Joe Talafous @joe_t
Sales Engineer @ Yotpo since ‘16 | Rallies 🎾 & carving lines 🏂 | Focused openness: Clear goals, open to unexpected brilliance, finding nuance in polarization telephos.ai San Diego, CA Joined February 2012-
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More ICs, less admin layers across the board
Reminded of the greatest opening paragraph in history
Naval Ravikant (@naval) on how to build the team that ships:
Ive gotten so much better at writing code in the last year than 3 years prior to that. Just read each of Claude Codes thinking steps as it writes- you get better and you can correct the errors proactively.
Ive gotten so much better at writing code in the last year than 3 years prior to that. Just read each of Claude Codes thinking steps as it writes- you get better and you can correct the errors proactively.
All of the desirable people - the ones that you actually want to work with, spend time with, or date - won’t apply for the job. They have to be identified from afar and hunted down.
A giant disconnect I see in society right now is the fact that self driving will absolutely take over, AI will absolutely enable 1:1 tutoring for every child, and the past benefits of “good school districts” and housing built around driving personal vehicles will make less sense.
Behaviours punished in school -- but rewarded in adulthood: 1. Questioning the highest status person in the room 2. Copying people 3. Hardcore nerdiness 4. Touching reality
The ideal recruit for any role is: - Technical - An artist - Constantly generating new knowledge - Using AI to automate the repetitive parts of their job Exceptions apply.
A noble person is kind to a stranger he will never meet again, when nobody is watching, & when he has nothing to gain. The rest is self-promotion, social climbing, or profit seeking.
It’s surprising to me that @Apple isn’t taking any heat for the Tea app. The ethos for their App Store monopoly power is partially based on protections and app standards. SaaS apps use SOC2 (and more) to standardize trust. Apple should implement something similar in the era…
I am increasingly convinced the biggest benefit of AI is psychological: It makes people think bigger. There is implied tech optimism in defaulting to "wow this is so easy to automate".
If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.
16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked 30 exposed datasets. Each holds tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records. In total, 16 billion login credentials have leaked. This ranks as the largest breach ever recorded. Leaked data spans social media, VPNs,…
I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.
Change all of your passwords right now
A great #RolandGarros final. The scoring system in tennis is so good. The dynamic finishing line adds so much drama.
I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless.

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