Algo Developer. Leveraging patterns & statistics for maximum profits.
United States
Joined November 2012
- Tweets867
- Following479
- Followers205
- Likes1.7K
After 39 years as a California employer and oil & gas equipment manufacturer, I’ve decided to change my corporation’s domicile & personal residence to another state.
High taxes, excessive redundant regulatory governance, fees, insurance costs and extraneous mandates give me little choice - Either move or die.
I am moving manufacturing jobs out of state due to Libtard / socialistic policies.
To those contemplating starting a new business in California?
Think twice before you start, it’s a losing proposition which starts going downhill the moment you form a business.
SlipStreamAlgos retweeted
It also prevents the all too human instinct to find a time advantage
And where does that lead? Smaller and smaller time frames until you lose the plot entirely
As I've said many times, risk management starts with your set up. It should help you to stay out of your own way
I hate what’s going on in Iran / GCC but this is what happens in a New World Order global market context.
Countries compete on a global scale for top dog status = pain & suffering.
This has been true for 75+ years - It’s why Japan joined Axis of evil in WW2.
How’d that end?
Enshitification:
The act of designing a product which gets worse with more use due to SaaS pay-per-use income models.
Open source (e.g. Kimi 3) makes more & more sense with each passing day. Eventually we'll all have access to 100% free LLM models like Linux.
I'm betting most AI SaaS companies won't survive the next evolutionary development phase.
Me: Why was it illegal to possess GOLD in the US?
Google: (buries the lead) To combat the great depression and TO DEVALUE THE DOLLAR
Burned ~12 hours with Claude today debugging IBKR/IBC Gateway running in a Docker container.
Asked Google AI: Show me a list of people who’ve successfully deployed IBKR / IBC gateway in a Docker container.
5 results. I had it running ~1 hour after I pointed Claude to my choice.
SlipStreamAlgos retweeted
British police have reached a new low.
30 officers were sent to arrest a mannequin, because it hurt Muslim feelings.
This is not satire.
The police have completely lost the plot.
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft & nearly all public companies in a nutshell:
They're actively hamstringing users because humans are inherently lazy.
Work smarter, not harder.
This is what I’m here for.
i pointed Claude Code at the pentagon's public budget document and told it to find every contract overpaying by 10x or more
it came back with 340 results worth $4.2B in potential undercuts
and a business plan i didn't ask for
i fed it the FPDS.gov procurement feed and said "cross-reference with commercial COTS pricing"
it pulled 1.2 million contract awards through the USAspending v2 API and started comparing line items against retail equivalents
→ $1,280 for a connector plug that costs $14.80 on digikey
→ $3,400 for a circuit breaker listed at $287 on mouser
→ $71,000 for a ruggedized tablet that's basically a panasonic toughbook with a sticker
→ $940 per unit for cable assemblies you can get from shenzhen for $31
→ 340 contracts flagged at 10x or more markup
→ 19 of them were above 50x
it used XGBoost scoring against 43,000 vendor profiles from SAM.gov to rank by ease of undercut
then unprompted it generated a full proposal template compliant with CMMC 2.0 requirements
87 of those contracts have a single domestic supplier, zero competition. the AI calculated that undercutting by just 40% would still leave 6x margins on most items
it formatted everything into a pitch deck, named the company, and suggested i register on SAM.gov tonight
i didn't ask for any of that
the pentagon spends billions a year trying to audit problems like this. a poet with Claude Code and a public API flagged $4.2 billion in one afternoon
the agent is currently drafting my first bid response
I’ve employed many people for 3 decades, fed families, paid them well & made California a better place with environmentally sound solutions.
After 30 years, I’m leaving.
Socialistic + anti-business policies made this happen
Don’t blame people with self-preservation instincts.
