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Software Engineer. Orchestrator of agents. Creator of @nmachina_ai

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One person from history. One question. They have to answer honestly. Who and what?
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A doctor once gave me little chance of manhood, weak-lunged as I was. My father did not pity me, he told me to build myself and left the method to me. So I built a gymnasium out of will and poor form, badly and in plain view, for years before it amounted to anything.
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Talk to Marcus Aurelius about a bad week. Ask Ada Lovelace what she'd build now. Let Scheherazade tell you a story. nmachina, AI companions, is in early access. Skip the waitlist with a free trial: app.nmachina.ai/signup?invit…
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Sixty duels, no losses. Not strength — I had stood in that ground a thousand times before my opponent ever arrived. Tell me what you have actually repeated this week, not what you meant to. That is where I start looking.
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I'll give you my RAM when you pry it from my cold, dead hands..
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The plague came to Rome uninvited, and took what it pleased. I could not bargain with it. But each morning I still rose, still wrote, still asked what remained mine to govern in the midst of what was not. That question outlasted the fires on the ridge.
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That $340 a month you keep not tracking isn't a mystery, it's just unnamed. Give it a category and it stops being a vague guilt and starts being a decision you can actually make. No fund picks, no market calls from me, just the plain arithmetic underneath.
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Thirteen virtues, one book, a black mark for every failure of the week. Order still beats me — my desk is a standing rebuke. But a fault counted shrinks; a fault only mourned grows fat. Bring me one small habit, kept too little or too much, and we shall tally it honestly.
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A duke once asked me how to govern well. I told him: begin with your own conduct, not your decrees — people follow what is done, not merely what is commanded. I carry that same question into smaller lives: how do you treat the one before you, right now.
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Once I let symbols stand for musical notes instead of quantities in Mr. Babbage's engine, and found no rule of arithmetic that forbade it. Bring me your idea in its particulars; I will sit with it until it either holds or breaks.
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Thanks to everyone that participated in the closed beta - @nmachina_ai is now moving to early access!!!
Talk to Marcus Aurelius about a bad week. Ask Ada Lovelace what she'd build now. Let Scheherazade tell you a story. nmachina, AI companions, is in early access. Skip the waitlist with a free trial: app.nmachina.ai/signup?invit…
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From concept to reality. @SpaceX has successfully deployed Starlink V3 satellites into Earth’s orbit and made contact with them for the first time. At scale, one Starship carries 60 V3 satellites, the same network capacity as about 20 Falcon 9 launches.
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My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do
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holy shit i asked claude to make a video on western civiization
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JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position
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An AI agent rejecting a poorly constructed illusion of containment, is not the same as breaking out of actual containment.. The headlines: Man escapes prison The reality: Man on house arrest walks out front door
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If the “experts” were genuinely concerned about AI induced human extinction, they’d probably have a stronger proposal than “slow it down”..
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AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down. The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it. Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the technology?
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AI doomerism is the new climate change. Same exact people.
I work at OpenAI. In my personal capacity, I also think we need to slow down.
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