John McBride @johncodes

🌊 | Co-founder, CTO @papercompute | 🎤 Hosting @opensourceready | 🐹 maintaining spf13/cobra johncodes.com Joined October 2018

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John McBride @johncodes

a day ago

@moschettifran @AIGryffindor Lots of people pointing to this issue/comment re: how they store your keys/privacy transparency in the the ux github.com/anomalyco/open…

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Let’s be clear: AI-assisted cyber attacks are NOT an excuse for pure negligence. OpenCode’s security posture has always been terrible: let us not forget the baffling OpenCode cross-origin RCE vuln from last year that let anyone execute whatever code they wanted on a local OpenCode HTTP server! I have not recommended OpenCode since then and have watched in horror as the team has ignored open source requests to harden the service and make it more transparent. Security is very rarely a technical problem: in my experience, it’s almost entirely cultural. You CAN make your services ironclad: you just have to believe in putting the time and energy into actually doing it. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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John McBride @johncodes

a day ago

@AIGryffindor I suppose I will say we don’t know the details yet so maybe there was due diligence on the backends and this was access controls - my point remains: culturally I do not have faith in their product

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John McBride @johncodes

a day ago

@AIGryffindor Storing raw end-customer API access keys unencrypted? Sounds pretty negligent to me.

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John McBride @johncodes

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@GergelyOrosz Worth quote tweeting myself here: they were right and Amazon did collapse in the dotcom bubble. If anyone had shorted Amazon in 2000, they would have made alot of money x.com/johncodes/stat…

John McBride @johncodes

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@GergelyOrosz Amazon did collapse: the stock in the dotcom bubble crashed down to 6$ from 100$. Amazon only survived because Bezos somehow by a miracle found 600m$ in the bond market weeks before things froze up on 2000. Jassy then saved the company with AWS from 2000-2005 by turning it from a

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John McBride @johncodes

a day ago

Here here! I believe we agree: in theory Barrons was right and if they had shorted Amazon in 2000, they would have made alot of money. But it's VERY hard to know if a business with a new tech will work out: even AWS at the time seemed crazy but here we are with public clouds abound. I think the key is that both OAI and Ant won't be able to sustain ONLY on training/serving SOTA models: they'll have to expand.

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John McBride @johncodes

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Amazon did collapse: the stock in the dotcom bubble crashed down to 6$ from 100$. Amazon only survived because Bezos somehow by a miracle found 600m$ in the bond market weeks before things froze up on 2000. Jassy then saved the company with AWS from 2000-2005 by turning it from a low-margin internet company to an actual hyperscaler that could "spin the flywheel". Let's not do a revisionist history on Amazon: it is a miracle it survived after such a crash.

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John McBride @johncodes

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Let's imagine the same playbook for Anthropic: they would a) have to go find 100s of billions of dollars to meet their spend commits and b) transition the company in the next few years away from unprofitable training into _something_ that can turn them into a true profit hyperscaler to meet such an evaluation.

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John McBride @johncodes

a day ago

@swyxio Boy do I have stories 🙊

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John McBride @johncodes

2 days ago

You Can See Everything is a masterpiece: a re-reckoning of truth, Silicon Valley’s worst “fail fast” and “fake it till you make it” cultures. It examines the often perverse incentive-through-lines in business, entertainment, media, politics, and everything in between. The result? You leave questioning everything: questioning if you did in fact see everything.

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brian douglas @bdougieYO

2 days ago

AI needs new infra

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kepano @kepano

2 days ago

a few of my sketches from working on the Pele logo

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John McBride @johncodes

2 days ago

@henkjan Talent pipelines have nothing to do with how many people you put through or how much gets shipped: it’s about sustainable engineering culture beyond a few quarters.

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John McBride @johncodes

3 days ago

If we don't invest, the talent pipeline will completely dry up one day.

zeu @zeu_dev

3 days ago

ai can do a lot of what junior engineers are tasked to do if you're a small team, all you need is a senior engineer with a max or pro subscription if you're a large company, i argue that you have an obligation to help train the next generation of engineers with or without ai

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John McBride @johncodes

2 days ago

@grady_ent Sad way to look at the world we make for future generations.

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John McBride @johncodes

2 days ago

@FayazsalimMoha Doubt.

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kepano @kepano

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This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now. Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!