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Sep 29, 2025 13 tweets 5 min read
China has a car factory bigger than San Francisco, their LLMs cost 68 times less than ours, they've built the world's first thorium reactor, and they lead in 37 out of 44 critical technologies.

If America has brainwashed you into believing China is behind them, this thread will open your eyes: When Trump banned Huawei, the official reason he stated was "National security concerns".

But the actual reason was that Huawei was about to set global 5G standards and infrastructure rules.

If China controlled the next era of telecom, America's tech dominance would be over... Image
Sep 25, 2025 14 tweets 5 min read
In 2017, eight Google employees solved AI's biggest problem with a very simple idea. Without their paper, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini wouldn't exist. Every AI query you make today uses their invention.

And they've created over $2 Trillion in value. But then all 8 quit Google... Image First, you need to understand what these eight people were trying to fix.

AI in 2017 couldn't read with much understanding. It processed text like someone with severe amnesia - forgetting each word as it read the next one.

But that wasn't even the worst part.
Sep 21, 2025 15 tweets 5 min read
MIT measured 16 experienced developers using AI coding tools. They got 19% SLOWER.

Yet 25% of Y Combinator's winter batch ships 95% AI-generated code. Some hit $10M revenue with under 10 people.

I dug into this paradox. And figured out why both are true.... Image 39% of AI code gets thrown out during review.

Think about that. You're rejecting nearly half of what you generate. The AI nails the easy stuff - the boilerplate, the common patterns.

But those edge cases, logic, the parts that actually matter? That's where it falls apart. Image
Sep 9, 2025 17 tweets 6 min read
You pay a 15% secret "Google tax" whenever you buy anything online.

Your pizza costs more because of Google.
Your insurance premium is higher because of Google.

And even the court admits this is illegal.

How Google rigged the system and got away with it: Image In 2023, the DoJ filed a case against Google for their tech monopoly in advertising.

Google controls the entire "ad tech stack" - the tools publishers use to sell ads AND the tools advertisers use to buy them.

Like owning both sides of a marketplace.

Let me explain: Image
Sep 2, 2025 15 tweets 6 min read
100 lava lamps in San Francisco generate the encryption keys securing 48% of the world's top 10,000 websites.

The company that owns them blocks 190 billion cyber threats daily, controls $70+ billion in market cap, and when it goes down half the internet disappears.

Thread These lava lamps belong to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare needs truly random numbers to generate encryption keys that can't be predicted or hacked.

So they photograph 100 lava lamps continuously because the wax patterns never repeat exactly.

But there's more... Image
Aug 19, 2025 11 tweets 4 min read
The average American spends 5.16 hours daily (13 years in a lifetime) on their phone.

Scientists wanted to see what would happen if they blocked their internet access.

What happened next completely baffled the scientists... Scientists approached 467 people and asked them to block their mobile internet for 2 weeks.

But only 25% actually kept it blocked the full time.

75% "failed" and cheated.

But here's what broke the researchers' minds... Image
Aug 17, 2025 16 tweets 6 min read
You’ve been lied to.

The healthcare system doesn’t want you healthy: they want you sick, tired, and obedient.

Debunking the 11 biggest health myths they planted in your head:

1/ Myth: Eggs are bad for your heart Truth: Eggs don't cause high cholesterol for most people.

They're loaded with vitamins, amino acids, healthy fats, and are a great source of protein.

Nature's multivitamin got demonized, so you'd buy processed cereal.
Aug 11, 2025 18 tweets 6 min read
How does a checkbox know I’m not a robot… when I didn’t click anything?
Because reCAPTCHA isn’t about bots, it’s about you.

It fingerprints your device across millions of sites, scores your “risk,” and learns from your clicks.

Why that’s spyware dressed up as security🧵 Image The moment that checkbox appears, Google's already been watching.

Before you click, it recorded your mouse movements, your typing rhythm, your browser fingerprint, and whether you're logged into Gmail.

The checkbox is theater. The decision was made.
And it gets worse.. Image
Aug 4, 2025 18 tweets 5 min read
I noticed everyone arguing about XML vs JSON prompts, which made me curious. So I tested both thoroughly.

5 problems, 2 LLMs, 20 tests total. XML vs JSON.

Here's what actually works when prompting LLMs (it's not what anyone expects): The first test result made me run it again because I couldn't believe it.

Claude and GPT don't just prefer certain formats. They become different programmers based on how you format your prompt.

Let me show you what 20 experiments revealed...

(Go to the last tweet for results)
Jul 28, 2025 19 tweets 9 min read
How to use ChatGPT's Agent Mode to automate literally anything on the web.

No blocks. No visual builders. Just natural language.

Here's exactly how I automated 7 real tasks (with prompts you can steal): I'm a SaaS builder who's tried every automation tool out there.

Lovable, , Zapier - they all require learning their interface, building flows, debugging connections.

ChatGPT Agent Mode? I just describe what I want in plain English and it executes.

Real examples:Make.com
Jul 21, 2025 16 tweets 6 min read
Your handshake predicts when you'll DIE better than your blood pressure does.

Scientists tracked 140,000 people and discovered something that changed how we think about aging.

What they found will make you squeeze your fist right now:🧵 Image They discovered a brutal math.

Someone with 35kg grip strength has 16% higher chance of dying than someone with 40kg grip.

Not 1.6, SIXTEEN percent.

Each 5kg drop compounds. Like interest, but for death.

But death risk was just the beginning.
Jul 18, 2025 14 tweets 6 min read
Less than 24 hours ago, OpenAI dropped Agent mode.

While everyone's busy testing it, I went straight to the economics.

$200/month gets you an AI that outperforms investment banking analysts, solves PhD-level math, and replaces $120k worth of work/year.

Full feature breakdown🧵 Image
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1. They merged 3 products without telling anyone

OpenAI had Operator for web browsing, Deep Research for analysis, and regular ChatGPT for conversation.

Instead of selling three subscriptions, they merged everything into Agent mode.

You know what's wild? Each of these was already worth $20-50/month alone. Now you get all three capabilities working together.Image
Jul 17, 2025 31 tweets 10 min read
Elon claims Grok destroys Cursor at coding.

So I spent 3 days running 23 tests on both.

One barely won. By 0.006ms.

The loser writes production-ready code. The winner writes hackathon garbage.

Full benchmark breakdown🧵

(30+ tweets with charts, code, & examples. save it) Image Setup: 23 Python challenges executed, from algorithms to full apps. Each test ran 100 times for statistical significance.

Both achieved 100% accuracy. Zero errors.
The visible difference? Speed.

But the real difference? Many, actually. Find out what in the tweets below ⬇️ Image
Jul 9, 2025 16 tweets 6 min read
June 16th, 2025: The day a $9.9B startup admitted it couldn't afford its own users.

Cursor's community is in full revolt mode. But I just did the math on my usage.

Every time I code, I cost them $60. My subscription? $20/mo.

Inside the loss leader strategy that finally broke: Image
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A few weeks ago, Cursor silently changed from it's plan from "500 requests" to "$20 worth of compute."

Users hit the cap in 20 prompts. Some got surprise charges.

Reddit exploded. They called it a "rug pull" and "the great unsubscription."

But here's what nobody understood... Image
Jul 7, 2025 15 tweets 6 min read
The world's most successful companies make you do their work:

Nike: You design it
IKEA: You assemble it
Notion: You customize it

And you pay 63-225% MORE for this privilege.

Here's the trillion dollar manipulation playbook🧵: Image Japanese researchers scanned brains during IKEA assembly.

They found building IKEA furniture lights up the same neural pathways that stores meaningful memories.

Left inferior frontal gyrus: +47% activation
Left middle frontal gyrus: +52% activation

But before Ikea, one company discovered this 70 years ago...Image
Jul 2, 2025 18 tweets 5 min read
MCP is redefining what AI can do, and 95% of builders haven't caught on.

I've built agents that run my calendar, organize files, and manage tasks. All autonomous.

The results changed how I think about automation.

I'm breaking down exactly how MCP works (with code + examples): Image First, let's get clear on what MCP actually is.

Model Context Protocol = the bridge between AI and your tools.

Instead of describing your calendar to ChatGPT, MCP lets AI directly access it. Read events. Create meetings. Send updates.

Direct connection. No screenshots.
Jun 26, 2025 18 tweets 6 min read
Anthropic released their complete prompt engineering guide.

99% won't read it. I spent 3 days testing every single technique.

While you're saying "please" and "thank you" to AI, smart operators are using advanced techniques to 10x their output.

Here's how you can do the same: Image
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The #1 rule that predicts prompt success:

Show it to a colleague first.

If they're confused → AI fails
If they understand → AI succeeds

This "colleague test" alone fixed 90% of my prompts. But that's just the tip of the iceberg... Image
Jun 23, 2025 13 tweets 4 min read
Elon Musk built rockets when everyone called him "internet guy."

Now he says AGI arrives in 12-24 months.
Robots will outnumber humans 10:1.
We become multi-planetary or die.

The essential insights from his talk at YC's AI Startup School that every founder needs to know 🧵 Image Sitting with 2,000 engineers at AI Startup School, Elon laid out two things:

What's actually coming (timeline + predictions)
What builders should do about it (insights + tactics)

Most people are focusing on the wrong part. Let me show you both. Image
Jun 12, 2025 21 tweets 6 min read
OpenAI quietly dropped a 34-page technical manual on building AI agents that 99% of people will never read.

I spent 3 days coding every single pattern they revealed.

Here's the practical guide to autonomous AI agents:🧵 Image Before we begin, let's clearly establish what an agent ACTUALLY is.

AI agents are autonomous systems that take your goal and execute until completion. No hand-holding required.

OpenAI calls it "high independence."

I call it the difference between an assistant and an employee. Image