One of my group chats spent the week arguing about whether AI is a bubble. With Anthropic's IPO pending, I doubt it was the only one.
I think "bubble" lumps together four different bets on four different clocks.
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Compute demand is strong and will grow as people point AI at mundane stuff. But models keep getting more efficient, and local models will absorb the basic work.
I know the directions. I don't know the rates of change or the relative sizes.
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Having Claude move my domains out of GoDaddy was everything I hoped it would be.
Partway through, it declined a retention offer for me. Then a loyalty offer. I didn't even have to see them.
Whole teams exist to talk you out of leaving. Claude: "Nope. Nope. Nope..."
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I still forget how many places I could be using this stuff.
I wrote up when it's worth it, how to turn it on in Claude and ChatGPT, and what happened when Claude flatly refused a job Codex then finished.
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Fable 5.2 running like a hot knife through the butter of my old side projects. Yes, I need apex frontier AI to, *checks notes,* make sure my sourdough journal is running at peak performance.
(Honestly, if I thought it could tell me why this shit is so sticky, I wouldn't hesitate.)
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This is one more area where companies have built businesses on friction that agents will tear down. SquareSpace, who acquired the Google Domains business, provides an easy way to block a domain transfer but no way I can see to expedite. 😡
If you've ever had a web app side project, or even just the dream of one, you've bought some domains.
Lots of places to buy domains aren't great places to manage them. IYKYK.
I just realized I can have Claude help me move a bunch of mine out of GoDaddy, and I'm so excited to try it.
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It's funny when Claude identifies some work too significant to undertake right now. I frequently take the advice. But sometimes when I don't, it turns out to be 30min to an hour of work. And done. It still calibrates effort to what would be difficult for me, not for it.
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Love all the software that people are building. Increased security concerns are of course a problem. So before I install some random app, I have Claude take a look at the repo and ask it, "No bullshit, is this going to get me pregnant?" Hasn't failed me yet.
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In this new security landscape, the Linux distro model may need tweaking. And maybe Omarchy does this. But I'd like to be able to compile my own kernel or whatever in a consistent manner with the distro. Until packages arrive. Instead I have Claude pinging Ubuntu hourly.
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Running through this repo to help reprogram a cheap android photo frame. github.com/wesbos/photo-fram…
We can perhaps now swing the balance of hw ownership back to real ownership.
Anyone manage to get into the Nest Protect gear? 🤔 A friend has one and Goog discontinued them.
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Claude's "cyber" guardrail warning might as well just say, "Yeah, we know you'll get this done elsewhere, but we can't have you fucking up this IPO for us. We trying to make it RAIN! Sorry, not sorry."
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Apollo's chief economist titled a September note "Is an Agentic Bank Run Coming?"
AI agents could sweep household cash out of 0.1% checking into accounts paying 3.3% to 5%, and banks could lose the cheap deposits they lend from.
I animated what that looks like for one household.
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The longer piece covers why household cash sits still in the first place, and why this future isn't waiting on a smarter model.
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Saadiq retweeted
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group