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Puzzle Solver in this Game called Life.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

This is how you get the kids interested. #buildcoolstuff

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

what if ai agentic coding be like:

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Digital squirreling Discussion

[Saleh @mskayyali]

Almost every app has a bookmark button. Almost none of them has a real “later.”

This video traces the save-for-later pattern from a 1983 study of office desks, through browser bookmarks and hidden menus, to the Watch Later lists we rarely open.

https://t.co/5p56bJGfdc

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Twenty four Grok Super Heavy Sessions Simultaneously. Using a Streamdeck as the primary physical interface. Ask me Anything.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Angine de Poitrine is the root of a new branch of Soundtracks for our times.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

It said "login and create this account. "
I said "you do it."
It said "ok" and did it.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

This may be something. Will experiment soon.

[@jason @Jason]

When tokens go down 90% by the end of the year and then another 90% next year, everyone's opinions on artificial general intelligence and superintelligence are going to change radically

I'm currently on an unlimited GLM 5.2 bittensor subnet and I can tell you your behavior changes radically when token prices plummet

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

This guy changed the lives of millions of people for the better. Kudos Sir. Kudos.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

Millions of people - moms & dads, friends & family & small businesses making small individual contributions into kids @TrumpAccounts. This is the dream! As easy as Apple Pay - double click on your phone takes < 10 seconds. Give it a try - add to a kid’s dream today! 🇺🇸🚀💰

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

This is pretty cool (and useful)

[Vadims @vadi_ms]

This is me talking to my computer without making a sound.

After just a month of collecting data, our model is already approaching dictation in accuracy. We were surprised to see that it generalizes to unseen participants as well!

(1/n)

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Why is dude on the left's reaction the funniest thing I've ever seen?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Groundhogs having their nails trimmed: watch the reactions of his buddy.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

This guys gets it. Beautifully written.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Can you hear me? (The Poem)

Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
I don't think...
Hello?
Hello?
Hey, can you hear me?
I think they're...
Hello?
Yeah.
Can you hear me?
I don't think you can hear me.
I can hear you, but...
Did my headphones just die?
I don't know.
Did my headphones just die?
No, they didn't.
Can you hear me?
I don't think you can hear me.
No, they didn't.
Can you hear me now?
Hello?
I can hear you.
Hello?
Hey.
Hello?
Hey.
Hello?
Hey.
Oh, they didn't.
They just somehow...
Hello?
Yeah, can you hear me now?
Yeah, it just turned off.
I don't know.
Okay, cool.
So you can hear me now, though?
Yeah.
That was cool.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Know anyone running an SEO Agency that can get ranked in Claude or ChatGPT?

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Should I short NVidia, OpenAI and Claude Code?

More and more it seems like we are in a data center bubble.

I work with AI daily and I can tell you it's nowhere close to replacing human beings. AI is being used as a scapegoat for companies that want to reduce headcount when they over hired during Covid.

The real killer is that local models are only a few months behind the Frontier models. So their moat is only a few months of time.

What's preventing local models from really taking off is that these big companies with their infinite money are buying up all the supply of the parts needed to run things locally.

The complicating factor is that these frontier companies are really tied in to government. And government will fund them infinitely because they don't really understand the technology. It is, however, very useful to do large scale surveillance.

So we have a situation where the government will fund them infinitely so they can have large scale surveillance which with which they can identify threats to itself, whether locally or exteriorly. (is that a word?)

Something's gotta give. It's only a question of time. But that time could drag out for years.

Thoughts?

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Humans, Racehorses and Greyhounds are the only organisms on earth that push biological load past the limits of functional integrity.
Think about that.
We are able to use our mind to override our safety limits.
That's how powerful your mind is.
You have a Mustang engine by default.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

yep.

[Marko Slavnic @Markoslavnic]

Soon some kid you’ve never heard of, without the financial means or nepo-baby connection will make a movie using new technology that will rock the world and change their life forever.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

A good metric to see how much the Unseen world affects any seen world project is to measure the placebo effect.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.

Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Parents are forward deployed engineers...
for babies.
When they visit friend's homes.

[deondondotcom @deondondotcom]

Messaging Masterclass...

[Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost @Ne_pas_couvrir]

Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They propagandized the nation into accepting a fake world where businessmen are villains, criminals are the good-guys, small towns are sinister, military officers are proto-fascists, and work barely exists.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.