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Statute of limitations kicks in at the moment of your awareness of the watch being fake. But, you and the plaintiff might dispute over the fact of when you learned the watch was fa…

This is not true. API tokens are not sold at a loss, and hardware gets more efficient over time, so serving inference on the same model gets cheaper. LLAMA 3.1 405B parameters was …

That includes lunch, park bench, coffee shop to charge phone, etc, but yea. north brooklyn to coney island and back. ive only done it a few times , not 5 days a week

This is awesome. Exactly what openclaw was supposed to be. Im really impressed by how effortlessly it handles the file syncing. My method of walking to work is back (going for an 8…

the most productive teams will be the ones that treat code as compiler output (which we never read) legacy manual codebases which require human review will be the new "maintaining …

Product work can be counterintuitive. An engineer / PM might think that a design or feature “makes sense”, but you don’t actually know that unless you measure usage.

I was in school when GPT came out and there is a strong generational divide. It reminds me of when i was young teachers said you couldn’t use Wikipedia because it isn’t guaranteed …

What backlash against Adobe? I think you are mistaking comment section consensus for reality. People on forums and social media complain, but the comment section consensus is often…

Anthropic is a great case study in why uptime doesn’t matter. The service is so valuable that you can have one nine uptime and add $9bil ARR in 3 months.

Yep. Enthusiasts are cheap, picky, and have no loyalty. They’re extremely political and are the only type of customer who will actually switch. Plus it’s a tiny market. You might e…

There is a hobbyist market for a tinker-phone; it’s just tiny. Like Raspberry Pi or Framework market cap vs Macbook market cap.

It is not a fantasy it is fact based on watching people buy phones.

I built a payment processor and failed. Regulations aren’t the issue. The issue is customer psychology: once a customer has solved their problem, they never switch. The biggest mis…

MCP blew up in 2024, before terminal agents (claude code) blew up in early 2025. The story isn’t “MCP was a fake marketing thing pushed on us”. It’s a story of how quickly the meta…

The best things about AI hypergrowth is the opportunities to discover of meta-frameworks and workflows. This is something Anthropic kills at (MCPs, Skills, Claude Code terminal age…

Seems like OpenClaw is opening up a lot of breadth-based internet searches. Way more people are making way more scrapers, and I expect this to continue.

Yes. Stripe’s 2.9% fee minus interchange (interchange is variable, on average 1.9%) is higher than Mastercard or Visa’s take of .14%. But it’s not so simple, because Stripe faces l…

You’re absolutely right i didnt think of that. Isn’t this what they call velocity of money? So we’d need to calculate the “velocity of stripe” (the flow of dollars within the syste…

Honestly seems reasonable to me. ChatGPT alone will be be at least as valuable as Google, plus all the enterprise adoption around API use cases.

When systems scale you have to look at the effects in aggregate. Android is a tool used to manage billions of people’s finances. If you allow unreviewed apps, people get scammed by…

Stripe doesn’t power money transfers, just commerce. So 100% of stripe volume is economic activity.

Wym? Google says it’s the one to decide. They are doing this because side loading causes fraud. There is pressure and lobbying (like this open letter) to stop them from locking it …

Walled gardens have less fraud and malware because it's less open. But developers prefer open source decentralized software. Of course, we are technologically literate enough to av…