The entire city of San Francisco is spooked and on edge due to AI safety shit, it’s insane how much it’s bleeding into my everyday life. Like I was at my bus stop and I notice a guy looking really stressed out so I said hey, are you worried about misaligned AI too? He took out an AirPod and said “what?” So I said you know stuff like agent swarms, AI escaping RL sandboxes, existential risk. He paused his Barstool podcast and said “sorry, what? What are you talking about?” Just the mention of this stuff made him too anxious to speak, I think. So I said I know man, what?! is my reaction to all this too, and then asked him what his p(doom) is. He then said “dude is this some gay thing or something because I have no fucking clue what you’re asking me” then he got on the bus. People are not handling all this news well. It’s really affecting us. All of us.

"Is my AI startup fucked now that GPT-6 Astra is here?" what do you think idiot? I hope you can break your lease and get out of San Francisco because it is FUCKING OVER FOR YOU. You have no moat, no swag, probably no customers, and no product now that Astra can one shot whatever shit you were working on. B2B? I promise you Astra can one shot that. Consumer product? Why were you building a consumer product anyways ewww what the fuck? But yeah definitely over in that case as well. Whatever Astra can't do, if there is such a thing, Fable probably can so you are getting hit with a double clothesline WWE style. If it was me I'd be a total puddle hiding in my closet crying calling my mom to come pick me up from SF and take me back to the suburbs from which I came. It's also possible that Astra helps you grow your product and business, though, so I don't want to overreact or anything.

I met the love of my life in the San Francisco Corgi Cafe. Additionally, I’m leaving OpenAI to join Anthropic! Reverse that. I’m leaving Anthropic to join OpenAI! Got rejected by YC. Just got accepted to YC. Taste is the moat. I’m working on RL environments. Actually I’m working on data. No, scratch that, I’m working on personalizable AI for science and enterprise. Taste is the moat. I spent 10 million dollars on Claude tokens last month. I built nothing. There’s nothing to build oh my God what do I build where’s my taste taste isn’t the moat wait taste is the moat taste is the moat taste is the moat taste