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Here's what I'd watch:
Beer flight. One 4oz glass per question.
Sam Altman joined John Collison for a pint to discuss the scaling laws of agent teams, proving Navier-Stokes, why hand-written software will soon look quaint, the optics of token pricing, and what computing looks like beyond the keyboard and screen.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:12 PHP week
00:02:37 Internet early days
00:07:33 Cyber Blue
00:08:54 Sandboxing
00:15:47 Math
00:23:12 Agent swarms
00:24:48 Stripe Atlas
00:25:17 Compute
00:37:53 Revenue per gigawatt
00:49:27 Token pricing is fake
@sama @collision
You know what's better than "drinking a few beers alone"?
Drinking a few beers with friends.
Make that the trend.
A good friend of mine always quotes the Happiness Formula
HAPPINESS = REALITY - EXPECTATIONS
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My usage limit is unchanged and somehow I'm happy.
Day 25/
We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today.
We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same. We’re also going to continue offering extended limits for dots for now, and usage of your dot will still continue to be separate from your default usage.
And we'll of course also keep shipping better models and other efficiency improvements that increase your effective usage over time.
OR just double usage.
teapawt.org/thsottiaux/status/2115…
Prediction:
OpenAI launches Astra 6.1 today or tomorrow.
- It slightly outperforms Astra 6 and Opus 5.5 on intelligence.
- Its quite a bit faster.
- Usage limit is about 2x current plan (netting to break even on new usage limits)
I must say Terra is super fast at computer use.
You can now add an event to your calendar faster via Codex than doing it manually.
Great deal at Craft Pizza on Damen tonight (every Tuesday).
Large pizza for $15.
A good friend of mine told me about a pizza place that he LOVES. But that he only buys pizza there on Tuesday’s because they have some half price thing on Tuesday’s so he feels like he’s wasting money if he goes there any other day. And that if they didn’t have the discount he’d definitely eat there more. So for the business instead of receiving $100 maybe a couple times a week they receive $50 on Tuesdays. I think about this a lot as it relates to pricing and discounts. I’m not sure we truly have enough information to know if they are causing positive or negative effect. The data about this reality is captured nowhere.
My high school football team had another historic night.
This time on the losing end.
Second highest scoring football game in MI state high school football history.
Go Chieftains!
Ryan Evans retweeted
I agree with everything OP says except "watching all of those years go down the drain."
AI might have made it almost meaningless to write code by hand anymore. But the people who have spent years/decades writing code are now in the best position to leverage AI coding tools.
Learning to code was a stepping stone toward learning to decompose and solve complex problems. I have worked with a lot of different people with different levels of coding experience. And I can say with confidence that, in general, the more coding experience you have, the better you're positioned to think about long-horizon tasks and to organize and tackle problems with multiple moving parts.
All those skills directly translate to using AI coding agents. And I'm seeing it happen in real time. People with long software engineering experience have a totally different way of using AI coding agents (given that they set their ego aside and accept that this is the new norm). They are more organized, know how to steer the agent like guiding an intern or mentoring a junior dev.
People who don't have coding experience are using agents in a random and chaotic way (the approach has its outside-the-box-thinking merits but doesn't have the same reliability as the experienced SWE approach).
For some people, coding was the only valuable skill they had.
If you made your money by selling your ability to write JavaScript, CSS, Python, or whatever else, I understand why you are pissed now.
"Writing code" is worth very little today.
The sad part is that learning to code wasn't easy. It takes years for someone to become a skilled programmer.
Imagine watching all of those years go down the drain.
If you are a programmer (I mean, just someone who knows how to write code in a particular programming language), your days are numbered.
If you still think AI can't do your job, you are just in denial.
But honestly, writing code was never that valuable anyway. If you were a code pusher, you already knew that the best people at your company weren't just writing code.
They came up with new ideas, designed solutions, architected whole systems, knew how to troubleshoot and fix problems, found different ways to build better software, and, in general, spent almost no time writing code.
Not only are those people thriving today, but they're also the ones who will ride the AI wave and learn to bend it to their will.
So don't cling too long to what you lost; embrace what's already here. AI is a tide that lifts all boats, but you have to be open to it.
It’s interesting how many smart or successful people say eggcorns on podcasts.
An eggcorn is when you say a phrase wrong but swap in a word that still makes sense.
buck naked -> butt naked
bald-faced lie -> bold-faced lie
for all intents and purposes -> for all intensive purposes
Zuck said one recently. I forget what it was.
But I guess, other than his wife, who is going to correct him?
