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"I had my OpenClaw install on the Mac Studio, a way to rip videos... I just ship the link to the video and my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
"I want them to fire up Claude code and have it build them an app and then run it because I think if you once you discover that that's possible then AI does feel like the old bicycle for your mind thing."
"I love the Grok button because a lot of times I don't understand the context and then it takes one to five minutes to understand what gooning and look maxing all this stuff... I just hit that Grok button. Boom. I'm up to speed."
"I've been trying to get Slack to play nice with OpenClaw and I want my agent to have like root access."
"Anyone can buy Tao on Coinbase. You can't buy tow on Robin Hood or other places yet. On Coinbase, you can. So, I got a Coinbase set up"
"I just moved mine Dave to a Mac Studio. the reason I got the Mac Studio is because I wanted to run Qwen 2.5 locally"
"my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google Drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
"I am a bookmark guy. I have a bookmark list on TikTok, on X, on Instagram."
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"We have our OpenClaw agents running in an AWS EC2 instance and I feel like it's holding me back."
"Anthropic is terrible at DevRel. They are the worst company I've ever seen do developer relations."
"They shut down their self-driving car. They would be neck and neck right behind Tesla."
"They're slogging it out with these AR glasses that weigh 12 lbs that nobody uses and then puts on a shelf."
"I'm incredibly frustrated with this Bank of America. The worst bank ever."
"What do we get instead? We get Apple Play in our cars."
"Remember Solyndra, Tesla, and Fisker and one of the companies paid it back."
"Literally, their entire marketing strategy is illegal undisclosed advertising. They pay influencers to go say Higgsfield's incredible."
"this started as an IPFS network and we basically pushed IPFS to its limits especially in terms of what developers needed in terms of absolute latency immediate availability"
"Oh, they're just giving Intel 10 billion dollars because Intel's a disaster and they can't make a real business."
"I've tried MyFitnessPal in the past and I'm not going to log my food. I just have learned that about myself. The answer is I won't do it"
"the trust in the New York Times and media is at an all-time low"
"Siri would work. It's garbage. It doesn't know how to spell my last name. It doesn't know how to play music."
"Remember Solyndra, Tesla, and Fisker and one of the companies paid it back."
"Not a fan of UBI cuz it takes away purpose. But I am for taking a look at the disparity in wealth."
"So there's the YouTube downloader and that gets shut down all the time and then you have to deal with like all these like popups or whatever."
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Clear filters"With Bittensor, you're just sending that out to everybody who's got a GPU to spare. So, what's happened here?"
"Yeah. So like Wayback Machine plus Delicious if you remember that bookmarking service."
"AMC has a new Silicon Valley show. It's got Billy Magnus. It's got Zack Galifanakis. It's called The Audacity. The first two are on AMC now."
"but if there's a story in the New York Times and you want to fisk it"
"the trust in the New York Times and media is at an all-time low"
"If you pay all this money to go to Coachella, do the artist owe you a Sabrina Carpenter level spectacle"
"It's in the Google Play Store. It's in the iOS store."
"It's in the Google Play Store. It's in the iOS store."
"Apple stores were faced with this and so were Starbucks and coffee bean and everybody else when Uber and DoorDash came out. It turned out working for one or two hours picking your own schedule and making $21 an hour was better"
"DoorDash has robots that they made themselves zipping around."
"Be careful what you wish for because if you don't have a bunch of consumers, then who's going to buy iPhones and order DoorDash?"
"showing up at 5:30 a.m. at a Starbucks and having to work an 8-hour shift and not knowing what shifts you were working"
"Apple stores were faced with this and so were Starbucks and coffee bean and everybody else when Uber and DoorDash came out. It turned out working for one or two hours picking your own schedule and making $21 an hour was better than getting up at the crack of dawn, showing up at 5:30 a.m. at a Starbucks"
"Uber had done it first and I think Dropbox did it before them"
"That's why Uber has introduced AI solutions to help your company build great AI products on top of worldclass data."
"despite the release of their new model which integrates with C Dance 2.0"
"I just happen to be a big fan of these sort of products and services, but I just happen to be independently wealthy and don't need any cash flow from any of these brands."
"Literally, their entire marketing strategy is illegal undisclosed advertising. They pay influencers to go say Higgsfield's incredible."
"Sentry works alongside coding agents like Cursor, passing along an idea for a fix that can be applied to your codebase."
"If you're not coding so you're not using Claude code or you're not on Cursor or whatever."
"Sentry works alongside coding agents like Cursor, passing along an idea for a fix"
"who are automating using Claude code, using Perplexity computer, using OpenClaw"
"It competes with Claude and Cursor."
"You look at Codex, they are one of the best. Their DevRel team is killer."
"One of them is a co-working or a co-pilot for doing coding like Codex or Claude Code."
"It's five to seven times cheaper than Claude Code and Codex."
"Anthropic have a $200 million contract with the defense department. The defense department loves this product."
"Anthropic is terrible at DevRel. They are the worst company I've ever seen do developer relations."
"this is a step up from HP and a step down from your MacBook Air, MacBook Pro"
"this is a step up from HP and a step down from your MacBook Air, MacBook Pro"
"I own TAO directly myself through Coinbase. It's not on Robin Hood yet."
"You can't buy tow on Robin Hood or other places yet"
"And now he's known by one name, Vlad from Robinhood."
"One of them is a co-working or a co-pilot for doing coding like Codex or Claude Code."
"When I met the CEO of Zoom, it was at a dinner at a venture capitalist house"
"Here's his Zoom meetings and his Google calendar"