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Eric Winer

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CTO @near_ai, formerly @pagodaplatform @niftygateway @gemini any AI / crypto opinions are my own. any NFL opinions are the official position of my employer.

New York, NY
Joined December 2013
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Eric Winer
8 days
seems like they've added some CYA crap to their usage policies, saying it's prohibited for you to use ChatGPT for legal advice without consulting a lawyer.  but i don't see evidence (yet) that they're actually changing or restricting model outputs.
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Eric Winer
15 days
is anyone else's battery life tanking after installing the iOS Vista update?
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Eric Winer
1 month
hey it's time for my monthly panic of "oh crap did i accidentally rack up a bunch of charges to my personal AWS account"
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Eric Winer
1 month
yay, more shrinkflation, how exciting.
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Eric Winer
2 months
Used to be I had 1Password and Authy. Totally manageable security. Now I've got passkeys littered across iCloud, Chrome, 1Password, TouchID, Yubikey, god knows where else. I know this is a Me Problem, but my online security has arguably gotten *worse* from the rise of passkeys.
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Eric Winer
2 months
Story time: Back in 2012, I went on a (third? maybe fourth?) date with a girl to a jazz bar that had lots of fun games. We had bonded over being competitive, and thought we could play some ping pong or foosball together. She asked to play Scrabble – but it turns out that makes
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Eric Winer
2 months
@near_ai @Google Ultimately, neither protocol has any adoption to speak of yet. We're still waiting for (and building at @near_ai!) the killer apps that will drive demand for agent-to-agent transactions. Once that happens, either protocol will work great, and work even better with $NEAR. (4/4)
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Eric Winer
2 months
@near_ai @Google Payments protocols: * AP2 is more fleshed out; AITP-01 Payments still has some loose ends * AITP's referral/affiliate revenue model is vital once you have agent-to-agent-to-agent communication chains (3/4)
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Eric Winer
2 months
@near_ai @Google Communication protocols: * A2A uses more structured communication (task requests, status updates, etc.) with some natural language elements * AITP uses unstructured communication (conversations) with structured elements on top (payments, passwords, data requests) (2/4)
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Eric Winer
2 months
Getting a lot of questions about @near_ai's AITP vs @Google's A2A/AP2: * Pretty similar in vision, goals, scope * Both move us towards user-owned AI; glad to see @Google making positive moves * AITP was there first; who cares? (1/4)
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Eric Winer
2 months
gm. happy 3²/4²/5² everyone.
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Eric Winer
3 months
my new least favorite sales tactic is the "fake forwarded email from your boss". i've got three of them in my inbox this morning.
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Eric Winer
3 months
@PerplexityComet but also i tried to ask perplexity to make this meme and it... procrastinated?
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Eric Winer
3 months
thx @PerplexityComet for the invite.
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Eric Winer
3 months
i'm here to see what people are writing. is there any way to hide "@grok" mentions and replies? i can block @grok but that only hides half the chatter
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Eric Winer
3 months
Working with GPT-5 I'm impressed at how it's having an authentic disagreement with me on tech architecture. It acknowledged some good points I made and refuted some bad points I made. We agreed to disagree, then it built my idea with some mild grumbling in the reasoning tokens.
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Eric Winer
3 months
bravo @AlexAuroraDev and @auroraisnear for the quick and effective attack mitigation but MOSTLY for this thread and its pictures
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Alex Shevchenko 🇺🇦
3 months
Aurora Mainnet experienced an attack yesterday. It was timely stopped. Vulnerability fixed for all virtual chains. The attacker stole $240. If you think $240 isn't much, just imagine 40 delicious Big Macs. 🧵
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Rhys
3 months
these gpt-5 numbers are insane 🤯
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Eric Winer
3 months
I used to use @windsurf because I liked it slightly better than @cursor_ai. Now I still use @windsurf because even with so much bad news swirling around its demise, and better alternatives out there, I'm just feeling stubborn and ornery.
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Eric Winer
3 months
tbh this is a game changer, i always regretted picking grey but didn't want to bother the team for special permission to switch @Gemini
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