Brandon Garcia

Avid learner, builder, technology enthusiast. Finding patterns in the chaos. CTO @winiblebets, prev cofounder @ MiraAI (acq), @tpg, @meta, @stanford

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

Excited to introduce our hackathon project from @MiamiHackWeek

🍎🧠 AI.TA - AI Teaching Assistant 🧠🍎

Tell your TA what lesson you're planning and it instantly generates lesson plans, google slides, quizzes, and even an audio presentation of the content. Let's dig in 👇

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

We're hiring a remote QA / Automation eng to increase our shipping speed and build more of the infra needed to support AI-driven QA across our various services.

applications from all across the US:
- Graduated 2024 in SymSys, looking for a collaborative env and a $90k - $120k salary

applicants from the rest of the world:
- 8 years experience in QA/automation, AI-pilled, bright green github profiles, want to work with a hungry team building next-gen product orgs, $36k salary

applicants from Miami:
- "My team specializes in connecting you with..."

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@karpathy was the best teacher I have ever had. He taught CS 231N at Stanford (convolutional neural nets)... his lectures were always accompanied by jupyter notebooks where he'd explain a concept, then have you implement and visualize the concept in a notebook. Such a gifted teacher

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

get me in a triple layered Anthropic SPV, idc!!!!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

https://t.co/C4jUxsNfu7

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

My sense is that people are drinking less because of two major but somewhat independent forces:

- social isolation and the increased time spent in an online “virtual” reality
- a massive increase in awareness, information, and interest in personal health

Despite the fact that I occasionally consume alcohol, there’s no denying its detrimental effects to your brain, liver, and overall life expectancy.

I think there’s a massive opportunity for a new type of physical establishment where adults get together at night and connect without smoking/drinking/eating themselves to death amidst music so loud it drowns out the person across the table.

[TBPN @tbpn]

"Young people are never going to know what it's like to wake up at 3 in the afternoon and be like, 'I left my credit card at the bar.'"

Momofuku founder @davidchang says people drinking less is "the real existential threat" to the restaurant industry.

"The biggest thing that happened in LA over the past 10 years in food was ride sharing," which allowed people to spend more on alcohol, he continued.

"Restaurants were a bubble...now, at least in LA, people are drinking much less."

From his appearance on the show in November.

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

idt anyone’s going to be using openclaw and Hermes in the next 6 months. Most end-users want everything managed, including engineers

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

Incredibly excited for the explosion of intelligent, interesting hardware that’s coming our way

[Mark™ @thinkwithmark]

We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@mariamontes915 @metacinderella Also this.

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@Nick_Davidov Ey keep Miami out of the bullshit venture bros/scammers dealings. smh

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@metacinderella If you want to meet all the other transplants: edgewater, mimo.

If you want to be annoyed by all the other transplants: brickell

If you want the best living experience: Coconut grove

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

Guys. The answer is @linear as the control center, not 20 Claude agents running / being managed in your terminal. At the point you’re managing more than a handful of tasks in parallel, you need something stronger than text-based UI.

This is the slowest iteration from the terminal to a task management software ever.

What happens when you have more than 3 states for the tasks and you need more than just textual information for the tasks?

Then we’ll make rich text viewers and show them in a board or nice visual UI like… tickets?

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@AlexHormozi The generalized version of this: what you measure is what you grow. the critical piece here that needs to be made explicit is that if you measure more often, you’ll grow it more effectively.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.

Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

[Jay Hack @mathemagic1an]

Excited to launch: agent-secret-manager 🔐

`npx agent-secret-manager`

Securely share secrets with your agent. No fuss.

Open source, no install, writes to .env, MIT licensed.

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@mathemagic1an Devin does this 👀 pretty simple flow. Render and inout UI that stores to a secrets vault on save and never shows it again

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

Great take

[Jess 🌱 @thattallguy]

Once we run out of problems, I'll start worrying about the impact ai will have on startups / jobs.

Until then, I'll remain abundantly optimistic.

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@mathemagic1an That being said, this is super impressive…!!

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

@mathemagic1an My understanding is that it’s about building a gripping mechanism (ie a comparable human hand) that allows it to fully generalize…. And why this is the most complex and dedicated eng effort at optimus

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

Am I the only one who feels dyslexic when looking at a chevron arrow pointing up when an accordion list is *open*?

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

The benefit of the monoculture, of course, is deep and hard exploration and expansion of specific of specific branches of knowedge/industry - like AI lol. Good for making money, sometimes bad for the soul

[Brandon Garcia @__BCG__]

If you’re in SF, you may be too close to realize it, but this is the feeling a lot of us ex-SFers hold. It’s a big part of why we left in 2020

[sourcery @sourceryy]

Founders Fund Partner @zebulgar on why Miami is the "model city of the future":

"I under-appreciated how much just being physically near this intellectual bubble of San Francisco led me to succumbing to it."

"Progressive SF liberals are actually some of the most racist people I've ever met."

"They claim to be very open to new ideas and to new cultures. But ultimately, if you look at it, it is an extremely homogenous and mono-culture that is extremely intolerant of any radical ideas."

"They claim to have diversity, yet they lack even the basics of diversity—of skin color and diversity of thought."