vmilty

Life, marketing, and #Bitcoin.

[vmilty @MtheoryV]

My paper on Blockchain Consensus and Game Theory is now on Medium. I believe this is a solid foundation, but the analysis is not complete. I'm taking an iterative approach and hope that you can help with feedback. The goal is learning - for me and others. https://t.co/Bh0RSlc7vl

[signüll @signulll]

someone yesterday asked me what i thought high agency meant. i think it’s usually some unholy combination of:

- resourcefulness
- relentlessness
- resilience

this has always been rare, but rn it feels borderline unfair. the world has never had more leverage just sitting around waiting for one person stubborn enough to use it.

[My First Million @myfirstmilpod]

Replit's founder made $3M in 2 days shipping a half-ready product.

Amjad Masad's team wasn't ready to launch Replit Agent.

He said: "I don't care if it's semi-broken. If it works 50% of the time, it'll wow the world."

For the first time ever, an AI agent could write code, debug it, create a database, and deploy to the cloud.

End-to-end.

He shot a video on his iPhone. Posted it.

Andrej Karpathy quote-tweeted: "I feel-the-AGI moment."

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers reached out: "We didn't know our models could do that."

Day 1: $1M ARR Day 2: $2M ARR

In 48 hours, he made more than 8 years of trying.

Amjad: "Product-market fit feels like stepping on a landmine. We pivoted for years. That moment was the landmine."

If it doesn't feel like a landmine, you haven't found it yet.

Full episode: https://t.co/9MEfLHp4e4

@amasad @thesamparr @ShaanVP

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Free accounts for teachers, 50% off for students!

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

My dog after eating my philosophy book

[sophie @netcapgirl]

claude cowork is making me think maybe we’ll look back and it’ll be obvious that humans were never meant to spend their lives working behind a screen. we’ll see it as inevitable that computers do everything for us on computers and the future of work is cooler than we can imagine

[vmilty @MtheoryV]

@realfunnyeric @Franciscocrz @Replit This is great to hear. I had a little bit of a panic yesterday when I realized that I had racked up $150 in three days of work that normally cost under $20.

Are you using Assistant more? Any other tips and tricks?

[vmilty @MtheoryV]

@Kenaadams99 @mattyp Have you found any ways to avoid this? I’m racking up charges and find it harder to work with.

[vmilty @MtheoryV]

When someone takes time out of their day to sit with you, listen, and help you, they are sacrificing their time, attention, and energy for you. Add that sacrifice to the list of things AI will never replace.

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

“It was me, Murph. I was your ghost.”

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

ChatGPT psychosis is rare if you know how it works.

“How GPT works” should be a required subject.

Primary lesson: a GPT is a function of its data. It can uncover interesting facts and make fascinating correlations. But it will not discover non-governmental demons.

Anything the GPT says is a remix of its training corpus.

But labs benefit from GPT mysticism so they don’t say this.

If you internalize the lesson, esoteric responses, when you invariably hit them, will at most make you think “hmm I wonder where it got that from.” And maybe you search or prompt a bit more to find out.

Otherwise you’ll think you are revealing some deep universal truth, and that’s when things go down hill.

Teach your kids that a GPT is a function of its data.

[signüll @signulll]

if you need everyone you invest in to be likable, uncontroversial, & playing by the book… congrats, you’re gonna miss every generational outlier.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

NYTimes talked to Zillow’s CEO on how they use AI; they’re ahead of the curve!

[Naval @naval]

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

👀

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

If you ever do find the thing you truly love to do that is also making something people want, all you have to do is nose to the grindstone on that thing, and compounding takes care of the rest!

There are few bigger blessings in life than discovering what that is.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

.@jimmycarr:

In your 20s you worry about what everyone thinks of you.

In your 30s you say “I don’t care what anyone thinks of me.”

In your 40s you realize they weren’t thinking about you the whole time.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Saudi Arabia to become the first nation of AI coders powered by @Replit.

We’re proud to partner with HUMAIN, Saudi’s new full AI value chain company owned by the Public Investment Fund, to launch an Arabic-first version of Replit to empower the next generation of builders.

[@jackbutcher @jackbutcher]

Figure out what not to do, over and over again.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Wow, what a stressful week of work. Time to relax by holding a phone beaming endless streams of horrific international news inches from my head

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

This is what the new Coinbase One Card looks like. Very cool - each one is metal and engraved with the genesis block.

It's also the first crypto credit card powered by American Express. With cashback paid in bitcoin, of course.