Brandon retweeted
I keep telling this to every developer I know
if you run npm install on your bare macbook in 2026 you are waiting to be pwned
you need to develop inside a container
one bad vscode extension, one poisoned crate, and every credential on your machine is gone. that's not even paranoia anymore, it's just the baseline
apple/container spins up light linux vms on apple silicon
so I’ve updated my agent skill remote VMs setup and management to support local ones
use /remote-computer, create a local apple container for multi-language development
it sizes the VM to your CPU/RAM/disk, sets up key-only SSH on a host-only IP, no published ports, no home dir mount, and ports your git identity and commit signing. also works with AWS and GCP VMs
Brandon retweeted
rest in piss, leetcode
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-be…
Brandon retweeted
Tesla FSD Miles going parabolic.
FSD miles are a flywheel.
To catch up, rivals have to copy 4 things at once:
1) a huge fleet w millions of cars
2) deep vertical integration: chip, software, training, and OTA updates, all in-house
3) get thru a decade long march of the 9's ie edge cases learned from billions of miles, not hand-coded
4) crazy compounding as better FSD, more subs, more miles, better FSD, etc
$TSLA
We are at a point anything done on a computer can be done by an agent now, so naturally companies are going to go hard on cost cutting to guarantee revenue / profit increases in the short term
No one will be safe and that means it is more important than ever to have hard assets
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
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Noticing a lot of old boomers around my neighborhood have brand new Model Ys
Boomers are the ultimate flock generation
Only accepting a trend when their immediate circle validates it
FSD will go exponential as boomer on boomer retirement flex increases
$TSLA just added a record 260K FSD subscribers in Q3 bringing its total to 1.74M (+67% YoY)
Those new subscribers alone could generate ~$310M in annualized revenue pushing FSD's implied subscription run rate above $2B.
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Optimus, Semi, Cybercab all hitting volume production in the same year 🤔
Tesla says they have officially started Optimus production in Fremont on their high-volume lines.
"The bots coming off this line are the first production quality bots that we have manufactured. While we will continue to iterate on the hardware and manufacturing process, we have proven that the current manufacturing process for Optimus is suitable for a commercial product."
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🤔
Someone just bought $9 MILLION+ of $TSLA calls 🚨
1,600 contracts of the April 2027 370 strike, on open interest of just 143
Then $661K more on 410 calls that expire THIS Friday
Tesla reports earnings after-hours
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Launched what, 2 months ago? Absurd
I’ve been running it alongside my @NousResearch Hermes instance and keep finding myself relying on the @Bot implementation
Daily I’m surprised at how proactive it is with responses that usually require an explicit prompt
SpaceX has announced that Grok @Bot now has 800,000 paid weekly users as of earlier this month, more than doubling from the previous month.
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Use a virtual card for your own sanity in case it makes a mistake lol
To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
xAI explicitly warns users not to include personal information in prompts, yet credit card photos may contain such information.
Grok Bot's terms state that user data and credentials may be stored in its cloud environment and require human review for financial transactions.
x.ai/legal/privacy-…
x.ai/legal/grok-bot…
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