Chief of Staff @tryUnusual | Neuroscience @UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2018
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Some people say I’m scrappy… techcrunch.com/2022/09/02/pi…
everyone's picking a side on Jensen and the nvidia ousting (either insanely dumb or well deserved). personally I haven’t gotten that far yet, still processing how many lives got lit on fire, his included
it just feels bad
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Chip Herndon retweeted
My favorite way to think of froth in the AI market is through the lens of 19th century French cotton mills.
This period saw the introduction of the mule jenny, which massively multiplied a single worker’s ability to produce thread.
ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jpolec…
Props to @WorkOS for reporting this security incident, lots of companies would try to sweep it under the rug
Ironically enough, this won more of my trust
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robberies of this scale in human history are only known as wars and colonialism
BREAKING: World's largest crypto exchange Binance hacked with over $5.6 billion stolen:
• $1.45 billion $BTC
• $875 million $ETH
• $234 million $TRX
• $50 million $XAUT
• $1.57 billion $USDT
• $823 million $USDC
• $75 million $WBETH
• $88.5 million $RLUSD
+ $447.5 million additional cryptocurrencies
This is the largest hack in crypto history.
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two possible (and very bad) implications of this:
1. if compromised users were forced to liquidate, markets stop reflecting beliefs and non-compromised positions get wrecked
2. if accounts were drained but positions stayed in the system, polymarket has to repair both sides of the market
We've identified & fixed an issue impacting our international platform, Polymarket.com. One of our 3rd party providers was compromised, and we have referred this to relevant law enforcement.
Anyone who has been impacted will be made whole.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have temporarily halted trading & are working to bring the platform back online.
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just bought a $22,299 mac studio so i can run open weights models locally. finally saving money
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staffer: sir we’re bombing half the planet, nobody can afford gas, healthcare is bankrupting people, and our approval ratings are in the gutter
trump: hear me out
white house shark tank
TONIGHT at 6PM.
Five small-business owners. One million dollars.
Watch them battle to turn their dreams into reality.
The Million Dollar Pitch Competition. Don’t miss it ➡️ youtube.com/live/M_lGBxyrnio…
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>be me
>cloudflare gives me durable objects
>cloudflare gives me zero-egress object storage
>cloudflare gives me dynamic workers
>cloudflare gives me clef
>cloudflare gives me a sick jacket
>cloudflare is my Santa Claus
so much aura 😮💨
keep the good vibes going next week at cloudflare connect cloudflare.com/connect
Getting overwhelmed by the amount of great releases this week:
Pi 1.0 with durable support
Clef a top-tier Jev type model by @CloudflareDev
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OpenAI Dev Day (Sign in with ChatGPT feels seriously underrated atm)
What am I missing?
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1/ OpenAI DevDay highlights, in priority order:
- Biggest news: Sign in with ChatGPT allows token sharing. Every AI product just got easier to adopt.
- Plugin Extensions allow for embedded rich apps like Figma + Adobe in ChatGPT.
- Agents can discover plugins without a human request.
2/ Dots + ChatGPT Space:
- “Dots” are the new long-context agent competitor, with heavy emphasis on voice.
- Chief of Staff + Engineer use cases.
- Text or call your Dot (Instinct style).
- Existing Codex integrations carry over.
- Usage doesn’t count toward limits (shock).
3/ Codex + collaboration:
- ChatGPT Space: Notion-style multiplayer UI for Dots + teammates. Presentations coming soon.
- Codex supports fully cloud runs.
- Security Cloud finds vulnerabilities + pushes fixes.
- Agents API adds programmatic control of hosted Codex, with AWS support.
4/ Models + speed:
- GPT 6.1 Sol is basically on par with Astra.
- Ultrafast: 8x speed at 6x price, initially exclusive to Astra. Sol coming soon.
- Responses API with Ultrafast looked really fast.
5/ Plans + Marketplace:
- Pro 500: Ultrafast, no 5-hour limit, 25x Plus usage.
- Pro 200 is back, moving to half API cost.
- OpenAI Marketplace lets you share an OpenAI agreement across organizations + providers.
6/ APIs + privacy:
- Decisions API: OpenAI’s Jev competitor, using Luna with predefined choices. Emphasis on realtime computer use.
- OpenAI Private Intelligence: ZDR with private safety processing AND private inference, in preview.
7/ AI research:
- OpenAI claims recursive self-improvement via an “AI Research Intern.”
- Computer-use advances were one example.
- Over a third of model research is now handled autonomously by agents.
8/ Other moments:
- More voice emphasis in Codex CLI.
- “Rewrite the entire backend in Rust” felt like shade at Anthropic/Bun.
- Astra demoed the Hugging Face duck robot. An apology for brutally hacking them?
Introducing dots, powered by GPT-6 Astra.
Remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.
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Chip Herndon retweeted
Unfortunately I suffer from “it can’t be that hard” syndrome
I’ve been wrong every single time
This is also responsible for everything good in my life
Qwen 3 VL series models are seriously underrated… so much power at the small sizes for real world use cases
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Set up @bot last week for my very non-techy gf and she loves it
So this weekend I built a little Cloudflare side project connecting our bots. Open sourced for the other tech-nerd partners whose love language is making things (so far we’ve found it’s great for scheduling and research):
github.com/chipherndon/grok-…
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My list of teams that will win (so I can quote this in a few years and look smart):
@autumnpricing fantastic product simplifying everything hard about implementing billing for AI. Stripe acquisition feels inevitable
@paper is enabling designers to ship real frontend code, once they ship existing code component support Figma is cooked
@Cloudflare agentic applications and traffic are going to increase exponentially for the next decade, and Cloudflare just makes the best products to support them. Plus @threepointone in his new visionary type role is bound to produce many more genius products
Lastly @firecrawl offers by far the best ai search overall for the price. In such a competitive space the team is shipping tons of helpful open source projects for real ai builders and @ericciarla is clearly an absolute unit of a founder… my bet is they’ll continue to eat away at market share by becoming the developers favorite choice