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Co-founder @Britebot70: AI agents that do real work. Founder @ThinkForesight: See around corners in tech & money. President @TennesseeBTC. ✍️ Forbes + elsewhere

Tennessee, USA
Joined September 2021
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It's still such an adorable moment when the agent casually clicks the "I am not a robot" checkbox
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Spent $25,000 so I can finally cancel my 2 $200 subscriptions
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Replying to @Microsoft
@Microsoft's Dataverse MCP Server now supports custom APIs, so AI agents can invoke existing business logic as a single atomic transaction on the server, regardless of where the agent is hosted. If any step fails, Dataverse rolls back everything.
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
Stop trying to "lock in" and start seeing work as play. The results will follow.
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Replying to @jack
bitcoin is the moat
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A hole on the Moon just turned out to be the front door to a 50 km tunnel. Japan’s Kaguya orbiter first spotted it. A pit about 50 metres wide and 50 metres deep, sitting in the Marius Hills on the Moon’s near side. Then JAXA pointed the probe’s radar underground. The echoes came back with something huge: a lava tube roughly 100 metres wide, running about 50 km, and still intact. No collapse. Scientists think it was carved by volcanic activity around 3.5 billion years ago. There may even be ice or water locked in the rocks inside. That’s why JAXA thinks it could become a lunar base. Shelter from radiation, micrometeorites and brutal temperature swings, all built in. Source: JAXA / ISAS, Geophysical Research Letters
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it’s actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
You've gotta patch your dependencies super fast because they're full of vulns (PHP, Node, eMudhra, etc), but not _too_ fast because they're full of backdoors (LiteLLM). Good luck!
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
it’s been an honor using the computer with you all
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Next year, I will assign one of my jira tickets to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
I fucking hate this Friday morning commute
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GPU spinning up suddenly with no intentional queued job. thinking -- this is it
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
I no longer see any compelling reason to believe that taste is some permanent boundary LLMs won’t cross. It’s already happening.
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glad I never learned regex. really dodged a bullet there.
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
Technical moats are over. The only moats now are: - Rich parents - Being good-looking enough for people to watch you make content for money - Being funny
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
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Dave Birnbaum retweeted
One of the most universal causes of self-doubt and depression: trying to impress people you don’t like.
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Compete externally and you compare. Compete internally and you improve.
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I'm increasingly convinced that discretion is one of the most underrated traits in life. Not every story is yours to tell. And not every story needs to be told. Be the kind of person people can trust with something private. In a drama-obsessed culture, discretion has real power.
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