benedict

excited to announce my new company, meridian. over the next few years llms are going to redefine how we interact with every piece of software in our lives and crypto is no exception

the meridian team has doubled from 2 to 4 over the past month and we're planning to double again by july we're ramping up to fine-tune task-specific models over the summer, all in service of delivering top-notch consumer experiences. if you're bored at your job, shoot me a DM

permissionless asset issuance leads to interesting new innovations but also makes it impossible for average users to stay on top of the asset universe this is the first step of many toward making that more legible

Meridian Indices We spent the last week retooling our intelligence engine to categorize the world of investable assets. Today we are launching the first comprehensive market map of Solana Automatically categorized and rebalanced on the fly

the scenario where AI wipes out a large swath of middle class jobs while AI researchers get increasingly insane billion dollar salaries seems like a somewhat unstable equilibrium for society

if RL comes for well scoped long horizon tasks with async feedback cycles it will have a profoundly disruptive impact on remote workers

one weird thing about sf is that large groups of people will wait at a red light for multiple minutes without crossing even if there are no cars in sight

1/ A few weeks ago, the @CFTC put out an RFC to inform on the uses, benefits, and risks of Perpetual Derivatives. Today, I'm excited to share joint work with @ntrlsk (give him a follow, he is brilliant) linked below.

got to know pb and the perpl team during my time at ergonia. they’re incredibly sharp and i’m excited to back them even if they leave me off the graphic

made it on the graphic for the first time

excited to share we've soft launched Tongues. language has always been social.

for the first time i can remember it is totally unclear what models are category leader for almost any task all signs point toward specialization eventually but right now it is just chaos

one thing i’ve noticed after four months in SF is that there are an alarming number of companies that are basically “a database connected to a kind of confusing gui” and they all have 400M+ revenue and the founders are celebrities

thanks @GwartyGwart for having me on! Wide-ranging convo, go give it a listen so we can tell sponsors I didn't cause listener churn

windsurf consistently makes "memories" about niche front end features in your codebase and then injects them into the context when you are working on something completely different. horrible UX! why has no one figured out memory in a useful way

think about how much more money we would have lost on NFTs if this chatgpt image generation existed in 2021

yea sex is cool but have you ever defined a generative ui framework extracting user intents from an infinite range of possibilities and cooking up the perfect dish of components