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@ChuckGrassley Retire

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@gothburz Wow you really love yourself.

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@TheMaineWonk @nytimes Ok. Now what? They seemed to skate through since Trump is gonna go unscathed again. So they won?

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@covie_93 What will you do about it @RepJeffries @SenSchumer besides pathetic posts ?

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@Rep_Stansbury @nytimes What will u do about it

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@thehill @Acosta They seemed to have weathered the storm though correct ? No one talks about it anymore. Why

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@BrianBatko Super Bowl assured

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@hthieblot Anonymity

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@gregisenberg They have become a library

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A peak life advice from Alex Hormozi:

“The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.”

[Point Zero AI @pointzeroai]

Why do you have to be a young person, who has No credibility as a bro in a hoodie with mature business owners? What not experienced business people in their 50's and 60's who have OWNED businesses, who are founders, who had had exits? Why young people? Makes no sense. I would kick the ass of anyone in their 20's and 30's head to head with ANY business owner in their 40's to 60's. They have No chance.

[Starter Story @starter_story]

This girl is insane. 4 different apps doing $150K/month each! 🥶

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha

full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here:

1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.

2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone.

3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for."

4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction.

5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain.

6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.

7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have.

8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI.

9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head.

10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything.

11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want.

12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years.

13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.

14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.

15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free.

16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out.

17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.

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@itsolelehmann I'd never heard about the steelman thing before but I'm already doing it on a developmental app that has me frustrated. Thank you

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@TheICHpodcast I can tell you @ChrisCamillo is not kidding. This is ONE vertical, in ONE city. Check out the tab headings. Look at all the No's. That's the market opp, right there. It repeats, over and over and over.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

"If you are building the same thing other people build, it can only be similarly good. It can't be actually much better. It can slightly look nicer, but you're bounded a couple percentage points either direction. If you want to build something great or much better, it has to be different.

So this has to be your starting position."

[Point Zero AI @pointzeroai]

@jaltma Agreed. Did that here, reduced asset based fees 50% to 70% on average. Saved 401k participants billions that were robbing their future. Grew the company from $0 assets to over $2 billion in 5 years. Had a full cash 3 day exit in 2019. It can be done

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@gdb My first app with Claude took 4 weeks. Apple Approval, 10 days. Granted learning curve. My second with Codex 4 days. Apple approval. 6 days. My 3rd with Codex 4 hours. Just turned into Apple. A ton of fun for this old dude to be creating things. Thanks @OpenAI

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@denohawari Thank you for the reminder. Done