Managing AI agents, tech founder, CTO, PhD in Computer Science, MTB Biking trails in Portugal, GDE Cloud

Lisbon, Portugal
Joined June 2008
Anti spam is dead. We need a new economic model for email and messaging.
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Just observe. Do nothing. Do nothing! Just observe.
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Do people care about privacy? 🧵 This week gave us a strange privacy snapshot: @Meta Muse, a personal AI agent, overtook @ChatGPT on the US iOS App Store. At the same time, @Zcash — one of crypto’s main privacy coins — crossed $1,600. 1/10
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This does not mean people do not care about privacy. It means privacy usually loses when it requires sacrifice — and wins when it is packaged as convenience, protection, or financial upside. 9/10
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Privacy is still a weak default and a strong product. @Meta wins when convenience beats trust. @Zcash wins when privacy becomes economically legible. The real challenge is making privacy useful before people are forced to care about it.
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Remember: @WhatsApp is not private
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Daniel Cukier retweeted
Replying to @LefterisJP
What amazes me more is we already have ZK technology available to make verification process safe for both sides, but still no big player implemented it on obvious use cases. Everybody wants all our data, nobody knows how to handle it properly.
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$2000 for a 256GB phone??? Are you kidding
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There is a strange loop in the AI economy: AI companies sell to AI companies, which then sell AI to people who use it to do things. Many of the most visible new businesses today are “AI something.” But what about businesses that aren’t built around AI? So far, all my personal attempts to build something meaningful or profitable with AI have failed. I suspect I’m not alone. I’ve spent a few thousand dollars on hardware and services, but I still have no evidence of a sustainable business or a genuinely useful solution. I’m still using AI. I’m still experimenting and trying different things. This is not an argument against the technology. But usage is not value. And so far, in my case, AI has produced more costs than results. The gold-rush analogy is familiar: a few people find gold, while others make money selling the tools. I’m not particularly worried about it. I’m just trying to stay honest about the results, avoid building my life around an unproven business model, and be prepared if the bubble eventually pops.
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Why social media exhausts us | Yuval Noah Harari youtube.com/shorts/2WHF8VH5E…
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Going offline for the next 10 days - Vipassana retreat. May you all be happy!
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I am moving all my articles to @Substack - if you want to be up to date with my posts, subscribe there: danicuki.substack.com/
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