alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈

I am gay, vp, analytics & cmo at Meta, member of the board of directors at Lindblad Expeditions and love my jobs. (he/him)

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

If you would like to buy it my book is available to preorder here: https://t.co/hpQXEaVwd3

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@sebkrier I took off the sci fi constraint and it said Sam Vimes. I hope this isn't just sychofancy...

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@sebkrier I mean that's victory

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@laurenlself E

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@sebkrier Did it. It said Hari Seldon so 1) truly a sycophant 2) a really good one

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@sebkrier Oooo

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

Just so wonderful

[Shivam Jha @shivamxjha]

may London never lose the standing outside the pub on the streets in the summer culture

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@DanielLurie Congratulations

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

Very well put

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Luis (and @pietergaricano) are correct below, and @paulkrugman is much too sanguine about Europe's challenges.

As it happens, the same wealth point that Luis mentions also struck me when I traveled to Nashville a few weeks ago.

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

On coming back to SF periodically it does feel everyone I know feels very happy about him

[Lis Smith @Lis_Smith]

BREAKING: New poll shows @DanielLurie is the most popular American mayor.

Key findings:
- 74% of SF voters approve of him
- Majorities support his handling of public safety, downtown revitalization, neighborhood cleanliness
- He earns support from across the political spectrum

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@sebkrier Continually enjoying you on here

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

A great person to follow

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

I think there's a slow, growing realization that "the model will fix it all, and if not the next one will, so all you can do is to wait, there's no way to compete" is bullshit.

It seems obvious to me that there are, and will continue to be, many opportunities in building companies that can leverage ("scaffold") AI models to address all sorts of problems in sectors and contexts that they know best.

This is efficient even in the face of growing capabilities, for the same reason as it remains more cost effective for a model to call on a calculator rather than to try to resolve the problem internally.

Some reasons for this are proprietary data flows, regulatory needs, deep integration with crusty legacy systems, customer trust earned over time, and tacit knowledge. So to be clear this is not a story about thin wrapper around an API - shallow/fake specialization gets eaten ofc.

People focus on labs because that's sexy, and to be clear they'll continue to be, and I don't think you'll see thousands of companies investing that kind of capex; but I think a big part of the story (and value creation) will look like the nameless businesses that never get discussed on social media, by journalists or commentators.

This is great news for entrepreneurship and shaking up incumbents, and bad news if your view of the world is "the eye of Sauron will simply ingest everything, all that is left is the zero sum fight for power and escaping the permanent underclass".

On the other hand I expect lots of bubbly dynamics and failing businesses and questionable commercial ventures (always has been etc), partly because the territory is still so uncertain that many can still make a quick buck while VCs are in (temporary) Opus psychosis mode. But this too shall pass.

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@Noahpinion This is my biggest fear

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@erfmufn So sorry for what you are going through but so happy to hear of the progress you have made. Thank you for all the joy you have brought me on here and YouTube

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@rodriscoll @tryprofound It really rather feels like this has been my whole career and now it's being made a product

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@alexandr_wang Welcome to the game

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

Really love following Alex and his positivity, highly recommended

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

If Gemma 4 comes out 5 years ago, the entire world thinks it’s AGI

Today you can run it locally for free on a Mac Mini

God handed us literal magic and completely democratized it

Don’t take this for granted

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

This is roughly what my mind is doing. Just swapped out this free local model for a paid cloud one on a personal project and it blew my mind. Congratulations Google

[Peter Corbett @corbett3000]

Wait a sec - Google's new gemma-4-E4B is running at 400 tokens per second on my Macbook m5, while Claude Code does 90/tks? And it's free? Same-ish quality as ChatGPT 5.2 I was using last month? 🤯 #gemma #codex #claudecode

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

@eric_seufert ok I love this one. I would broaden it to good times create low performance marketing held to a lower bar.

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

Whether I'm truly a power user or not remains to be seen but wow this is definitely me

[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

Almost every AI power user I know is MORE stressed and busier after using AI, not less

What people thought AI would do: 10x productivity so that we can finish work earlier & relax more

What it’s actually doing: 10x productivity so that we end up with 20x more things to do cos of the sheer possibilities

[alex schultz 🏳️‍🌈 @alexschultz]

Beautiful

[Fastest Pitstop @FastestPitStop]

Toto Wolff on seeing Kimi Antonelli, George Russell, Lewis Hamilton, and Peter Bonnington on the podium at the Chinese Grand Prix:

"You know, looking at the podium with the three of them up there and, and Bono, the race engineer of Lewis and Kimi, that's probably one of the best moments I've had in Formula 1, to be honest."

[via F1TV]

#F1 #ChineseGP