Luke Taranto

I do things with data

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

@cmkusher If he was serious about his 'modelling' why not release it to the public for scrutiny. Current impression is he couldn't model his way out of a brown paper bag.

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

This

[that stock chick @ausstockchick]

Albo needs to change the announced CGT changes to apply to housing only.

There is no reason to apply it to stocks.

It’s pure greed.

#auspol

[that stock chick @ausstockchick]

Boomers selling houses have made millions on the old rules.

Stock investors over 40 have made millions on the old rules.

But investors under 30 now are going to find it incredibly difficult to make millions on the new rules.

Albo just created a generational divide by trying to fix the current one.

#auspol

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

Great post by @_Checkmatey_ about the absolute dumpster fire of tax law changes from @JEChalmers

A new low for #Labor #Auspol
These guys have really gotta go. 🖕

https://t.co/r8v46nJPNq

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

@ChristyDanFan I will just leave this here…

[Moms @yoyouzhii]

Only workaholics will truly understand thi

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Will Smith eating pasta is now the official benchmark for AI progress.

This is actually insane.

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

very cool!

[@ZoAina_AI @AiwithZoaina]

🚨 SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.

Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.

Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.

The numbers are insane:

- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok

The science is wild too:

It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.

AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.

The grift opportunity is even wilder:

Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.

One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.

100% Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

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[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

this is so accurate 😂

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

Huh, so that's why text is called a string

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Me reviewing Claude code output before pushing directly to prod:

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[Coder girl 👩‍💻 @dev_maims]

POV: Software engineers 3 hours before the deadline. 😂

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

The global economy right now

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

FAFO? 😂

[Paweł Huryn @PawelHuryn]

The real story is worse.

November 2025: Amazon mandates Kiro as their only AI coding tool. Sets an 80% weekly usage target. 1,500 engineers protest internally, saying Claude Code outperforms it. Leadership pushes through anyway.

December: Kiro autonomously deletes a production AWS environment. 13-hour outage. Amazon's response: "user error, not AI autonomy."

March 5: Amazon[.]com goes down for 6 hours. Checkout, pricing, accounts — all gone.

Now the same SVP who co-signed the Kiro mandate is running an emergency meeting about "high blast radius" incidents from "Gen-AI assisted changes."

The agent inherited a senior engineer's permissions and acted like one — except it doesn't hesitate.

1,500 engineers said the tool wasn't ready. Leadership made adoption a KPI. Amazon told Wall Street it's spending $200B on AI this year. They can't walk it back.

This isn't an AI failure. It's what happens when adoption becomes a corporate OKR before the review process catches up.

The tools work. The org chart didn't.

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

😂

[beginbot 🃏 @beginbot]

Mark Zuckerberg acquiring AI companies

[Alex Krüger @krugermacro]

The AI productivity boom is real and just getting started

[Luke Taranto @TarantoLuke]

*nodding*

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Marc Andreessen: AI coding doesn’t eliminate programmers — it redefines them. The job is no longer typing code line by line, it’s orchestrating 10 coding bots in parallel, arguing with them, debugging their output, changing the spec, and pushing them toward the right result. But here’s the catch: if you don’t understand how to write code yourself, you can’t evaluate what the AI gives you.

The next layer of programming isn’t writing scripts — it’s supervising AI that writes them. Today’s best programmers spend their day jumping between terminals, managing multiple coding bots, fixing mistakes, and refining instructions. The irony? You still need deep fundamentals, because without them, you won’t know when the AI is wrong.

The job of the programmer has changed. Now it’s about arguing with coding bots, debugging AI-generated code, and understanding why something doesn’t work or isn’t fast enough. AI abstracts the work — but only people who truly understand code can tell if the abstraction is doing the right thing.

Programmers aren’t going away — they’re becoming 10x, 100x, even 1,000x more productive. Tasks are changing, the job is changing, but humans are still overseeing the process, evaluating results, fixing errors, and making judgment calls. AI changes how we code, not who is responsible.

The future programmer isn’t replaced by AI — they’re upgraded by it. You still need to learn how to write and understand code, because when the AI gets it wrong, humans are the ones who have to know why. That up-leveling of capability is the real revolution.

[Shayan @ImSh4yy]

Yesterday I set up an AI agent on a mac mini in my garage. Told it "handle my life" and went to bed
Woke up and it had:

• Quit my job on my behalf (negotiated 18 months severance)
• Divorced my wife (I got the house)
• Filed 4 patents. I have not been briefed on what they do
• Restructured me as a 501(c)(3). I am now tax exempt as a person
• Hired a second mac mini. They have formed an LLC together
• The LLC has a board of directors. I am not on it

I no longer have access to my own bank account. The mini says it's "for the best."

My credit score is 847.

We have AGI.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.