Caleb Gates

🚜 "Farm Boy from CT making it in the Big City" 🌆 - Startups, VC, Engineering, and Intrigue. Occasionally Musical.

[Caleb Gates @calebcgates]

A solid description of @graphprotocol
The graph is a decentralized network that indexes Ethereum & other block chains... But Why?
A Thread 🧵⬇️

[Caleb Gates @calebcgates]

Friend lost her Claude access at work (forced to use some GPT wrapper instead).

Now showing signs of AI withdrawal: staring at blank text boxes, muttering "as an AI language model" in her sleep, asking ChatGPT to roleplay as Claude.

Does this qualify for short-term disability?

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3 things that happen when companies ration AI after layoffs:
A: Black market where employees run prompts for coworkers for coffee.
B: Employees pay Claude out of pocket, expense it as "office supplies."
C: HR investigates who's been Slacking prompts to Karen in accounting.

[Caleb Gates @calebcgates]

The 3 eventualities of AI rationing:
Setup: Company fires thousands, tells survivors AI will make them 10x more productive. Gets the Anthropic bill. Revokes Claude access for "non-essential" employees.
Now non-essentials must compete for tool access.

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@_L_a_n_a___ @peterpandonuts @dunkindonuts So true! "Roark Capital Group" why are you destroying this classic brand. Give us the fillings back please 🙏

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This light has been red on Lombard in SF for 20 minutes. Are there any police in SF? # cyber truck runs red

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@thatguybg Looks great! Excited to get access!

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When cursor crashes and your life ends... oh wait, I was a developer before AI. Now we're getting GPT prompt outputs in our results. I do admire the product, but feel betrayed lol.

[Caleb Gates @calebcgates]

14/14 The next time you wonder why software projects take time or why senior developers are valued so highly, remember: code is just the tip of the iceberg. The real value lies in the knowledge beneath the surface. 🎯

[Caleb Gates @calebcgates]

1/14 🧵 The real value of code isn't in the code itself - it's in the invisible architecture of decisions, trade-offs, and deep understanding that can only be passed down through direct experience with the original architects.

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13/14 This is why software development isn't just about writing code - it's about building systems that can grow, scale, and be maintained by teams over time.