experimenting with a lil personal project: an AI-native macOS dock with custom modes (writing, building, etc.) to help me stay focused my agent is able to customize mode behavior and add new modes, it uses jev to classify my activity + notifications in real time & act on them

The only way to make sense of the world right now Is to understand we’re approaching the singularity Spacetime is becoming more curved, and relative times are disturbed

FSD could literally free up OVER $1.5 trillion/yr... WHY isn't anyone talking about this?? If Lawmakers were serious about serving the people, they would start focusing on how to speed up FSD adoption. The Data: Fatal & serious crashes cost the U.S. almost $2 trillion per year in total societal harm; including ~$400 billion in direct economic costs in the form of: - medical bills - property damage - lost wages - enormous quality-of-life cost of lost years - permanent disability Tesla’s latest FSD data shows vehicles with FSD engaged are ~9× SAFER than the average driver. That means, if fully adopted, FSD could produce savings the size of any one of these: - ~6% of GDP - The entire Social Security program - Medicare AND Medicaid - Roughly 2× the defense budget At this scale, FSD (and technologies like it) could be one of the first real steps toward an age of AI "abundance" people talk about. 50 years from now, our children and grandchildren will look back in horror at the fact that we ever drove at all.

12 months ago 100% of my coding was done locally against my computer's filesystem now ~5% is done locally, my computer is a conduit to download and upload files to cloud agents most days my iPad and iPhone are all I need and I'm getting 50x more work done than I was a year ago

Bringing this back

I don't know how many people realize that if Elon Musk pulls off what he's building, it will be the biggest social reset in human history. To understand why, you need to understand a concept almost nobody really gets: rent. Yesterday I was talking about it with someone. I told them something simple: the moment a rent sets in, whatever kind it is, it gets paid for. Not necessarily in dollars. It gets paid for in stagnation. So what is a rent? A rent is income that doesn't come from the value you create, but from the position you hold. You don't win because you're better. You win because nobody is allowed to come and beat you. The mechanism is almost always the same. A company succeeds. Then, instead of continuing to innovate, it goes for regulatory capture: licenses, standards, quotas, approvals, lobbying. It turns its lead into a wall. And behind that wall, new entrants can't get in. But they're the ones who innovate. They're the ones who drive prices down, raise quality, create new wealth. When you block them, nothing dramatic happens. Nothing happens at all. Prices stop falling. Quality stalls. The pie stops growing. And when the pie stops growing, the only way to get richer is to take someone else's slice. This is the point almost nobody sees: what people blame on "capitalism" (frozen inequality, a broken social ladder, the feeling that the game is rigged from the start) are the effects of that stagnation. The symptoms of rent. Not of capitalism. Capitalism is competition. Rent is its negation. Now, Elon Musk. He said that by 2036, money won't matter anymore. Most people read it as science fiction. I read it as an implicit critique of our entire monetary system. His reasoning: AI and robots will produce more than we can possibly consume. So prices will collapse. Deflation, not inflation. And this is where it gets interesting. For decades, the role of central banks has been to stabilize prices. In practice: to stop them from falling. Yet in an economy that innovates, the natural direction of prices is down. Look at what a computer cost thirty years ago. Preventing prices from falling was the worst thing we could have done. Because it created an entire generation of rentiers. People who got rich not by creating something, but by owning something at the right time. An apartment. A plot of land. An asset shielded from falling prices by money printing and by rules that choke supply. In a world not captured by the state, house prices would be extremely low. And who would stay rich? The people who keep creating value. The ones whose wealth comes from the valuation of their company, because their company keeps innovating. Wealth you have to re-earn every single year. That's where Elon's line really makes sense. In a world of deflationary abundance, human life would look like a video game. Or a game of chess. If you're good and you start at the bottom, you can rise very, very fast. In a few years. If you're bad and you inherit the inertia of a position you don't know how to maintain, against people who keep innovating, you fall very, very fast too. No more rent. No more entitlement. Just your ability to create value, put back on the line every day. It would be the greatest equalizer in human history. Not equality of outcomes imposed from above. Equality of the playing field, imposed by abundance. I think Elon Musk is reinventing the rules of capitalism. Or rather, bringing them back to their original form: the Austrian school. Real capitalism. Value creation as the only legitimate source of wealth. And at the end of the road, something neither rent nor redistribution has ever achieved: the end of poverty on a global scale.

I feel sorry for people who don’t have an autonomous car. And I am very aware most don’t have one yet. My eight year old Tesla just passed 172,000 miles yesterday after it got another update in the morning. A major improvement. I have been having the “I love to drive” argument lately. Even with very smart people. A Stanford Fellow last weekend. People have no idea how much driving manually sucks compared to AI driving. And AI will continue to improve. It is the real luxury. I wouldn’t trade it for three Ferraris. I wouldn’t trade it for the million-dollar car @sama drives around. Waymo knows that even the most hardened haters change after three rides. Yesterday I drove a lot. Today again. Autonomy is a life changer. @rwang0’s enterprise conference in Half Moon Bay is extraordinary. But it is over a very dangerous road that has claimed many lives. Had dinner with @RichieEtwaru at the opening dinner (met AI leaders from many major companies, Costco, Siemens, kinds of companies). Now home. To repeat the process later again. Ritchie is showing everyone a new kind of celebrity in the morning. He gave me a peek and he competes with the virtual being company that I visited yesterday (which is worth watching). Think everyone will be blown away. Ray has a Cybertruck. Autonomy was the unofficial theme. The corporate types are automating their businesses, or thinking how to. I wish I had a magic wand to bring everyone into the future. It isn’t just safer. It is way smoother than any human can drive. And I feel sorry that so many have absolutely no idea. But that is changing rapidly as more get rides and that makes me happy because they make the roads safer for everyone.

new Head of Product at @X!

this is how you manifest btw

at @spacexsi i get to teach our customers how to hand their knowledge work to grok bot. most start by asking what the @Bot can do. the better question: will checking its work take less time than doing it yourself? here's what I've learned so far - View article

Car rental marketplace Turo is introducing the first verified @Tesla FSD (Supervised) rental experience for travelers in the U.S. Starting on October 28, Turo guests will be able to search, discover, and book Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) activated, using direct API integration to verify FSD status. Eligible Turo “hosts” who rent out their cars on the platform will also receive a free one-month trial of FSD. Turo said it is working with Tesla to directly access the automaker’s API to verify which cars have FSD enabled. CEO of Turo. "Our own research shows that 55% of Americans are interested in driverless technology for travel, growing to 71% for Gen Z."

@thsottiaux @alexandr_wang

Opencode’s token metering tells me we spent $7.8k in tokens in the last 7 days

在屠宰场干了5年，告诉你一个秘密：动物今天要死，它们全都知道 我在屠宰场干了整整五年，每天跟猪牛羊打交道，见过的生死场面成千上万。说句掏心窝子的话，没入这行之前，我跟大伙儿一样，觉得牲口嘛，吃吃睡睡，稀里糊涂一辈子，哪懂什么生死。可五年下来，我摸透了它们每一个眼神、每一个动作，才发现自己当初多天真——这些不会说话的家伙，心里跟明镜似的，自己哪天走，清清楚楚。 平日里，待宰圈那叫一个热闹。猪拱猪、羊顶羊，抢食的打闹的，眼神清亮温顺，该吃吃该喝喝，天塌下来都不耽误长膘。可一到屠宰当天，那气氛说变就变，比翻书还快。整圈牲畜像商量好了似的，瞬间安静下来，挤成一团，紧紧挨着彼此，浑身抖得跟筛糠一样。那抖不是冻的，是打骨头缝里渗出来的恐惧。你赶它走，它四只脚死死扒着地，几百斤的大猪平时一轰就跑，那天愣是钉在原地往后缩，好像前面那条通道是鬼门关。老话讲“万物有灵”，我原先半信半疑，后来彻底信了。 牛的表现更让人心里发酸。但凡当天要走的牛，从早上起就不吃不喝，低着头杵在墙角，一动不动。我亲眼见过无数次，大颗大颗的泪珠子顺着牛眼角往下滚，湿漉漉的眼睛望着你，不挣不扎不吼叫，就那么默默流泪。有一回，一头养了好几年的老牛被主人牵来，主人站栏杆外看了一眼，那牛瞬间红了眼眶，直勾勾盯着主人，温顺又卑微，一步三回头地跟着我们走。那画面，我这辈子忘不掉。羊也一样，平时蹦蹦跳跳软软糯糯，临了却异常安静，紧紧偎着同伴发抖。赶别的羊成群往前冲，唯独那天，你推我挤谁都不肯带头，偶尔被单独牵出来的小羊，发出细细的凄厉叫声，不是闹腾，是真害怕。 时间一长，我们工人不用看单据不用记编号，单凭状态就能判断个八九不离十——活蹦乱跳的是来日方长，沉默发抖、不吃不喝、眼神惶恐的，全是今日宿命。你说它们听不懂人话、看不懂流程，怎么就掐得这么准？其实道理不复杂，流水线一开，前面的同伴一个个消失再没回来，后面的全看在眼里；环境里那股肃杀的气息、同类压抑的悲鸣，它们比人敏感百倍。俗话说“蝼蚁尚且贪生”，何况这些大牲口？它们沉默、发抖、流泪，不是傻，是无力回天的绝望。 五年下来，我这心态彻底翻了个个儿。刚入行那会儿年轻心硬，只当是谋生糊口的活儿，见多了也就麻木了。可干得越久，心越软，越觉得该存一份敬畏。走出屠宰场，我再也不糟蹋粮食，每一块肉背后都是一条热烈活过、恐惧过、挣扎过的命。它们从出生到落幕，没做错任何事，却坦然接受了既定的安排。反观咱们，衣食无忧平安顺遂，倒常常为鸡毛蒜皮纠结、为一点得失内耗，想想真有点滑稽。 所以你看，活着本身就是天大的福气。所有的矫情、焦虑、委屈，搁在生死面前，屁都不是。心存敬畏，懂得珍惜，善待万物，大概就是人这辈子最好的修行。说到这儿我倒想问问你——下次端起饭碗的时候，会不会也想起那些沉默发抖的生灵，然后觉得，眼前这口热乎饭，真香？

3% of “critical” software security bugs, in all of recorded history, have been found in the last month. This is on pace to find another ~100,000 bugs this year alone, adding ~26% more vulnerabilities to the all time total Do you realize how fucking insane that is?

Following the fantastic reaction to our interactive learning experiments, we’ve decided to create an open source skill for anyone to build their own 💪🏗️ It's called the Marble-Builder. You tell it your child’s age and what they’re curious about and it builds a playable experiment for them. What’s built into the skill: - 1,837 concepts kids learn through primary school, and the 3,853 links between them - 1,049 teaching research records on how kids learn best - It agrees a plan with you, then builds, tests and fixes the experiment itself You stay in control and can adjust everything. AI is a tool with huge potential to make teaching even better for both parents and teachers. We want anyone with something to teach to be able to bring it to life in an interactive, personalized way. It’s a first prototype so there is a lot to improve. One big next step is to make the experiments more beautiful visually. Parents, teachers, homeschoolers: show us what you make. We’ll gather the best experiences into the first open, interactive encyclopedia for kids. Incredibly exciting times for kids education. Links to try it below 👇

Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and more apps on your phone. Rolling out now on iOS and Android.