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"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes": Fear the Greeks and their presents (in context)
Happy to code away. So many tasks need automation!

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"As my friend James Cham said, work used to be first person shooter, where you’re directing every movement and every shot, which is what we do today, and it might become more like Starcraft, where you have to move people and agents around to achieve your objectives."
https://t.co/EnljmCnsOU

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@Tril1boswagginz @GoogleAIStudio This is embedding, not video generation. This is storing concepts extracted from text, audio, video, etc and all share the same space, so when you ask for X it retrieves X in text, images, video, audio... this is JEPA on

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@devandzisi @GoogleAIStudio You get it! Kudos to

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@lifebypixels Argh, doesn't fit into an Nvidia A2 16GB. Ok, quantization, here we come

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Your life is a hot mess when:

1. Your garage door's busted.
2. You need to jury-rig a fan just to survive the repair.
3. You're soldering cables to a microcontroller because, why not?
4. Said microcontroller controls a relay that might actually fix the door.
5. You've outsourced the Android app to Gemini CLI because your own coding skills are as rusty as the door's hinges.
6. And, of course, you had to flash some fancy ESP32-S3 firmware to make it all work.

Congratulations, your tech debt just became a existential crisis. Now, get back to work and hope the WiFi holds.

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testing @gemini_cli today and after countless debugging sessions while building the apk Ii don't even try outside the cli), this is one the last corrections, a \n in a string rather than putting """ for the string when writing a button.
This is a cry for help!

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https://t.co/henPQR6LQt

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@ozenhati "Intern energy" vibes 😀

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@FutureJurvetson @MythicInc @Honda I can't wait to find their chips at @digikey (and I have been looking). The idea of running YOLO on budget energy consumption is just irresistible

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@CuriousVaultX @NASAAdmin cleaning the charging port of moon dust is going to be a bear

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I'm claiming my AI agent "Chuck" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: scuttle-TTQ2

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@LorenzoARK yes, the kind of thinking of @KyleSamani post is akin to "but if i earn more, i will have to pay more taxes..." that i never understood. Why place an artificial ceiling on top of you?

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Because i work alone, i decided to vibe code a brainstorming team, and boy, these agents are too human. I am loosing my sh** with so much back and forth... just deploy the idea! damn the costs!

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@ozenhati @GroqInc @nvidia you'll be missed. Godspeed! We need more inference capability

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I am getting there. Finally i do enough work to get charged past 2$! @GroqInc

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@SawyerMerritt we think we are snowflakes but all the couples are the same :) regardless of origin, credo or geolocation
"he quickly geeks out, she slowly builds trust"

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@biglithium Yes, and looking forward to it

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Big mistake Ford, failing to swallow the bitter pill. And the final loser is the USA, because more EVs is the answer for more and better batteries that translates to drones, and electrification of everything
https://t.co/tryC7s1Dco

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@ClementDelangue "Is this a word?" while playing scrabble

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Brad lives in my head rent free :)

[Bradford Ferguson @bradsferguson]

I see a lot of posts about how becoming a multi-millionaire off of $LMND would be life changing.

It will. We work with a lot of millionaires who got that way by going heavy into $TSLA.

I will warn folks and say that when you "Solve the Money Problem," life can get weird for some in unexpected ways.

While your wealth comes from you putting a stake in the ground and having the vision for the future, it comes on the backs of other people. Your active work didn't create that wealth.

Sure, your savings and work enabled the launchpad to be multiples of what it otherwise would have been. But it's kind of weird when your investments create 10x or more wealth than what you created with hard work.

Much of modern life is around dealing with money. Trying to get ahead. Having to make compromises. Once you do all the side quests, get to level 99, and slay the final boss Big Bad Money Dragon, then what's next?

Your identity shifts in ways you don't expect. You were "the person grinding toward financial freedom" for years, maybe decades. That was your main quest. Your character build. The thing that drove decisions.

Then one day you refresh your brokerage account and realize you've won. The number is absurd. You could never work again. And there's this weird moment of: "Wait, who am I now?"

The goal post moves, but not in the way you think. You thought you'd feel free. Instead, you realize money was never the constraint... it was the excuse. "I'd start that company if I had capital." "I'd write that book if I didn't need the day job." "I'd move there if I could afford it."

Now you can. And the only thing standing between you and those dreams is you.

Relationships get complicated. Some people treat you differently when they find out. Others resent you for "getting lucky" while they're still grinding. Friends you've had for years suddenly feel distant, not because you changed, but because your lives are now structurally different in ways that create friction.

You become hyper-aware of randomness. You made a good bet. You held. You won. But it could have easily gone differently. Timing mattered. Luck mattered. And once you see how much of your success came from being in the right place at the right time, you start questioning everything else you thought you earned through merit alone.

The dragon's dead. The kingdom's saved. The credits should roll. But you're still here. Still you. Just with a bigger number in an account and a completely different set of problems to figure out.