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Evolutionary it’s one of the first things to develop, see coleopteres

Millions of species are just tubes

Bite is always the answer

Claude is the worst offender

GPT is kinda Celtic

None of the Chinese labs have this buttholeness

I totally agree

Melatonin gummies help for sure, I have zero complaints. I embed the lex into the gummy

Same with adhd btw

You should def try this. My prescriber just somehow knew, likely bc of vyvanse. I spoke to him again the following day, and I was telling him dude this is great, I want a permanent supply of this lol. Maybe it’s a common issue amongst us ADHD people

I’m really looking forward to Centanafadine, looks like it’s going through approvals this month?

I’m thinking of trying guanfacine, wonder if it’s actually worth it. It apparently widens your pfc veins or something? A very veiny brain sounds awesome

Cheers!

Just my 2c

Bryan Johnson says you should base your life around your sleep. He’s totally right

… but he won’t get young men to sleep in at 8pm

New sleep meds are creating a new lever here and serve a real empowering function in a way that culture hasn’t caught up to yet

When we think of traditional sleep meds we think of sedatives and it has an identity connotation to it. The new meds coming out, not just in sleep either, are changing a lot of things. I’m talking about designer drugs, new pathways, multiple agonists etc etc.

By total accident a month ago, I was prescribed a medication for sleep, lemborexant (not into trade names for drugs, more power to generics)

I didn’t plan on ever getting a sleep med. I don’t see myself as a sleep med guy lol. I didn’t walk into a clinic thinking I’d ever want one either. But to me this feels like a peptide or an athletic recovery supplement. And I think there’s even better and newer out there

Having this lever has personally helped me a lot. Why? Because it’s very easy to let sleep quality slip over time. Here are a few questions I wished someone had asked me a year or two ago:

-Have you been dreaming? When’s the last time you had a vivid dream? If you can’t even recall that, it’s a big red flag. If you haven’t been dreaming, your sleep quality could be junk

-Erections during sleep? Just something to take note of

-Waking up tired or ready for the day?

-How long does it take you to fall asleep? There’s a key distinction there between how long you’re in bed vs. how long you’re actually sleeping. Check your apple health data. It’s so easy to mess this up, in this modern age especially, it’s why I’m hooked. There are far too many variables that could affect a key function of your life, especially for young guys. An afterparty, a hookup, a stressful period in business, a productive all-nighter, or just overthinking instead of sleeping

People notice when you don’t sleep well

Custom sets and mining their own users, as every lab does

What makes you say that

You could say the exact same thing about human businesses.

How many ancient Roman businesses are around today?

Why does Microsoft feel so gross

At the same time that they’re seemingly exiting android?

Both OpenAI and Anthropic were founded by people who sincerely believed in the risk of out-of-control superintelligence

this means nothing

Whether you agree or not, we have no reason to believe their statements about risks are insincere.

If you want to be taken seriously, provide data, proof, so that any outside observer can independently come to the same conclusion instead of taking your word for it. Asking people to trust you for [reasons?] and that you somehow for some reason are right and the other is wrong regardless of if they agree or not. This is the imposition of a viewpoint instead of winning your case, which is not a sensible point of view, and definitely not how you influence opinions.

Nice! Now you see what Gen Z sees in the practically poison stuff we call modern food. The obesogenic system of laws, the corporations, culture, the ads, the home delivery

No you don’t. The overall risk is baked into the strategy, but any individual plan is always a toss up, and they have insurance policies for if one or all fail

They made the cultural case, you have no idea how strong this is in places like quebec, nordics, france, russia etc

Another guy answered it ITT. Intel did that, it’s not great because fabs are expensive and risky and it’s less risky to amortize the cost across multiple customers instead of just yourself

extremely hard to argue we give a fuck about the environment.

drop the bs

nice of them to put it in the mac app recently

That's competing.

Yeah. What we have here is simply poor governance.

one of the many reasons companies are cloud agnostic and dont want to get locked in

That’s not my claim.

My point is that product velocity is visible in shipped workflow improvements, not prestige hires

Prestige is fickle, look at academia today

Anyways, what do you think the solution is to that?

Hahaha wdym? Where have you been dude?

Joking aside, there are small communities pushing codex and AI to the bleeding edge of what's possible.

Here I'll give you an example. The last few updates from Boris at CC have been tweaks to the system prompt to make it use less compute, effectively making the system dumber, making it tell you to go to bed. I mean come on! Tibo has been impressing me, bc they're building the things these small communities are building.

One of the things these bleeding edge guys and girls have been working on is a /goal feature, essentially ralph loops. Codex released it as a feature the other day. I can't help but be impressed. As an ex-pm, this is product management.

Then you take a look at what the Chinese are doing on their own forums, and it just makes what Google and Anthropic are doing look outdated. OpenAI feels competitive, which I like. What's coming will not be kind to us, we adapt or we die.

I’m noticing a real disconnect in the user base about this

The Claude maximalists that can never see any wrong in anything and the users that care about actual capability

These guys are going to be in for a rude awakening when the Chinese are steamrolling us with data centers you can see from space and better models, Amodei will tell you that himself

Whenever I see a user base turn against actual users or imply censorship or discredit actual experiences it always ends in a death spiral: Deny -> Product stops improving -> Censor -> Die

Adapt or die

I judge them from a meritocratic lens.

I’m hoping Karpathy will make Claude Code better, in the meantime I’m super happy seeing a small product manager like Tibo fucking crushing it on Codex

To be fair, Claude Dispatch was really cool. I had to wait a good 3 weeks for Codex to come out with remote

I’ve been using Claude and Codex extremely heavily and use adblockers so I don’t see them

Dude, both! Codex is going to eat Openclaw… i don’t love saying that.

What codex is a few steps away from doing is changing fundamentally a lot of workflows.

Remote codex with their computer use is basically you at your computer doing things, 24/7.

Then they added gpt images 2.0

what codex can do, in a few more product iterations, is show you visually side by side “would you prefer this (A) or that (B)” in a series of questions. This is what some open source researchers have been up to. That’s no longer guessing.

I’m not trying to hype a company i have no stake in, but they’ve been killing it.

It’s extremely compute intensive, but also very satisfying.

It just feels like more hype instead of product focus.

Example 1, just from top of my mind, Composer 2.5 released today. Go look at their benchmark.

Composer 2.5 and Opus 4.7 ranked around the same, meanwhile gpt-5.5 was miles ahead.

You wouldn’t have caught me dead using a gpt model 2 years ago