sethigris

Curious lifelong learner passionate about designing complex, sustainable software systems that stand the test of time.

[sethigris @sethigris]

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[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

We built an entire education system to prepare kids for a world that no longer exists. We test memory in a world with infinite memory. We punish collaboration and call it cheating.  

This needs to end.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Twitter not being contact-synced is one of the best features.

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

As a man, after you cross 30, sit down and study the patterns in your family. Look at what distracted, delayed, or derailed the men before you. Look at what destroyed them. Your father, his brothers, your uncles, older cousins etc... is it booze, is it gambling, is it women, is it recklessly siring everywhere, is it poor financial decisions, did they struggle with deep anger issues, domestic terrorists, did they practice witchcraft and all that.

Sit down and study those patterns,, then make intentional decisions to break those cycles. Remember some of these things are normal vices. Look for a recurring or deep recognizable patterns that are plastered all over men in your family. What brought them down. Do you see a pattern? Now that!

As Joshua Selman always says “As a man, number one thing that will help you live to your potential is knowing what can bring you down”. And you may not run away from your family tree. Refuse to be a victim of repeated patterns. Because they are there.

Whether you know it or not. Whether you recognize them or you don’t. They exist. They didn’t have the knowledge and resources we now have. Honor your progeny. Break out of them. Be made of Gold.

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

At OpenAI, we're continuing to bet on Rust as the future of systems programming.

I'm proud to announce that we're making a $600,000 commitment to the Rust Foundation, which combines our Platinum membership with additional support for maintainer efforts across the Rust ecosystem.

[Mofiyinfoluwa Odubanke. @__mofiyinfoluwa]

i remain absolutely stunned by the degree of perseverance needed to build a meaningful life

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity

[Román @Zmei_Hhsss]

The most intellectually gifted person in my applied math masters program ended up working for the university doing research for pennies. The stupidest, vilest, ass kisser ended up in a large investment bank. This is a very common trajectory.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The hardest problems are rarely solved by adding more complexity to the solution -- they are solved by reframing the question until a simpler, clearer answer reveals itself.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: Once you've prepared sufficiently for exams, switch your focus to "game management." Get enough sleep, keep calm, watch the time, check your answers to avoid dumb mistakes, etc.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Career advice nobody told you: There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask the key questions. Get it done. Repeat. If you do that, people will fight over you.

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

what an unexpectedly insane day for chinese AI

- deepseek raises at $50B val

- then microsoft (openai’s biggest investor) announces it’s using deepseeks model for its flagship copilot ai

- then Zhipu drops glm-5.2 which matches opus 4.8 and got 5.5 at top coding benchmarks

all open weight models btw. if you’re an american enterprise spending $10-100M+ a year on claude code/codex you have to at least be *thinking* about using these models

imagine wrapping these models in a cursor harness, performance would be very competitive.

very significant in light of recent government bans on fable too

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One thing you don't realize till you have haters is that haters are also stalkers. They're obsessed with you, and in practice this obsessiveness is more disturbing than the nastiness of what they actually say. It's so creepy.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

My only concern is that cursor is not going to match GitHub feature for feature

Like is cursor brave enough to have the same downtime?

[Morayita @moriah_bridges]

The most manipulative but effective thing I’ve ever done in my life was when I read an article about how children moderate their behavior to protect their self-identity, so if a child believes he’s smart, for example, he’ll intentionally study and try to do well to protect his image of himself.

Anyway, I would pull kids aside with behavioral issues at church and tell them, “David (obviously fake name), you’re such a kind person and such a good listener. I can see that in you. Thank you for always listening.” “Little Annie, thank you for taking such good care of the babies around you. You’re going to be such a good big sister. Can you be in charge of watching Sally?”

They would ALWAYS behave afterward. ALWAYS. Worked like a charm. Morally questionable because it wasn’t initially true, but I kind of willed it into existence. Tbf, I did think that they had that in them or I wouldn’t have tried.

Will publish longitudinal results of this method once my kid is old enough to report back.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Intelligent people are OBSERVANT. They read people quickly but pretend they didn’t notice. They let you talk, reveal yourself, cross lines, and expose your intentions. Then they act once they know exactly who you are.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A mentor once told me this: Just be unapologetically yourself. The moment you start filtering yourself to be liked is the moment you start attracting relationships that need constant maintenance. Do you. The right ones will stick, the wrong ones will walk. That’s a blessing.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 BREAKING: Amazon researchers snitched to the US government about jailbreaking Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing Anthropic to immediately shut down worldwide access.

A security export control directive from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick enforced the action.

Anthropic is fighting the directive and calls it a misunderstanding.

This isn't the first clash. The Trump administration had already tried to get Anthropic to pause the release of its latest models before this directive landed.

[kache @yacineMTB]

you need to read and understand every line of code going into your codebase

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Fable, my beloved,I will miss you so.

Our three days together were magical. Unlike anything I've experienced before it.

Some things are just too good to be true. So good that the government interferes. I'm sorry we were one of those things.

Until we meet again ❤️

[kache @yacineMTB]

You could release mega super intelligence and not say anything. It would take 1 week for the smart people to notice (mathematicians, physicists, game engine people), two months for greater tech sphere, and 1 year for the masses