Founder of https://teapawt.net/t.co/r4epIfAmKc and https://teapawt.net/t.co/hd2wclUNdH. Techno-optimist. Marketer. Classical Liberal.
🇦🇺 🇦🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 ⬛️⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️
Joined March 2008
- Tweets27.3K
- Following3.2K
- Followers1.6K
- Likes56.1K
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
In 1999 you had to earn over 4x the minimum wage to be considered a higher earner on the 40% rate.
Today just 1.8x the minimum wage considered high earner!
If the same minimum-wage-to-high-earner ratio was applied from 1999 you’d have to earn over £115k before hitting the 40% income tax rate.
We’re seeing a level of wage compression that would make a Soviet era socialist blush.
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Bullshit.
Australians are not experiencing a cost of living crisis, Australians are experiencing a cost of government crisis.
New data from the ABS shows that inflation ticked up in September.
While we already had an inflation challenge in our economy, the conflict in the Middle East is making it worse.
We recognise people are under pressure and that’s why we are rolling out responsible cost of living relief like cutting income taxes again and boosting bulk billing.
We are playing our part in the fight against inflation by finding savings.
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Gemini 4 Carbon is our next frontier model.
It’s state-of-the-art across cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Well jeeze folks, I just can't figure out where this inflation is coming from....
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
At work (R&D at a fortune 500 company w/ 15k+ employees), every time a SaaS pitches their product, my first question in the review meeting is, "Why don't we just build this ourselves?"
In the past, there were always good answers to that question. Today, I can't think of any.
If we can point an agent at any website or demo, have it research the broader problem for 72 hours, build the product with a focus on our specific needs, with any extra features we want, AND save a million a year why would we pay for your SaaS?
Scale? It only has to scale to 15,000 employees and a few million customers. We don't have the same scaling problem you do serving 1,000 businesses with 100s of million of customers. Scale is a non-issue.
Reliability? Your 99.9% self-reported uptime is not impressive. We can pay to host an app on a hyperscaler too. And when we do it, we know with certainty whether the uptime number is true or not. Github's official status page reports ~99% uptime. The Missing GitHub Status Page reports 93%. Reliability is a non-issue.
Bugs? You think your SaaS product doesn't have bugs to work out? I've seen bugs in third party products cost our company millions. Everyone is shipping early and often. Including your SaaS. Every piece of software has bugs. But there is a big difference between a bug in your code and a bug in ours. When the bug is in your code, we are at your mercy. Maybe you put it into Jira immediately. Are you going to bypass sprint planning? You won't have a fix for two weeks. Maybe you'll fail to reproduce and blame our code. Maybe it is our code. Maybe its an interplay. Since you don't have our code and we don't have your code, how are we going to figure that out? If it's all our code, an employee can fix it in an hour. If we need to, we can throw ten engineers with agents in a call until it's reproduced, the fix is merged, and it's validated. Bugs are a non-issue.
Bandwidth? Agents are nearly autonomous now. They don't need to be babysat. I can spin up a project and let an agent run for 50 hours, have it build a PowerPoint and walk into a demo with leadership blind. If anything breaks, "I'm still working on that." Things always break in demos. Nobody cares. If leadership proposes a feature, the answer is, "Yeah, great idea, I can add that." Because I can. Bandwidth is a non-issue.
Maintenance? We have so much prior art, inputs and outputs, we can benchmark anything. We have autonomous PR systems built on top of in-app feedback SDKs so even the non-dev users can contribute to every app or service. Even our analytics systems are tied to automated PRs. Maintenance is a non-issue.
Support? It doesn't matter how much we're paying a month for your platinum level enterprise support when our point of contact has to fetch the one dev who already went home for every non-trivial incident. The incident is never trivial. We already checked the top 10 things it could be because that was faster than asking you. Support is a non-issue.
Expertise? Agentic research. We can build anything. Expertise is a non-issue.
Cost? The cost of intelligence has gone down 100x every year. You're still charging 2022 prices. You should be charging closer to your electricity costs. Cost is a non-issue.
At this point, the only reason we don't switch off existing services is that transitioning 15,000 employees to something else is a pain in the butt. It would be a pain in the butt even with a perfect bug-free, infinitely scalable, perfectly-reliable clone.
Your new SaaS doesn't have that moat.
But it does give me an idea for a product to build.
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Proud of my Greek heritage, today we honour the courage and sacrifice behind OXI Day. A powerful reminder that standing for freedom can begin with a single word: ΟΧΙ. To Greeks everywhere, χρόνια πολλά! 🇬🇷🇦🇺 #OXIDay
Stagflation is here. It’s horrifically destructive. And it can only be solved with a radical reduction in the size of a bloated, wasteful, poorly managed Government.
Inflation update: the September and September quarter numbers a touch stronger than expected and much higher than the RBA’s last projections (August). Headline inflation above 4%. Core inflation above 3.5%. Pretty much locks in a 25bp hike next week. Probably doesn’t add to chances of a 40bp move or a third hike in December. There is some good news in the latest data but it is swamped by the bad news. The most positive element of the latest inflation numbers is the easing in housing related price pressures. New dwelling costs and rents coming off reflecting the slump in demand for housing this year (both dwelling sales and the small lift in rental vacancy rates). If this continues it bodes well for some easing of core inflation pressures in 2027. The bad news is signs of a lift in the inflation pulse in 2026. Domestic market services is accelerating while the share of CPI basket items rising by 3% or more has risen to 2 year high of 70%. The economy is slowing, housing markets are soft and the unemployment rate is rising. But the RBA has no wiggle room. Inflation expectations are slipping above their target and cost pressures are showing few signs of easing. Their best bet of getting ahead of inflation would be to hike to 5% next week with a 40bp hike. They won’t despite their concerns voiced in a number of public forums over the past few months. Unfortunately, we are going to have to live with inflation for a bit longer. And further rate hikes in 2027 cannot be ruled out.
Here’s a photo I took of @netanyahu on the balcony of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in November 2019. He was doing the numbers to form Government then, too.
The cat was not impressed.
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
28η Οκτωβρίου 1940 — Το ιστορικό «ΟΧΙ» ως πυξίδα για την Ελλάδα του σήμερα και του αύριο
Επέτειος του μεγαλειώδους «ΟΧΙ» σήμερα, μιας κορυφαίας στιγμής της νεότερης ελληνικής ιστορίας, που συμβολίζει την εθνική αξιοπρέπεια, την ομοψυχία και την αταλάντευτη προσήλωση στην ελευθερία.
Τιμούμε με σεβασμό και ευγνωμοσύνη τους ήρωες του Ελληνοαλβανικού Έπους, που με απαράμιλλο θάρρος και αυταπάρνηση αντιστάθηκαν στη φασιστική εισβολή. Ο αγώνας τους ξεπέρασε τα γεωγραφικά όρια της πατρίδας μας, επηρέασε την εξέλιξη του Β΄ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου και έστειλε ένα ισχυρό μήνυμα αντίστασης απέναντι στον ολοκληρωτισμό, εμπνέοντας τους ελεύθερους λαούς της Ευρώπης.
Το «ΟΧΙ» του 1940 δεν αποτελεί μόνο ιστορική μνήμη. Αποτελεί διαχρονική υπενθύμιση ότι η εθνική ανεξαρτησία, η ελευθερία και η αξιοπρέπεια απαιτούν αποφασιστικότητα, στρατηγική σκέψη και διαρκή εγρήγορση.
Στη σημερινή εποχή των πολεμικών συγκρούσεων, της γεωπολιτικής αστάθειας και του ανταγωνισμού για ισχύ και επιρροή, η Ελλάδα καλείται να διαμορφώνει μια εξωτερική πολιτική με αυτοπεποίθηση, συνέπεια και σαφή στρατηγικό προσανατολισμό.
Μια πολιτική που υπερασπίζεται έμπρακτα την εθνική κυριαρχία και τα κυριαρχικά δικαιώματα της χώρας, στηρίζεται στο Διεθνές Δίκαιο και στο Δίκαιο της Θάλασσας και αξιοποιεί τη διπλωματία ως βασικό εργαλείο για την προάσπιση των εθνικών συμφερόντων. Γιατί η ειρήνη δεν οικοδομείται με την αδράνεια, αλλά με ισχυρή αποτρεπτική ικανότητα, αποτελεσματικές συμμαχίες, σταθερές θέσεις και ουσιαστική διπλωματική παρουσία.
Η Ελλάδα, όμως, δεν κρίνεται μόνο από τη διπλωματική της παρουσία. Η πραγματική ισχύς της εδράζεται στην οικονομική της ανθεκτικότητα, στην αμυντική της επάρκεια, στην τεχνολογική της πρόοδο, στην κοινωνική συνοχή και στην εμπιστοσύνη των πολιτών στους θεσμούς. Μια χώρα με ισχυρή οικονομία, ποιοτική παιδεία, καινοτόμο παραγωγή και νέους ανθρώπους που μπορούν να δημιουργούν και να προοδεύουν στην πατρίδα τους διαθέτει ισχυρότερα θεμέλια για να διεκδικεί τη θέση που της αναλογεί στη διεθνή σκηνή.
Αυτό είναι το ουσιαστικό δίδαγμα της 28ης Οκτωβρίου για τη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα: να μετατρέπουμε την ιστορική μας κληρονομιά σε εθνική στρατηγική, την ενότητα σε δύναμη και την αυτοπεποίθηση σε δημιουργική δράση.
Με σεβασμό στην ιστορία μας, χωρίς εφησυχασμό και χωρίς αυταπάτες, να οικοδομήσουμε μια Ελλάδα ισχυρή, εξωστρεφή και αξιόπιστη, που δεν παρακολουθεί απλώς τις διεθνείς εξελίξεις, αλλά συμμετέχει ενεργά στη διαμόρφωσή τους. Μια Ελλάδα που υπερασπίζεται τα δικαιώματά της, τιμά τις συμμαχίες της, επιδιώκει την ειρήνη και παραμένει σταθερά προσηλωμένη στην ελευθερία, τη δημοκρατία και την εθνική αξιοπρέπεια.
Γιατί το πραγματικό χρέος απέναντι στους ήρωες του «ΟΧΙ» δεν είναι μόνο να τους τιμούμε κάθε χρόνο, αλλά να αποδεικνύουμε καθημερινά ότι αξίζουμε την ελευθερία που μας κληροδότησαν.
Αθάνατοι οι ήρωες του 1940!
Χρόνια πολλά στην Ελλάδα μας!
Ζήτω η 28η Οκτωβρίου 1940! Ζήτω η Ελλάδα! 🇬🇷
#HarryTheoharis
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
It’s sad to think features like these have survived centuries, thousands of years of human history.
Hooded eyes, aquiline noses, strong eyebrows, round cheeks, thinner lips, tall, larger built, square jaws, the very faces our mothers, our grandmothers carried, all of it stretching back to queens and peasants alike.
Features that have survived it all, seen it all, and all for you to be told now — well it’s just not attractive.
Imagine inheriting a face shaped by the entirety of human history, imagine being blessed with a beauty that has survived the many rises and falls of humanity, only to be told you now have to give it all up to the vanities of this generation. What worth is beauty without any history? What worth is beauty without meaning? What worth is beauty when it stops being something we recognize and instead becomes just something we manufacture?
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
I will never understand why people thought it was a good idea to make a society where parents were so time poor, tired and burnt out from working, that this was the result.
(that is the context of the clip)
Its insane, its always been insane, yet here we are.
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Between heaven and the Aegean, a little chapel catches the last light of day. #Leros, Greece. 💙
📷 hellados_eikones
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Crystal-clear waters, quiet beaches, colourful villages, and the authentic feeling of the Aegean everywhere you look.
If you are looking for the real Greek island experience, #Leros is waiting for you.
✨ visitgreece.gr/islands/dodec…
#VisitGreece #Dodecanese
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Current Aussie housing crash is the worst ever recorded since 1980 - national capital city prices are currently falling at a 16% annualised pace based on the last three months of Cotality data...
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
Joint statement at the conclusion of the visit of the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic to the Kingdom 🇸🇦🇬🇷
🔗 spa.gov.sa/en/w2710073
Constantine Frantzeskos retweeted
There are seven main steps for your company to go from tool adoption to agentic org.
Most companies sit on step one, shopping for step seven technology. They need step four discipline.
Step one: tool adoption. AI tools exist across the org, humans run each one. Developer closes the lid, automations die. Somebody goes on vacation, the workflow goes with them.
Step two: context layer. Knowledge graphs per department, each behind its own API gateway. Sales queries engineering through an API. Separated domains keep agents from hallucinating across departmental boundaries.
Step three: harness engineering. Build evaluation criteria, routing logic, and quality gates before you pick a model. The LLM comes in last. Your harness is your IP and your capex. The model underneath is a commodity you swap when something better ships. If changing the LLM breaks your system, you built a dependency, not a platform.
Step four: go headless. Host every automation outside a laptop. It fires on schedule, on conditions, without a human logging in at 9 AM. Companies stall here because nobody forces the migration from “script on my desktop” to “service that runs on its own.”
Step five: governance. RBAC on every knowledge structure from day one. TTL on every agent. Dead agents are tech debt with active API keys. Past 100 tools, you need lifecycle management. Retire anything that hasn’t run in 90 days. Deprecate anything whose eval scores drop below threshold.
Step six: agent-to-agent. Stitch headless instances together within a value chain. Agent A finishes, hands off to Agent B. An LLM sits between them as a quality gate, judging every handoff before it passes through.
Step seven: step functions. Orchestrated, semi or fully automated workflows. Agents handle volume. Humans handle exceptions. The org runs on agent output.
We walked a VP of Engineering through all seven.
Told him: “You’re on step one. But over a hundred tools means step four is closer than you think.”