Igor Artamonov

Blockchain Developer / Decentralization Maximalist / Certified Miner / Made Ethereum Classic / Founder & lead of @getemerald

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Live at https://t.co/ktuP5dADhn

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

I don't think I understand the AI valuation hype. With the current progress we'll get Opus 4.8 level weights runnable on a commodity server in 2-3 years. In five years prosumer hardware will run the same level models. In ten years max we'll have it in our pockets. What exactly does Anthropic plan to sell in that future to justify their valuation?

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

The next one is GPUs, because who knows what AI models you run on them. The GPUs should be able to load only approved weights

[LM @loyalmoses]

OFFICIALLY SIGNED: New York just banned online sales of CNC machines, lathes, and 3D printers. Required surveillance software on every one.

And there's a bill in committee to require a background check to buy them at all. Look around you at who didn't fight, or who ONLY appeared to fight once they saw my video views pouring in. 🤔 Video soon!

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Maybe @intellijidea secret hope is that @AnthropicAI buys them to work on Claude Code? I mean, they know they can't outcompete Anthropic on the AI side, they've also given up on the IDE side, so they're probably just sending signals now

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

IntelliJ's "Ask AI" / "Fix with AI" / etc. is so annoying. Way worse than the Clippy, because they put it EVERYWHERE so I keep clicking it by mistake

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

The crypto prices are the first thing we all check in the morning, before the weather, so I've made a weather app for crypto. It's a bit windy right now.

[Emerald Weather @emerald_weather]

You follow this account for prices. Now you can check them any time, not just when we post. Emerald Weather for iOS is live. Free. No account.

https://t.co/n4bpaK61R2

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

In 2017 we had many talks about how Smart Contracts would be used. A common example was literal contracts on chain, like a car insurance smart contract that pays the other side. That obviously didn't make any sense, and I argued that smart contracts are not for people. My counter example was autonomous cars making agreements on a parking lot about which spot to take. I.e., agreements between machines.

Not about money at all. It was before DeFi so we didn't see that path.

And I still think that's the way. Maybe not autonomous cars, but other machines.

The AI.

This thing can write, read and perfectly understand all the tiny details of a smart contract. So if an AI needs to make an agreement with another AI - they could collaborate on the code, deploy and execute what works for them. And no one can stop them.

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

@Discoplomacy Awaits to be demolished - https://t.co/a83lI2gXpF https://t.co/Sb30D9i6cd

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Publishing an app to the Apple App Store for the first time. Surprised by how many things you have to go through. The submission takes more time than the development. So many questions to answer. For ratings, privacy, contacts, encryption, data sources, instructions, and so on. But most surprising - they want to know what value it provides, what it solves. Also record a video. Feels like applying to YC

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Come on, the new Ferrari is not that bad. It's a nice family car, kids would love it

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

@jskoiz @digitalshane_ When GCP banned us for a week, the traffic never restored to the previous level. We lost 80-50% of traffic due to that. Days of downtime is a serious thing

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

@JustJake Happened to us once, took a week to get it back. Still have no idea what was the cause

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

@mysticryuujin @Cloudflare Interesting, so they have different things in different offices

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Apparently @Cloudflare are using this now. Is it more secure than Lava Lamps?

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Ah, an it lives at @emerald_weather

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

Recently I needed to generate some images on the server. Just basic stuff with numbers and sometimes a chart, but nice-looking. I spent like a couple of days making one until realizing there's a much simpler approach that solves most of the problem. I mean,I solved the 'image gen' problem, that's easy apparently. The hard one is making it 'nice looking' and that needs a different approach

[Igor Artamonov @splix]

So the lesson here I guess - HTML + Chromium is the right tool for image gen automation. Don't start from the 'image' part, optimize for the loop you spend the most time in