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Ultimately, AI is a weapon. Historically, the country with the most advanced weaponry wins the war.
If we don’t have the most advanced AI, we’re sitting ducks. Please explain this to the idiots out there who want our enemies to have more advanced weaponry than us.
Feel free to tag them below.
Total BS - these guys haven't a clue. I am using AI for 16 hours a day and each team member is running ~10 agents concurrently on average...we are producing more software than ever before with far fewer people.
Andrew is noise and the devs on the ground are signal.
In a randomised trial, software developers using AI took 19% longer to complete tasks. Yet they believed AI had made them 20% faster.
At the ‘Evidence in Action’ event, I argued for a government that tests what works, and saves money by learning from the results. ministers.treasury.gov.au/mi… #randomistas
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The 19%/20% figures are from a July 2025 METR study of experienced open-source developers using early-2025 AI tools, which the authors describe as an outdated snapshot; a 2026 follow-up found some evidence for speedup with newer tools.
metr.org/blog/2025-07-1…
metr.org/blog/2026-02-2…
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
snodnipper🛡️ retweeted
Just had a really sophisticated scam call from “Gloucestershire Police”.
Correct number. British female voice. Text message to confirm. Really polished script.
“We’ve arrested someone who was using your identity to commit financial fraud. Your passport and drivers license was used….”
Invites me to come to the police station nearest to me to view the evidence.
… then… Wants to confirm the crypto accounts that are genuine … didn’t feel right… she puts me through to her Sargent… British accent… he starts asking for info about my “genuine accounts” … I start asking questions and *click*
Did some searching and it seems to be a scam that’s doing the rounds. AI voice alteration, cloned phone numbers etc. really sophisticated.
Be careful out there.
The UK wouldn't have a problem at all if all immigrants had the same level of respect as these chaps.
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snodnipper🛡️ retweeted
Great line from the CTO of Proton. I’m paraphrasing and stealing it :
Your job is not to use agents to help you write code. Your job is to lead the agents to help them write code.
snodnipper🛡️ retweeted
Every religion in history has promised miracles and warned of the apocalypse. Anthropic is the first to file both with the SEC.
100% - these are not the engineers getting the jobs done...in any company!
There are two completely different species working in tech:
1. The backend engineer losing his hairline debugging a broken production deployment at 9 PM.
2. The 'day in the life at Google' influencer whose entire sprint consists of eating 4 free meals, grabbing free merch, answering 2 emails, and filming an aesthetic reel in the office mirror.
Somehow they both had to pass 5 rounds of LeetCode Hard to get there.
Nice!
Normal gym goers really have ZERO clue the resistance revolution that is happening in the gym equipment space.
There's currently, not 10 years from now, but today, a digital machine that's the size of a shoe, weighs 13lbs, and can produce 500lbs resistance.
There are machines in the works that will soon be able to do 2x that and you can adjust EVERY single part of the resistance curve.
The craziest thing is the fastest advancements are coming from home gym hackers who want better equipment. Incredible!
Probably a good example of how "AI slop" can subtly convey errors / falsehoods that the majority cannot easily detect.
^ for example, Slovenia is nowhere near Ukraine.
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People who cured / are curing their own cancer on X:
1/ @sytses - bone cancer, billionaire founder of Gitlab, developed 10+ personalized therapies for himself.
2/ @paul_conyngham - shrank his dog Rosie's mast cell cancer tumors after chemo and surgery weren't enough. Now backed by YC and Founders Fund
3/ @miriamgonp - stage 4 breast cancer, tumor sequenced, searching for vaccine manufacturer now
4/ @kevinace - stage 4 lung cancer, angel investor in 300+ companies, first drug stopped working after 18 months. Vaccine designed, now paying $300k out of pocket for the vaccine
5/ @masonbgrant: going founder mode on his his 32-year-old wife's rare liver cancer, sequencing her tumor with AI agents
6/ @ArunRLverma: former product leader at Atoms and Shopify, brain tumor, built a vaccine from his tumor. Now building an AI health agent startup based on what he went through
We're going to make it
snodnipper🛡️ retweeted
Go to college. Take on six figures of debt.
Get married. Spend another $40,000.
Buy a house. Sign away 30 years of your income.
Have kids. Pay someone else to raise them while you work.
Retire at 67, assuming your knees and heart still work.
Who agreed to this miserable deal?
snodnipper🛡️ retweeted
It's honestly insane.
You have the greatest entrepreneurial genius of all time right in front of you. And on top of that, you're lucky he's completely sane. Give that kind of power to a Bill Gates and we'd already be living in 1984.
You're corrupt to the bone, and you know full well you're lying.
Instead of saying "ok, we lost, let's let Elon finish what he started," your first instinct is to want him in prison.
For what, exactly? For soon giving sight back to the blind? For forcing the entire car industry to go electric? For launching, again and again, projects that move humanity forward?
This class of corrupt Democrats makes me sick.
snodnipper🛡️ retweeted
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …
Capitol agenda: Dem gavels are coming for Elon Musk politi.co/4dPcGpd
