Bryan Murdock

Computer Engineer, husband, father of 4 boys, love the outdoors.

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@skwp Here's the thing you need to think about. If AI is so smart and so useful, why are we even asking it to write software to solve problems for us? Shouldn't the AI just do the thing we need?

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@realsteveeisman So this guy hasn't actually used it for coding but he believes the Anthropic sales people that say it's good. Understood

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

Cult Stock has now been added to my vocabulary

[Steve Eisman @realsteveeisman]

We're recapping last Friday's (May 29) mini market analysis. Watch the full ep. to learn more. Link in bio. 🎧

#TheRealEismanPlaybook #FinancePodcast #InvestingInsights

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@SpencerJCox is this the AI race with China that we are trying to win?

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

A company in China is working on AI that examines location data and internet use to predict who could do or say something critical of the government https://t.co/22OCLegEBx

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@ArchieIntel @LynAldenContact I'll believe it when I see it

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@BrianCAlbrecht @RebelEconProf @nickpretnar So, "time is money" holds true?

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem.

As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)!

I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work.

It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results?

88ms => 1.5ms
150K allocs => ~500 allocs

Incredible right? Nope.

My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path.

This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput.

The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity.

Standard disclaimer: I use AI all the time. I like AI. The point I'm making is to not blindly accept results. Think. Analyze. Learn.

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@GovCox @SpencerJCox Addressing environmental concerns is great, but those are not the only concerns with data center projects. Why are they getting tax breaks when the rest of us have to pay full taxes? Why do they get special privileges through MIDA when the rest of us don't?

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@phil_lyman @GovCox Are you still endorsed by Trump and supportive of him?

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

There you go. Do not vote for this man

[Lindsay Aerts @LindsayOnAir]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Congressman and rumored candidate for Governor, @jasoninthehouse discloses a financial connection to the Stratos data center project in Box Elder County, telling @abc4utah that he will be paid for his consulting work connecting a group of developers to @kevinolearytv if the project gets built.
https://t.co/ecLXEMBMTq

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

Too real 😂

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@Amelendez71 @NBAMemes Show us, don't tell us

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@OKsooner931 @NBAMemes Cool. Now make a highlight reel of SGA looking like Kobe in the post you are replying to

[NBA Memes @NBAMemes]

Pump fakes used to be used for space creation man.
This Kobe vs SGA comp perfectly sums it up!

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@jaredfielding Bro...

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@LindsayOnAir @agardiner14 @LeahMurray828 Wow, talk about False Dilemma!

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@KSLcom @SpencerJCox Look, if this involves tax breaks or changes to zoning laws or anything else, make those across the board changes that apply to everyone in the state, not just the few businesses YOU want to have here. That's the only ethical and fair way to do this

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@KSLcom What in the Planned Economy is this, comrade governor @SpencerJCox ??

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

The Trump FDA story is crazy

Big Tobacco donated $5,000,000 to Trump's super PAC

Two days later, Reynolds American's executives met with Trump at his Florida golf club to demand the FDA reverse its flavored vape ban

Trump then personally called RFK Jr. and his health secretary to complain about the ban

Then questioned the FDA commissioner directly for not moving fast enough

The FDA commissioner who said no resigned days later and so did RFK Jr.'s chief spokesperson, citing the vape policy as the reason

Then the ban was lifted within a week

The White House says it had nothing to do with the $5,000,000

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@worldhistorytea @Geiger_Capital So what is a reasonable amount of spending then?

[Bryan Murdock @bdmurdock]

@KSLcom Fighting fire (corrupt data center deals, insider trading, war, huge debt and deficits) with fire does not sound appealing to me at all.