A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.
Happy Birthday America, Land of the Free.
Don’t give up on the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments.
They’re unique, and your freedom - and the worlds’ - depends on them.
I told you Anthropic’s doom marketing would backfire. I disagree with the U.S. government’s move, but Anthropic's management deserves some blame for the panic, hysteria and FUD they stoked.
Reminder:
Good: big pharma, capitalism.
Bad: community organizers, zealous city council meeting attendees, retirees who feels it's their duty to maintain the character of the local neighborhood.
Again, maybe counterintuitive, but in the majority of conversations I have with CIOs, CTOs, and CEOs in large enterprises, they are either growing due to AI (in new job functions like FDEs, engineering, etc.) or at a minimum reinvesting efficiency savings back into the business in new areas (sales, marketing, etc.).
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, articulated this perfectly in a NYTimes OpEd last week. The AI boom is both creating all new jobs in the build out of AI systems and the implementation across sectors, but also freeing up dollars to invest in areas that have been underfunded or have more demand now because of AI.
Most businesses have been constrained by how much software they can produce at a given cost, how many sales reps they can hire, how many marketing campaigns they can run, how they can do outbound customer success motions with enough tailoring, how they can find more risk in their business and prevent it, and 100s of other things.
When AI makes it possible to do more of this, investment goes back into the business. The companies that better serve their customers win over the long run, and those that just try and find savings end up doing worse.
The quicker you act on realizing you have to attack life, not let it happen to you, the quicker you enjoy this journey versus wasting it on stress, anxiety, and worry
Underrated life advice: Become a purveyor of encouragement. Notice what's good in people. Tell them when they do something well. Celebrate their progress. Root for them to win. Be inspired by their success. The world already has enough critics. Be different.
I think I’ve figured out that when they say “we’re a nation not an economy” they mean “I can’t stand the thought of anyone here who reminds me how useless I am to society.”
optionality is a blessing and a curse. it gives you the freedom to experiment. but it stops you from going all in. at some point you have to commit. burn the bridges. if you try to keep every door open, you’ll spend your entire life in the corridor.
Elon building SpaceX and Tesla in America is America First.
Jensen building Nvidia in America is America First.
Sergey Brin building Google in America is America First.
All immigrants. All naturalized Americans.
This quote from Peter Thiel in 2014 has always resonated with me. Finite and infinite games aren’t only for business; they also apply to life generally.
“People always say they want to live every day as though it will be their last. I always have this contrasting view that I think I’d like to live every day as though it will go on forever. If we had an indefinite life span, we would continue to work and start great new projects, we would be very careful about how we treated the people around us because we would encounter them again.”
Traveling is not an accomplishment
Any boob can get on a plane and rent an Airbnb.
No one wants to hear about your pasta tour in Italy.
Yes, I've traveled to dozens of places and lived abroad.
In the end,the best memories come from your time with your wife and kids doing normal stuff like going to their Little league games.