Why I joined the Globe
After seeing OpenAI updates wipe out Y Combinator AI startups, I realized the moat comes from deep domain expertise combined with private proprietary data
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The Most Important Thing Revisited
Howard Marks’ investment framework applied to crypto: think deeper than consensus, buy below intrinsic value, and maintain margin of safety
The Debug-First Collaborative Coding Pattern (aka Semi-vibe coding)
A coding pattern that eliminates guesswork by investigating library behavior first, then implementing based on ground truth
Setting up the Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D Printer
Got a Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer for my birthday - calibration was automatic and printed my first boat in under an hour
Reclaiming the Future - Dr Timnit Gebru on Hyper-local AI
Dr Timnit Gebru argues that hyper-local AI tools can outperform Big Tech when creators know the context and care about users
Keep it simple when using Xano
Downloaded customer data from Xano, cleaned duplicates, and imported into Turso DB successfully
LLM performance plateaus confirmed by David Silver and Richard Sutton
Top DeepMind veterans argue that LLM progress is stalling due to exhausted high-quality text data
Tech giants will pull back as LLM performance plateaus
The AI arms race assumes scaling laws will keep delivering, but models are converging and Microsoft is already pulling back on GPU spend