Stephen Vescio

Obsessed with numbers, coffee and the web.

[Stephen Vescio @stephenvescio]

"...one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites" - 1968

[Stephen Vescio @stephenvescio]

Peak "public benefit corporation" behavior.

[Salesforce @salesforce]

Marc @Benioff + @DarioAmodei. Live on @CNBCFastMoney.

Watch as they talk Salesforce + @AnthropicAI, the Claudeforce partnership, and what’s next for enterprise AI.

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@davzhao Nailed it

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

when bro suddenly starts submitting PRs with detailed descriptions, correct grammar and casing, and testing steps

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@_Chroma_ @GrantSlatton

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@liamhz Should I release my model? Not sure I want the smoke tbh... @1vnzh

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@timhwang

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@theallinpod @chamath @friedberg @CommerceGov @howardlutnick @DOGE @elonmusk This was a policy sales pitch. Too much revisionist history to be taken seriously.

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@RobertMSterling Don't need to entertain anything... but the best really comes from Kentucky

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@ParikPatelCFA Is Rick Rubin... pivoting?

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@andreasklinger I want advice from the kid.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

This chart is insane. AI has now enabled the creation of the fastest growing software product maybe of all time.

[Marcin @marcinzaremski]

Me👨 and Cursor 🤖:

👨: <Pasting an error message>
👨: Can you fix that?
🤖: Ok.
🤖: <code still broken>
👨: Doesn't work
👨: Doesn't work
👨: Doesn't work
👨: Doesn't work

[Stephen Vescio @stephenvescio]

"But you are probably using them wrong"

No... just stop. And stop fibbing about what these things are capable of right now.

[Stephen Vescio @stephenvescio]

AI Coding Assistants (cursor, windsurf etc. etc.) are like having programming wizards reincarnated as junior developers with severe dementia right now.

[Stephen Vescio @stephenvescio]

You need to know how to architect, debug and version-control well to get anywhere with these tools which is wonderful and fine - as long as you understand you will be trading speed for pulling out your hair.

[Stephen Vescio @stephenvescio]

"One of Howard Hughes’ favorite tricks was to pretend to be crazy on the theory that no one would take the time and energy to try to stop or compete with a crazy person."