Kenneth Ballenegger

VC / Contrarian / Dog Dad

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

There is no replacing Jensen. Historic mistake from Nvidia to lose him. Don’t fall for the psyop.

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Had a little time on my hands this morning to do some writing… send along to someone you know who may benefit
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“Practical principles to counter a modern-day coup/psyop/struggle session”

1) Own what you did but fiercely resist accommodating the mob, resist owning half-truths or actions/behaviors you didn’t do.

2) The op is not about your past actions, it’s about your enemies and this event as their opportunity

3) No matter how bad it gets, nothing is as bad as it seems.

4) Find the enemies at the very root of the op and find every creative problem-solving tool at your disposal to neutralize them.

5) People will throw their grandmother under the bus if they believe doing so will protect their reputation. They can become highly useful idiots in the op. Their power and access must be fiercely and quickly cut off.

6) Do not hesitate in cutting off anyone you suspect of disloyalty.

7) Build a team of close and loyal patriots and have one of them run a dedicated, well-resourced war room to put the rebellion to rest.

8) Use your patriots and regular meditation to buoy your psychological resistance to the op.

9) Your enemies aren’t as smart or hard working as you. Outsmart and outwork them as a way of life until the op is over.

10) Think about the op as if it were in the past. What are the difficult things you procrastinated on or avoided that would have stopped the op? Do them.

11) Never be ashamed of the op. Business as usual. Continue on with optimism and joy in your everyday work and its mission.

12) Download telegram and use it as your messaging application for all sensitive communications.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Jensen is out

Infidelity is obviously bad

But his contributions to American innovation and AI leadership cannot be overstated

Jensen started NVIDIA in 1993, where he pioneered the graphics chip market when this was non-obvious

Back in 2012, Ilya Sustkever trained AlexNet on NVIDIA GPUs — thereby creating the “deep learning” age

Jensen was one of the earliest to be AI pilled and he re-oriented NVDA towards AI in the mid 2010s — none of his competitors were even thinking this way

In 2020 he acquired Mellanox for $7B. This was an Israeli company that’s irrelevant for computer graphics but was essential for AI compute — wildly increasing the bandwidth between GPUs, necessary to build high performance AI server racks (rather than just good chips)

Once AI took off, Jensen was one of the biggest champions of the ecosystem

He was technical enough to be confident about where things were going, and had enough credibility as a founder CEO that he oftentimes made risky bets on next-generation technologies or companies that helped keep American AI on the efficient frontier

Recently he was investing in open source, photonics and robotics. These areas will all be feeling his loss

Earlier he was a champion of most of America’s leading AI companies when they were unproven

He made huge mistakes with his infidelity, which is tragic for his family and NVDA

But simultaneously he will leave a huge void, with the loss of a: technical, aggressive, founder-CEO

The American AI community needs to work double-time in an attempt to fill this void

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

Recently launched a new Twitter account for my website the Travel Signal — a travel hacking news aggregator which filters out all the human-slop (ads, listicles, fluff, unnecessary images, affiliate marketing, etc)

[The Travel Signal @TheTravelSignal]

Bilt phases out 4% Flexible Cash on 2027 card anniversaries. Existing cards switch to Housing-only rewards unless the holder opts out in the app. Accounts opened from January 1, 2027 start on Housing-only. via @AwardWallet

https://t.co/WFRvuFqqtX

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

New in usermods: sign in with ChatGPT or SuperGrok instead of pasting an API key. Describe a change to any site and it writes, tests and saves the userscript.

Free on the Chrome Web Store (or open source on GitHub):

https://t.co/5itucMTkdU

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@krunkosaurus @theo Welcome to the dark side. I switched from herdr recently and it's a big win

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@krunkosaurus @Jefflau Where is Caret in this list. You should give it a try

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

Usermods, my chrome extension that lets you un-shittify any website with just a prompt, is finally live on the Chrome Web Store. Give it a download, connect your favorite LLM, and make the web great again!

https://t.co/6EjzuLcTdL

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@krunkosaurus How much would that earn?

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

Models live a few months at most before being replaced. 13 months serving the same model is not realistic.

Anyways my greater point was the frontier labs have most of their compute dedicated to training not to inference and their inference is generally quite profitable, so an increase in demand for inference is good for them

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@coderdannn Smort - want to try for mandarin

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@CompleteSkeptic Is there a zero data retention option for Jev?

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@FishAudio Drama! I've been liking fish 2, time to try 3!

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

I open sourced a fuzzy finder for herdr.

prefix+g, type a few letters, land on any pane.

Every row shows live agent state, so it doubles as an inbox: prefix+i sorts by which agents needs me.

https://t.co/S0Uo3PITi7

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@micahgoulart If you like herdr, give this fork a try. It's really quite good.

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

Recently revamped my agentic development setup, enhancing the remote approach with Klaw + Minions to something a bit more hands-on with agents on various remove machines controlled by herdr.

What made this practical was remote access. Looked for the best UX, but didn't find anything perfect. Best I found was an open source app HerdrChat. I've forked it an put a ton of work into make it a fully featured remote client for herdr with a great iPhone and iPad experience.

Give it a try if you like herdr: https://t.co/xbCURHKYvI

[Kenneth Ballenegger @kob]

@krunkosaurus Seems we spend yesterday doing the same thing. I'm out of memory to run it anywhere though. 27B seems high for a decision model.

[Steven Tey @steventey]

this is, hands down, the best song I've heard all year