Jeff Bean

mostly a random personal feed. Technology, politics, hot takes, cool stuff.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@Tex2Big @OrevaZSN Equating a $100,000 salary with a $1,000,000,000 as “successful” is a little odd. A typical “successful” person is closer to a deadbeat than a billionaire.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@Tex2Big @OrevaZSN You’re arguing over the meaning of $100k while OP is talking about billionaires. It’s a human fallacy to misunderstand two different scales of big.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@OrevaZSN The lower and middle class are shrinking, more people than ever have entered the upper class.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

I’m not concerned about AI. I’m concerned about us.

https://t.co/Sq5XxLX6QF

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@Austen Lump of labor fallacy makes it so. Bumpy ride from here to there though.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@gwenshap I knew a guy who died basically because he postponed a cancer checkup. He told everyone not to postpone the scary stuff and used his story for emphasis. I still postpone the scary stuff.

[Turshija @turshija]

I got completely owned by the most sophisticated hack I've ever encountered.

I'm a developer. I know what scams look like.
This didn't look like one.

🧵

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@jaykreps Roughly what fraction of them were “absolutely important”, “not really but fine”, “seems kinda inappropriate”, and “outlandishly wild”? Did the proportions stay the same as the org grew too?

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@DeepNotShallow Dems are consistently feckless and ineffective in the face of clear mandates.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@gwenshap Uncanny valley. There are milliseconds of recognizable Gwen in that stream but it’s mostly Gwen-But-Definitely-Not-Gwen.

[Chioma Amadi @Chioma__Amadi]

If you’re hunting for a remote job, you just need to figure out how Reddit works, and you’ll never be unemployed for a long time.

Here’s a list of subreddits you should bookmark right now:

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@blackroomsec

[Alexandra Kleeman @AlexKleeman]

LLMs have been around for decades, I was in cog sci and nobody thought they were a pathway to general intelligence. The fact that they are being passed off as that right now is straightforward fraud.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

bro created an AI job search system for Claude Code that scored 700+ job applications and actually got him a job.

AND IT'S NOW OPEN-SOURCE.

It scans multiple company career pages, rewrites your CV per job, and even fills application forms. The repo has:
> 14 skill modes (evaluate, scan, PDF, ...)
> Go terminal dashboard
> ATS-optimized PDF generation via Playwright
> 45+ companies pre-configured (Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Stripe...)

GitHub: https://t.co/PwrYBOAphi

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@jjacky @OpenRouter @alexatallah @shashankgoyal95 @pingToven Cool!!

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

One hopes. If everything is subject to the same forces, benefits and challenges, this is far from assured.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

generalists are about to win big

If you understand a little of tech, business, and people, and can connect everything fast.

you're sitting on a goldmine right now.

[Paweł Huryn @PawelHuryn]

A 16-year-old cut Claude's output tokens by 75%.

The trick: make it talk like a caveman. Less "I'd be happy to help," more "done."

I tested it. Instructions change how Claude talks, not how it thinks.

Example prompt:
"Me talk short. No explain. Tool first. Result first. Me stop. No filler. No polite. Just do."

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@soni_jyoti_ Really? He smiled and gave you a numbered bulleted list off the top of his head

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@AdiPolak I don’t blame people generally. We’re still learning how to exist in such loops. But it sure seems like we’re quick to complacency when the workload is going up along with the criticality of the work.

[Jeff Bean @jwfbean]

@AdiPolak We produce a wealth of new opportunities for bad work to slip through. It seems like humans pat themselves on the back for staying in the loop then fail to perform in the role.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

All the smartest people I know have LLM psychosis now