German Meza

Building software to empower humanity

[German Meza @germanamz]

@ThePrimeagen Why not just write a function? 🤔

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage.

I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care.

But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "where does this fail?" you should be able to answer confidently.

For PoCs, demos, experiments, whatever: I don't care. Generate 100% of it and understand none of it. Speed over quality every time in those specific scenarios.

But if you're shipping customer-facing work, you can't be shipping things you don't understand at a high level.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.

I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).

The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.

In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.

They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.

I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.

I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.

I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.

Number one tip: act with agency.

[German Meza @germanamz]

@rauchg I like that!

The intelligence revolution — @rauchg

[dax @thdxr]

we got hit with a crazy scam attempt

someone signed up for our inference and did a video call with our sales person confirming intent to spend $400,000 over the next year and asked for increased rate limits

our sales person felt like something was off so he looked up the company - found a bunch of videos of the CEO and it looked and sounded like the same person he talked to

so he figured it was real but we started looking deeper

the email they had been talking to us from was a lookalike domain that was registered 4 days ago. all the traffic they were sending looked bizarre and came from foreign IPs

emailed them for more info to see what they'd say. of course they hit us with the "i'm about to get on a plane, can't do anything right now, please move forward"

messaged the real CEO on instagram and yeah he had no idea what we were talking about, the scammer was deepfaking him

be careful out there, things are getting crazy

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I’m excited for the next chapter!

[Bryce, the CUDA Colonel @blelbach]

These are just... algorithms. Why are we calling them AI algorithms?

[German Meza @germanamz]

@Dev_Lurker Just remember that 0.000438 * 10^7 = 4,380 😉

[Viral Scroll @ViralScroll]

This math meme

[German Meza @germanamz]

@paulg Right and outcome-driven leadership always delivers

[Haider. @haider1]

PREDICTION

after kimi k3 successful launch and mogs opus 4.8, Dario Amodei is gonna write an essay explaining how open-weight Chinese AI threatens democracy, national security, and the future of humanity

[Maximilian @MaximilianMoj]

I'm 33 and I think Claude Code is melting my brain.

For 6 months straight I've had 5-6 terminals open at once, waiting on responses just to smash "enter" 90% of the time. That's the whole job now.

And it's doing something to me. A few friends and I keep circling back to the same thing in conversations: none of us feel as sharp as we used to.

Maybe it's just us. But I keep wondering how many other people in their 30s feel it too.

(And yeah: this is a me problem, how I lean on the tool, not the tool itself. Doesn't make the effect any less real.)

[German Meza @germanamz]

@BraedendotTECH Yo are not alone, I had to shift my strategy to always keep ahead of the agent and just delegate execution, not judgement… it’s sounds mainstream I know, but is much harder to do it than say it.

That allowed to expand my knowledge but decreased my detailed understanding.

[German Meza @germanamz]

@thdxr Local GraphRAG as an agent brain. 🧠

https://t.co/Jh6hK8077g 🐘

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@KenRoth The biggest risk of AI is the concentration of power in a few dominant providers of proprietary AI assistants.
The only solution to AI sovereignty is open source foundation models.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Elon Musk: Anthropic currently the leader in AI.

[Sam Altman @sama]

GPT-5.6 sol launches thursday!

happy building

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

claude code be like:

This command requires approval:

sudo netbind --flush-kernel /var/run/nullmux.sock && \
orbitctl phase --target=localmesh --entropy=9f2c:77aa --dry-spin && \
cat /proc/ghostbus/routes | awk '{print $3":"$7}' | xargs -n1 voidpipe --reindex --no-color && \
systemctl shadow-reload nebula-cache.service --until=epoch+43

[German Meza @germanamz]

@mitchellh Pure love for humanity here, this is why I follow you and your projects 👌

[German Meza @germanamz]

@dedene Time to train local purpose focus model