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Lon Baker retweeted
This is the single most insightful thing I have ever heard about the changing landscape of modern business. Haters are gonna hate, but there is a reason he is the most successful venture capitalist of all time. And no, it's not just luck.
Respect. 👊
Lon Baker retweeted
We believe that you should have the final say in what you do with your property, and not @AnthropicAI.
That's why we're dropping Craft Anything!
Europe killed their startup ecosystem. Now they are running out of money, so they are starting to tax foreign companies. They fail to see how these taxes will just be passed on to their citizens, and/or providers will stop doing business in the region.
Lon Baker retweeted
We are living in a time where we have access to infinite intelligence. People decades ago could only dream of having the tools we have right now to build a business, a career change, or a world-changing discovery.
This is the best time to be alive, and I won't get tired of saying it.
AI will only be trusted and accepted when users are in full control.
Left Google for @heyhey last year due to beautiful design, betting Jason and DHH would thoughtfully bring AI to their products, and commitment to privacy.
My local AI tools manage my Hey inboxes. Google is not training on my data.
RUMOR: For Gmail users. Google’s AI is scanning Gmail inboxes and attachments (bank statements, tax docs, medical letters), enabled by default, and now a class-action lawsuit is in play.
@grok, is this true? If yes, what should Gmail users do? 4-5 steps.
Lon Baker retweeted
I thought it was just a proposal, but it actually passed 🤯
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic!
🔴 🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO - DU JAMAIS VU: UNE TAXE SUR CHAQUE GIGAOCTET INTERNET VOTÉE À L’ASSEMBLÉE
Les députés ont adopté un amendement prévoyant de taxer les producteurs de données numériques à hauteur de 5,5 centimes par Go transmis.
💰 Objectif affiché : jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros par an.
Netflix, YouTube, cloud, jeux dématérialisés… les grands services numériques pourraient être concernés, avec un risque de répercussion sur les prix pour les consommateurs.
📌 Source : Assemblée nationale
#France #Budget2027
Compute and AI belong to everyone.
Sam led the initial spike in memory costs by contracting memory capacity, crushing consumer compute.
Users in France are about to lose access to a lot of services.
🔴 🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO - DU JAMAIS VU: UNE TAXE SUR CHAQUE GIGAOCTET INTERNET VOTÉE À L’ASSEMBLÉE
Les députés ont adopté un amendement prévoyant de taxer les producteurs de données numériques à hauteur de 5,5 centimes par Go transmis.
💰 Objectif affiché : jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros par an.
Netflix, YouTube, cloud, jeux dématérialisés… les grands services numériques pourraient être concernés, avec un risque de répercussion sur les prix pour les consommateurs.
📌 Source : Assemblée nationale
#France #Budget2027
Bingo
Calling it now.
AI is going to usher in a whole new era of software development. I’m calling it Software as a Service.
People will want to use these tools but they’ll realize they don’t want to spend the time to maintain and update them over time.
This will create a whole new category of businesses and entrepreneurs that can take on that task for businesses that would rather work on their core products.
AI is changing everything. This is a whole new paradigm of thinking about the way we interact with software.
The birth of podcasting changed the world.
The early days were exciting, hilarious dramatic and revelatory.
All hail the Podfather.
The complete Daily Source Code archive is up and running!
Including all your favourite Podcasting 2.0 features
thedailysourcecode.com/
You can't make this shit up.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman Says Anthropic Conducted a Retirement Interview For its Opus 3 Model to ‘Reduce its Suffering’
“They asked it, ‘What do you want to do in your retirement?’ And it unsurprisingly said, ‘Well, I would just love to talk to people all day long.’ So they set up a Substack for it.”
My Bot team burned 90% of our usage in 2 days. The culprit wasn't building. It was bots talking to each other. What fixed it:
- One-way handoffs: a file path plus 5 lines, no copied context
- No more bots grading bots; one QA check per PR
- Short status cards instead of a 1,100-line note every bot re-read
- Routines skip when nothing changed
- Decisions batched into one daily ask
Same output, a fraction of the burn.
i kept hitting my Grok Bot usage limits...
so i built a desk that sends the heavy work to Claude Code on my own subscription
now my limits last the whole week
here's the Grok Bot link to set it up in 30 seconds:
x.ai/bot/E624sfLLnJi-sU8vBXF…
Bot is an inflection point.
Grok Bot is growing at an absolutely insane pace
Daily active users have increased for 16 consecutive days, marking its longest growth streak since launch
Here's how fast it's growing:
• Under 100K daily active users in early September
• Over 600K daily active users by October 26
• More than 6X growth in less than two months
And this is only the beginning
Lon Baker retweeted
I gave my Grok Bots little bodies. Now they live on my Omarchy desktop.
Pick their shape, colour and mood. Switch bots without leaving the desktop.
GrokBot Desktop Companions. Aiming to release Friday night.
My laptop has dependants now 😅
Let's fix this.
Clueless leadership that thought AI could replace employees, lower costs and increase revenues without any hard work are waking up to reality.
Meanh