I learned to fly before I could even drive.
At 17, the sky taught me that responsibility isn't a personality trait, it’s a system. You can’t charm an engine or negotiate with a checklist you skipped.
I carried that "no-bullshit" mentality into everything: specializing in jet propulsion to understand how things actually work, then heading to Goldman to learn how to price uncertainty. I realized energy is the base layer and risk is a profession.
In the cockpit, bluffing gets you buried. In markets, it gets you quietly wrecked.
I’m building Sphinx because I want the full stack of reality, hardware, software, and markets. It’s the synthesis of everything I’ve earned. I’m not here for generic takes; I’m here to build, to survive, and to keep landing.
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Global commodities just broke out of a 17-year trading range.
This is the time to be a commodity investor.
100% true. Vibe coding is the best communication tool
Vibe Coding Is the New Product Management
“There’s been a shift—a marked pronouncement in the last year and especially in the last few months—most pronounced by Claude Code, which is a specific model that has a coding engine in it, which is so good that I think now you have vibe coders, which are people who didn’t really code much or hadn’t coded in a long time, who are using essentially English as a programming language—as an input into this code bot—which can do end-to-end coding.
Instead of just helping you debug things in the middle, you can describe an application that you want. You can have it lay out a plan, you can have it interview you for the plan. You can give it feedback along the way, and then it’ll chunk it up and will build all the scaffolding.
It’ll download all the libraries and all the connectors and all the hooks, and it’ll start building your app and building test harnesses and testing it. And you can keep giving it feedback and debugging it by voice, saying, “This doesn’t work. That works. Change this. Change that,” and have it build you an entire working application without your having written a single line of code.
For a large group of people who either don’t code anymore or never did, this is mind-blowing.
This is taking them from idea space, and opinion space, and from taste directly into product. So that’s what I mean—product management has taken over coding. Vibe coding is the new product management.
Instead of trying to manage a product or a bunch of engineers by telling them what to do, you’re now telling a computer what to do. And the computer is tireless. The computer is egoless, and it’ll just keep working. It’ll take feedback without getting offended.
You can spin up multiple instances. It’ll work 24/7 and you can have it produce working output.
What does that mean? Just like now anybody can make a video or anyone can make a podcast, anyone can now make an application. So we should expect to see a tsunami of applications. Not that we don’t have one already in the App Store, but it doesn’t even begin to compare to what we’re going to see.
However, when you start drowning in these applications, does that necessarily mean that these are all going to get used or they’re competitive? No. I think it’s going to break into two kinds of things.
First, the best application for a given use case still tends to win the entire category. When you have such a multiplicity of content, whether in videos or audio or music or applications, there’s no demand for average.
Nobody wants the average thing. People want the best thing that does the job. So first of all, you just have more shots on goal. So there will be more of the best. There will be a lot more niches getting filled.
You might have wanted an application for a very specific thing, like tracking lunar phases in a certain context, or a certain kind of personality test, or a very specific kind of video game that made you nostalgic for something. Before, the market just wasn’t large enough to justify the cost of an engineer coding away for a year or two. But now the best vibe coding app might be enough to scratch that itch or fill that slot. So a lot more niches will get filled, and as that happens, the tide will rise.
The best applications—those engineers themselves are going to be much more leveraged. They’ll be able to add more features, fix more bugs, smooth out more of the edges. So the best applications will continue to get better. A lot more niches will get filled.
And even individual niches—such as you want an app that’s just for your own very specific health tracking needs, or for your own very specific architectural layout or design—that app that could have never existed will now exist.”
I love how the "rig" has moved from tons of screens to squares.
I caved.
Finally set up a local cluster for Openclaw - but you won't believe what I'm using it for.
Here's my specs:
- 2x Nvidia DGX Spark
- 1x M3 Ultra Mac Studio 512 GB Unified Ram (the overlord "Da Vinci")
- 4x M4 Mac Mini 16 GB
- 2x RasPi 5's
And *this* is where it gets crazy. It's hard to get everything down on paper that they're doing, but here's my best stab at making it digestible for non-Openclaw experts that still exist...
So basically we're using a bespoke neural entanglement protocol, that Da Vinci came up with. He serves as the quantum nexus hub, orchestrating synaptic data flows across the distributed cluster (interfacing the Nvidia devices with the Minis).
Each hour, Da Vinci initializes a pseudo-qubit overlay network that phase-locks the Minis via entangled quanta.
This setup enables my custom Openclaw polymorphic kernel to fractalize all 16 computational workloads.
That may not seem important to you, but basically it means that each node's RISC-V emulated vector units perform holographic tensor decompositions..which means I now have a self-healing mesh that will literally fix itself by creating new superchannels if we hit any throughput bottlenecks.
In the core execution loop, Da Vinci employs a fractal skill deployer to synchronize state vectors among the Minis. This allows the onboard generative algorithms to decompose the algo manifold.
And THIS is where Hopper shines.
He handles the primary stochastic gradient descent...basically a synthetic overclocking, while Turing simulates halting race conditions to preempt any sort of computational deadlocks.
At the same time this is happening, Lovelace and McCarthy are ripping symbiotic reasoning threads, utilizing their own lambda curves by literally morphing the bytecode into emergent AI behaviors.
Yeah. Seriously. They're literally doing that. I couldn't believe when I first asked.
The interplay here is kinda risky, but it creates a vortex of recursive backpropagation...and allows them to check my email every couple of minutes and generate a new twitter thread. It's huge time saver on something that normally takes like 20 seconds.
Anyway I don't want to give away all the sauce right now, but will update later. I'm quite excited about what they're working on next.
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love the intro. super excited for this as fellow Sri lankan.
congrats
Launching a YouTube channel to share business stories, lessons I've learned, and important topics I’m actively exploring…
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google's VRP:
credentials exposed? not a vuln, needs code exec
code exec achieved? also not a vuln lol
two CVSS 9.8s = ,337 total
that's either an insult or a joke
Abundant, cheap electricity drives prosperity and quality of life. Yet permitting systems treat new power infrastructure as a nuisance to minimize rather than productivity infrastructure to accelerate.
If AI multiplies electricity demand, we either fix these institutional bottlenecks or accept higher energy costs and lower living standards.
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The next generation of spatial computing depends on hyper-accurate, real-time geospatial data. Google's Earth + Maps + Street View integration could either accelerate or bottleneck XR/spatial app development. How they monetise this will reshape the entire stack.
Im excited to see what comes out of it...
commodities > nvidia by market cap. neat stat but missing the mechanism. commodities aren't just an asset class, they're collateral. repo stress, commodities become the margined asset. nvidia makes chips. commodities back the loans that buy the chips. different risk profile entirely
dragonfly raising 650m in this environment isn't the story. the story is the terms. bear market fundraises = better lp structure. less governance drama later. dont size-read, term-read
"Claim them fees again lad"
We will be on the blocmates pod live stream at 3pm UK time today.
Talking:
- Memes are dead, just let it go
- Attention Markets are in?
- Is crypto harming AI?
- Zora → Solana
- Dragonfly new $650m fund
- The benefits of a bear market
physical is tight even when the screen looks calm. tanker tracking is early warning, not confirmation. when OSINT accounts light up, supply shocks are either priced in or incoming. market is moving faster than the narrative.
Graham dropping the Gerald Ford into the Gulf. Two carrier strike groups now: Ford and Lincoln. Iran just got a posture adjustment they didn't ask for.
World Labs raising a billion for spatial intelligence. Fei-Fei Li betting on AI that sees and builds. The frontier moves from tokens to worlds.
"Visual-spatial intelligence is as fundamental as language."
@drfeifei says world models are the key to letting AI see the world, reason about it, interact with it, navigate it, and even 'build civilization upon it.'
"It's very natural for me that World Labs' north star is to unlock spatial intelligence. The moment to me is right to do it."
"We've got these ingredients—we've got compute, we've got a much deeper understanding of data, way deeper than [the ImageNet days]... and we've got some advancement of algorithms."






























