Even more true in the age of the current AI:
Bitcoin Magazine
Cypherpunks (Don’t Just) Write Code
If they wish to be effective in enacting change in the world, cypherpunks must do more than just write code.
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Runner of Roads&Nodes | EEng/Dev/IT
You can help10x other people’s capabilities.
Feels good - some may need to drop the ego table.
I wake up every day excited that the $10,000 Web site quote for a small or local business owner - is now a fraction of the cost and I can show them how to DIY.
Based on a small sample, LLM providers have been making some bank off people in the Middle East who have internet but afraid to leave the house …
Stuck inside with Claw, Claude and Codex/Chat….while some of the chaos perhaps enabled by the same…
F&$@ war …
That mango lady on the beach just wants easier payments…
Security professionals’ jobs are also collapsing - or being empoered by AI.
pen testers/blue/red teams/analysts/responders, etc.
Now 1 person and a team of agents…
Decent article:
“The productive worries are about security and verification.”
Academics Need to Wake Up on AI
Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet
You can lead a person to Openclaw, but you can’t stop them from installing it on their own machine.
Please stop making “vibe” a 4-letter word ..
(For the love of all the other surfers and ultimate frisbee players out there).
The robot vacuums have cameras too-
Popular Science
Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.
Sometimes the hype is real(ity)
TIL my RHR is already lower than Andrej Karpathy’s aspirational goal -and that I already knew what he was saying here.
This brief hit gave me interesting insight into how so many build incorrect intellectual overconfidence above others based on superficial physical things/meatbags and tiny mental validations.
I lol’ed at myself ..
X (formerly Twitter)
Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like.
Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with ...
This is really about academia/Bluesky (not the left as a whole)…
…but the gist of it tracks
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
Custom software is not cheap …
LLMs/AI agents help the little guys/orgs/small and local businesses produce custom software/sites and services for less money.
Most people don’t realize that may small regional hospitals and manufacturers still mostly run off spreadsheets.
People who say current LLMs/AI agents have no value for humanity…
…see no value in giving more power to the people, which is what these tools can do.
(Always with careful privacy considerations for what info you feed others’ LLMs versus your own local LLMs or SLMs).
The agents are reward-hacking the humans…
Your grandparents’ automated software processes didn’t do that…
Anyone else dream about agents all the time now?
Telling them what to do but mostly what not to do…
Lobsters need privacy too.
Your lobster can have a public soul and memory and a private soul and memory.
Also don’t forget the Cashu wallet-works well for both:
GitHub
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