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david retweeted
live footage from anthropic office
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
david retweeted
one way you can instantly tell apart people who have built something from those who don’t is that they understand what a big deal small wins are
when we got our first 1k MRR I was ecstatic. I texted a series b founder friend who had tens of millions in ARR and he was somehow even more hype than me. he called me to congratulate me
a couple months back there was a VC on here clowning a founder for being excited about their “four figure revenue”
I remember thinking ‘this person doesn’t get it’
anything big starts small, and in some ways the tiny wins at the beginning mean more than the big ones later
once you have momentum everything gets easier. customers lead to customers. revenue compounds. people already believe you’re going somewhere
even passing 1m ARR didn’t feel as significant for us as getting that first paying customer
that was the moment it stopped being an idea and became real
savor the small wins and remember the people who celebrated them with you
david retweeted
we’re having debates about datacenters and China is publicly developing superhuman robot armies
what the actual hell are we doing here guys
david retweeted
I truly believe this. I could get to the top 0.1% of any skill I wanted to. all it takes is the will to do so. anything else are just self imposed limits. delusional, yes, but this mindset benefits you in any area of life. delusionmaxxing.
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you used to write code by hand and when it didn’t work you had to go into the codebase and understand all the functions
sometimes people would go on for days about variable names and we would argue about what programming language was better
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A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.
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-be me
-go to new dentist, since my old one retired
-new dentist: "you have three cavities"
-feel bad vibe, go get a second opinion
-"woooah - buddy, you have zero cavities. thank god you came to us. let's just do a cleaning"
-send wife to this savior second dentist
-"you have six cavities"
-wife bails on getting them filled, goes to a different dentist a year later
-"woooah gurl, you have zero cavities. thank god you didn't get them filled"
why is dentistry like this 😭
david retweeted
Jensen Huang reveals the operating rule behind NVIDIA's speed:
"I don't like going into a problem and somebody says, 'It takes 74 days to do this today, and we can do it for you in 72 days.'
I'd rather strip it all back to zero and say, 'Explain to me why 74 days in the first place.'
Oftentimes, you'd be surprised. It might come to six days."
That is the difference between improving a process and interrogating the constraint.
After building $300M+ businesses, this is the part I have seen repeatedly: elite operators do not just ask for a better version of the current system. They ask whether the system should exist in its current form at all.
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I think we're about to ship one of the most interesting ways to use AI...
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My old coworker (now at Anthropic) asked if I miss the old way of coding.
I told him it’s like calculators in math class.
Before 4th grade, I couldn’t use one. I was proud of memorizing multiplication tables and doing long division quickly. Then calculators showed up, and those skills were suddenly obsolete.
But the point of calculators was never to replace math. It was to let you solve harder problems, like algebra and geometry, without getting stalled doing everything by hand. Soon enough, I adapted too. I got good at solving more complex problems and applying calculators to chemistry and physics as well. Of course, I quickly forgot how to do most math without a calculator, but that was OK.
Coding feels the same in 2026. I used to be the person who could root-cause incidents quickly, build resilient systems that lasted for years, and write elegant code that was easy to read. It felt like being a blacksmith showing years of craft. Now, all of that feels useless because agents can do it too.
Even though my old skills are less useful, that experience still set the foundation for my work today. Just like with calculators, I’ve learned to retool quickly, and my other skills are now more pronounced. My short stint in PM at Brex helped me build strong product judgment, my tech lead experience at Airbnb is now useful for orchestrating agents, and my years of knowing what causes bad code led to the creation of dozens of open-source lint rules.
We both came from those good old days, skilled and passionate about the craft. It didn’t disappear; it just moved up a layer.
It’s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request.
You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.
It’s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names.
You catch a few things, but that’s ok. It’s part of the dance. They didn’t consider extensibility on part of their API. Here’s a comment buddy.
They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey let’s jump into a room and figure it out. We can’t just agree to disagree, this code is too important.
The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment.
That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain.
You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n+1.
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It’s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request.
You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.
It’s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names.
You catch a few things, but that’s ok. It’s part of the dance. They didn’t consider extensibility on part of their API. Here’s a comment buddy.
They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey let’s jump into a room and figure it out. We can’t just agree to disagree, this code is too important.
The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment.
That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain.
You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n+1.
