👑Dan Rice

CTO @ 👑Bling Financial @blingfiapp. Spend all my time thinking and preparing for AI agents to take over the economy.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

If we are all going to have humanoid robots walking around our houses, do we really want them to look like those boring Tesla models?

I want Megatron doing my dishes.

How valuable is the Transformers IP in a world w/billions of robots?

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

Apple solved spam calls in iOS 26 and nobody is talking about it. I've saved so much time

If you haven't enabled Call Screening here's what it does: If the caller is unrecognized, it answers for you and then asks the caller who they are. It then transcribes that information for you.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

In the age of intelligent bots and impossible to detect fake videos, the open web is dead. The online town square era is over

For those of us who left traditional media decades ago due to extreme corruption and political bias, I'm not sure where we go from here for news

Ideas?

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@henrythe9ths FUNDRAISE

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ChatGPT just made a phrase that I found insightful so I asked it where it came from and it said “I couldn’t find anyone who has used it before. I was synthesizing what you were talking about and online information.”

I was asking about recent mass shooters and assassinations trying to understand the shooters and also the social media response where it seems that people treat death as something to laugh about and chatgpt said “it’s people raised on meme culture treating social media like a video game lobby”

“treating social media like a video game lobby” just nails it so well for me. I think lines are blurring between reality and virtual more and more which I wouldn’t have assumed humans were capable of doing without seeing it.

I was talking about this because several recent events involved shooters who left no manifesto and did things like inscribed memes on the bullets or wrote on social “I really have no reason to do this.” They also don’t have clear political ideologies so it doesn’t appear to be purely along political lines.

There’s a casual trivialization of life happening that needs to be studied not just amongst the shooters but the more scary part is the online response. These events are still not very statistically significant, but that could change rapidly.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

An interesting observation from direct interaction with self-driving Waymos on the road in Los Angeles:

They don’t posess human courtesy or local driving culture. A car was stopped on the road in my lane and the Waymo in the next lane over sped up and got right next to me instead of acknowledging the stopped car and yielding so I could temporarily borrow space in the next lane to go around.

Self driving cars are run by profit motivated corporations which means their reward function will be tuned to complete rides as fast as possible without breaking the law. Humans don’t drive completely selfishly. They respect the community on the road around them. Imagine a pedestrian being run over by a car and a Waymo arriving just after the incident to the intersection. Now imagine the Waymo going around the person on the street to continue to its destination. While a waymo can’t help an injured pedestrian, it feels wrong.

As the number of self driving cars on the road increases you won’t want to drive any more because they will all drive like selfish assholes.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

We’re so focused on whether LLMs can beat the smartest humans at their skill that we’ve missed the forest. They have deep knowledge in EVERY area. No human has anything close. LLMs are the ultimate polymath and you can ask it questions all day!

I just had a conversation that covered:

-historical accounts of Columbus’ first and second voyages to the Americas including cultural norms of the Taino people
-possible explanations for my latest blood test results and other follow-up tests that may be helpful
-analysis of current best drivers in Formula 1
-process used to detect speed at which other galaxies are moving away from us and implications.

This is insane and we’re all just going on with our lives like everything is normal.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

If you’re like me and you have a backlog of product ideas you never get around to, this is the moment to be alive.

A couple of years ago I paid to get a full copy of my DNA genome to help explain some of my health issues. That file sat on a hard drive unused with the future idea of exploring open source dna tools.

On Monday my doctor had a question about whether or not I had certain autoimmune genes so I decided to start looking into it using my local copy of my DNA.

An hour of using Claude Code with a combination of custom code it wrote, and existing genome open source tools I have answers and I also know I have 60% viking genetics because that seemed like a fun thing to know.

AI not only wrote the code but it did backing research to find out which genes were relevant.

This would have taken me weeks to explore and build on my own hence why I hadn’t done it before.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

I was about to turn right onto a street in LA today, but I hesitated because I saw a car quickly approaching the intersection from the left. As it got closer I realized it was a self-driving Waymo, at which point my first thought was “I could have pulled out in front of it because the AI would have safely slowed down and avoided hitting my car.”

It then occured to me that human drivers are not going to treat AI drivers like humans. We know the AI will never daydream or lose focus and we also know the AI won’t have road rage and follow us home.

Self driving cars will experience more unpredictability from human drivers on the road than human drivers do from other humans. Humans will expect the AI drivers around them on the road to deal with their erratic behaviors.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

Up to this point, we've had personalized content curation. "For You" on Netflix or Spotify. The content behind it is still the same for everyone.

Generative AI promises dynamic content. This means content can iteratively adapt and improve with user signals. User reinforced entertainment.

A couple of *insane* outcomes aren't that far off:

1. The content itself is literally just "For You". Nobody else gets the same movie or TV show. This is equally awesome and scary as we all become even more siloed online.

2. Self improving content. Think movies that are better a year later because the engine has incorporated user feedback and improved the content. You'll no longer want to be the first to watch a new movie. Like a new piece of software, you may want to wait until the bugs are shaken out of the story.

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After years of not finding answers and probably visits to 20 different specialist doctors, last year I told ChatGPT everything about my health issues. It told me I might have something called Eosinophilic Fasciitis. I started making new specialist doctor appointments right away. I now had a better idea what type of doctor I should be seeing.

The first doctor laughed me out of the room, so I pressed on. The fourth one said “you have a textbook case, why didn’t you come in sooner?”

That fourth doctor was the only Specialist Rheumatic Dermatologist in all of Southern California. It took months to get an appointment and I would have never made it there without ChatGPT telling me I needed it.

I’m now in full blown treatment at a top research hospital. Last week I was invited to grand rounds where 40 doctors examined me and discussed my treatment. I get 10 hour infusions every two weeks.

This is the power of LLMs. It’s PHD knowledge in every area that can listen to 10 hours of you talking, sift through your medical files, and give you that one piece of information you are missing.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

To make a personal AI assistant agent work well it needs access to all my information but that exposes a massive security issue of giving it credentials to all major systems — email, chat, bank accounts, health information, photo and file collections. A hacked ChatGPT account will mean losing everything.

OpenAI has a big hill to climb here with trust compared to Google and Microsoft who we already trust with all that.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

The problem with fighting AI tech is money talks.

Countries that hamstring AI to help workers shoot themselves in the foot.

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MrBeast has fully taken down his AI thumbnail generator

Instead, he replaced it with a page where you can commission thumbnail artists

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

AI Coding Agents are the final death of offshore. Instead you’ll want 10x engineers in your timezone piloting agents that work 24 hours a day.

Junior engineers are gone, mid level will be gone next. Top of the org chart and top skilled engineers stick around to pilot the AI and comunicate with other departments and execs.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

Last year we spent about $50 annually on AI tools per staff.
This year it 5x'd to $250 per employee
Next year I expect it to 5x again to over $1000

Every step we've been happy with the ROI. This year's video and antigenic tools are 10x better than last year.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

If you think AI coding is pasting snippets into ChatGPT or getting better autocomplete suggestions, you’re losing about 90% efficiency.

The other night I asked Claude code to work on a problem and test it while I slept.

I woke up to find it finished debugging at 5am.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

AI coding agents will cause the value of software itself to trend towards zero. Complete custom Photoshop clone built in one afternoon from scratch.

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One of the great outcomes of agentic coding: All the crufty old code and tech debt will be cleaned up.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

Self employment projected expansion assuming highly intelligent AI agents.
With agents doing work, many more companies can be run by a single person. Large companies will replace many employees with AI agents.

[👑Dan Rice @thedrbits]

It's hilarious to me that AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor are marketed as coding agents, but if I suddenly ask the agent for advice on my marriage, it dives straight in without hesitating.