[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 windsurf, $150kyr, zohran, finney 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 XXXXXXXXXX +359% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +83% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +39% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +41% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +69% - X Months XXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXX +89% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.21% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.82% - X Months XXXXXXX +9.30% - X Year XXXXXXX +20% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::221838349/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #1172 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) #6566 [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [windsurf](/topic/windsurf) #27, [$150kyr](/topic/$150kyr) #1, [zohran](/topic/zohran) #58, [finney](/topic/finney) 0.81%, [satoshi](/topic/satoshi) 0.81%, [acquisition](/topic/acquisition) 0.81%, [$388myr](/topic/$388myr) 0.81%, [automobile](/topic/automobile) 0.81%, [lmfao](/topic/lmfao) 0.81%, [scout](/topic/scout) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@myonlinetrust](/creator/undefined) [@tyler_menzer](/creator/undefined) [@j_jackson_leach](/creator/undefined) [@rooshonline](/creator/undefined) [@hoemcadams](/creator/undefined) [@jaydeezy1413](/creator/undefined) [@chrisreinberg](/creator/undefined) [@reeceharding](/creator/undefined) [@genzforplato](/creator/undefined) [@typesfast](/creator/undefined) [@yng_pepe](/creator/undefined) [@josephcobrakai](/creator/undefined) [@lambda_thoughts](/creator/undefined) [@scaredofyall](/creator/undefined) [@mccode](/creator/undefined) [@mgonto](/creator/undefined) [@martymadrid](/creator/undefined) [@morganwarstler](/creator/undefined) [@leiffoged](/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 "For the record if I had to bet I would bet on who Satoshi is Id bet on Hal Finney. * Received first ever transaction * Code style closest to his own Those clues bear XX% of the weight for me. And if it was he took the secret to the grave. So badass"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944424719001727124) 2025-07-13 15:52:33 UTC 410.9K followers, 200.7K engagements "@Bradley_Moore Most of them would never hear about any challenge I create by definition. Need to snipe them"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945310575119970356) 2025-07-16 02:32:37 UTC 410.9K followers, 7281 engagements "Lets debate immigration then Ill grade you on empathy not exactly subtle"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946205657843040650) 2025-07-18 13:49:22 UTC 411.2K followers, 8661 engagements "Do your quarterly reviews not look like this"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945943701928194272) 2025-07-17 20:28:27 UTC 411.2K followers, 5582 engagements "The problem is nobody can say anything because everyone is trying to dance around legal and regulatory requirements. Dont know how to clean that up now that X news cycles run 24/7 but not having to do this insane not acquisition dance would help. Legalize M&A"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944841618927825015) 2025-07-14 19:29:10 UTC 411.2K followers, 154K 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 410.9K followers, 377.7K 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 411.2K followers, 11M engagements ""The fact of matter is that Tesla's model is not a model that gives you the kind of buying experience that you're entitled to and should have." lol. Lmfao"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943424584725749890) 2025-07-10 21:38:22 UTC 411.2K followers, 19.1K engagements "I understand that people are mad about this take but can anyone explain to me what is incorrect about this take"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944788203388502319) 2025-07-14 15:56:54 UTC 410.9K followers, 165.9K 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 410.9K followers, 358.7K 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 410.9K followers, 25.4K engagements "Practice I want to start: Ok company here is a list of all of our transactions for a month. If this expense is necessary give it a thumbs up and well keep paying. If no one claims an expense its getting cut next month. So many dumb tiny expenses go XXX% unchecked"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1939842262671995295) 2025-07-01 00:23:30 UTC 410.9K followers, 34.3K engagements "@shaunmmaguire Wait I think we had a Sequoia scout invest in us at some point. Are we a Sequoia portfolio company"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944873940889034934) 2025-07-14 21:37:36 UTC 411K followers, 6811 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 410.9K followers, 2.1M engagements "Friendly reminder that ChatGPT is trained on fiction as well"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945878855941537801) 2025-07-17 16:10:46 UTC 411.2K followers, 16.2K engagements "Tonight is definitely the first time Ive ever heard Actually my manager is an AI. Yes they were serious. Still experimental but man Im curious"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946755148396576891) 2025-07-20 02:12:50 UTC 411.2K followers, 3397 engagements "Wow it looks like people in Japan are really really into truth-seeking AI models"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945297875967086652) 2025-07-16 01:42:10 UTC 411.2K followers, 125.5K engagements "No no no we didnt buy the company we paid $XXX Billion to hire the team and license the software. Kinda hilarious that this hack works tbh"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943859763282161667) 2025-07-12 02:27:37 UTC 410.9K followers, 157.5K engagements "Scheduling things is the worst part of being an adult"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946651777513689514) 2025-07-19 19:22:05 UTC 411.2K followers, 9214 engagements "Surprised at how many people are telling me this doesnt exist or the number rounds to zero. Or that it would only be possible in extreme cases like prison or mental illness. Obviously it exists and at reasonable scale"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945530373363933495) 2025-07-16 17:06:01 UTC 411.2K followers, 23.4K engagements "OK info is leaking to me by sources I trust from the Windsurf/Google deal. Theres confusion because of the cute way these acquisitions happen now but: X. Yes investors are being fully paid out X. Yes the employees will still have their life-changing outcomes"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943866082332487790) 2025-07-12 02:52:43 UTC 410.9K followers, 92.3K engagements "Yes if you invest $.96 and wait three years you can get out $X minus fees. A solid .5% annualized return"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946362721428975942) 2025-07-19 00:13:29 UTC 411.2K followers, 33.6K engagements "@_opencv_ How do I take the other side of this bet"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944914286200906084) 2025-07-15 00:17:55 UTC 411.2K followers, 58.5K engagements "I honestly cant wrap my head around any scenario where this could possibly be true. What are you all eating A meal from a restaurant is easily 2-3x what cooking costs"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1936415752896319844) 2025-06-21 13:27:47 UTC 411.1K followers, 529.6K 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 411.2K followers, 4M engagements "Wait this is real I legitimately thought this was a sarcastic tweet someone made up. This is from the actual Supreme Court"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1939177146322428192) 2025-06-29 04:20:34 UTC 411.1K followers, 722K 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 411.2K followers, 2.6M engagements "Id sell my green button press for $XX million"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944446672983015870) 2025-07-13 17:19:47 UTC 411.2K followers, 595.4K engagements "People seem SO interested in this secret pedophile island frequently visited by the most powerful people on the planet like why do you care Lets get back to talking about interesting stuff like renewable energy subsidies"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945515690019914232) 2025-07-16 16:07:41 UTC 410.9K followers, 4300 engagements "@typesfast @hthieblot @rooshonline hes also working on the ability to traffic cocaine for a ton of profit but if you get caught you lose"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946393894494543907) 2025-07-19 02:17:21 UTC 411.2K followers, 1502 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 411.2K followers, 40.5K 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 411.2K followers, 36.5K 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 411.2K followers, 217.6K 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 411.2K followers, 3M engagements "Disagree. Not MVP only. You can use AI to code throughout if you can manage your context window well. 10x harder than vibecoding but you dont have to stop as complexity arises"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943361655062364186) 2025-07-10 17:28:19 UTC 411.2K followers, 24.6K 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 411.2K followers, 188.2K 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 411.2K followers, 8859 engagements "Still blows me away: This Gauntlet AI cohort was selling out so quickly that a VC fund bought the remaining hiring credits to distribute to their portfolio companies. We didnt even make it to the first day of the cohort"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1935803655829307792) 2025-06-19 20:55:31 UTC 410.9K followers, 43K engagements "What is the most hated piece of software you use regularly"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1914202665279721715) 2025-04-21 06:20:54 UTC 410.9K followers, 639.8K engagements "Also unironically a great example of how good engineers use AI models. Theyre not just saying refactor this code base. Theyre saying Heres old code heres the refactor x broke in the refactor. Can you help me identify why x might have broken"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1927209776120811683) 2025-05-27 03:46:31 UTC 410.9K followers, 35.6K engagements "I wonder if Microsoft had any idea how much value they were unlocking by open sourcing VS Code"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945120430978650166) 2025-07-15 13:57:03 UTC 410.9K followers, 19.1K engagements "Its still insane to me that Apple just has zero serious AI initiatives or products. You have insane market share. Unlimited money. You control the OS and all the hardware. And you give us fkn Siri and you can use ChatGPT with your action button. Just incredible bag fumble"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946411406221361159) 2025-07-19 03:26:56 UTC 411.2K followers, 175.3K 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 410.9K followers, 48.8K engagements "Must suck being an unemployed software engineer and realizing that Soham Parekh has been hired XX times in the past X years"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1940502600459354570) 2025-07-02 20:07:27 UTC 411.2K followers, 1.1M engagements "I dont know why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. Its really boring stuff. Might be the funniest thing Trump has ever said"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945514909338423443) 2025-07-16 16:04:34 UTC 411.2K followers, 17K 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 410.9K followers, 595.5K engagements "I knew it was gonna be dangerous to pair up Ryans brain with a Gauntlet AI student who was given one week to build a video game. The result: Flexport the Video Game"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946390273963040818) 2025-07-19 02:02:58 UTC 411.2K followers, 12.4K engagements "9:30 PM on a Friday at Gauntlet. Fatigue definitely setting in. Its been a long week of building video games using AI. For most their first ever video game"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946397939871482015) 2025-07-19 02:33:25 UTC 411.2K followers, 12K engagements "I want a way to identify every software engineer with a 98th percentile IQ who is making $150k/yr. If you have a plausible way of doing this please DM me"  [@Austen](/creator/x/Austen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945309734808011186) 2025-07-16 02:29:17 UTC 411.2K followers, 252.6K engagements
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Austen Allred posts on X about windsurf, $150kyr, zohran, finney the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence finance #1172 technology brands #6566 countries XXXX% celebrities XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% stocks XXXX%
Social topic influence windsurf #27, $150kyr #1, zohran #58, finney 0.81%, satoshi 0.81%, acquisition 0.81%, $388myr 0.81%, automobile 0.81%, lmfao 0.81%, scout XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @myonlinetrust @tyler_menzer @j_jackson_leach @rooshonline @hoemcadams @jaydeezy1413 @chrisreinberg @reeceharding @genzforplato @typesfast @yng_pepe @josephcobrakai @lambda_thoughts @scaredofyall @mccode @mgonto @martymadrid @morganwarstler @leiffoged
Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"For the record if I had to bet I would bet on who Satoshi is Id bet on Hal Finney. * Received first ever transaction * Code style closest to his own Those clues bear XX% of the weight for me. And if it was he took the secret to the grave. So badass" @Austen on X 2025-07-13 15:52:33 UTC 410.9K followers, 200.7K engagements
"@Bradley_Moore Most of them would never hear about any challenge I create by definition. Need to snipe them" @Austen on X 2025-07-16 02:32:37 UTC 410.9K followers, 7281 engagements
"Lets debate immigration then Ill grade you on empathy not exactly subtle" @Austen on X 2025-07-18 13:49:22 UTC 411.2K followers, 8661 engagements
"Do your quarterly reviews not look like this" @Austen on X 2025-07-17 20:28:27 UTC 411.2K followers, 5582 engagements
"The problem is nobody can say anything because everyone is trying to dance around legal and regulatory requirements. Dont know how to clean that up now that X news cycles run 24/7 but not having to do this insane not acquisition dance would help. Legalize M&A" @Austen on X 2025-07-14 19:29:10 UTC 411.2K followers, 154K 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 410.9K followers, 377.7K engagements
"The likelihood that hes dead is just really really high" @Austen on X 2025-07-12 22:14:02 UTC 411.2K followers, 11M engagements
""The fact of matter is that Tesla's model is not a model that gives you the kind of buying experience that you're entitled to and should have." lol. Lmfao" @Austen on X 2025-07-10 21:38:22 UTC 411.2K followers, 19.1K engagements
"I understand that people are mad about this take but can anyone explain to me what is incorrect about this take" @Austen on X 2025-07-14 15:56:54 UTC 410.9K followers, 165.9K engagements
"@martymadrid I dont think its likely Elon at all" @Austen on X 2025-07-14 00:34:53 UTC 410.9K followers, 358.7K 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 410.9K followers, 25.4K engagements
"Practice I want to start: Ok company here is a list of all of our transactions for a month. If this expense is necessary give it a thumbs up and well keep paying. If no one claims an expense its getting cut next month. So many dumb tiny expenses go XXX% unchecked" @Austen on X 2025-07-01 00:23:30 UTC 410.9K followers, 34.3K engagements
"@shaunmmaguire Wait I think we had a Sequoia scout invest in us at some point. Are we a Sequoia portfolio company" @Austen on X 2025-07-14 21:37:36 UTC 411K followers, 6811 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 410.9K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Friendly reminder that ChatGPT is trained on fiction as well" @Austen on X 2025-07-17 16:10:46 UTC 411.2K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Tonight is definitely the first time Ive ever heard Actually my manager is an AI. Yes they were serious. Still experimental but man Im curious" @Austen on X 2025-07-20 02:12:50 UTC 411.2K followers, 3397 engagements
"Wow it looks like people in Japan are really really into truth-seeking AI models" @Austen on X 2025-07-16 01:42:10 UTC 411.2K followers, 125.5K engagements
"No no no we didnt buy the company we paid $XXX Billion to hire the team and license the software. Kinda hilarious that this hack works tbh" @Austen on X 2025-07-12 02:27:37 UTC 410.9K followers, 157.5K engagements
"Scheduling things is the worst part of being an adult" @Austen on X 2025-07-19 19:22:05 UTC 411.2K followers, 9214 engagements
"Surprised at how many people are telling me this doesnt exist or the number rounds to zero. Or that it would only be possible in extreme cases like prison or mental illness. Obviously it exists and at reasonable scale" @Austen on X 2025-07-16 17:06:01 UTC 411.2K followers, 23.4K engagements
"OK info is leaking to me by sources I trust from the Windsurf/Google deal. Theres confusion because of the cute way these acquisitions happen now but: X. Yes investors are being fully paid out X. Yes the employees will still have their life-changing outcomes" @Austen on X 2025-07-12 02:52:43 UTC 410.9K followers, 92.3K engagements
"Yes if you invest $.96 and wait three years you can get out $X minus fees. A solid .5% annualized return" @Austen on X 2025-07-19 00:13:29 UTC 411.2K followers, 33.6K engagements
"@opencv How do I take the other side of this bet" @Austen on X 2025-07-15 00:17:55 UTC 411.2K followers, 58.5K engagements
"I honestly cant wrap my head around any scenario where this could possibly be true. What are you all eating A meal from a restaurant is easily 2-3x what cooking costs" @Austen on X 2025-06-21 13:27:47 UTC 411.1K followers, 529.6K 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 411.2K followers, 4M engagements
"Wait this is real I legitimately thought this was a sarcastic tweet someone made up. This is from the actual Supreme Court" @Austen on X 2025-06-29 04:20:34 UTC 411.1K followers, 722K 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 411.2K followers, 2.6M engagements
"Id sell my green button press for $XX million" @Austen on X 2025-07-13 17:19:47 UTC 411.2K followers, 595.4K engagements
"People seem SO interested in this secret pedophile island frequently visited by the most powerful people on the planet like why do you care Lets get back to talking about interesting stuff like renewable energy subsidies" @Austen on X 2025-07-16 16:07:41 UTC 410.9K followers, 4300 engagements
"@typesfast @hthieblot @rooshonline hes also working on the ability to traffic cocaine for a ton of profit but if you get caught you lose" @Austen on X 2025-07-19 02:17:21 UTC 411.2K followers, 1502 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 411.2K followers, 40.5K 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 411.2K followers, 36.5K 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 411.2K followers, 217.6K 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 411.2K followers, 3M engagements
"Disagree. Not MVP only. You can use AI to code throughout if you can manage your context window well. 10x harder than vibecoding but you dont have to stop as complexity arises" @Austen on X 2025-07-10 17:28:19 UTC 411.2K followers, 24.6K engagements
"College admissions basically adding virtue signaling to list of enrollment requirements" @Austen on X 2025-07-18 13:44:58 UTC 411.2K followers, 188.2K 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 411.2K followers, 8859 engagements
"Still blows me away: This Gauntlet AI cohort was selling out so quickly that a VC fund bought the remaining hiring credits to distribute to their portfolio companies. We didnt even make it to the first day of the cohort" @Austen on X 2025-06-19 20:55:31 UTC 410.9K followers, 43K engagements
"What is the most hated piece of software you use regularly" @Austen on X 2025-04-21 06:20:54 UTC 410.9K followers, 639.8K engagements
"Also unironically a great example of how good engineers use AI models. Theyre not just saying refactor this code base. Theyre saying Heres old code heres the refactor x broke in the refactor. Can you help me identify why x might have broken" @Austen on X 2025-05-27 03:46:31 UTC 410.9K followers, 35.6K engagements
"I wonder if Microsoft had any idea how much value they were unlocking by open sourcing VS Code" @Austen on X 2025-07-15 13:57:03 UTC 410.9K followers, 19.1K engagements
"Its still insane to me that Apple just has zero serious AI initiatives or products. You have insane market share. Unlimited money. You control the OS and all the hardware. And you give us fkn Siri and you can use ChatGPT with your action button. Just incredible bag fumble" @Austen on X 2025-07-19 03:26:56 UTC 411.2K followers, 175.3K engagements
"Silicon Valley should be far more afraid of drugs" @Austen on X 2025-07-15 23:14:50 UTC 410.9K followers, 48.8K engagements
"Must suck being an unemployed software engineer and realizing that Soham Parekh has been hired XX times in the past X years" @Austen on X 2025-07-02 20:07:27 UTC 411.2K followers, 1.1M engagements
"I dont know why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. Its really boring stuff. Might be the funniest thing Trump has ever said" @Austen on X 2025-07-16 16:04:34 UTC 411.2K followers, 17K 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 410.9K followers, 595.5K engagements
"I knew it was gonna be dangerous to pair up Ryans brain with a Gauntlet AI student who was given one week to build a video game. The result: Flexport the Video Game" @Austen on X 2025-07-19 02:02:58 UTC 411.2K followers, 12.4K engagements
"9:30 PM on a Friday at Gauntlet. Fatigue definitely setting in. Its been a long week of building video games using AI. For most their first ever video game" @Austen on X 2025-07-19 02:33:25 UTC 411.2K followers, 12K engagements
"I want a way to identify every software engineer with a 98th percentile IQ who is making $150k/yr. If you have a plausible way of doing this please DM me" @Austen on X 2025-07-16 02:29:17 UTC 411.2K followers, 252.6K engagements
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