Just a dude learning things.

Riding the Wave 🌊
Joined August 2011
I need a way to browse through long-form articles people have posted here. The X version of Medium might be decent actually.
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Every one of these suggests a future digital world I want no part in. 🤢 My garden will be so badass.
The MOST obvious (but REALLY good) STARTUP ideas right now: 1. Zestimate for company data (what your data is worth to an AI lab) 2. Google Analytics for agents (see which agents visit your site and what they want) 3. Y Combinator for 1 person companies (back solo founders running a team of agents) 4. Okta for agents (who each agent is and what it's allowed to touch) 5. Marie Kondo for your company's data (clean it up so agents can use it) 6. FICO for agents (a trust score before an agent can spend money) 7. Geico for agents (insurance for when an agent makes an expensive mistake) 8. Datadog for agents (see every step your agents took) 9. Twilio for agents (phone numbers and texting for agents) 10. Upwork for agents (hire an agent for a job instead of a freelancer) 11. ESPN for AI (every model launch covered like a big game). 12. Shutterstock for robot training videos (get paid to film yourself doing chores) 13. Credit Karma for what AI knows about you (see it, fix it, delete it) 14. Norton for AI scams (protect your parents from fake voices and emails) 15. PayPal Buyer Protection for agent purchases (fixes it when your agent buys the wrong thing) 16. Geek Squad for AI (set up personal agents for families and small businesses) 17. Dell for private AI (AI in a box for firms that won't use the cloud) 18. Carfax for used GPUs (a health report before you buy secondhand) 19. Airbnb for idle GPUs (rent out computing power you're not using) 20. Rotten Tomatoes for AI models (real reviews instead of benchmarks) 21. G2 for skills (find the best skills for your agent) 22. Dropbox for your AI memory (take what your agent knows about you to any agent) 23. Canva for physical products (design it with AI and get it made) 24. ADT for your personal agent (alerts when your agent does something it shouldn't) 25. Hertz for robots (rent one for a move, a deep clean or an event) 26. Harvard Business School for internet businesses (a real education in building online) 27. Workday for agents (onboard, manage and offboard your digital workers) 28. Getty Images for your face and voice (license your likeness to AI safely) 29. Meta Muse for older adults (and other high LTV niche) 30. Google Ads for agents (pay to be what the agent recommends) 31. Loom for agents (a walkthrough of everything your agent did) 32. Plaid for agents (approved access to banks, airlines and stores) 33. Jiffy Lube for vibe coded apps (quick fixes when your AI built app breaks) 34. Ancestry for datasets (where your training data came from) 35. The organic label for human-made content (proof a person made it) 36. Strava for builders (track what you ship every week) 37. Honey that haggles for you (your agent negotiates the price) 38. SEM Rush for personal agent platforms (like Muse etc) 39. Frequent flyer miles for agents (loyalty programs built for agents)
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Physical art is a surprisingly expensive hobby. 😂
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So hilarious that a company that stole the whole internet doesn’t see the irony in getting someone arrested for audio scraping conferences.
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.
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It used to be “starving artist”, now it’s “artist or starve”. Entire technological civilizations will learn this over the next 20 or so years.
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I'm not convinced this is true yet, but I do know that if it becomes imminent you'll see a flurry of IPOs before as the VCs try to offload their bad debt to your 401k and IRAs. This is one of the very few reasons I can ever see moving away from index funds as a "de-risk".
BREAKING: Ray Dalio says AI is a "classic bubble," and it may be close to bursting. The billionaire Bridgewater founder says two forces usually pop a bubble: rising interest rates, and investors needing to turn paper wealth into cash. "Wealth is not the same as money."
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Mike Builds ◻️ retweeted
People ask me how to design posters all the time, and I always end up handing over a few basic tips. Then it hit me that no complete course teaches the thinking behind poster design. Most of them show you few examples in the software. So I made one. It's called The Poster Manual. I taught myself design, and posters taught me the most. This course is everything I learned from making them, written down for beginners and working designers who want to get better. It is text and visuals only, and it works in any software. The best part is I built it a private dashboard. You log in, work through the chapters lesson by lesson, and download the bonus material whenever you need it. The Poster Manual is coming soon.
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99.9% of the "incredible concepts" that you see in design, film, games, art, etc, came about as a result of exploring outside of those mediums or across them. Get out of your self-imposed box.
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The movie Idiocracy is rapidly genre-swapping from comedy to documentary. First time seeing that.
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Please don't do this. Text. It's on every website that is AI vibecoded and it's a tell for low quality slop. Stop using text or you'll be shunned by the design community.
please don't do this. it's called "eyebrow" text and it's the latest vibecode-slop tell. it serves no useful purpose. again, it's this "gesturing" LLMs do and you need to be aware of it. it puts this eyebrow text there because it's a landing page typography trope that bamboozles your brain into thinking "yes this looks like a good and proper landing page!" and you think "the more detail = cleverer model!" but it's dumb. all this design clutter has no actual thought - it's still stochastic parrot without a trained & experienced designer's guidance. the clever but hard thing is reduction. reducing and eliminating. good design is simple. great design is invisible. this eyebrow test is just more unnecessary visual clutter the Opus 5.5 is obsessed with. do not accept the default. take care with your work. every element is unnecessary until proven essential.
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Where I’m from we call this “paper towel math”. Where on each pack of paper towels it says some weirdness like 5x rolls = 15 rolls and you’re like “ok, now give it to me in grams, maybe I’ll get it then”.
Hi, Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan. Now that it's said, let me explain why this is happening and why you will still get more work done than if you were on the Pro $200 subscription one month ago. (a) We didn't want to compromise in other ways and are committing to not reintroducing the 5h limit, so that you can fully use the weekly usage when you want. (b) On the subscription, we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality. This means that you will continue to get more value per dollar spent as a result of models getting more efficient and us passing down the improvements in the form of API price reductions. (c) We don't want to put an incentive on ourselves to artificially inflate the API list prices to make it look like you are getting a lot (and workaround it through discounts, etc). Instead we want to continue to both rapidly reduce prices and increase capabilities of models on the API. This week we introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 50% of their previous price. Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent. (d) Tomorrow, we are adding more things to the subscription that won't draw on the usage, I won't reveal what that is yet. I wanted to be transparent before all the big announcements tomorrow. Lots of new exciting things are coming to the subscriptions that will make it super compelling, but I wanted to make sure to share this change ahead of time so you can all understand it before we shower you with good news. Codexingly, Tibo
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Lovely lovely internet of old. How I miss you.
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I'm so stuck wanting to roll designs the way I like and maintaining at least some readability and UX. I get why the internet evolved the way it did, but I'm going to find some ways to bring back the old internet I loved.
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I was feeling playful this morning so I built this.. A deterministic creative code art factory. This uses my favorite algos/effects and deterministically applies aesthetic ranges based on whatever word is typed in. Fun to play with, I imagine could also be useful for brand work.
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You can just cook things.
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Need more of this in my timeline. Just do stuff and share, what's with all the value extraction maxing?.
Good morning from Montana.
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Nothing is "cooked" folks. Like all tools before, these are productivity multipliers. Only now, the productivity increase is also within the creative process as well. Good creatives all just become faster, and see more options faster, that's it, it's game as it's always been..
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So wait, we’re building all this stuff so the robots become creatives and we become the robots? I’ll pass.
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I swear if I have to read "It's not X, it's Y" one more time. One more time Claude, Grok, Codex, Cursor, just one more f'ing time.
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