Michael Frye

Jack of all trades, master of some.

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@chamath @StefanGeorgi Google Drive or dropbox installed locally. Claude Cowork and Claude code work great with that.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@ErikVoorhees @UPS @ErikVoorhees thanks for sharing this.

After 2 support requests and waiting a week, of course I get a reply from UPS immediately when sharing here...

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@ErikVoorhees I'm trying to go the "correct" way to get shipping status and open an account on @UPS to get API keys.

Ran into an error getting setup, sent a support request, and UPS hasn't responded in over a week.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

Strong disagree. The work now is actually more intense.

Instead of deep strategy work followed by easy busy work, all the busy work is handled by agents now. The work is now managing multiple agents in parallel.

Those that go home early will likely be out of job.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

The winner in all of this AI token spend isn’t:

1. More revenue growth
2. Less OpEx

It’s:

1. Leisure time - go home early, work on a side gig, play video games etc etc etc

My suspicion is that people are using blower token budgets to do their job in less time. Not so more work in the same time.

This may change but humans are not motivated to do more work and see upside accrue to a few.

Take this to the bank as Wall Street starts demanding specific data about AI enhancements over these next 18 months.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@jeremyphoward https://t.co/VHhXyvehgI

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@paulg I dropped out. Definitely agree it's not for everyone and it was brutal for the first few years. I had to teach myself everything.

In hindsight, biggest thing I missed is the college network of friends. I understand that's half the value of ivy league schools.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

It's hard to believe the timeline we're living in.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"

Trump: "Right"

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@typesfast Thanks! I'll check it out.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

Hey @typesfast. Thanks for the ref to The Fish That Ate the Whale. One of the best books I've read!

Any other recommendations?

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@seanlinehan @typesfast Thanks! I'll check those out.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@typesfast Anything really - though I've been gravitating towards biographies, history, or business material.

Last few books I've read are Ray Dalio's stuff.

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@joshclemm @hnshah @Dropbox Naive question - been playing with meilisearch lately. How would this compare?

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

@JesseTinsley @garrytan Another data point - I quit a Bay Area startup with 7 figure comp because the CEO was a psychopath. Not figuratively, literally.

Life is too short to be completely miserable.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Guys, relax, the only risk in transiting the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran will shoot a missile at your ship. Otherwise it's open for transit.

An all-time quote from our Secretary of War.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium.

Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors.

Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. 🧵

[Marisa Sweeney @sweenenergy]

We need @shell to address the 24/7 trespassing deterrent that blares from its shuttered station, audible from 300+ homes in our area in JLS Oakland. It is a total public nuisance and I’m sure harming business for our locally owned mezcaleria across the street. SO unacceptable!

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

Tried TaskRabbit for the first time in years. Guy 1: rushed and chipped our furniture. Guy 2: spoke zero English, refused the main job, made inappropriate advances toward a family member. Guy 3: visibly stoned.

All $60-80/hr. Already reported. Is this what TaskRabbit is now?

[Michael Frye @_mfrye]

Not sure if announcing the company conceded to DoW demands to mass surveil citizens and autonomously kill people is the flex he thinks it is...

[Sam Altman @sama]

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.