Eric Winer
@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
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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is anyone else's battery life tanking after installing the iOS Vista update?
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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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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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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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@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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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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@PerplexityComet but also i tried to ask perplexity to make this meme and it... procrastinated?
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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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bravo @AlexAuroraDev and @auroraisnear for the quick and effective attack mitigation but MOSTLY for this thread and its pictures
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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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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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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