Tom Blomfield (@t_blom) on X (original) (raw)

Tom Blomfield

Tom Blomfield

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  The problem with Europe is that they’re unironically proud of this shit.
  
  It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need. #DigitalEU
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  Software engineers are highly-paid farmers, tending their crops by hand. We just invented the combine harvester. The world is going have a lot more food and a lot fewer farmers in very short order.
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  It's shocking to see how badly the big tech companies are fumbling AI.
  
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  Hey
  @askhalifaxbank
  👋 It's great to see your updated brand identity, but it looks like you forgot to update couple of things. The card in the photo still displays the
  @monzo
  BIN (5355 22) and the name of one of our staff members... 😉
  
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  Grok 3 feels like talking with an adult. Claude is still lobotimized.
  
  
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  Season 7 of Silicon Valley
  
  im hiring 50 interns in san francisco for
  @trycluely
  . $50/hr. + founding engineers cluely .com/careers
  
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  An uncomfortable truth: a small minority of people are dramatically smarter and more effective than average. Most folks have never seen these people operate first-hand. It's both awe-inspiring and humbling. These people aren't always particularly "relatable" or "electable", so
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  I try to talk to Gen Z like they’re adults but they say lowkey in every other sentence and it makes me crazy.
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  I worry that "AI is going to make doctors/lawyers/whatever more effective" is just cope. It's only true over a 1-3 year time horizon. AI is going to steamroll all knowledge work in the next 10 years.
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  Why doesn’t the UK have more startups? Capital is fixed, technical talent is world class, tax incentives are great, visas mostly fine, university IP problems seem like they’re getting fixed. Free healthcare and social security net in the UK is a huge advantage that should make
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  Cursor blew my mind for about 3 days. Then it started getting confused as my codebase got larger. I switched to Windsurf 20 mins ago. It handled the larger codebase easily. Since they're both VS Code forks, the learning curve was zero. These tools are amazing but they have zero
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  Before very long, we’re going to be able to give an LLM the login details to a complex SaaS application and the AI will clone it end-to-end. Plus import your data for free. My bet is that this happens in under 12 months.
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  Hearing from a lot of good founders that AI tools are writing most of their code now. Software engineers orchestrate the AI. They are also finding it extremely hard to hire because most experienced engineers have their heads in the sand and refuse to learn the latest tools.
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  Imagine if Elon had just stuck with building rockets and self-driving cars and humanoid robots and brain implants. Top 5 human of all time. Instead he had to go and buy a social network and fuck everything up.

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