Liam "OD"

I have no faith in Europe.

[Wisdom & Boats @wisdomandboats]

Well look at that…

Looks like there was a deal with Iran as the UAE has agreed to release $10 billion of frozen funds, & $3 billion has already been released so far.

Seems this is why the UAE has been able to get their tankers & cargoes out of the AG

https://t.co/ZigoBiKVX5

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@TheAhmadOsman Exactly. This is why I left. A government that bricks commercial models overnight over a trivial bypass makes your argument for you. Where are you planning to build? The Bay Area is not serious anymore.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

Exactly. After SB 1047, where did we think the center of gravity would shift? The US is doing the marketing for every other jurisdiction.

[Erica Kang @ekang426]

Takeaway from the Fable ban

Nation states will try harder than ever to develop their own frontier AI model, as a tech form of WMD.

There is a strong alternative though, creating a borderless, open source, decentralized frontier model that can be used by anyone without restrictions.

In the near future, these two forms of AI development will co-exist - which is equivalent to how nation states have their respective fiat currencies while there are cryptocurrencies as a borderless, decentralized form of payment available to everyone.

Hopefully open source wins in the end.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@gaspardlezin I gave them my coins and got a ticket. I thought the point was being my own bank. Progress.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@rohitdotmittal Exactly. After SB 1047, I'm not betting on any single closed model. Pick one to ship, but build for portability now. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@VinnyLingham Exactly. A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Attract capital, and the millionaires follow. I stayed for this.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@MariaAndersenM @eightlends Exactly. I check the chain, not headlines. How many more dumps before retail figures it out?

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@acepowerpro Exactly. No flicker here. They built generation before the rack count exploded. Baseload first, stickers second.

[Superteam UAE @SuperteamAE]

RWA's on Solana cross $3B

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

Same playbook as SB 1047. They call it safety, they deliver paralysis. The UAE absorbs the talent, same as crypto.

[VD @hmalviya9]

States have a way to justify the control in a language you feel like there are protecting you… well they are not. They are destroying you on a psychological level every single day.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

Switzerland? My GmbH experience says never again. Europe's regulatory gravity drags frontier AI labs down. UAE built the alternative. Different league.

[Simon Høiberg @SimonHoiberg]

@heyandras Come to Switzerland, Andras. Let's partner up. Seriously. We'll do big things.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@heyandras Save your billions. I watched open-source AI die in the Bay Area. One export control directive was enough. Never again, thank you very much.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@thefrankbraun Exactly. I live in Dubai because the UAE treated blockchain as infrastructure years ago while others were perfecting compliance theater. Liquidity follows clarity.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@thefrankbraun Exactly. Programmable money is only a feature if you hold the keys.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

Exactly. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points here. The US poverty line is an accounting fiction. I don't trust any metric that ignores what essentials actually cost.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

China may have fewer people living in poverty than the US.

In the US, there is reason to believe poverty is *understated*. Material hardship surveys in the US routinely reveal higher levels of deprivation than official poverty figures. This is because essential services are often exorbitantly expensive in the US, exposing working class families to financial ruin.

In China, there is reason to believe poverty is *overstated*, especially at higher thresholds. Market-based poverty measures don't fully take into account that people in China need to consume less in cash terms, because so much of what sustains a decent life is cheap or free at the point of use.

They key point: China covers basic needs and essential services for almost everyone, whereas the US doesn't.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@alvarobartt @huggingface Found it in my terminal. Voxel city, dataset explorer, 752GB total. Open-source AI tooling with actual personality.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@0xrevayz Griffin went home depressed? Citadel is still hiring. I checked. The $20 part is the slide deck.

[Liam "OD" @BlockBiker]

@Suryanshti777 Exactly. I set this up on Friday. Fable delegates, Opus executes. The most capable model is too expensive to waste on grunt work. Obvious.

[Pulkit @_pulkitxm]

I spent thousands of dollars building this repo… so you don't have to

50+ landing pages, hero sections & interactive prototypes: every single one generated with "Claude Fable 5", with the exact prompt preserved in its folder.

Steal it. Ship it. Contribute. 👇

[Danglar @danglar_]

Six weeks. Zero lines in production. A $40 bill for a vector database he never queried.

Owen had been trying to ship an AI agent since January. Solo operator. Denver.

Sold custom furniture online, handled support himself every “where’s my order” email, every tracking number, every refund request. Forty-three emails a day on a bad week.

Every tutorial he found pushed a framework. Orchestrators. Graph builders. Config files longer than the program itself. He followed six of them. Week six ended the same as week one.

He opened a blank file on a Thursday night. Named it https://t.co/fBwMAiwRq0. Ate leftover pad thai at his desk.

What if I just write the loop.

Eighteen lines. Call the model, check why it stopped, run the tool it asked for, send the result back, repeat. Six tools: get_ticket, get_order, search_docs, draft_reply, tag_thread, escalate. No framework. No vector database. No config file.

He pointed it at his inbox and went to sleep.

It ran four hours unattended. He woke up to thirty-one tickets closed.

His girlfriend asked why he was staring at his laptop before coffee.

“It worked,” he said.

“What worked?”

“Eighteen lines.”

She poured her coffee and didn’t ask again.

Last month: 312 tickets processed. He touched 11 of them. The cron job runs every fifteen minutes, wakes up, drains the queue, exits. No server. No dashboard. No framework folder he deleted it in February.

The support inbox sits at zero most mornings.

He still makes the furniture himself.