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Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day.

I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep

labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?"

The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always

Mathematics and reading scores in "unprecedented" drop

No solo han cambiado las metodologías docentes, también han cambiado las capacidades de nuestros estudiantes: www.reuters.com/world/mathem...

Tú lo has dicho @manuti.bsky.social !! Gracias por la mención :)

No recuerdo haber dicho eso. Como mucho mi temor era ver un día una foto de mis niños en un gran cartel publicitario porque a saber cómo entrenan su IA o cómo usan esas caras... Pero es una probabilidad baja, creo.

Uf no me acuerdo de esa historia —como de otras muchas— pero mola :) Curioso lo que pasas Manuti

Tener una pizca de razón no te la da toda. No me van los talibanes.

How much energy does ChatGPT use? This Gradient Updates issue explores how much energy ChatGPT uses per query, revealing it’s 10x less than common estimates.

Here's one good study on that. @epochai.bsky.social and @justjoshinyou.bsky.social arrived to the same number a few months ago.

epoch.ai/gradient-upd...

Suscritos a todo, dueños de nada: cómo esta forma de comprar nos hace tener menos (pagando más) El modelo de compras de productos digitales ha vaciado nuestras bibliotecas personales, pero también nos empuja a un contexto en el que cada vez poseemos menos bienes, desde libros hasta ordenadores y...

Hace unos días @cristinafpereda.bsky.social publicó este tema chulísimo sobre suscripciones. Tuvo además el detalle de mencionar 'Suscriptocracia' y citar algunos párrafos del libro. Es un gran resumen de cómo está el segmento. ¡Gracias! 😊

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www.suscriptocracia.com

If you're into subscriptions, you may find my book interesting ;)

javipas.com/subscriptocracy

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#booksky

Ohh 😍

Librosqueexplicanelmundo

Suscriptocracia de la experiencia @javipas.com

Gracias por la mención @delia2d.bsky.social ☺️ Pues sí.

Harry y la revolución de las gafas y la IA de Google Era un día de perros, pero hacía mucho que eso daba igual. La gente ya no se volvía tonta conduciendo cuando caían tres gotas, sobre todo porque la gente ya no conducía y los coches autónomos eran …

Os dejo aquí una historieta de Harry. Una en la que hablo de la revolución de Google y la IA desde un punto de vista entretenido.

javipas.com/2025/05/21/h...

El hombre que se dejó morder cientos de veces por serpientes venenosas abre el camino hacia un antídoto universal Un equipo científico crea un suero que neutraliza el veneno de 19 de las especies más letales, como la mamba negra o la cobra real, usando los anticuerpos de un estadounidense que casi muere debido a su obsesión con estos animales

El nuevo antídoto fue creado a partir de los anticuerpos de Tim Friede, un exmecánico de camiones de Wisconsin que ha dedicado años de su vida a inmunizarse voluntariamente contra el veneno de serpiente. Y lo ha hecho recibiendo mordedura tras mordedura

Pues un poco sí. Pero tenías que tener soporte de radio fm también, claro.

What Does OpenAI Want With a Social Network? OpenAI is working on its own social network. Why?

“In the modern tech industry, every company dreams of being an everything company and spends a lot of money trying to get there.”

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

xDD Perdonad que sigo mirando X por defecto aunque trato de pasarme por aquí de cuando en cuando, pero se me olvida.

Difícil desdoblarse, pero hay que darle una oportunidad a Bluesky, claro que sí 👍

Leer siempre ♥️

De momento las primeras pruebas son algo decepcionantes. Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental analiza y resume bastante mejor, por lo visto.

The United States has oil reserves because they have actual utility. It’s crucial to running the economy.

Crypto is not crucial to running the economy. You can’t fuel tanks or jets with it.

A crypto reserve would absolutely tank confidence in the dollar.

‘On Google, You Get Links. On Perplexity, You Get Answers’: An Interview With the CEO of Perplexity, the AI Startup That Wants to Kill Its Biggest Inspiration I recently met with Aravind Srinivas, the CEO and co-founder of Perplexity. The previous day had been intense for him and his company. The AI startup had...

I had the chance to interview @AravSrinivas
a few days ago. He was brilliant and shared super-interesting insights about Perplexity's (and AI) present and future.

www.xatakaon.com/robotics-and...

Analysis: Meta has invested $80B+ in AR and VR since 2014 when it bought Oculus, and is on track to top $100B in 2025; a source says it sold 1M Ray-Bans in 2024 (Financial Times)

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My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives.

Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library!

Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.

euphoric photo of dolphins jumping under a rainbow

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

Agreed.

"Google te da enlaces, Perplexity te da respuestas": hablamos con el CEO de la startup IA que quiere matar al padre Me reúno en un céntrico hotel de Madrid con Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas), cofundador y CEO de Perplexity. El día anterior fue intenso para él y su...

Cuando haces entrevistas, te encuentras a veces con alguien claramente especial. Que es lo que pasó con .Aravind Srinivas.

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