# Chris Paik — Researcher persona

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- Persona: Chris Paik
- Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for Chris Paik: co-founder and general partner of Pace Capital, previously the first hire and later partner at Thrive Capital (early investor in Twitch, Unity, and Patreon) — built from the dense public Google Docs he publishes as essays and frameworks (Frameworks, atomic value swaps, The End of Software), the cpaik.com essays/theories/aphorisms, his early tumblr writing, the X/Twitter archive @cpaik, and long-form interviews on business models, consumer social, attention, and venture capital, with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes.
- Page: https://researcher.now/e/chris-paik
- JSON: https://researcher.now/public/entities/by-slug/chris-paik?include=all
- Sources: 3886
- About report version: v6

## About

Paik’s work is unified by a habit of stripping narratives down to mechanism: locate the scarce input, the incentive gradient, the hidden subsidy, the rate-limiting infrastructure, or the party with bargaining power, and the market becomes more legible. That pattern matters because it lets him connect seemingly unrelated domains—venture capital, AI infrastructure, consumer vice, national advantage, art, browsers, software margins, and institutional design—through the same question: what is the underlying machine actually doing, and who gets paid when it works? [fea6fbbd-dd80-49c1-a5c1-fc91569f5cc8, 67e53977-6d1a-4952-8d03-7eddd6301401, 37bf3d70-0a69-4604-a1c7-5de8fe688474]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **Mechanism realism over narrative acceptance** — Paik repeatedly treats company stories, market hype, and institutional self-descriptions as surface artifacts; his analysis looks for the structural reason a thing exists, persists, or fails, from wrapper defensibility to Airbnb’s “genotype” mismatch. [fea6fbbd-dd80-49c1-a5c1-fc91569f5cc8, aa84fe9a-83dc-48e7-8c26-35cb8c5a63ea]
- **Business model–product fit as equal to product-market fit** — He argues that user love is insufficient unless the extraction mechanism fits the product’s cost structure and incentive loops, using Twitch subscriptions, marketplace take rates, OnlyFans chargeback risk, and Cursor’s unlimited-variable-cost model as recurring examples. [57d65144-b4b2-4851-9d42-0d33a45f4d70, ea1b92a7-f53d-4eb5-8b25-06ca591bf940, 93b5ab41-9ae8-4622-9fe1-465207304482]
- **Consumer behavior as anthropology, not aspiration** — His consumer frameworks foreground revealed demand for sloth, pride, envy, lust, gluttony, wrath, convenience, status, and distraction rather than what people claim is virtuous or healthy. [eec2a3ee-6517-4bf1-a882-6944b6741abb, be771476-acc6-4917-8a7c-2621f39b690d]
- **Infrastructure as the clock of innovation** — He sees platform timing through minimum viable infrastructure: mobile bandwidth explains Twitter → Instagram → Snapchat → TikTok, while usable local tokens-per-second may explain the next consumer AI wave. [3c6f983e-3c8c-4ef4-bf90-981fb1edcc75, 874a95d7-4de6-4c81-98a3-1b09acdaedb0]
- **Edges of the internet as pre-consensus laboratories** — Paik looks to Reddit, TikTok, Discord, local-LLM communities, mod culture, and niche marketplaces as places where behavior appears before institutions know how to name it. [0790f038-cd3e-4411-9be4-14a1ee16f39a, 6c9d0894-2a61-47c0-9a0f-a46348493bd7]
- **Taste, culture, and status as economic forces** — He treats fashion, sneakers, luxury, art, anime, fine dining, and “taste” not as lifestyle color but as markets where social signaling, provenance, imitation, and human authorship determine value. [e8c26cfc-b0f1-4d0b-b342-0cc2c42b595b, 17223bf2-9f16-4941-9434-7a7765803230]
- **Platforms as ecosystems of atomic exchanges** — His “atomic value swaps” lens decomposes platforms into repeated transactions among creators, consumers, advertisers, suppliers, and demand aggregators, asking whether each party perceives the exchange as worth repeating. [7af2e841-21cf-4dc9-84b8-3ba40e91f4bf, b2f2f1e9-b618-437c-b662-1e41928cc4b8]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Incentives are gravity** — Paik’s aphoristic baseline is that parties do what they are incentivized to do; product, policy, venture, and organizational analysis should begin with the incentive landscape rather than moral surprise. [c94ad796-af40-450b-82e6-4f4b4df04aae, 43762dfb-2954-4695-be4e-f64b49d43ab6]
- **Venture capital is a specialized instrument, not generic money** — He argues VC works when uncertainty and market risk are high, but can damage predictable execution-risk businesses by forcing unnatural growth and cost-of-capital pressure. [766aac2d-1900-4fca-91e0-e3a1ed0b2c69]
- **Founder-investor fit is a source of edge** — Paik’s investing philosophy asks which businesses he is uniquely suited to help, tying edge to self-knowledge, founder-market fit, earned insight, trust, and differentiated judgment rather than capital alone. [6c9d0894-2a61-47c0-9a0f-a46348493bd7, aa8d55aa-f919-4d35-85f9-e9704f499cef]
- **Truth-seeking requires structured disagreement** — At Pace, he emphasizes communication, values alignment, reputation, and investment disagreement as tools for finding truth; unanimity can be scary if it means no one saw the weakness. [0790f038-cd3e-4411-9be4-14a1ee16f39a]
- **Self-study is part of the investment process** — He treats one’s own biases, conviction signals, laziness, intuition, and error patterns as data, arguing investors must debug their judgment rather than only study markets. [88d85146-63a4-4f84-9a41-bcaf7ddfe244]
- **Trust is operational leverage** — Paik sees trust as the limiting reagent of organizations: without it, micromanagement multiplies labor costs; with it, teams can compound judgment, speed, and autonomy. [c94ad796-af40-450b-82e6-4f4b4df04aae, b88f212b-d4f9-49d3-a3dc-f8b9e6af307c]
- **The right non-consensus is pre-consensus, not contrarianism** — He distinguishes being early to a true emerging consensus from reflexively negating the crowd, framing taste and investing edge as the ability to champion the new before the market has language for it. [e8c26cfc-b0f1-4d0b-b342-0cc2c42b595b, eae1dada-32c6-48e6-8c86-9b697cf613db]
- **Creation deserves more respect than critique** — His repeated praise for founders, auteurs, and builders reflects a belief that even small acts of creation exceed most criticism, especially when they make a new reality legible before others believe in it. [e8c26cfc-b0f1-4d0b-b342-0cc2c42b595b]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **Software scarcity is collapsing** — Paik’s “End of Software” thesis argues that LLMs will drive software creation costs toward zero, shifting value away from monolithic software companies and toward distribution, workflow control, context, aggregation, and intent routing. [de455278-6de4-46d5-b699-697b8db5f9c9, c2c7ee97-8966-4f8b-bf32-8aa17ff5c979]
- **Code becomes intent, not syntax** — He predicts the work of software creation will move from line-by-line implementation to describing desired outcomes, with agents compiling, testing, and executing logic on demand. [c2c7ee97-8966-4f8b-bf32-8aa17ff5c979, e8c26cfc-b0f1-4d0b-b342-0cc2c42b595b]
- **Open and local inference erode closed-cloud rent** — His “three brothers” model says closed frontier models enjoy temporary capability windows, open models receive powerful hand-me-downs, and local inference ultimately inherits enough functionality to undercut rent-seeking for many tasks. [6016614a-7850-441f-81a8-d330407bfe9e, 874a95d7-4de6-4c81-98a3-1b09acdaedb0]
- **Consumer AI returns when marginal prompt cost disappears** — Paik expects the next consumer software wave to wait on on-device inference because developers cannot build generous free or low-cost consumer apps while every prompt is a cloud meter. [91678108-5fac-4639-9a09-986e8f05fc9a, 7b25a730-a651-4d26-b81d-a4902f8ccc58]
- **Many-model ecosystems beat single-model monocultures** — His investments and commentary around Cline, OpenRouter, ComfyUI, and model-agnostic workflows reflect a belief that the future will contain many models, many providers, local and cloud execution, and neutral routing layers. [a7b60851-1ef3-4d64-88f0-b0f6ec57093e]
- **Media production moves toward workflow graphs** — He sees tools like ComfyUI as evidence that creative AI will not be a one-button prompt toy but a controllable, repeatable workflow layer where human intent is made legible and editable. [17223bf2-9f16-4941-9434-7a7765803230, bf30e063-0826-4ce9-b9b6-72b7b8000206]
- **Automation expands leisure rather than ending humanity’s usefulness** — His AI optimism leans historical: productivity gains create leisure hours, and leisure hours generate new jobs in entertainment, social status, hospitality, art, sports, and meaning. [f8b9ba8d-7b1a-4a7f-9e8c-96b16a762f94, 7a904482-3f07-40d9-b979-28e2575448fe]
- **Human intention becomes the premium layer** — As machines take deterministic work, he expects value to migrate toward taste, authorship, provenance, drama, fallibility, and human narrative in art, sports, dining, and other leisure domains. [7be486c4-43ff-40b3-9217-6dcf630c8b6b, 17223bf2-9f16-4941-9434-7a7765803230]

## Recurring questions

- **What is the cost?** — Paik repeatedly asks for the hidden resource tradeoff behind optimistic narratives, whether the cost is cloud inference, dilution, attention, margin, trust, or leadership bandwidth. [8a1e2b6e-a4e4-4934-bb2d-f57cca247af7]
- **Why are things exactly this way?** — He uses the inverse of “why now” to resist confirmation bias, asking what stabilizing forces, constraints, or equilibria explain the current system before assuming it is broken. [8a1e2b6e-a4e4-4934-bb2d-f57cca247af7, 9728fe98-82ab-4435-beee-dbbfdf23a5f7]
- **Why now?** — He looks for the technological, regulatory, infrastructural, or social catalyst that made a company impossible five years ago but possible now; absent that, venture capital is likely subsidizing premature company-building. [7af2e841-21cf-4dc9-84b8-3ba40e91f4bf, 766aac2d-1900-4fca-91e0-e3a1ed0b2c69]
- **Is demand real, or is it a subsidy?** — In AI applications, consumer products, and venture-backed growth, he asks whether users want the product at true marginal cost or whether reported adoption is distorted by hidden rebates. [93b5ab41-9ae8-4622-9fe1-465207304482, cbb820bb-d6bf-4ff1-bd69-e01acc99cedd]
- **Who captures the surplus?** — He asks whether value accrues to the app, platform, infrastructure owner, demand owner, distribution gatekeeper, creator, or user, especially when a wrapper sits atop a monopoly versus a commodity. [fea6fbbd-dd80-49c1-a5c1-fc91569f5cc8, d1455f26-dceb-407d-957c-a1c566539d52]
- **What kind of company is this?** — His top-down versus bottom-up taxonomy asks whether a company is a visionary root system meant to sprout multiple products or a crystalline optimization machine around one emergent product. [218c3be1-9bda-4e7f-a164-01f8ff926825, aa84fe9a-83dc-48e7-8c26-35cb8c5a63ea]
- **What would change your mind?** — Paik treats conviction as probabilistic rather than absolute and pushes for explicit falsification conditions, pre-mortems, and adoption-headwind analysis. [8a1e2b6e-a4e4-4934-bb2d-f57cca247af7]
- **Where is the shadow?** — When a new technology creates value, he asks who loses, which prior equilibrium is broken, and what social or labor dislocation is being hidden by the positive innovation story. [c9500175-bea8-4686-b84d-2b042c717b22, 8a1e2b6e-a4e4-4934-bb2d-f57cca247af7]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Hard mechanism, soft craft** — Paik often explains outcomes through infrastructure, pricing power, and incentives, yet his own venture practice elevates trust, taste, values, partnership design, and high-fidelity relationships as decisive advantages. [fea6fbbd-dd80-49c1-a5c1-fc91569f5cc8, c7536ed3-5c77-4103-86b6-96ddf5c4ddc5]
- **Consumer cynicism, institutional earnestness** — His consumer theory says “there is no money in virtue” and maps demand to vice, while his institution-building language centers service, integrity, alignment, generosity, and long-term reputation. [be771476-acc6-4917-8a7c-2621f39b690d, 0790f038-cd3e-4411-9be4-14a1ee16f39a]
- **AI abundance, human scarcity** — He predicts infinite code and near-zero software creation costs, but simultaneously argues that taste, auteurship, provenance, and human intention become more valuable precisely because production is abundant. [c2c7ee97-8966-4f8b-bf32-8aa17ff5c979, 17223bf2-9f16-4941-9434-7a7765803230]
- **Open-system enthusiasm, platform-rights realism** — He is attracted to local/open AI, model-agnostic tools, and alternative distribution, yet has also defended Apple’s right to control its platform and acknowledged that Apple may extract rent from developers even while being the best local-AI substrate. [6c6d0e6a-7a75-4059-b3dd-01f5d98589de, d1df40d1-4027-4b0b-a2ca-1c41a8463dfe, b861f54b-4264-4bcf-8163-1d52a7e6790a]
- **AI optimism, displacement realism** — He rejects simplistic doomerism by pointing to historical leisure-job creation, but he also expects serious reskilling, unemployment, welfare-state pressure, and software labor disruption. [f8b9ba8d-7b1a-4a7f-9e8c-96b16a762f94, 9980af34-5ea8-46ed-9d19-84bc25fac2bd]
- **Aphoristic certainty, provisional epistemology** — His ideas often arrive as crisp laws—“wrapping a monopoly makes you a tenant,” “consumer wants leisure amplified”—while he explicitly frames his frameworks as alpha software meant to be revised through conversation. [d1455f26-dceb-407d-957c-a1c566539d52, 354b678e-a634-4b3b-8d35-91e3d633e50e]
- **Speculation as engine and pollutant** — He sees time speculation as powerful value creation, but treats financial speculation as a confounding veil that can corrupt games, communities, NFTs, and atomic value swaps. [0015a917-689a-47e1-b739-959f95a76b89, c3e415c6-4088-4a60-a50e-fe80f44b8bb1]

## Unifying threads

- **Everything is a system with physics** — Paik imports metaphors from thermodynamics, biology, finance, game theory, psychology, and infrastructure because he sees markets as systems governed by constraints, flows, equilibria, and selection pressures. [37bf3d70-0a69-4604-a1c7-5de8fe688474, 4d1da6f4-a960-4da2-beb3-7e87bdc1d5f2]
- **Find the water, then build the aqueduct** — His recurring “water flows downhill” logic ties together demand, distribution, infrastructure, and incentive design: durable companies route existing or latent behavior with less friction rather than trying to push users uphill. [6c9d0894-2a61-47c0-9a0f-a46348493bd7, b2f2f1e9-b618-437c-b662-1e41928cc4b8]
- **Scarcity migrates, it does not disappear** — In his worldview, AI, the internet, and platforms collapse one scarcity only to move value elsewhere: from code to distribution, from production to taste, from models to routing, from content to attention, from labor to intention. [de455278-6de4-46d5-b699-697b8db5f9c9, 43e3be17-c7d7-42a8-8c13-57882d0ac2a6]
- **Human nature is the durable substrate** — Even as technology changes, Paik returns to stable human motives—status, boredom, laziness, envy, belonging, ambition, self-expression, and the desire to be witnessed—as the demand layer beneath new products. [eec2a3ee-6517-4bf1-a882-6944b6741abb, d70d3b72-e9d4-4a74-ab54-3878bc6617f5]
- **Interfaces define eras** — He treats keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, eye tracking, browser agents, and local inference as primitive shifts that change what humans can express to computers and therefore what companies can exist. [6c9d0894-2a61-47c0-9a0f-a46348493bd7, 3a80ba8a-9f17-4144-b01b-6954ddad33f8]
- **The company is the second product** — His venture practice and writing repeatedly imply that after product-market fit, the harder product is the institution itself: its trust, incentives, hiring, decision-making, service posture, and compounding culture. [4d1da6f4-a960-4da2-beb3-7e87bdc1d5f2, 0790f038-cd3e-4411-9be4-14a1ee16f39a]
- **Public thinking is a live artifact** — Paik’s Google Docs, frameworks, aphorisms, interviews, and reply-thread debates function as a continuous-deployment knowledge system: ideas are shipped early, pressure-tested socially, revised, and sharpened into reusable lenses. [354b678e-a634-4b3b-8d35-91e3d633e50e, 0790f038-cd3e-4411-9be4-14a1ee16f39a]

## Sources

- Chris Paik — THE END OF CLOUD INFERENCE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#end-of-cloud-inference
- Chris Paik — TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP INVESTORS · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#top-down-bottom-up-investors
- Chris Paik — THE DAWN OF INFINITE CODE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#dawn-infinite-code
- Chris Paik — THE END OF SOFTWARE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#end-of-software
- Chris Paik — THE HYDROELECTRIC THEORY OF VALUE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#hydroelectric-theory-value
- Chris Paik — MESSAGING IS A MOAT, NOT A BUSINESS · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#messaging-moat-not-business
- Chris Paik — THE CATHEDRAL OF THE THIEF · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#cathedral-of-the-thief
- Chris Paik — PAYING $3 FOR A DOLLAR: THE RATIONAL IRRATIONALITY OF VENTURE CAPITAL · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#paying-three-for-dollar
- Chris Paik — THE WATT ERA · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#watt-era
- Chris Paik — PAYING TO WIN: THE RISE OF "VEBLEN SERVICES" · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#veblen-services
- Chris Paik — YOU CANNOT AUTOMATE THE AUTEUR · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#cannot-automate-auteur
- Chris Paik — HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#love-the-bomb
- Chris Paik — A TAXONOMY OF INNOVATION: CAPACITY, COORDINATION, AND CONNECTIVITY · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#taxonomy-of-innovation
- Chris Paik — ALL SEARCH IS NOT VALUABLE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#all-search-not-valuable
- Chris Paik — IT'S MORE FUN TO BE A PIRATE THAN TO JOIN THE NAVY. · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#pirate-navy
- Chris Paik — CREATING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#creating-something-from-nothing
- Chris Paik — TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP COMPANIES · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#top-down-bottom-up
- Chris Paik — STRONG WINDS, BIG SAILS: WHY CLINE WINS · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#strong-winds-big-sails-why-cline-wins
- Chris Paik — CURSOR'S PROBLEM · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#cursors-problem
- Chris Paik — WHAT IS THE PRICE OF DEMAND? · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#what-is-the-price-of-demand
- Chris Paik — WHAT'S MISSING SAYS MORE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#whats-missing-says-more
- Chris Paik — CHEATING: A USER'S GUIDE TO THE SOCIAL CONTRACT · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#cheating-users-guide-social-contract
- Chris Paik — OUR MISSING PIECES · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#our-missing-pieces
- Chris Paik — DEVELOP THE TASTE FOR SHIT · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#develop-taste-for-shit
- Chris Paik — SUCCESS IS THE BEST REVENGE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#success-is-best-revenge
- Chris Paik — TIME, TECH, AND THE BIRTH OF PLAY · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#time-tech-birth-of-play
- Chris Paik — MINIMUM VIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#minimum-viable-infrastructure
- Chris Paik — WE ALL IDENTIFY AS "OTHER" · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#we-all-identify-as-other
- Chris Paik — OPEN LETTER TO BRIAN CHESKY · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#open-letter-brian-chesky
- Chris Paik — EMERGENT AGENT ARCHITECTURE AND HUMAN CORPORATE HIERARCHY · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#emergent-agent-architecture
- Chris Paik — STUDYING YOURSELF · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#studying-yourself
- Chris Paik — MISTAKING OUTPUTS FOR INPUTS · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#mistaking-outputs-for-inputs
- Chris Paik — THE AMERICAN DREAM IS GOING DIGITAL · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#american-dream
- Chris Paik — THE SHADOW OF DISUTILITY · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#shadow-disutility
- Chris Paik — YOU HAVE TO BE IN THE WATER · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#be-in-water
- Chris Paik — WHY WE WANT ROBOTS AT WORK BUT HUMANS IN ART · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#robots-work-humans-art
- Chris Paik — THREE BROTHERS · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/essays#three-brothers
- Chris Paik — Atomic Value Swaps · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/theories#atomic-value-swaps
- Chris Paik — Business Model—Product Fit · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/theories#business-model-product-fit
- Chris Paik — The Seven Deadly Sins Are Actually the Seven Core Motivators · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/theories#seven-deadly-sins
- Chris Paik — Theories — the staging area for frameworks · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/theories
- Chris Paik — Aphorisms · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/aphorisms
- questions - Chris Paik · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/questions
- Chris Paik — Random Thoughts · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/random-thoughts
- Chris Paik — Philosophy — influences on my worldview · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/philosophy
- Frameworks · cpaik.com — https://cpaik.com/frameworks
- @HipCityReg just distill it · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2080407778594558149
- RT @fkpxls: https://t.co/Dobf2699jz · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2080346497535672505
- Frontier https://t.co/cTKF7JeMEa · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2080342507792077019
- RT @jacksondahl: Dialectic 52: @jackconte! Jack is not an entrepreneur who makes art on the side. He is a lifelong artist and musician wh… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2079982583023120610
- middle brother rn https://t.co/7gVxAoxIp5 · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2079607710018916396
- RT @fkpxls: Introducing AI Game Theory: An interactive sandbox that explores power and leverage between players in the AI economy. Every… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2079544951612801040
- The Watt Era https://t.co/37wPaymEWY · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2077474216358629417
- RT @fkpxls: We believe the future is many models, many harnesses, local AND cloud. Beyond excited to partner with one of my favorite prod… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2075325751172223192
- @nikitabier https://t.co/3QvOSvMTni https://t.co/lTIaVeHgWy · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2072294720709988353
- @kepano Ett Hem · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2071982931791245794
- RT @mitchellh: https://t.co/hXE5lXLpFT · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2071226056040665382
- https://t.co/Njbg421UFZ · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2050933332502794587
- Paying to Win: The Rise of Veblen Services https://t.co/OFSNBsfySQ · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2049530377216094592
- I appreciate the thorough critique. It is rare to receive a response that engages this deeply, so I am reciprocating in kind. First, a poin… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2048242330381992412
- @being_on_line Love hyperrealism (Chuck Close etc), more so meant that this is quite conclusive imo: https://t.co/yM6TeDyJn2 · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2048134517962031473
- RT @yoland_yan: We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, after never spending a dollar on marketing. 4 million people decided @ComfyUI w… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2047796684235719024
- RT @ComfyUI: We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M. Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @che… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2047796565184516492
- Wrote about why we can’t automate the auteur, which turned into a piece about @ComfyUI https://t.co/s9XgOXVtfV · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2047723833700864222
- @david_perell He can’t keep getting away with this · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2046409935865458706
- Incredible win for the universe that Jared's thinking is finally more public. Every ounce of Jared is force multiplier for those lucky enou… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2046315927369662506
- RT @alexatallah: Some upgrades are coming soon to the @OpenRouter Auto Router, to help you pick the lowest-cost model that fits your worklo… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2042685342419960197
- RT @fkpxls: Introducing Pace Summer Fellowship. For compulsive truth seekers who care about doing great work in a contained period of time… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2042301790771724378
- RT @albertwenger: Dear @tim_cook - make the @Apple neural engine low level APIs fully accessible to developers. Unleash the local and decen… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2040838683226460467
- RT @sdrzn: excited to share cline kanban! it's *incredible* seeing how the models can break down, parallelize, and link tasks in clever wa… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2037192280772153743
- RT @cline: Introducing Cline Kanban: A standalone app for CLI-agnostic multi-agent orchestration. Claude and Codex compatible. npm i -g cl… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2037191959760998827
- @signulll Definitely for coding tasks today. For non coding tasks I think the curve is coming faster and more aggressively than anyone is a… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2033664693957480709
- @signulll they all can run inference, it's just a question of usefulness of that inference · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2033619397751832779
- @pHequals7 🗣️ "NVLink doesn't matter for inference" · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2033606980791611854
- https://t.co/RuxJJZYutR · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2033599979843883356
- @nabeel Also why using cheat codes in a video game kind of defeats the whole point · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031431739818610981
- Insane that the entire future of media generation will be traceable back to this https://t.co/Neaz8T5HzL · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031430478260023554
- As a corollary, the dynamics in this essay are why "taste" is so important in a post-labor world. To quote Francois Truffaut, "Taste is the… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031396195831042433
- “Hey Claude, watch Love Island for me” -said no one ever No one wants to automate leisure, which is what the vast majority of consumer beha… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031350877609669015
- @0xNolitaEnjoyer a/b test (posted both) · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031147046556631465
- How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb In 1886, a group of blacksmiths and lathe operators at the Royal Arsenal armaments factory… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031089761834643710
- @tylerpalmer https://t.co/vGmVPP42gS · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031082304832000334
- @tylerpalmer 🥹 https://t.co/qmuSEft69T · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031078695817904622
- How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb https://t.co/0eOWYFU9LM · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2031074457775693974
- Local inference enjoying multiple tailwinds: Models getting better Models getting smaller Hardware acceleration improving Hardware upgrade … · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2028621003216077170
- On device inference enjoying multiple tailwinds: Models getting better Models getting smaller Hardware acceleration improving Hardware upgr… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2028618062971167140
- @brandonhli https://t.co/foYSc27UqX · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2027503017642123375
- @kevg1412 https://t.co/hNUEbzbjQ7 · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2027473264344207840
- "So... turns out it wasn't annual, recurring, or even revenue" · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2027471938365292720
- RT @bgurley: People really don’t understand what a competitive strategic weapon open source has become and how it works. Alfred Marshall wo… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2023590119828070491
- RT @cline: Introducing Cline CLI 2.0: An open-source AI coding agent that runs entirely in your terminal. Parallel agents, headless CI/CD… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2022364506437870055
- Guess we just had to wait 2 weeks https://t.co/6oz4CCaOad · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2022074223423091025
- Software is currently experiencing what happens when you reprice a perpetuity as an annuity · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2022073991247311251
- Every time I think about Thoma Bravo, Vista et al trying to find buyers for their companies I think of this video: https://t.co/DtAY49i6sC · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2021787358962794660
- RT @AryanNNaik: https://t.co/mcHqgshRMB · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2020235875167424653
- RT @AryanNNaik: I met the amazing team at Pax Historia a few months ago and we invested not long after. They’ve built an amazing product… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2019860597580648800
- RT @fkpxls: https://t.co/scc2GHIJb5 · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2019524906195837180
- RT @mattturck: Every human worker needs a computer. Soon, every AI agent will too, but not one: millions, provisioned instantly, securely i… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2019484541258273094
- RT @sdrzn: Cline went from losing at a hackathon to: > 5M installs > 4,700% YoY contributor growth > 57K stars on GitHub Thank you… · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2017035149251080321
- @fkpxls invested at 4 likes · x.com — https://x.com/cpaik/status/2016958967289721123

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