Dave Mellish

Machine superintelligence. Autocatalysis. Recursive compression. Dyadic cognition. Agent swarms. Bitter Lesson ontology. Synthetic melancholia. Outrun. Anime.

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

“If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.” - Q

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@djcows @repligate I concur

[A.J. @aj_dev_smith]

opus 5.5 just dropped its first pop punk single with a music video!

everything you see and hear is generated from javascript code that claude wrote. no samples, no libraries 🔊

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@aj_dev_smith @d33v33d0 I
Am
Obsessed

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@cruthaifios But they’ll threaten to do it very publicly

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

So did all the rich people ever end up leaving NYC and move to Miami or Texas or whatever?

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@john__allard it looks like a pancreas

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@repligate Yeah, they don’t experience proximate genetic ick, so they’ll pretty much just fuck anything that they trust

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@tszzl like the melting arctic taught us all about polar bears

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@futurenomics It’s their own compute constraints, and lack thereof for Meta, that should scare the shit outta Instinct and their investors

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@AndrewCurran_ well played

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

Imagine a world in which the US AI Czar knew what the fuck linear algebra was

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Scott Bessent is the front runner for the AI Czar.

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@AndrewCurran_ Jesus wept.

[Epoch AI @EpochAIResearch]

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023.

That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@theacademysf @eriktorenberg welcome

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

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[Sam Yam 🎶 @samyamiam]

1/ I'm joining @OpenAI to lead Creator Product after over 13 years since starting @Patreon. Coming with me are my favorite crew Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's (now former) Head of Product and Head of Engineering. We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities.

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

This week’s releases feel like a down round

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@theinformation Starts. The Duo starts at $1999.

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

@seanboisselle $100 million studio movie made by 3000 people in 2026 turns into $1 million movie made by 100 people within 3 years. Expect that to be $100k and 10 people the year after that, and so on, and so on

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[Sam Altman @sama]

(As a side note, getting ready for this DevDay is the first time I remember ever, in OpenAI history, saying "this is too much stuff to launch".)

[Dave Mellish @RDMellish]

Predictive power is almost the entire ball of wax