Alex Pilon

some kind of growth hacker @shopify; prev. @tripadvisor / @travelpod - moonlight musician / audio hacker - data science wannabe - cats of course

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@duncan Who - also perhaps what?

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@nejatian What is the difference between buying "a Tesla" and buying TSLA?

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@KatieMiller @kayleighmcenany I always thought Musk himself put it best when he referred to such wealth as "labour allocation" - namely when you successfully allocate labour to yield fruit, you receive more labour allocation to further your aims.

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@seekingprotein Quick was built and is maintained by two people! @xaptronic and myself.

And the maintenance now is very part time. Thing runs smooth due to so few moving parts

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

The wildest part? All of Quick runs on a single VM with a single cloud database.

In a high-trust environment, all the complexity you'd normally engineer around simply disappears.

This thing only works because its internal.

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML.

But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc?

We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work.

We call it Quick 👇🧵

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@yacineMTB Can I be a programmer with no degree and not do this 😛

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@Martinsmora3 @pmarca @tobi <this>

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@VivekGRamaswamy Lol blllllaaaahhhhh blah - there's been basically two political platforms. The people with scissors and the people with tape. Imagine what it would be like if there was something actually novel that could be said.

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@junonewscom Can we just have income splitting back instead

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@shaunmcquaker @bluehost Why don't you just get a DO droplet lol

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@LeverCRO @Shopify @harleyf I found how many of the AI message founder responders are selling candles from their garage on Shopify 🤔

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@himanshustwts @muratcan haha "if it's derivable don't post it"

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

Huh, so that's why text is called a string

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@garfield628 @harleyf @manofbird Worst take ever: technical innovation results in creation of more opportunity surface area than "drudge work" that it solves for. There's never been more possibility and opportunity for a larger number of people to tackle enormous unsolved problems.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

10 billion dollars in tax wasted trying and failing to make software that generates a CSV file with 450k rows in it twice a month.

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@esrtweet @CollingsMaccrae He meant good writers as in people who write vapid non-sense with great frequency.

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@karpathy @Yampeleg @RhysSullivan Sounds too prescriptively micro managerial lol.

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@GergelyOrosz MCPs are opposite of dead because large slow moving companies use them? Skills+CLI replaces that complexity of maintaining additionally running services. Extract knowledge and skill from function.

[Alex Pilon @xaptronic]

@strzibnyj Anthropic?