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Startup founder: https://nitter.cf/t.co/1Ew4UQ67Sz, a next-gen software company. Our first product: https://nitter.cf/t.co/pjzP7c2I0h. MIT grad. React Native, AI, conference speaker.

Boston
Joined April 2008
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We have a saying Mexico that roughly translates to "Mexicans are born wherever the fuck they want". I love how inclusive the country is. Anyone can be Mexican.
Amigos do México, é de bom tom pessoas não mexicanas como eu por exemplo, me caracterizar de Catrina? Ou pode ser ofensivo para vocês ? É apropriado? Dúvida genuína.
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Margaret @watchful_toast and I took @entiendoNULL to La Once Mil.
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Yesterday Mexico made me cry a few times out of pride. What an incredible country.
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We were in Mexico for our first @okthinkai AI, React,and the and the Future of Software Development event. Y'all should come next year.
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Los Voladores de Papantla luchando contra el Titán Catrina... Ea demasiado CINE 🚬
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Mexico is amazing
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if you haven't chosen a parade spot yet you might be sol 🇲🇽✨✨ it's a privilege to bake out here honestly
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Anthropic: obfuscating language. OpenAI: we're doubling your usage limits.
Day 25/ We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today. We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same. We’re also going to continue offering extended limits for dots for now, and usage of your dot will still continue to be separate from your default usage. And we'll of course also keep shipping better models and other efficiency improvements that increase your effective usage over time.
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It's amazing to me how Anthropic uses language to make you feel like they're recognizing your complaint, fix something entirely different, and not address the actual complaint. It has been this pattern over and over since March. "I get that some new users assumed 20x applied to both limits. We could have done better here, and I'm sorry." People aren't complaining about the 5h limit. They're complaining that Max 20x should have been 20x weekly and they were misled.
I lead product for Claude subscriptions. Today we're renaming our Max plans, and I want to explain why. When we launched our top plan in April 2025, it had a single limit: 5 hours. It gave you 20x Pro's limit, so we called it Max 20x. When we added weekly limits to Max 20x, we set them to 10x Pro's (the 5-hour limit stayed at 20x). I get that some new users assumed 20x applied to both limits. We could have done better here, and I'm sorry. The Ultra plan keeps the weekly limit (10x Pro), but we're removing the 5-hour limit so you can keep building without getting blocked mid-session. This starts today and rolls out in stages. To help prevent fraud and abuse, a temporary limit applies until we've verified your account. You'll get an email when your limit is removed. We've got more cooking and can't wait to share it. Thanks for building with Claude 🙏
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Once @okthinkai gets bigger and we have an office we'll have all you can eat feijoada Fridays.
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El retumbar del bienestar
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first speaker dinner on a boat 🇲🇽✨ mariachi are extra!!
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Thank you so much!!
Did not expect a #ReactNative event this good. Huge thanks to @okthink for all the effort 🙌 Hope we get more events like this in Mexico. Thanks @rihantopete @watchful_toast @GroundControl The tech community in #MexicoCity is big and hungry to keep learning and sharing!!
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umm can @expo hire @_mesurashii ?? What an amazing evangelist 👈👈🫶✨
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we're just getting the party started ✨✨✨🎃👻🇲🇽🇲🇽
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it's happening!!! still setting up but it looks so good ✨✨🎃
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I think all of our events are going to be in #MexicoCity from now on guys ✨✨✨🫡🫶
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I'm so proud and impressed by @entiendoNULL. Contrary to his username, he knows a lot... and he's giving his first talk in Spanish. He's killing it ✨✨💪
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I know I'm getting super gushy about @expo folks but wow.. @llamaluvr really bonded with the crowd with his Spanish intro ❤️❤️
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I really appreciate that Schwab's "hold music" is financial news. It's not useless time
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