Connor Richardson

The Internet is the next America

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

WOW!!!!!!!!!

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

ARTEMIS II🚨: In the mission, the 4 astronauts will travel 400,000 km from Earth, which would be the farthest any human has ever gone in all of humanity.

[delian @zebulgar]

The coolest orbital animation I've seen of Artemis 2

Just really shows you how far away they're flying today and also how precise they need to be to go to the moon

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

Consistency will change your life.
Consistency will change your life.
Consistency will change your life.
Consistency will change your life.
Consistency will change your life.
Consistency will change your life.
Consistency will change your life.

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

"If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger, there is almost certainly no leverage.” - Paul Graham

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: Michael Saylor says the future of programmable digital credit will be deployed on Solana

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

The bigger the dream, the bigger your tolerance for uncertainty, stress, and criticism must be.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

― Paulo Coelho

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”

— W. H. Auden

[Connor Richardson @connorrichson]

@MHelapy @elonmusk Lmfao

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

X is the best source for financial news -- and hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed based on things people read here.

We are building Smart Cashtags that allow you to specify the exact asset (or smart contract) when posting a ticker. From Timeline, users will be able to tap them to see its real-time price along with all mentions of that asset.

We're aiming to collect feedback as we iterate toward a public release next month.

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: @X to launch Smart Cashtags, allowing users to post Solana tokens and view charts and news 🤯

[amir 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇬 @amirhaleem]

as @toly said, @helium is the most actively used crypto protocol

subscribers from major phone companies automatically connect to Helium in everything from coffee shops, hotels, airports, and casinos

they don’t even know it’s happening. dead zones, slow speeds, crushed

[James | Snapcrackle @Snapcrackle]

Stop waiting.

Stop talking yourself out of it. Stop researching.

Go do it.

[Naval Quotes @NavalQuotes247]

"True motivations are revealed, not declared."

@naval

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

Dumb people chase complexity.

Smart people chase simplicity.

[amir 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇬 @amirhaleem]

as @toly said, @helium is the most actively used crypto protocol

subscribers from major phone companies automatically connect to Helium in everything from coffee shops, hotels, airports, and casinos

they don’t even know it’s happening. dead zones, slow speeds, crushed