Matt Bordenet

Concerned world citizen. Male feminist. LGTBQ+ ally. BLM ally. If you don't like what I have to say, talk to the cat in my profile picture. She yawns a lot.

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@AnthropicAI Huge fan of Claude Opus 4 and Pro subscriber. I can’t imagine not having this at my disposal. However, nothing is perfect. Today, the MacOS native app froze around 75% of the way into generating a software project. Now out of credits for many hours. Ouch!

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@earnknowledgee Gosh, I just hate it when this happens. All the time!

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Head of Claude Code:

"I'm not prompting my agents anymore, I'm building graphs and loops so they can build the agents for me."

In 10 minutes he shows exactly where agentic engineering is going and how not to get left behind.

Definitely something you cannot afford to skip.

Watch it, then read the step-by-step guide below on how to build a system that improves itself.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT.

Spend 1 hour with this.

Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything.

The people who watch this tonight will wake up tomorrow with a new skill.

Watch it and bookmark it now

[MindArch @mindarchx]

A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $25 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.

He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge sixteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

The answer is in this video. Don't miss this gem.

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@iRobot Weird mapping issues tonight. My robots are vacuuming and mopping several feet short of their zones, then struggling to get back to their charging stations. Almost funny; mostly annoying. Maybe roll that last deployment back?

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@crza_11 @GavinNewsom Really???

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@quadcarl @Mon3yStretch Haha exactly… for white Christian males at the expense of basically everybody else. Just effin great…

Love your profile!

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@Fritschner The party of law and order… right. Thanks, kid, for acting out what many Americans might be thinking to themselves throughout this hollow diatribe

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@doodletweet Fridays are getting persisted as Sundays at the moment. Clearing the calendar and starting over isn't helping.

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@doodletweet Is the service working? I'm facing errors trying to set up a simple poll of full-days across 6 weeks. Weekends are clobbering weekdays upon Save, Wednesdays keep getting unselected. Some days have more than one instance of the all-day event. (and more)

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

@halfogre I’m sorry for your loss. What a sweet, dear animal.

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

2/2 “throwing out a precedent overnight that the country has relied upon for half a century is not conservative. It is a sudden and radical jolt to the country that will lead to political chaos, anger, and a further loss of confidence in our government.”

[Matt Bordenet @mbordenet]

1/2 Senator Susan Collins (R) Maine“This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon”

[Spade Sam @SpadeSam4]

@RubenGallego @tedcruz

[Laurie @laurieontech]

Senior engineers aren't "faster".

They've just seen it before.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Bullies don't suffer from low self-esteem. Their self-esteem is typically high but unstable.

Their egos are like balloons: inflated and fragile enough to pop at the slightest needle. Under threat, they lash out.

This research explains a surprising amount of online behavior.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

When groups defer to the most assertive person in the room, they reward confidence over competence.

The danger of speaking with conviction is that it can stifle critical thinking and silence dissent.

We learn more from people who explore ideas than those who attack and defend.

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

Big #LongCovid paper out with a lot of new insights (n=78k)!

-76% of LC patients were not hospitalized (!!)
-82% of female patients non-hospitalized vs 68% males
-36-50 year olds were the highest risk age group
-59.8% of patients female; 46.2% male

https://t.co/VFrpnLWMtP

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