Jason Thane

Pro Usore Pugnamus!

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

Yes. Soon there will be a highly efficient program form that will be indecipherable to humans but optimal for agents to manipulate and processors to execute.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

DHH is fundamentally right about Rust. For context, Vercel has been undergoing a Rust-ification (carcinization, technically 🦀) for a while.

One of the first projects we migrated was Turborepo, from Go to Rust¹. The migration completed, but the RoI was actually quite controversial internally.

While Rust was in our eyes better for low-level OS access, something crucial for a build system like Turbo, the human migration costs were very sustantive.

Go is very fast. It's beautifully designed. It's easy to iterate on. We were very conflicted about the migration, because it was *humans* writing the code, *even if we knew Rust was a better choice*.

The calculus has now changed. What's "best for humans" is no longer necessarily "best for business".

FWIW, it's also quite unlikely that Rust is the end-all-be-all toolchain. I'm quite certain there's greener pasture ahead, because Rust itself was designed before the 'supersonic tsunami' of agents hit.

¹ https​://vercel.com/blog/how-turborepo-is-porting-from-go-to-rust

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@NielsHoven @sarah_cone 🤣🤣🤣

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@Manhattva @JohnCleese Rightism, too. Ain’t no difference

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@PalmerLuckey @mr_pool4 Dude, that was mostly old women; are you stupid, high, or just an asshole?

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@Spacecolonize @BellikOzan This is the right answer.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@CJHandmer @theojaffee These men are nihilists

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@CityNewsVAN @GreatDismal Thought crime?

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Then it should blow right by the Standard Model of Particle Theory/General Relativity by, say, breakfast tomorow!

Because with all our data, it would be rather mysterious/suspicious if it stopped more or less exactly where we humans were stopped dead in our tracks…53 years ago.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

I’m sure everything’s going to be fine

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or Autowarcom."

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@BernieSanders Each of the 4 people you call “oligarchs” founded and spent decades building companies in highly competitive markets, and those companies created trillions of dollars of value. We should celebrate these people and their accomplishments.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@Rainmaker1973 It really doesn’t.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@RonnieAdkins @ChillinEffect What

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@Scobleizer @Jmartens The proper message is: Elon rocks. And you’re just a little bitch.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

Yes. If your model isn’t aligned to you, who is it aligned to?

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

When frontier labs talk of “aligning” models, ask: to what? If they say values, ask: whose? If it’s theirs rather than the user’s: why?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → https://t.co/uQKQvgaTmJ

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@ramez Humanoids currently do most of the interesting and replaceable work on the planet. We already have backhoes and elevators.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@ramez For the record, @mcuban also posted in 2007 that there was nothing left on the Internet worth investing in. I like the guy, and I’m glad he’s doing what he’s doing, but he’s not really a visionary.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The cryptographic world computer:

https://t.co/LF2JGU38Rx

My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties.

FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

I was there in person, and very much of what he announced that day as become reality. So excited for the future.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

10 years ago today, @elonmusk announced his Mars plans in the form of the Interplanetary Transportation System, now known as Starship at the 2016 IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico. This was when he used the underpants gnome meme and I’ve always wondered if back then he already knew Starlink would be the key to SpaceX’s future followed by AI prospects, or was it still just rocket launch services that thought would be the money maker.

PS: I was there and it was the first time I asked Elon anything at a press conference. I remember being pretty nervous. I never imagined I’d hold multi-hour conversations about rockets just a few years later.

[Jason Thane @thanejas]

@WilliamShatner Love you man