Maxim

Sailing to new shores

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@jahris Once had a month in my life where I decided, after a very stressful period, to do absolutely nothing. It's such a fond memory.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@PhiloGroves Just remove all the \n, then it's 1 LOC

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@nasqret Your comment made me realize that I desperately need more math in my life.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

I needed some https://t.co/TtbMRrMT5V bonding curve accounts the other day. Asked Lana for it. It worked on the first try. No need to spin up Claude Code. Sure this is real?

[mert @mert]

block explorers are dead

introducing @LanaAI — an AI that lets you talk to Solana interactively

- ask anything about tokens or wallets
- trace transactions, flows, and histories
- generate reports and CSVs
- rebalance your portfolio, place trades, and more

now in open beta

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

Do not give any power to anyone who promises utopia

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

You can't vibe-code utopia.

That's the key problem with the 'AI Abundance' narrative.

The AI industry is dominated by young, male, Aspy, single, childless, 'progressive' atheists who love tech more than they love people.

They think they can train AIs to deliver a utopian society for humans -- but they don't understand human nature, or history, or families, or societies.

To them, 'human nature' is little more than a list of 'cognitive biases'.

To them, 'human history' is little more than a catalog of oppression and irrationality.

To them, 'human families' are dead weight that you escape when you leave home and move to the Bay Area.

To them, 'human society' is little more than a hierarchy of founders, investors, employees, and customers.

If they showed any humility about what they don't understand, and any self-awareness about their hubris, we might forgive their youthful arrogance.

But, as things stand, there is no reason to trust them with any power to 'revolutionize' our entire civilization.

Utopian revolutions rarely end well.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

This hits hard, because it's true. Even more: since AI merely accelerates who you already are, it's the past investments you've made in yourself that will determine your success.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The time to learn how to think for yourself was before genAI, if you missed your chance, good luck

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@_chenglou This is extremely fascinating. From the model's perspective, the fixed rules of Sudoku don't play a special role, but are just part of the higher order rules it derived for efficient solving. You're definitely on to something.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@ChristosTzamos Is it now able to reliably compute the number of "r"s in "strawberry"?

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

The only mitsake he made is that he made no mistakes.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

LLMs being "only" good at interpolative creativity forced us to realize that, in 99.9% of cases, this is all that humans do anyway.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@gabriel1 You only need to understand the tests

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

This allows you to do with / on / to Solana anything that you want... in minutes

[Helius @Helius]

One-shot anything on Solana

Meet the Helius stack for agents:

- Claude Code Plugin
- MCP Server with 60+ tools
- Helius CLI with 95+ commands
- Skills for Helius, DFlow, Phantom, and SVM
- Supports all Helius APIs, staking, and tooling

Enjoy

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@JorgeCastilloPr @michaelque22 In the photo. GoTall

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

Had the feeling that my life had become too comfortable. So, did a 7 day fast with a half-marathon in the middle.

Don't get me wrong: I do feel better now. But THANK GOD this is over now and I can return to my regular, comfortable life.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

Eeeveryone is afraid of falling behind with AI.

What I'm afraid of: falling forward. What if I'm too innovative, too productive? What if I leave my peers behind?

These are the worries that keep me up at night.

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

Zürich literally means too rich

Zürich
= zu + rich
= too (German) + rich

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

If there are no CS students, no software engineers left. Who's gonna develop the next Rust, the next Tailwind? Aren't we going to stagnate from now on?

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

@nick_pennie somebody's been cooking