage
1:45:15 - Putin and Russia
1:55:07 - Donald Trump
2:05:39 - Martial Law and Elections
2:17:58 - Corruption
2:26:44 - Elon Musk
2:30:47 - Trump Inauguration on Jan 20
2:33:55 - Power dynamics in Ukraine
2:37:27 - Future of Ukraine
2:42:09 - Choice of language
2:51:39 - Podcast prep and research process
3:00:04 - Travel and setup
3:05:51 - Conclusion

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa).

It was an intense and heartfelt conversation, my goal for which was to do my small part in pushing for peace.

We spoke in a mix of 3 languages: English, Ukrainian, and Russian. It's fully dubbed in each of those 3 languages. The original (mixed-language version) is available as well. So the options are:
- Audio: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Original (Mixed)
- Subtitles: English, Ukrainian, Russian

It's available here on X and everywhere else. On X, I'm uploading the Full English overdub version. The other versions will be available on YouTube (see comment thread).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:29 - Introductory words from Lex
13:55 - Language
23:44 - World War II
40:32 - Invasion on Feb 24, 2022
47:07 - Negotiating Peace
1:07:24 - NATO and security guarantees
1:20:17 - Sitting down with Putin and Trump
1:39:47 - Compromise and leverage
1:45:15 - Putin and Russia
1:55:07 - Donald Trump
2:05:39 - Martial Law and Elections
2:17:58 - Corruption
2:26:44 - Elon Musk
2:30:47 - Trump Inauguration on Jan 20
2:33:55 - Power dynamics in Ukraine
2:37:27 - Future of Ukraine
2:42:09 - Choice of language
2:51:39 - Podcast prep and research process
3:00:04 - Travel and setup
3:05:51 - Conclusion

[dax @thdxr]

the only career advice i have is make every decision that moves you closer to not having to be on linkedin