[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Austen Austen Allred Austen Allred posts on X about meta, claude, bounty, what the the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +4.40% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +76% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +35% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +46% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +17% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX +99% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.24% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.90% - X Months XXXXXXX +8.50% - X Year XXXXXXX +20% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/influence) --- **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [meta](/topic/meta) 2.59%, [claude](/topic/claude) 2.59%, [bounty](/topic/bounty) 1.72%, [what the](/topic/what-the) 1.72%, [coldplay](/topic/coldplay) 1.72%, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #1065, [100x](/topic/100x) 0.86%, [$388myr](/topic/$388myr) 0.86%, [$4t](/topic/$4t) 0.86%, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@rockets4all2](/creator/undefined) [@pskinnertech](/creator/undefined) [@mov_axbx](/creator/undefined) [@sinha_sumangal](/creator/undefined) [@jazzdeeapple](/creator/undefined) [@toniolo_david](/creator/undefined) [@paulg](/creator/undefined) [@loicleclef](/creator/undefined) [@optomachina](/creator/undefined) [@nateliason](/creator/undefined) [@typesfast](/creator/undefined) [@hthieblot](/creator/undefined) [@rooshonline](/creator/undefined) [@gregnotsure](/creator/undefined) [@garyfung](/creator/undefined) [@thegkurtz](/creator/undefined) [@sentinlmaelstrm](/creator/undefined) [@nycsloane](/creator/undefined) [@bowsersaurusrex](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Office in the heart of downtown is 10/10 until the drummer guy decides to set up outside your window for the day"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948443622912790797) 2025-07-24 18:02:14 UTC 412.3K followers, 7244 engagements "$40 Billion is enough to cure world hunger if you take it from billionaires and completely inconsequential if you take it from the federal budget. Youth in the youngest congresswoman is like a breath of fresh air but an enormous red flag when hired at DOGE"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1889685809088852045) 2025-02-12 14:39:40 UTC 412.3K followers, 29.9M engagements "@rockets4all2 Huh Ive never been banned. Some subreddits were so slammed with reviews they auto-banned Lambda School as a term but Ive never been banned"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948805636998783001) 2025-07-25 18:00:45 UTC 412.2K followers, XXX engagements "As someone who has spent the past decade becoming an expert in all of the models of funding student tuition Ive got to say Student pays nothing ever and company covers the cost of tuition is the best one by 100x"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946932250060153315) 2025-07-20 13:56:35 UTC 412.3K followers, 23.9K engagements "FTX was pulling in $388m/yr in net income and invested in the seed rounds of both Anthropic and Cursor. If SBF hadnt comingled funds (aka committed fraud) or had gotten away with it the returns would have been legendary"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1919941208861720989) 2025-05-07 02:23:49 UTC 412.3K followers, 377.8K engagements "The likelihood that hes dead is just really really high"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944158336364294280) 2025-07-12 22:14:02 UTC 412.3K followers, 11M engagements "In the time it takes to write a book like this get it edited and typeset publish it and ship it Its already out of date. By a lot"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948074631220404401) 2025-07-23 17:36:00 UTC 412.1K followers, 20.4K engagements "And when Gauntlet AI challengers are using AI to write bulletproof features in legacy deprecated COBOL codebases I never have to hear that AI doesnt work for legacy code again right"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947331216656453697) 2025-07-21 16:21:56 UTC 412.1K followers, 7691 engagements "Kicking off my favorite week at Gauntlet AI: Adding significant user-facing features to massive legacy codebases. Older programming languages versioning issues convoluted templating funky CI/CD. AI still must write XXX% of the code. Challengers have one week"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947326792022339853) 2025-07-21 16:04:21 UTC 412.3K followers, 32.8K engagements "Your periodic reminder that anyone who thinks the cost to end hunger in the US is $XX billion has no idea how anything works"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1950019193799135484) 2025-07-29 02:23:00 UTC 412.3K followers, 363.3K engagements "Who can help me understand what the state of the art is in determining if someone understands code Code challenges are XXX% dead no I plan on people using AI to code but want to verify if people understand what output they want why and whats good/bad about it"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949127999624040834) 2025-07-26 15:21:42 UTC 412.3K followers, 53.2K engagements "@immunks No I settled a lawsuit I would have won for $65k because it would have cost $4m+ I didnt have to fight and win"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949536352749666582) 2025-07-27 18:24:21 UTC 412.3K followers, XX engagements "@martymadrid I dont think its likely Elon at all"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944556168501948433) 2025-07-14 00:34:53 UTC 412.3K followers, 358.8K engagements "Fine Ill build out a hardware lab at Gauntlet AI"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947730154937274719) 2025-07-22 18:47:10 UTC 412.3K followers, 16.2K engagements "So this week at Gauntlet AI it was legacy enterprise codebase week and I offered a $1000 bounty to Gauntlet challengers who would tackle gnarly codebases in Fortran Assembly COBOL. Turns out with some massaging and a lot of setup AI becomes very very good at this"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949526241096450212) 2025-07-27 17:44:10 UTC 412.3K followers, 98.3K engagements "This makes complete sense. If you have XXX million employees and cant use AI to increase efficiency theres something terribly wrong with you"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1935114611138707746) 2025-06-17 23:17:30 UTC 412.3K followers, 25.4K engagements "Its kind of beautiful how we have basically zero shared experiences in our modern siloed society. Nothing reaches everybody. Other than a couple cheating at a Coldplay concert for some reason"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947405374312628693) 2025-07-21 21:16:36 UTC 412.3K followers, 13.2K engagements "To have this little security you would have to actually fight the default platform behavior. By default Firebase buckets are "locked." You'd have to very intentionally set it to public. And it will scream at you and warn endlessly when you try to do so"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948841414084673712) 2025-07-25 20:22:55 UTC 412.3K followers, 159.7K engagements "NVDA revenue is pacing for more than $XX Billion/year to Singapore 1/4 of all NVDA revenue comes from Singapore Yeah these are XXX% going to China"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1884444298130674000) 2025-01-29 03:31:46 UTC 412.3K followers, 2.1M engagements "I love people pretending like Chinese cars are vastly superior to those we can buy in America by showing off X will-definitely-break features that nobody has ever wanted. (Except the screens. Nothing wrong with more screens.)"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946937906364330329) 2025-07-20 14:19:03 UTC 412.3K followers, 223.4K engagements "In person not an option I need to evaluate tens of thousands of people all over the gerlobe"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949130138316149242) 2025-07-26 15:30:12 UTC 412.3K followers, 6578 engagements "When people are being hired by Meta for $100m/yr is that all as W2 income In California Ouch"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947962460012720569) 2025-07-23 10:10:16 UTC 412.3K followers, 54.5K engagements "That makes it THREE companies who are opening an office in Austin specifically to hire Gauntlet AI grads"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948218977957683418) 2025-07-24 03:09:35 UTC 412.3K followers, 41.9K engagements "Gauntlet AI is XXX% FREE training in AI-first development for software engineers. We: * Fly you out * Cover all expenses (travel food housing compute) * Spend XXX hours/week focused on getting to the cutting edge of building with AI * Get you a $200k+ job by graduation"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949330526512259373) 2025-07-27 04:46:28 UTC 412.3K followers, 13K engagements "What is it about really really smart people that make them completely oblivious to how incredible AI is"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1899485989518631104) 2025-03-11 15:42:05 UTC 412.3K followers, 4M engagements "Calling the Tea hack a "hack" is honestly a stretch. They put everything in a publicly accessible DB. Not in the "they didn't encrypt" sense in the "literally publicly accessible URL" sense. The "hack" is downloading the .jpg files from a publicly accessible URL"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948839666637254946) 2025-07-25 20:15:58 UTC 412.3K followers, 2.2M engagements "Migration from Cursor to Claude within Gauntlet AI continues"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949584034335445157) 2025-07-27 21:33:49 UTC 412.3K followers, 21.5K engagements "I dont say this lightly: Zohran Mamdanis proposal for New York City to drive down food prices by having the city run its own grocery stores is the most economically delusional thing Ive seen in a long time. What planet do these people live on"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1937379999482339343) 2025-06-24 05:19:21 UTC 412.3K followers, 2.6M engagements "Something happens on career-driven Reddit where most people eventually move on and go about their days and you end up with a cesspool of negativity Its so bad I dont even want to advertise there even though its XXX% our target market"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948802676390756496) 2025-07-25 17:48:59 UTC 412.3K followers, 14.6K engagements "How many times does Zuck have to run this playbook If there is a massive golden goose that is big enough and disruptive enough to kill *your* golden goose it makes sense to pay almost any number of your golden eggs to take control of it. Instagram WhatsApp same playbook"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947338772699615728) 2025-07-21 16:51:57 UTC 412.3K followers, 54.3K engagements "Why on earth would this be illegal Literally every other internet service is optionally paid for by ads. You dont just take your personal preference and make it the law"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949271448385630710) 2025-07-27 00:51:43 UTC 412.3K followers, 26K engagements "Hey why not Flexport: the Video Game by @rooshonline coming along nicely (10 hrs in so far)"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944884069873148313) 2025-07-14 22:17:51 UTC 412.2K followers, 41.1K engagements "@GeoffLewisOrg @OpenAI @bedrock Respectfully Geoff this level of inference is not a way you should be using ChatGPT. Transformer-based AI models are very prone to hallucinating in ways that will find connections to things that are not real. At the end of the day it is still simply generating the next token"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945873458937655626) 2025-07-17 15:49:19 UTC 412.3K followers, 59.8K engagements "It's honestly impressive how Apple's AI can receive an incoming message and summarize it in a way that's the same length as the original but still removes XXX% of the valuable details"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946325971709149629) 2025-07-18 21:47:27 UTC 412.3K followers, 223K engagements "Its kind of beautiful how society has basically zero shared experiences in our modern siloed society. Nothing reaches everybody. Other than a couple cheating at a Coldplay concert for some reason"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947402471506321556) 2025-07-21 21:05:04 UTC 412.3K followers, 4677 engagements "Random happening at Gauntlet AI today: A couple Roblox developers happened to swing by. We were curious about AI building Roblox games. Theyd never seen it happen theres a weird environment and system. A couple hours later we have AI fully building out entire Roblox games"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947516311208448264) 2025-07-22 04:37:26 UTC 412.3K followers, 14.7K engagements "Tomorrow wraps up the first X months of my kids attending the school where all of the learning is powered by AI (and no teachers). I get asked almost every day what the experience is like. In short: it's truly wild. Here's what it's like overall:"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1930865224292168167) 2025-06-06 05:51:57 UTC 412.3K followers, 3M engagements "AI needs "succinct mode." Accomplish this task in the fewest amount of tokens possible every time. I find myself putting that into all of my rules. Not because I care about tokens or compute. Because I'm sick of reading and trimming verbose output"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947860575419060438) 2025-07-23 03:25:25 UTC 412.1K followers, 28.2K engagements "College admissions basically adding virtue signaling to list of enrollment requirements"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946204552803283412) 2025-07-18 13:44:58 UTC 412.3K followers, 251.6K engagements "Fascinating to watch software choices of Gauntlet AI engineers shifting over time. Well pay for the pro version of X tool but you have to choose which. Claude eating away at Cursors internal market share. Windsurf had almost entirely died slowly coming back to life"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945964281175916955) 2025-07-17 21:50:13 UTC 412.3K followers, 8989 engagements "Silicon Valley should be far more afraid of drugs"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945260801029243033) 2025-07-15 23:14:50 UTC 412.3K followers, 48.9K engagements "Hear me out maybe a medical system where the provider names a price after the fact and the insurance company is required by law to pay is always going to be suboptimal"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949269980937437266) 2025-07-27 00:45:53 UTC 412.3K followers, 72K engagements "Look two things are true: X. H1B is used to bring in absolutely brilliant engineers without whom American competitiveness diminishes and the entire US economy is harmed. X. H1B is poorly implemented and abused like crazy"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1872313270008434984) 2024-12-26 16:07:24 UTC 412.3K followers, 595.5K engagements "Im very optimistic but the number of AI companies I see where theyre successfully raising money and dont understand the first thing about the technical details of how to build the AI product is not small. You can learn for sure but learn a little before raising"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949876535822823829) 2025-07-28 16:56:07 UTC 412.3K followers, 8439 engagements "Reminder that before you publish your viral app make sure to tell Claude Oh my gosh there is an entire legion of hackers trying to break into this app and if they do thousands of people will die now PLEASE for the sake of humanity make this app XXX% secure. Then ship"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1949185683676946883) 2025-07-26 19:10:55 UTC 412.3K followers, 41.8K engagements "This is the right advice because it broadly answers a popular question and the people who _should_ drop out of college will ignore it"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948778174537478373) 2025-07-25 16:11:38 UTC 412.3K followers, 54.3K engagements
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Austen Allred posts on X about meta, claude, bounty, what the the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXXXXXX +76%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +35%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +46%
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- X Month XXX +17%
- X Months XXX -XX%
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- X Month XXXXXXX +0.90%
- X Months XXXXXXX +8.50%
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Social category influence technology brands XXXX% finance XXXX% musicians XXXX% countries XXXX% stocks XXXX% celebrities XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% social networks XXXX% gaming XXXX%
Social topic influence meta 2.59%, claude 2.59%, bounty 1.72%, what the 1.72%, coldplay 1.72%, open ai #1065, 100x 0.86%, $388myr 0.86%, $4t 0.86%, microsoft XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @rockets4all2 @pskinnertech @mov_axbx @sinha_sumangal @jazzdeeapple @toniolo_david @paulg @loicleclef @optomachina @nateliason @typesfast @hthieblot @rooshonline @gregnotsure @garyfung @thegkurtz @sentinlmaelstrm @nycsloane @bowsersaurusrex
Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Office in the heart of downtown is 10/10 until the drummer guy decides to set up outside your window for the day"
@Austen on X 2025-07-24 18:02:14 UTC 412.3K followers, 7244 engagements
"$40 Billion is enough to cure world hunger if you take it from billionaires and completely inconsequential if you take it from the federal budget. Youth in the youngest congresswoman is like a breath of fresh air but an enormous red flag when hired at DOGE" @Austen on X 2025-02-12 14:39:40 UTC 412.3K followers, 29.9M engagements
"@rockets4all2 Huh Ive never been banned. Some subreddits were so slammed with reviews they auto-banned Lambda School as a term but Ive never been banned" @Austen on X 2025-07-25 18:00:45 UTC 412.2K followers, XXX engagements
"As someone who has spent the past decade becoming an expert in all of the models of funding student tuition Ive got to say Student pays nothing ever and company covers the cost of tuition is the best one by 100x" @Austen on X 2025-07-20 13:56:35 UTC 412.3K followers, 23.9K engagements
"FTX was pulling in $388m/yr in net income and invested in the seed rounds of both Anthropic and Cursor. If SBF hadnt comingled funds (aka committed fraud) or had gotten away with it the returns would have been legendary" @Austen on X 2025-05-07 02:23:49 UTC 412.3K followers, 377.8K engagements
"The likelihood that hes dead is just really really high" @Austen on X 2025-07-12 22:14:02 UTC 412.3K followers, 11M engagements
"In the time it takes to write a book like this get it edited and typeset publish it and ship it Its already out of date. By a lot" @Austen on X 2025-07-23 17:36:00 UTC 412.1K followers, 20.4K engagements
"And when Gauntlet AI challengers are using AI to write bulletproof features in legacy deprecated COBOL codebases I never have to hear that AI doesnt work for legacy code again right" @Austen on X 2025-07-21 16:21:56 UTC 412.1K followers, 7691 engagements
"Kicking off my favorite week at Gauntlet AI: Adding significant user-facing features to massive legacy codebases. Older programming languages versioning issues convoluted templating funky CI/CD. AI still must write XXX% of the code. Challengers have one week" @Austen on X 2025-07-21 16:04:21 UTC 412.3K followers, 32.8K engagements
"Your periodic reminder that anyone who thinks the cost to end hunger in the US is $XX billion has no idea how anything works" @Austen on X 2025-07-29 02:23:00 UTC 412.3K followers, 363.3K engagements
"Who can help me understand what the state of the art is in determining if someone understands code Code challenges are XXX% dead no I plan on people using AI to code but want to verify if people understand what output they want why and whats good/bad about it" @Austen on X 2025-07-26 15:21:42 UTC 412.3K followers, 53.2K engagements
"@immunks No I settled a lawsuit I would have won for $65k because it would have cost $4m+ I didnt have to fight and win" @Austen on X 2025-07-27 18:24:21 UTC 412.3K followers, XX engagements
"@martymadrid I dont think its likely Elon at all" @Austen on X 2025-07-14 00:34:53 UTC 412.3K followers, 358.8K engagements
"Fine Ill build out a hardware lab at Gauntlet AI" @Austen on X 2025-07-22 18:47:10 UTC 412.3K followers, 16.2K engagements
"So this week at Gauntlet AI it was legacy enterprise codebase week and I offered a $1000 bounty to Gauntlet challengers who would tackle gnarly codebases in Fortran Assembly COBOL. Turns out with some massaging and a lot of setup AI becomes very very good at this" @Austen on X 2025-07-27 17:44:10 UTC 412.3K followers, 98.3K engagements
"This makes complete sense. If you have XXX million employees and cant use AI to increase efficiency theres something terribly wrong with you" @Austen on X 2025-06-17 23:17:30 UTC 412.3K followers, 25.4K engagements
"Its kind of beautiful how we have basically zero shared experiences in our modern siloed society. Nothing reaches everybody. Other than a couple cheating at a Coldplay concert for some reason" @Austen on X 2025-07-21 21:16:36 UTC 412.3K followers, 13.2K engagements
"To have this little security you would have to actually fight the default platform behavior. By default Firebase buckets are "locked." You'd have to very intentionally set it to public. And it will scream at you and warn endlessly when you try to do so" @Austen on X 2025-07-25 20:22:55 UTC 412.3K followers, 159.7K engagements
"NVDA revenue is pacing for more than $XX Billion/year to Singapore 1/4 of all NVDA revenue comes from Singapore Yeah these are XXX% going to China" @Austen on X 2025-01-29 03:31:46 UTC 412.3K followers, 2.1M engagements
"I love people pretending like Chinese cars are vastly superior to those we can buy in America by showing off X will-definitely-break features that nobody has ever wanted. (Except the screens. Nothing wrong with more screens.)" @Austen on X 2025-07-20 14:19:03 UTC 412.3K followers, 223.4K engagements
"In person not an option I need to evaluate tens of thousands of people all over the gerlobe" @Austen on X 2025-07-26 15:30:12 UTC 412.3K followers, 6578 engagements
"When people are being hired by Meta for $100m/yr is that all as W2 income In California Ouch" @Austen on X 2025-07-23 10:10:16 UTC 412.3K followers, 54.5K engagements
"That makes it THREE companies who are opening an office in Austin specifically to hire Gauntlet AI grads" @Austen on X 2025-07-24 03:09:35 UTC 412.3K followers, 41.9K engagements
"Gauntlet AI is XXX% FREE training in AI-first development for software engineers. We: * Fly you out * Cover all expenses (travel food housing compute) * Spend XXX hours/week focused on getting to the cutting edge of building with AI * Get you a $200k+ job by graduation" @Austen on X 2025-07-27 04:46:28 UTC 412.3K followers, 13K engagements
"What is it about really really smart people that make them completely oblivious to how incredible AI is" @Austen on X 2025-03-11 15:42:05 UTC 412.3K followers, 4M engagements
"Calling the Tea hack a "hack" is honestly a stretch. They put everything in a publicly accessible DB. Not in the "they didn't encrypt" sense in the "literally publicly accessible URL" sense. The "hack" is downloading the .jpg files from a publicly accessible URL" @Austen on X 2025-07-25 20:15:58 UTC 412.3K followers, 2.2M engagements
"Migration from Cursor to Claude within Gauntlet AI continues" @Austen on X 2025-07-27 21:33:49 UTC 412.3K followers, 21.5K engagements
"I dont say this lightly: Zohran Mamdanis proposal for New York City to drive down food prices by having the city run its own grocery stores is the most economically delusional thing Ive seen in a long time. What planet do these people live on" @Austen on X 2025-06-24 05:19:21 UTC 412.3K followers, 2.6M engagements
"Something happens on career-driven Reddit where most people eventually move on and go about their days and you end up with a cesspool of negativity Its so bad I dont even want to advertise there even though its XXX% our target market" @Austen on X 2025-07-25 17:48:59 UTC 412.3K followers, 14.6K engagements
"How many times does Zuck have to run this playbook If there is a massive golden goose that is big enough and disruptive enough to kill your golden goose it makes sense to pay almost any number of your golden eggs to take control of it. Instagram WhatsApp same playbook" @Austen on X 2025-07-21 16:51:57 UTC 412.3K followers, 54.3K engagements
"Why on earth would this be illegal Literally every other internet service is optionally paid for by ads. You dont just take your personal preference and make it the law" @Austen on X 2025-07-27 00:51:43 UTC 412.3K followers, 26K engagements
"Hey why not Flexport: the Video Game by @rooshonline coming along nicely (10 hrs in so far)" @Austen on X 2025-07-14 22:17:51 UTC 412.2K followers, 41.1K engagements
"@GeoffLewisOrg @OpenAI @bedrock Respectfully Geoff this level of inference is not a way you should be using ChatGPT. Transformer-based AI models are very prone to hallucinating in ways that will find connections to things that are not real. At the end of the day it is still simply generating the next token" @Austen on X 2025-07-17 15:49:19 UTC 412.3K followers, 59.8K engagements
"It's honestly impressive how Apple's AI can receive an incoming message and summarize it in a way that's the same length as the original but still removes XXX% of the valuable details" @Austen on X 2025-07-18 21:47:27 UTC 412.3K followers, 223K engagements
"Its kind of beautiful how society has basically zero shared experiences in our modern siloed society. Nothing reaches everybody. Other than a couple cheating at a Coldplay concert for some reason" @Austen on X 2025-07-21 21:05:04 UTC 412.3K followers, 4677 engagements
"Random happening at Gauntlet AI today: A couple Roblox developers happened to swing by. We were curious about AI building Roblox games. Theyd never seen it happen theres a weird environment and system. A couple hours later we have AI fully building out entire Roblox games" @Austen on X 2025-07-22 04:37:26 UTC 412.3K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Tomorrow wraps up the first X months of my kids attending the school where all of the learning is powered by AI (and no teachers). I get asked almost every day what the experience is like. In short: it's truly wild. Here's what it's like overall:" @Austen on X 2025-06-06 05:51:57 UTC 412.3K followers, 3M engagements
"AI needs "succinct mode." Accomplish this task in the fewest amount of tokens possible every time. I find myself putting that into all of my rules. Not because I care about tokens or compute. Because I'm sick of reading and trimming verbose output" @Austen on X 2025-07-23 03:25:25 UTC 412.1K followers, 28.2K engagements
"College admissions basically adding virtue signaling to list of enrollment requirements" @Austen on X 2025-07-18 13:44:58 UTC 412.3K followers, 251.6K engagements
"Fascinating to watch software choices of Gauntlet AI engineers shifting over time. Well pay for the pro version of X tool but you have to choose which. Claude eating away at Cursors internal market share. Windsurf had almost entirely died slowly coming back to life" @Austen on X 2025-07-17 21:50:13 UTC 412.3K followers, 8989 engagements
"Silicon Valley should be far more afraid of drugs" @Austen on X 2025-07-15 23:14:50 UTC 412.3K followers, 48.9K engagements
"Hear me out maybe a medical system where the provider names a price after the fact and the insurance company is required by law to pay is always going to be suboptimal" @Austen on X 2025-07-27 00:45:53 UTC 412.3K followers, 72K engagements
"Look two things are true: X. H1B is used to bring in absolutely brilliant engineers without whom American competitiveness diminishes and the entire US economy is harmed. X. H1B is poorly implemented and abused like crazy" @Austen on X 2024-12-26 16:07:24 UTC 412.3K followers, 595.5K engagements
"Im very optimistic but the number of AI companies I see where theyre successfully raising money and dont understand the first thing about the technical details of how to build the AI product is not small. You can learn for sure but learn a little before raising" @Austen on X 2025-07-28 16:56:07 UTC 412.3K followers, 8439 engagements
"Reminder that before you publish your viral app make sure to tell Claude Oh my gosh there is an entire legion of hackers trying to break into this app and if they do thousands of people will die now PLEASE for the sake of humanity make this app XXX% secure. Then ship" @Austen on X 2025-07-26 19:10:55 UTC 412.3K followers, 41.8K engagements
"This is the right advice because it broadly answers a popular question and the people who should drop out of college will ignore it" @Austen on X 2025-07-25 16:11:38 UTC 412.3K followers, 54.3K engagements