Carl Bales

AI | Software Engineering | Finance | Tequila | D&D | Weaponized Autism • VP of Software Engineering at Caesars Entertainment. Ex $AMZN, $IBM, EY, and $RCL.

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

I am working on something $PLTR.

[Carl Bales @YossarianTech]

I’m short on $PLTR rest of the month, long on $PLTR rest of the year.

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@AnkanXplorer Amazon. The culture is built to make them the most successful with AI. The org tree and hr mechanism are built to protect people payed too much to output too little. It’s sad… If any company should kill it in the age of “precision writing” being valuable in code, it’s them.

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@ardent__dev 100%. It’s a matter of taste. The number one difference maker for coding agents in my experience is that the human knows AND CARES what good looks like; and that the person can provide meaningful correction and sanity check macro patterns.

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Some profitability projections read like the analyst never got past Calc 1. Growth isn’t always linear or unbounded. Trends hit asymptotic limits. No, $NVDA isn’t a perpetual money machine scaling to $1.2B/day. Guess everything’s linear plotted log-log with a fat marker.

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I’ll be interested to see what the @X version of @LinkedIn’s AI Slop button report is. I like the idea in concept, but I feel like there’s some nuance needed. Not all AI content is “slop”, but that’s what the report content button turns into in practice I fear.

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AuDHD in one photo.

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Last week was fun. Let’s do it again.

$SPCX, $HOOD, $GANx

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@RobinhoodApp What about the ones trending towards it? Am i just approaching greatness?

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@gurgavin It keeps getting cheaper, i keep buying. will do so all year

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@trying_to_exits Rust / Go - lack of supported version sprawl is a great llm feature.
Ruby / Python - clean readable token efficient

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@strictrope I’d follow this guy into battle anywhere, but mostly out of morbid curiosity.

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@MsVeilMoney k

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@elonmusk I used to joke with AI Center of Excellence at $AMZN that Terminator 2 should be required viewing for all new employees. I no longer feel that’s a joke.

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@elonmusk axis labels?

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@amitisinvesting this story is maybe the most gangster shit i’ve ever read. It reads like citadel is run by Al Pacino from the godfather calling his crew in to tell them to fuck Leopold on his wedding in a way he wasn’t expecting,

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@BlackMambaMilli

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@elonmusk It’s wild how much better X is getting than other platforms at policing misinformation. I wish other platforms would follow this lead in helping control the rampant misinformation game. I’m hopeful this works backwards from recreating that magic that is wikipedia talk pages.

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@solopribuilds In the AI age. It’s still important (and maybe much more important) to understand how to write unit tests and when to delete unit tests. A unit test you can’t look at and know exactly what broke has next to zero utility.

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@nalinrajput23 not with that dirty screen and questionable color theme