Rassam

co-founder @coldsendpro | GTM + AI

[Rassam @tharsalys]

I'm resigning from capitalism.

I'm done with the meaningless pursuit of wealth at the cost of everything good.

"Mementos of this world ... where things worth being are so easily exchanged for things worth having" - William Gaddis

https://t.co/8gpBavDmVK

[Rassam @tharsalys]

SpaceX IPO

[Rassam @tharsalys]

First time founder: "omg we got a competitor we're cooked"

Second time founder: "thank God, it wasn't just in my head"

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You are far more dangerous to your startup than competitors are. A hundred times more startups die from poor execution by their founders than are killed by competitors.

[Rassam @tharsalys]

Even they are onto this now bros...

[max guy 😐 @GolerGkA]

Google founders are Jewish, has a frontier model
Anthropic founder is Jewish, has a frontier model
OpenAI founder is Jewish, has a frontier model

xai founder isn’t Jewish, doesn’t have a frontier model
Microsoft founder isn’t Jewish, doesn’t have a frontier model
Deepseek founder isn’t Jewish, doesn’t have a frontier model
Mistral founder isn’t Jewish, doesn’t have a frontier model

Which begs the question. What the hell is wrong with Zuck?

[Rassam @tharsalys]

I'm working less. Much less actually. And I'm making more.

Why? Because I'm not a j*w and not a retard. And I'm not here to put people on a treadmill.

If you're working harder with better tools, brother you are the tool

[Thom van Lieshout @thomvlieshout]

guys be honest, are you working less because of AI

because I'm working more than ever

[Rassam @tharsalys]

If you really think about it, every 6 months, OpenAI and Anthropic switch their hats in their perpetual game of good cop bad cop.

Look towards actual AI labs, instead of US state instruments. I mean DeepSeek, Moonshot, Qwen etc.

Can't take anything US seriously

[Xin Eric Wang @xwang_lk]

If you really think about it, despite being mocked as “ClosedAI,” OpenAI has contributed enormously to the field: GPT, GPT-2, GPT-3, CLIP, the ChatGPT paper, the GPT-4 Technical Report, the Sora technical blog, and even open-sourced Codex.

Anthropic, meanwhile, has contributed far less to the public research ecosystem while increasingly promoting fear-based narratives and restricting access through heavy gatekeeping.

The world I least want to live in is one where the future of AI is controlled by companies that prioritize secrecy, gated access, and centralized control over openness, reproducibility, and scientific progress.

[Rassam @tharsalys]

The man was being a proprietary AI shill for months before this. All so he could get a job at Anthropic.

Never trust European migrants in the US. iykyk

[Hensen Juang @basedjensen]

What a way for karpathy to burn reputation and good will points.... Brah what are we doing here

[Rassam @tharsalys]

Remember: It is possible, the big shits just don't want to do it, so you can't have it.

[Sandro @pupposandro]

This is still insane...

[Rassam @tharsalys]

My favourite part about doomers is that, apart from ragebaiting on X, they have never done a thing in their lives.

Always listen to the man in the arena. Software engineering is dying, but I won't hear it from retards like this guy

[pk @augmolt]

what you’re seeing on twitter right now is the death throes of software engineering culture

these people stake their entire identity for a decade in being The Smart People

and now they’re just ditch diggers who can’t pretend to be the elite online anymore

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

Imagine if today all you had was Fable 5 from Anthropic & GPT 5.5 from OpenAI

- No Local Inference

- No OpenCode : Hermes

- No GPUs / DGX Sparks / Mac Studios

Just a hostage situation to a few corps willing to rugpull you any sec

Now you understand why we need Opensource AI

[Rassam @tharsalys]

@adilbuilds can't DM you so I'll just do it here:

I bought annual sub of @boycatapp vpn and it doesn't connect to anything. Contact support but no response. Pls halp. JazakAllah

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Israel has given us OnlyFans, War, Debt, and illegal nuclear weapons that threaten the world.

Iran has given us algebra, chemistry, and Medicine.

[Rassam @tharsalys]

Pretty naive take considering the computation is all based on writing. If you can write code, you can do anything with computers.

So the real scale of revolution is:
Whatever can be done computationally can be done 100x faster.

That's not everything. But it's big enough.

[Mo @atmoio]

The funny thing about the AI “intelligence” revolution is that AI is basically a writer. Writing what? Anything. Prose. Poetry. Code. Math. It can write.

And the question is, if you automated writing, how disruptive is that?

It’s not nothing. But also, it’s a pretty whimsical premise right? Like ha wow writing is solved, THEREFORE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS TRULY FUCKED. Like what? How did you get there?

IT CAN WRITE A LOT. REALLY FAST.

oooo, spooky

Clearly the non-delusional take is every human gains an expensive writing/research assistant. And this is clearly, demonstrably the full extent of the revolution.

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

@DeepDishEnjoyer cool thing about quitting coffee is you quit and then you stabilize and you're like "hey, life is objectively worse without coffee" and then you start again

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Rassam @tharsalys]

Underrated non-dev use-case:
Run backlink outreach for SEO. Have Hermes pay attention to HARO queries and apply. Or simply reach out to relevant companies with your pitch.

If you have an ecom brand, price monitoring of competitors and make an endpoint to update yours. Ez win

[Thomas Sanlis 🥐 @T_Zahil]

Please someone explain to me why should I use Hermes if I already use Codex, Claude etc

What could I do with it?

[Rassam @tharsalys]

Product-wise yes. Tech-wise, Alibaba still there. Qwen 3.6 series is still the only local choice for majority

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

S-Tier Chinese Labs: Moonshot and DeepSeek

These 2 are levels above everyone else

[Rassam @tharsalys]

@batee5a__ Nahh he definitely knew

[Indra @IndraVahan]

i have realized that the ideal startup composition is a jewish founder, indian cto, chinese founding engineer, a white designer and a gay seed fund investor with questionable ties to the white house

[Bri @wordsandsense]

My good friend Ursula K. Le Guin has some thoughts on this

[Rassam @tharsalys]

@Freepal3stin33 @dkayofficial_ That book has an entire chapter dedicated to the superiority of poverty. Sahih al Bukhari yes. Go read that first. These things are more nuanced than hustlebros want you to believe.

[Rassam @tharsalys]

L take.

Lawful poverty is better than dubious wealth. Wealth is a burden, a responsibility. I dare you to find verses in the Qur'an that laud wealth like you've done here.

Muslim hustlebros should stick to hustling and not make comments about Islam

[Dkay @dkayofficial_]

Modern Muslims, particularly those in the UK, glorify poverty. They see it as virtuous.

If you were to ask them who’s more moral between a monk living in the mountains, and a rich man who provides for his family and gives to charity, they’d do mental gymnastics to assert it’s the former

The reason they do this, is because wealth is hard to achieve. That’s all it breaks down to. By ascribing virtue to poverty, there’s no internal pressure placed on oneself to go out and grind.

Being a man in this day and age is incredibly hard and the pressure to provide in this economy is enough to drive one insane, thus the easiest (and weakest) solution is to convince yourself that wealth is innately evil and poverty is innately virtuous. That alleviates this mental burden