Michael Koukoullis

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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Welcome to the Napoleon Chronicle! A page dedicated to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte and the history of the French Revolution, Republic, and Empire! Vive l'Empereur!

Elon Musk used zero tax dollars to create the first flying car. Gavin Newsom spent billions of your dollars on a railroad that never got built. Just saying.

This was Google before the internet 😄

This is the Porsche Mission S, the brand's newest super sports car, inspired by the 356 and 550 Spyder. Porsche says it will "permanently" sit in the brand’s lineup, above the 911, but Porsche has not provided any information on powertrains, specs, or pricing.

Sol completes the tasks less than 5 percentage points off Opus, but at less than a tenth of the cost!! $0.80 vs $10.53. Incredible performance from @openai 💪

Interesting.

Our more modest aim is to survive the AI revolution, help other developers do the same, and come out on the other end making better code and content faster.

it’s clear we need to retire the term vibe coding because the models now produce better architecture & way more coherent code than an average software engineer. perhaps even better than top software engineers too because unlike a human, ai has a much much larger context window. this ain’t vibe coding at all. it’s precision engineering.

The Patek Philippe reference 1578, 1962.

Australia has a relatively small population. We share no land borders and are protected by vast oceans. We have abundant agricultural land, enormous natural resources, and some of the world’s most valuable exports. We’ve enjoyed more than 80 years without war on our own soil and never experienced a civil war. There is no reason poverty should be increasing in this country. There is no reason the middle class should be shrinking. There is no reason each generation shouldn’t have the opportunity to live better than the last. Australia’s challenges aren’t the result of a lack of land, resources, wealth, or stability. They are the result of political decisions. And for too long, we’ve kept electing politicians who fail us.

There is *a lot* of software that hasn’t been built across hundreds of industries because our best paid designers and engineers were occupied with building social networks and ad networks. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." — Jeff Hammerbacher Meanwhile, huge parts of the physical economy were left running on spreadsheets, email, paper forms, ancient desktop software and enterprise systems installed sometime around 1999. They still use it today. Construction. Manufacturing. Logistics. Agriculture. Waste management. Energy. Shipping. Maintenance. Laboratories. Local government. Field services. Industrial equipment. Healthcare administration. The list is endless. A lot of these places were simply too small, too "unsexy" or too expensive to serve with traditional software economics, especially after engineers became one of the best paid career choice. But small teams can now build specialized tools for markets that previously couldn’t justify the best of the best engineering talent. And even further, lets not forget about all the terrible enterprise software out there owned by massive corporations who locked in clients since the late 90s and didn't change a single thing since then. All these companies are completely vendor locked due to switching cost, but that switching cost is slowly disappearing. Maybe I am too optimistic here, but there are entire industries still waiting for their first piece of software that is truly designed for the people using it. The opportunities right now are endless.

My best career advice: At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit.

"Let’s plan the roadmap for next quarter” is the modern day equivalent of “let’s fax everyone the strategy.” We're going into q4 planning and it makes my brain hurt. Roadmaps existed because software was expensive to build. You needed a bunch of people. Meetings. Someone moving little boxes around Jira for three months from now. It makes no sense and I'm trying to work out what we call the replacement. Maybe just "Continuous Compilation", ideas just compile to working product. I want a list of ideas that we want to continuously compile. That's the roadmap now. The cheapest way to figure out whether something is a good idea is often to just build the fucking thing. Here’s how I work now. I've done this weekly over the last few months and it works. My current napkin math is that I can usually build 6 months of old-school roadmap in a week. Sometimes more. I've also hit a wall sometimes. It happens. When we have an idea, I usually 10x the ambition and then write a prompt, not more than a page long, that basically says: - here’s the ambitious goal - here are a few use cases - here’s roughly how I think we should build it in terms of where it fits into code base, design considerations, etc.. - here’s how we’ll know if it actually works - now go fucking surprise me Agents build all night. Not even with a crazy factory or complex agent or agents. The base models are just too good for that now. In the morning I look at it. Ok, they usually build in a few hours. Usually some of it is great. Some of it is stupid. Some of it exposes that my original idea was wrong. And almost every time it gives me 5 new ideas I couldn’t have planned upfront. So we throw shit out. Who cares? We learned something. Then we change direction and send them off again. It usually takes 3 rounds before the shape appears and we've learned about the gremlins and possibilities. 95% of the time I end up building something with 10x the scope of what somebody had carefully spread across the next quarter in Jira. “What should we put on the roadmap for next quarter?” My brain now translates that to: “Oh, you're stuck in the 1500s”

Every time this mom comes home from daycare, she greets her baby, and eventually the baby starts greeting her back.

Each of the 4 people you call “oligarchs” founded and spent decades building companies in highly competitive markets, and those companies created trillions of dollars of value. We should celebrate these people and their accomplishments.