Austin

Into tech and commodities. Just an enthusiast. 30% satire.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@claudeai

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

*Hammers Opus 4.8 for a “what’s the weather” every hour. *

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@SiliconSalvage The next SaaS narrative is token efficiency.

1000 companies building, debugging, etc directly with Claude = expensive.

1 company building, debugging, etc using Claude and deploying 1000 times = less expensive.

Timing? No idea.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Pulled the trigger today and switched 100% of Lindy traffic to DeepSeek v4, churning from Anthropic models.
Saves us millions of $ and we're actually seeing an *increase* in performance on many core use cases. Transformative for the business.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@realroseceline $TTD acquired in the next 12 months? Big tech’s regulatory window is now.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@TheTranscript_ Generally agree on integrations, but why is Slack AI still so useless? One of the worst AI apps on the market. It’s almost like a troll.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@FirstSquawk No worries, the Warsh calculation method removes it all.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@rev_cap @conorsen Yes. Big tech is taking electricity prices to the heavens. Wage growth may matter there eventually, but it certainly doesn’t matter today.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@philoinvestor Token usage has become a KPI (higher is better).

So, yes.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

Me hammering Opus 4.7 with Adaptive Thinking to check the weather.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

“Gas prices are up. Release the new species.”

[New York Post @nypost]

Four species of aliens have been pulled from crashed UFOs: ex-government researcher https://t.co/FTfnVPb4sd

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@taobanker

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@qualitateio @useapolloio @clay Clay uses Apollo data and is soon to be using ZoomInfo data.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

Fascinating. GLP-1s are reshaping the economy and having a massive (positive) environmental impact.

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

SONAR subscribers can find the study in our new Sitrep research section

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@ManuInvests The leap in ad targeting over the last year has been extraordinary. They’re running away with the ad market.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@rev_cap We are Lentil. ✊

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

Kids are playing with Clawdbot instead of Hot Wheels.

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@Nostre_damus Silver should acquire $nvda

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

And a decade later, everything changed. Why?

#gold

[Austin @aschmidt2930]

@Nostre_damus Iykyk