I have a confession to make, I haven’t shared this openly online in a long time. When I was in my late teens I just gave up on life, I felt like I would never do anything worthwhile. I went completely off the rails, I was taking amounts of substances that would kill a small Irish village. I also stopped working, learning, or doing anything positive, on good days when i wasn’t going on benders I’d site at “home” playing the same 2 games over and over, smoking weed and drinking. —————— When I was 4, I got my first computer and spent 3 hours a day unsupervised on the interwebs, going down “conspiracy theory pipelines” reading about gravity and physics, going onto lemon tube cause some forum posted it. Needless to say I felt more intelligent than my peers, and maybe I was. So I gave up on school and would skip to go to cyber cafes all day. This unfettered access to anything I can think of rotted my brain, but also made me aware that the world is much bigger than a class room. —————— When I met my now wife, I was going through severe withdrawals. I didn’t want to keep doing what I was doing, but everyone I knew was a degenerate. It was hard to quit. She let me move in with her, practically nursed me back to health over 2 years. I had always had an interest in coding, specifically hacking and making computers do things they shouldn’t, but that was never nurtured. —————— I decided now is the time, there will probably never be a chance to win again. So I picked up Mind you I was still addicted to weed, so I decided to Pavlov dog myself into being a programmer. I taped a piece of paper, like the one you see below to an old free desk I found on FB marketplace, I used an 8gb laptop my wife got for free on credit. I used the pomodoro technique to sooth my ADHD mind, studying for 30 mins playing games for 10, every 2 hours of studying I could smoke some weed. Trading my imaginary points for a bong hit, this built a circuit in my brain, and before I knew it I was coding in Ruby and JS. ————— Of course I was useless still, just cause you can write a for loop doesn’t mean you’re useful. So I did this day and night for 2 years. Until I got my first gig. Now I work with world class organizations, have educated at least 500 people. I love my wife. Your life is a video game, play it.

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Introducing MOST, the Monad Open Source Track. Keep shipping open source projects on Monad publicly and you can earn AI credits as you continue building. To apply: Join the livestream tomorrow at 3PM UTC on X to ask any questions. More info in the second tweet.

me: please translate this document gpt 5.6 sol: let me start by downloading a 6 GB local llm to do this translation me: wtf, why don't you translate it yourself? is the local llm better at translation? gpt 5.6 sol: no, best would be a frontier model like gpt 5.6 sol. do you want me to send this document to the openai API?

Speaking is faster than typing. Reading is faster than listening. The highest bandwidth interface between humans and AI is asymmetric. That’s how we designed ChatGPT Voice on desktop: speak your thoughts and let the model choose the best way to show you its answer.