Jake Hobbs

🚢 you just have to ship no matter how wild your week is.

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

ngl it’s kinda wild that China is the land of hypercapitalist competition fueled by open-weight models anyone can use, and America is the land where the executive branch of government must personally approve you to have the privilege of giving a private company your money

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

i miss fable already and disagree completely with this move by the US govt.

if it wasn't already clear, running models locally is the only way forward.

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@mckaywrigley Happy to test! I use Claude Code/Cowork daily and have built a second brain that I rely on for daily prioritization and managing multiple workflows. Would like to compare it with what I have created.

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@ibrahimmwageeh Template

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@vamsibatchuk would love to try

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

I found the perfect cross sell with a Claude Code Max subscription

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@tengyanAI @openclaw i hope your bot posted this for you.
if not, you are retarded.

[Zack Voell @zackvoell]

“Yes I feel fully recharged after a restful holiday”

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@basit_designs @framer Minimaline

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@joaopaulots Other

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

What most young people don’t know about careers is you need ONE breakout success (or company) to change your entire trajectory..

And, this is true for operating AND venture. If you join at the right moment and do well, your entire past is replaced with that “high point”.

It’s very rare to do it again and again - especially 0 to 1 - and that’s why I have a lot of respect for people who continuously reinvent themselves.

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@PrajwalTomar_ cursor

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

@PrajwalTomar_ @lovable serene

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

lmao

[SIGKITTEN @SIGKITTEN]

I'm very happy to see that cursor-agent implements my favorite claude-code feature

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Brutal truth: Your inability to focus on one thing for an extended amount of time will hurt you far greater than your lack of intellect.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

This is insane:

We must received some MASSIVE downward jobs revisions.

May’s jobs report was revised down by 125,000, from +144,000 to +19,000.

June’s jobs report was revised down by 133,000, from +147,000 to +14,000.

That’s 258,000 jobs that just vanished from the data in 2 MONTHS.

What is happening here?

[Jake Hobbs @WilliamJake]

cursor recently blocked several competitor extensions, but you can still run the augment code extension in cursor with this workaround:

1. install augment in vs code
2. download the augment .vsix file
3. run `cursor --install-extension ~file_location` in the terminal

augment still has too many use cases in my workflows for me to drop it just yet.

[Ashley Ha @ashleybchae]

claude getting cute with me

no sir we are finishing this tonight

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

I’m sure the “I love taxes” crowd is sending over their fair share.