Tim Marks

Hello Twitter my old friend. Engineering Lead, Applied AI @Mercor
Ex Tweep, CEO, Founder, Investor 1x exit (IPO)
Write codes, leads teams, has strong opinions

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT IRAN DID NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THAT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THE EPSTEIN WAR 🤷

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

I'm old enough to remember when a politician (accurately) calling some voters "deplorable" was unforgivable.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

You blew up an elementary school

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Mike Johnson created a new award for Trump and gave him a trophy.

The Republican Party is an endless clown show.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

You’d think Jack Smith’s memo (that Pam Bondi inadvertently released) finding that Trump stole & kept 100s of classified docs after leaving office to enrich himself - would be more than a blip in the news cycle.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This is what oligarchy looks like.

50 billionaires have spent $433 million to buy the elections in November.

80% is going to candidates who supported a $1 trillion tax break for the top 1% & a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act.

We must end Citizens United.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA.

Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

[Congresswoman Maxine Dexter @RepDexterOR]

BREAKING: I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in.

Republicans left the hearing room.

[Covie @covie_93]

Every Republican senator who tried to block the nomination of a qualified Black woman to serve on SCOTUS, calling her a "DEI hire," voted to confirm a white plumber with an associate degree in construction technology and no national security experience to lead DHS.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Well, well, well. Look who’s mail in voting.

So, it’s good enough for you, but not millions of others? 🤔

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Yes, because undocumented people typically enter the country through commercial flights that requires multiple identification checks, a visa, and being put through immigration scrutiny.

Makes perfect sense.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me get this straight.

The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately.

Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes.

Trump said no.

Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote.

Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse.

Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks.

We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math.

Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today.

Trump is the one standing in the way.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET.

Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time.

5 minutes before Trump's post.

Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer?

This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The United Nations has an OBLIGATION to take action against Israel for its repeated egregious breaches of humanitarian and international law.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists

The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"?

Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Imagine if Iran just killed 50+ school girls in the USA?

Why on earth is it acceptable the other way round?

[Tim Marks @imothee]

completely agreed, I understand they nailed the first "hook an llm up to my telegram" but it's missing a lot of actual value add on top - ie constrained systems, security, audibility, predictability.

for me it's clearly a toy that can easily blow up - it nuked 3 of my test containers early on and leaked fake secrets I gave it so I very quickly bounced away back to my robust agents platform instead.

I get it's a quick hack to add persistent chat to claude-code but I believe that is actually against the TOS and I can do almost the same with tmux and ssh with far more precision, and it's definitely not end-user friendly (where's the standalone docker image to run securely) or well run which makes the astronomical growth even more wild to me.

Cool/viral runs around the world before well engineered can even launch I guess.

[Jay ⛽️ @jelanifuel]

Openclaw hype is kinda wild to me.

It’s literally just a wrapper to Claude code with more risk.

The fact that it can run autonomously and call apis is the same thing Claude code can do…

Not sure what I’m missing

[Tim Marks @imothee]

The new hardest thing in computer science: getting your @awscloud production SES approved. I understand the concerns but I've setup the dkim, the spf, the DMARC and all the monitoring and now I'm stuck in support ticket purgatory 🫢 cc @AWSSupport @AWSstartups

[Tim Marks @imothee]

Literally just made this post independently and it feels spot on.

I’ve been spending way too much time lately buried in agents, agentic coding, and genAI, and a few things are starting to click. The "craft" part of building has totally shifted. It’s less about the raw labor now and more about having a vision and the taste to curate what actually comes out of the machine. As the cost of creating stuff drops to basically zero, information becomes a commodity.

What's left? Your creativity, your taste, and whether or not people actually trust you. In a world overflowing with content, you really only have two ways to stand out: novelty or depth. It’s becoming surprisingly easy to spot a project that was just "churned out" versus one where someone actually gave a damn and guided it with intent. I also ran a little experiment with AI coding tools that proved a point I’ve been dwelling on: The baseline matters more than ever. I tried building the same basic text game two ways: Starting from scratch with AI: Four hours in, it was a total disaster. Types were everywhere, build errors were stacking up, and the agents were just spinning their wheels trying to fix things they didn't understand. Starting with a hand-written engine: Four hours in, it was janky, sure—but it was feature-complete and actually playable.

It feels counterintuitive, but in the age of AI, hand-crafted foundations matter more, not less. We’re about to see a massive flood of garbage content, but once we get through the peak of the hype, quality is going to be the only thing that resurfaces. The real winners are going to be the builders who know how to bridge the gap between human craft and generative power.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.

https://t.co/3GQUlfH58t