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No you don’t lol
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How better stresses work and how to relieve stress, by going to mars🚀:
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Nick Dobos
@NickADobos
Currently building: Hivemind | I make apps. My code runs on 100mil+ phones | former iOSdev 
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Strongly held belief:
Paying $20/mo for chatGPT4 and playing with it right now
is more important than:
-learning to google in 98
-buying Bitcoin in 08
Big tech fucked up so bad
Massive layoffs right as AI coding takes off???
so all their former employees go build competitors in 1/10th the time. Meanwhile the big guys are stuck in meeting hell arguing over safety. While solo devs lap them
The long tail of software just 100x-ed
ChatGPT hack for adhd & executive dysfunction:
Copy paste your todo list or the thing you’re avoiding and ask gpt to break it down into smaller steps. (Even if it’s absolutely trivial and you know the steps, like doing dishes)
chatGPT as hyperfocus on demand
Convinced that openAi figured out how good GPT4 was at coding months ago, and sat on it long enough to build out a huge moat of upcoming releases while everyone else is coding like peasants
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school class is running the country.”
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Anyone else riding this high?
"With the support of GPT-4, I feel unstoppable. The overnight surge in productivity is intoxicating, not for making money or starting a business, but for the sheer joy of continuously creating ideas from my mind, which feels like happiness."
Green chatGPT is 3.5
Black chatGPT is 4
Probably shouldn’t listen to hot takes with being posted with green icons
FYI, you can .zip an entire git repo and shove it into chatGPT now
Consistency amazed how many devs aren't shitting bricks at coding with GPT4. It's like pulling teeth to tell someone they just got 2x faster at their job and they don't believe it. Do not understand the skepticism
This is the worst AI you will ever use, and its already amazing
ChatGPT app now supports iOS shortcuts!!
shortcuts 101 tutorial time!
No coding experience needed
How to build an
Automatic Ai TODO list bot
To overcome task start inertia & preprocess your thoughts
Lmao, I was on the team working to improve HTL performance before we all got laid off
LMAO
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
Holy shit google doesn’t get it
Absolutely fucking clueless and asleep at the wheel
Google already lost
OpenAi’s moat isn’t tech
It’s dev community
75% of tech is building on openAI
No one is building on Bard…
Bitcoin’s innovation is not p2p money or decentralization
It’s better transaction ordering
Which makes overdrafts impossible
On chain data is more accurate
Comparing speed or efficiency makes no sense if Bank records are inferior and so flawed they require IRL enforcement
How to give chatGPT infinite memory
"create a text file named chatGPTmemory.txt"
download a summary note at any time
re-upload the same file at any time
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ChatGPT has limited memory. If your chat runs over 8,192 tokens (~6,827 words), it starts to forget.
But @NickADobos and I came up with a new hack that lets you extend conversations by 10x, easily.
Here’s how:
Imagine living through the greatest acceleration in coding history and being stuck in a legacy codebase. NGMI
y’all don’t realize how ridiculously different coding is from 6 months ago. Every piece of code pre-GPT4 is a liability
I’m building in a completely different structure
banger prompt:
"Help me build my intuition about ... "
A magic spell to learn anything
some examples,
how to
-get a fat ass
-build a company
-build an iOS app using the share sheet api
-do advanced meditation techniques
Have seen multiple experienced devs arguing "chatGPT won't replace devs, most coding work isn't writing code"
You honestly think an hour long meeting w/10 people at $200k+/yr ea will come up with a better product, design & implementation plan, faster & cheaper than Ai?
ok LOL
-running start, jump horizontally so you aren’t going straight down
-Hit feet first, quickly spring forward, roll into hands then a somersault
-The trick is to not land all at once, and convert downward momentum into forward momentum
Your knees and feet will still take a big hit
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6.8% inflation is bullshit
If you include housing, inflation is 20%
The gov doesn’t think you need a place to live 🤡
Also inflation is measured in price, which is after tax! A raise matching inflation is a demotion
You need ~23% raise to break even
inflationchart.com/inflation-in-m
👋 I was on the iOS team working on this b4 layoffs
See
Go/home-perf
Go/home-perf-projects
Earlier this year we added logs to identity bottlenecks to improve, figured out ways to speed up, and had many improvements launch ddgs&ship. More was scheduled in Q4, until layoffs
gpt&me
why prompt GPT?
when GPT can prompt me?
a personal experiment
Building a second brain is out.
Instead, strap AI feedback loops to your neocortex
like a rat puppeting a chef
iOS shortcuts for
-morning planning
-check-ins every hour
-nightly reflection
all w/chatGPT
Hot take:
Coders, If you aren’t writing w/AI in a greenfield repo right now, your career is over
pre-GPT4 code was optimized for humans to read/write. This no longer makes any sense
basic concepts like
putting a class in a file
public/private interfaces
DRY/SOLID
now obsolete
GPT4.resume.pdf
Preview of my new CV that writes itself
A 526 char microprogram/prompt
Written in Shoggoth-tongue & emoji
Full prompt & tutorial coming
1st help me get hired
RTs & likes appreciated!
Then I’ll teach u to wield the machine & become superhuman
chkUR📧
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2 layers of stress relief
1. Distraction from your stressor with a better stressor
2. When the new stressor is solved it triggers relaxation. Simulating and kickstarting relaxation from both the new better stressor, and the original, real life, thing
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~15% of people can smell them
Apparently ants leak formic acid and some people can smell that
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Poll: can you smell ants?
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Having both applied for positions and interviewed for openings remotely this is 100% accurate.
But the upside is also way bigger. I can choose to work for millions of companies, instead of just those within commute distance.
GPT wrapper might actually be a viable business strategy
Ppl are way way too lazy to learn to prompt, write their own prompts, and work through things. Stick it in a website. Wrap it in a nice UI, make it super specific and elegant
Micro-app businesses are 100% viable
Prediction: near 0% chance open source LLMs compete with OpenAi
Y’all think open source can match training data from millions of people asking new questions every day? Or an open source LLM hosting platform can handle their scale?
OpenAi wins. They have customers & data
ChatGPT’s context length doesn’t work the way u think it does
The GPT4 4096 limit is both
-message length
AND
-working memory
If your message cuts off, everything before was forgotten. This is why long convos go off the rails. It can’t remember the start
50 A’s
v
4000 A’s, x2
snoop + Ai 🎯
sayin what we all feeling rn fr fr
do y'all know!?
ChatGPT tip for visual learners
ask it to diagram things in code blocks
Here’s a flowchart of parts of the brain & how meditation is involved
I don’t expect being “good at prompting” to be a temporary skill
some of y’all have clearly never
-delegated to or managed a human
-debugged for 8 hours cuz of a 1 char typo
-attended a design review
People don’t know
-what they want
-how to communicate it
Ai won’t fix that
I’m a little split on this *ub*stack thing.
On one hand free speech
But
idk what they expected when launching an exact copy down to the menu, tweet button, avatars and note design. A Retweet BUTTON. For you/subscribed page & identical iPad layout.
Surprisedpickachu.jpeg
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I’m writing this thread in a hotel room, moving to a new city, after a break up
Easier to focus on the dopamine high from this than fixing my other problems lol
I also have a box of donuts next to me. I’ve eaten 3 today.
coding with ai is ridiculous
look how easy this is now
watch me find a bug
I didn't know existed
in <30 seconds
w/7 keystrokes
cmd+a to select all
cmd+c to copy
cmd+space to open raycast
type "ai" to find ai commands
enter
arrow keys to bug prompt
enter
gpt&me
A / autoGPT style agent that creates:
Full human + Ai symbiosis
The only ai agent that can actually accomplish things today.
Cuz the task execution sub-agent is me
Become a Human + AI agent cyborg
Download now for $1
Here’s how it works:
A bigger question is how are companies going to attract my talent when I can apply to thousands?
I think remote work is going to enable bigger winners for those with valuable skill sets, but also make it much harder for those without.
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I didn’t think Ai reminding me how to fold laundry or do dishes would be helpful, but uhhhhh
There’s something extremely weird happening where I can outsource my planning mind to gpt
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Planning
Coding & software products
Self reflection & journaling
Research & learning
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AHA!! 💡💡!!
I think I figured out why it’s working!
I’m a people pleaser. Way easier for me to do something when someone else asks, but I suck at responding to me own internal cues.
SO I gave myself a fake person to please! Who happens to want exactly what I do
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Sometimes it's as simple as instructions coming from an external place
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Murder mysteries, today’s top drama, and videogames only “relaxing” because they are MORE stressful!
and can be solved more easily than whatever bullshit came before
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Eating donuts does the same thing too
You aren’t after the sugar. You are after the relief from needing to find more things to eat
The post dough nut clarity ;)
75% of incumbent tech companies are dead.
-Ai makes coding 5-10x faster, at least
-every currently existing company’s tech moat evaporated overnight
Every app you use today will be rebuilt & remixed by new devs doing speedruns
Start of a new race
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I am seriously reconsidering how my entire brain works and the nature of my procrastination, executive dysfunction and adhd after trying this a few times and watching myself breeze through stuff
Asking chatGPT to get you addicted to something
This is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever seen
Steps to get addicted to running:
-day1: put shoes in visible place
-day2: put on calendar
-day3: go on 1st run
-slowly ramp difficulty
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What if I could trick myself into becoming addicted to running? That would be the ultimate hack!
I asked ChatGPT to devise a plan to get me addicted to running.
I started out with a prompt to act as a dual PhD in sports psychology and neuroscience…
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The best writers, visual artists, musicians, and tech visionaries all got that way because they have fuck tons of stress
They have a huge need to relieve stress. But w/o a solution fallback to relief from other sources
Excellence via repetitions from compulsive stress relief
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Intellectual puzzles work like this too
Workaholics and intensely curious people are seeking the same thing, a finished puzzle and the relief that comes with it
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murder mysteries
1. distract from your problems with something more immediate and dangerous. A MURDER!! Pivot! Pivot! Top priority for stress!
2. Catch the bad guy
ALL Problems solved!
The relax chemicals in your body & brain spills over. You solved the murder & your problems
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Elon wants to get to mars because focusing on that problem supersedes his other stresses
One step closer to mars is a much easier step towards the chemicals that trigger stress relief and relaxation than fixing the original stress
Theory:
Consumer grade ai dev tools. like github copilot, replit ghostwriter, and vanilla chatGPT will be 100x behind devs running their own ai agent code gen tools. Especially for the next 1-5 years
We are about to see the difference between 1000x engineers and the normie dev
Phenomenal article
Hints at a crucial part of understanding chatGPT/LLMs
Hallucinations are a a good thing!
Not a bug!
The “wrong” factual answer here. Is in fact, the ideal and correct behavior of the system
With imperfect information it guessed almost perfectly
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I wrote about what I think is a deeply under-appreciated fact about AI models like GPT-4:
They're reasoning engines not knowledge databases
every.to/chain-of-thoug
“interesting that a lot of the advancements on [the AI] front are coming from hackers”
This is why openAi has already won
This is their playbook
The flywheel is spinning
They fucking nailed this
OpenAi is currently running a never before seen network effect and brand new… Show more
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Right now it feels like a legitimate path to superintelligence is swarms of GPT-4-level agents somehow interacting w/ each other and various external memory stores.
Also interesting that a lot of the advancements on this front are coming from hackers:
twitter.com/yoheinakajima/
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Porn works like this too
Orgasming, and the chemicals that come after it, make you sleepy and relaxed
The chemicals after an O are designed to stop you
Most people aren’t after the lust or the love. They want the cum down ;)
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Consuming media is (among other things) an elaborate way to kickstart the natural stress response and relaxation cycle
Can’t stop on a Cliffhanger!
Murderer on the loose
Can’t end on a loss!
Can’t go to bed if someone is wrong on the internet!!
Introducing Hivemind
The 1st app that lets chatGPT prompt you!
Prompt -> notifications
ChatGPT can now send you reminders & have asynchronous conversations
Check it out &
SIGN UP for early TESTFLIGHT access now
Welcome to the Hivemind
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this wasn’t exactly something they could have avoided either
Covid tailwinds = huge surplus as people spend more time online
Use that tailwind to hire with expectation of growth, covid winds down, tech crashes, org now bloated
Only solution is to walk into the ai trap
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Writing works so well as stress relief tbfh
Consumes ALL attention
And when you get the sentence just right?
ummmpph.
Better than sex
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Jigsaw puzzles 🧩 work the exact same way
Distract from the actual problem with a better problem
Focuses you on filling in the next piece
The satisfaction of each step consumes you
The end:
boom problem solved, time to relax
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My only theory is y'all REALLY REALLY suck at prompting. 90% of Dev's haven't written enough english to actually be good at this
Like, you are not gonna get production ready code with a single
"write a ...", takes some nudging
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Like I clearly KNOW the steps to do all the things
But by using an Ai to mirror to back at me
To remind myself, focus my mind and kinda pre-visualize and plan the work, I am able to save my brain that processing power(????), and like kickstart the action with way less effort??
AI writing apps make no sense
Why am I hardcoding a blog post?
English is a coding language
So writing is now static or generative
{change tone:UserAge}
{skill level:expert}
{length:timeUntilMeeting}
Every paragraph will have a tags to morph the post based on the reader
How does one train executive function?
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This new psychedelic study is absolutely wild
Proposes a common mechanism for therapeutic action!!
DNA transcription, ECM changes
Identifies 65 genes responsible for metaplasticity (unlike hyperplasticity seen in other drugs, TIL there’s a difference)
May expand the scope of… Show more
No 1 mental health lifehack I know:
Eat 3x more protein
The secret all this time? Protein shakes and walks. So annoying how simple it is
Wanted to try using GPT4 to write a quick app
HOLY SHIT
You guys...
Full step by step instructions
Knew to use alamofire!!
Gave me 1.5 classes before cutting off
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Just make sure you get your relax chemicals from the right place
* right place might honestly mean going to mars and suffering for your art
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You are Elon btw
Tell me right now you don’t seek extra challenges and stress
Gotcha ;)
When you are in the zone, everything else fades away
Doesn’t it?
You don’t pursue your own version of post donut clarity?
We all “eat” emotionally
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But that only works for so long
Solution:
Fix the original problem?
Fuck no lol
Very easy
Start more companies!
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The body can’t tell where the relax signal came from
Nor does it care
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Ever notice how common it is for people grieving from a death to distract themselves by pouring themselves into their work?
The distraction is only half of it. The post work relax is the real prize
ChatGPT is exciting just cuz a bunch of my side project ideas which would haven taken nights & weekends over 2-3 months are now suddenly a single weekend or two project
ChatGPT/LLM protip:
quick hack to get past the context window & use modern data sources
Tell it you are gonna paste a bunch of info in
"Thank you sir may I have another?"
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Intentional marketing move
Here is the image they want going viral: twitter.com/Lan_Dao_/statu
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New open source code completion model!
Has been on trained on "nearly most of the code in the world (*that is permissibly licensed)"
Olympics with no drug testing
Lfg
Gimme altered transhumans
We need a category for cyborgs
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He is the fastest man in the world. He has broken Usain Bolt’s 100m record.
But the world isn’t ready for him. The Olympics hate him.
He has been vilified. He will be vindicated.
Come watch him compete at the 2024 Enhanced Games.
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Readers added context
The video of the sprinter is stock footage from the website POND5. In addition, the stadium in the video does not include a running track.
pond5.com/stock-footage/…
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A few ppl are asking for the prompts!
How I got here:
i first noticed this when using gpt4 as a programming assistant. Using this default prompt from the OpenAI demo
In addition to code I could copy, it also gave me a ton of steps:
Software gets even richer if you extend the design space to include between phone and brain
Front end programming is less about making the computer do something
More about storytelling, aka hacking brains, installing ideas and emotions, and inspiring action
It is creative art
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Software has an extremely rich design space — closer in the breadth of possibilities to creative activities like fiction writing than traditional engineering.
Y’all need to try goblin . Tools
By far the coolest Ai app I’ve found
Screenshots don’t do it justice
You need to feel it
The app itself isn’t super crazy on its own, it’s an ai todo list, moreso the psychological effects are weird AF
here’s one example I used this morning. To… Show more
handiest chatGPT browsing prompts I've tried so far:
-"search reddit for... and find the best ..."
-<copy paste coding error> wait for LLM to say something, don't waste time reading it
"build a stackoverflow search query to help me fix this, & search for 3 possible solutions"
Staying in many company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage
Could not have said this any better
If this tiktok yum yum thing freaks you out, you have NOT been paying attention to how humans work or the past 20 years of entertainment tech
People love mind numbing rhythms
let me introduce you to:
-Tribal drums & dancing around a campfire
-Whirling dervishes & Shakers… Show more
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Protip part 2, ask for estimates
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It even give me estimates on how long I should spend on each step of an overall task, which has been really insightful
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This will be more true in 6 months once we get full repo context windows and multi file editing co-pilot
More and more I expect consumer grade Ai to be completely de-fanged
The bottom 50% will use this to convince themselves into stupid shit. As a platform companies, the big players will be forced to scar on the first news story
Rip mental health chatGPT
Lobotomized
