Drake Evans

founder @withAUSD. economics & code. formerly: fraxlend author @fraxfinance, engineer at @ADP

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

Apple has never struck me as a skate to where the puck is going company.

More of a “you didn’t even know you wanted the puck here until I showed you”

iPod, iPhone, forcing USBc/headphone jack, custom in house silicon etc

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

Apple continues to violently skate where the puck used to be two years ago. I don’t want a chatbot on my phone, I want a smart local agent with full access to all apps and is able to reprogram itself to achieve any task.

[Thania Charmani @ThaniaCh]

No better motivator to get me to the gym on a Saturday afternoon than @JacobRobinsonJD and @kkirkbos talking perps. (@JacobRobinsonJD I did look up why you can’t trade onion futures, and apparently, it involves a 1955 market corner, a guy called the Onion King, and a market manipulation federal law that’s still good law)

[Andrew Lynch @andrewglynch]

Twitter acting shocked that the Georgetown and Yale-educated son of a six-term senator, two-term VP and one-term president is intelligent, well-informed and a good communicator

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

Louder

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definition do, you lose a lot of interesting ideas.

[Sneedle @SRamirez68083]

I don’t know what to call this kind of psychosis were people will engage on deep analysis of stuff from movies ir shows as if they were real.

The star destroyer was designed to look cool in a movie and the rebellion overperformed because the movie was written like that.

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

@DennisonBertram @Anthropics I agree seems like a weird limitation but I k ow most models/harnesses cannot use interactive CLIs or at least not very well

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

Junior: “I can do it, it will take a couple of days”
Senior: “Hey, we don't need to build this because XYZ”

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

Invest in infra and security before you think you need to.

In the era of AI opsec and infra config are the most common exploit path

[Lefteris Karapetsas @LefterisJP]

We definitely have had an uptick in DeFi exploits lately with a new exploit almost daily. But is it just me or the vast majority of them are compromised key or other issues stemming from failed opsec rather than smart contract code exploits? (which also points to the centralization of "DeFi").

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

Ethereum is dead. Long live ethereum

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

In the year 2026 AI opsec basically means building a distributed CubesOS. I say this only partially tongue in check. More and more I want to spawn sandboxes processes with tight permissions and control the connections.

In my case these are agents ofc but could be anything.

[Daniel Von Fange @danielvf]

In the spring of 2026, secure crypto development requires at least 4 computers per person.

Work computer has no npm, no VS code, no agents. I work on code on remote machines over ssh.

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

Ethereum is dead. Long live ethereum

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@lex_node We've accelerated narratives enough. Let's accelerate the cypherpunk privacy reality 🙂

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@lex_node We've accelerated narratives enough. Let's accelerate the cypherpunk privacy reality 🙂

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

@real_philogy Are strict just syntactical sugar then?

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

@real_philogy my personal opinion is that using structs/objects to replicate named parameters is a mild antipattern since it typically comes with additional effects which vary by language. May not be relevant here though

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

@real_philogy I think it makes readability better and helps auditors but probably low priority

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

@AdriansCryptoo We can dream

[Drake Evans @drakeevans]

I love this sentiment (because I love FV) but I think that the outcome will be the reverse. Code will be rock solid but configs/opsec are the exploit path

Already seeing this trend and as far as Im aware FV cannot cover these issues (yet)

[Kyle Samani @KyleSamani]

As Mythos capable models proliferate over the next few years, all software that handles sensitive / important information will need to be formally verified

In the long run, the only defense against AI black hats is formal verification

[philogy @real_philogy]

@banteg Considering Vyper has received ~$3M over the years for limited adoption, I think getting $5k in exchange for improving stack scheduling (which is useful for everyone) is very reasonable.