Paul Steckler

Marmot-whisperer, audiobook aficionado. Built a lot of software you've used over the years. COO at your LLM is an evolutionary dead end.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Twenty-five years ago I wrote a letter to Warren Buffett. He was just turning 70.

His friend Don Keough, the president of Coca-Cola, wrote back on his behalf.

He said, Mr. Buffett is only 70 and he’s going to be working for at least another 70 years.

Get it out of your head that 70 is old. When you turn 70 you should be thinking about the next several decades being your best decades.

Buffett is 95 now. Still working.

That letter stayed with me for 25 years.

Think young. Act young. The best decades might still be ahead of you.

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

This is really cool!

We've seen in war zones and elsewhere that GPS can be disabled/jammed. Or spoofed. What happens to all of the location-based systems on the phone when that happens.

Kudos to Octet for the launch!

[Octet @OctetProof]

1/ Today we’re launching Octet. We've been able to prove when something happened since the 1950s. We've not been able to prove where. Apps ask for location two trillion times a day and trust whatever the phone says. Octet is proof of where.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

UBS says 60% of companies now watching AI budgets are moving to cheaper models and open-source Chinese models

The pressure is coming from extreme bills, including users spending up to $35K/month, teams exceeding quotas by 200%, and companies cutting internal AI tools from 5 to 2.

Companies are not abandoning AI, they are using model routing, which sends easy tasks to cheaper models and saves premium models for hard reasoning, code, and long-context work.

Chinese open-source models such as Qwen, DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM, and Kimi now fit the enterprise cost curve because they can be run locally or used through cloud catalogs.

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

@heyblake https://t.co/yOu2dO4tUx

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

@Jason I'm in.

2x and counting ;-)

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

The 25th Amendment basically buys 6 days + another at max 21 days for Congress to vote.

I assume a second application of the 25th would go to SCOTUS since it's never even been used once.

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Anyone thinking the 25th Amendment is going to save the day is likely mistaken. If Vance and the Cabinet moved, Trump can challenge. That challenge goes to Congress where his removal by 2/3 of both houses must be secured.

There is no way 2/3 of the House and Senate remove trump

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Interesting that from a Constitutional point of view, the best day JD Vance could enact the 25th Amendment clause to remove Trump would be Jan 21, 2027.

1 day less than 2 years would allow Vance to then run for two more terms for a total of 10 years if he could win. #polymarket

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Interesting that from a Constitutional point of view, the best day JD Vance could enact the 25th Amendment clause to remove Trump would be Jan 21, 2027.

1 day less than 2 years would allow Vance to then run for two more terms for a total of 10 years if he could win. #polymarket

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Saturday, bloody Saturday

https://t.co/MpxzqO8IMN

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Amazing to me that @amazon does not allow one to mark a book as read or not interested on their main site. It makes finding a book frustrating rather than enjoyable.

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Wish CAIC had an RSS feed or similar so I could get this content without supporting a given site (Meta, Twitter).

I really miss the old days of RSS.

[CAIC:Statewide Info @COAvalancheInfo]

#CAIC LOW (1 of 5). Avalanche danger is LOW across Colorado. Even after a light dusting of snow in parts of the Northern Mountains, there’s just not enough snow for avalanches to pose a threat. 🔗https://t.co/E7yJWqyZwj #cowx
📷: @skisteamboat

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Nailed the trailer and the date.

https://t.co/ATvPVe9iyA

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

@Konstantine You folks should talk with us at Otonoma https://t.co/kHM7yaDcJU as we hit several of these marks (not all of them but I suspect our platform can address many).

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

@AmazonHelp @amazon Yes, I did that and thanks. However... testing a feature is one thing, having 2 different answers on the same page is bad. It's the same AI bot with the same content, right? Should be the same answer.

I can fathom how it got the wrong answer, but two different wrong answers?!?

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

AI is such a wonderful thing, right @amazon ? Which is why your Rufus bot not only answers differently for the same product but in the end gets the answer wrong.

Maybe too many QA people laid off recently?

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

David Simmons I believe coined "le bloque, c'est moi". Words to live by.

[Jon Wu @jonwu_]

idk who needs to hear this but if something annoys you on the internet you don't need to react

maggie and i have tons of haters, unhappy people who try to find reasons to hate what we do

it doesn't bother me, i just mute them into the void

you can do the same

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

Love / hate Cory Doctorow, but he tends to get things more right than wrong over the course of time.

The math for the current GenAI world simply doesn't work. But hey, set that aside for a moment. The *technology* doesn't do what it says it does either.

https://t.co/ClH20haLr0

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

I struggle to understand the basic legal argument that OpenAI is making here. It's not fair use. And they won't honor blanket opt-outs so... it's just outright theft, right?

Anyone??

https://t.co/R6C3BjxRIv

[Paul Steckler @bricin]

First speaker at Otonoma's alpha developer kit release is up and ready https://t.co/JZLmbZObJ4