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Last Notes npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The problem with hiring “AI natives” is that if you aren’t careful then all you’ve done is hire people who were very good at asking ChatGPT to do their homework. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo At least he appreciates that it's virtually impossible at this point. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo "Elon buying Twitter is the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that." - Travis Kalanick, founder and former CEO of Uber npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Back in my day we used to walk uphill both ways in the snow to deliver a piece of software then they invented AI coding agents. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Further confirmation that Anthropic is leaving OpenAI in the dust following the Financial Times report Anthropic plans to IPO at $2T. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Researchers found a way to extract the hidden reasoning from Claude, GPT and Gemini by replaying their encrypted reasoning chains into weaker models from the same vendor. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo In Q2 of 2022, Twitter made $1.08B in ad revenue. Thanks to the SpaceX IPO, we learn that number was $367M in Q2 of this year. He destroyed 70% of Twitter’s ads business in under 4 years. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo An Australian user asked OpenClaw to book him into a gym class and move him up from 4th on the waitlist. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Not hiring entry level workers due to AI adoption is definitely a tragedy of the commons as everyone will benefit from having a cohort of experienced Gen Z workers in 15 years yet few want to hire them today. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Satya’s invocation of Jevon’s paradox during the initial hype around DeepSeek seems spot on in hindsight. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Microsoft joins Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Tesla in introducing AI token limits. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Google is losing two of its biggest AI researchers from day to day operations. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for is well understood in many corners. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’ve seen many engineers dunking on this position but I think it’s reasonable. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Claude Code is like airplane WiFi. The first few times I encountered it, I was like “This is amazing and it changes everything.” npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I find it fascinating that if I tell Claude to hack my fake Bank of America website and it instead, in classic LLM fashion, hallucinates and hacks the real one then there is no law that addresses this? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Developers having unlimited AI tokens to use frontier models is like sales teams having unlimited business class flights. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Google is learning that you don’t have to add AI to every feature. The company rolled back the ability to add AI generated images to satellite imagery in Google Earth after people used it to generate misinformation. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Microsoft had its best single day stock performance since 2008 this week and Amazon is now ripping as well. The reason for both is the same, demand for AI services is skyrocketing and they can’t build datacenters fast enough to keep up. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The U.S. State department has taken "full responsibility" for presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. Every single one. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo 24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Things must be going really well with the economy and the war in Iraq if America’s top problem is prosecuting Fauci for imaginary crimes from six years ago. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo OpenAI recently showed how tweaking the harness used in a benchmark made GPT Sol 5.6 go from 13.3% to 38.3%. This is a good example of the value of harnesses especially as models commoditize. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A few truths about frontier Ai companies npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other companies asking the U.S. government to slow down AI development because there is “a real risk” that AI progresses faster than people can “understand or control.” npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Trump can’t help himself when it comes to bragging about his scams. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo “You will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science” - Neil deGrasse Tyson npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo People have given Apple a hard time over raising prices of their devices due to the memory crunch but in reality they delayed this for as long as possible. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear reports of companies questioning the ROI of AI tool usage and scaling back employee adoption. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Anthropic has been growing revenue 10x each year since founded. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo OpenAI missed its goal to get ChatGPT to 1 billion active users last year and has missed multiple revenue goals this year. Enterprise adoption is similarly lagging expectations especially given Anthropic’s growing popularity. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Mark Gurman, a regular source of Apple leaks, says the company has six major hardware products in development. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Interesting contrast today in how Hollywood is using AI versus Bollywood. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I think tech people are going through the 5 stages of grief when it comes to AI. The discussion around “taste”means we are in the bargaining phase. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Has there been a more absurd product vision than when Zoom’s CEO said our AI avatars will attend Zoom meetings on our behalf? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The inside story of why Sam Altman got fired by the OpenAI board from Microsoft’s CTO. Internal politics between Ilya on the Research side and Sam on the Product side. And a board inexperienced in such politics. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get shot in the face by government agents if you don’t get out of your car when asked?” npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There’s a saying that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” food delivery hoax. He got in touch with the original Reddit poster who shared an Uber Eats ID and an 18-page document about the alleged internal workings at Uber Eats. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Happy New Year. May everything fall into place for you in 2026. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The remote controlled robot version of shooting yourself in the foot. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Trump administration gutting so much fundamental research is going to set the U.S. back so much in ways that will shock historians in the future. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo One. Trillion. Dollars. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The CEOs of both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have warned managers that they should have a “strong bias” against hiring people and “constrain headcount growth” despite record revenue and trading volume. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo America is going to feel the impact of Hillary losing in 2016 and Trump getting to choose 3 Supreme Court justices for generations. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo According to SimilarWeb, their analytics shows that Threads has 130.2M daily active users compared to X’s 130.1M. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The rise of generative AI has caused Luddites to get a makeover in perception. Now being so upset about technology taking your job that you smash machines is now viewed more sympathetically these days. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Starbucks is increasing its RTO requirement to 4 days a week from 3. Additionally it’s asked all managers to either relocate to Seattle or Toronto, or accept a one-time payment then resign. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The shift from having more kids means more people to help you on the farm to having more kids is more people to put through college is one that governments still haven’t wrapped their minds around. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There was a massive moral panic about the impact of AI powered misinformation on elections this year which turns out to have been overblown. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This is a really insightful take on Intel’s board firing its CEO. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo One of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a manager is situational leadership. I used to think I should manage people how I like to be managed but a one-size-fits-all approach is flawed. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A friend and I had a fun discussion about whether CrowdStrike would lose any business given their massive outage. My friend argued that they’re such a market leader that they’d be just fine as there’s no comparable alternative. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Bluesky’s starter packs fix one of the key problems with chronological feeds — it takes to much work to build a good feed. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The DOJ’s proposed remedies to address Google’s search monopoly are far reaching and will definitely reshape the internet npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Stablecoins like Tether remind me of Uber. Regulation led to products with poor user experience (taxis) so there was a window of opportunity for Uber to show up with a better user experience which ignored regulations until it was tok big to ban. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A powerful example of how AI is game changing from Simon Willison where he automated a task of grabbing data from across multiple emails and putting it in a spreadsheet. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Stories like this remind me of the Arab Spring. People celebrate the ability of new technology to influence people without asking what happens when it’s used to influence people to think and do things you don’t like. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Who Donald Trump is talking about when he talks about undocumented migrants eating pets npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo People have long argued the endgame for riding hailing services is autonomous cars. What used to seem like an expensive pipe dream is now reality if you ride Waymo in San Francisco.
