Jason Shah
@jasonshah
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Building products and advising companies. Prev: CTO @ Mediafly, consultant @ Bain. Often lifting weights or bike commuting.
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2008
Running vs lifting is like
To all the runners out there… is the superiority complex just part of life? Because I’ve been running a total of 3 weeks and it’s already kicking in. 😂.
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You know the GPT-5 demos were bad because my feed is not littered with "8 ways GPT-5 will change everything" threadbois.
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Can't help but wonder how screwed convenience stores in poor areas are with the EBT rules changes.
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The top two HN comments on GPT-5 are:.1. The slide label on model performance is wrong, and.2. The explanation in the first demo is wrong. Going great! 👍🏾
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The top two HN comments on GPT-5 are:.1. The slide label on model performance is wrong, and.2. The explanation in the first demo is wrong. Going great! 👍🏾
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I wonder if we are getting to the point where comparing performance of AI models is like comparing megapixels on cameras. It just doesn't matter that much.
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Being able to use Claude Code or Gemini CLI in a folder and do something like this is 🤯. > Convert all the images in this directory to png, and rename them to use dates from the exif data.
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Little known fact: Tim Apple and Fiona Apple are first cousins.
Tim Cook: It is engraved for President Trump. It is a unique unit of one. And the base comes from Utah, and is 24 karat gold.
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I'd like to report a (chart) murder.
It is insane that in the richest country in the world, millions cannot afford a home and hundreds of thousands are homeless every night. We need major investments in affordable housing, not tax breaks for billionaires.
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"I'd expect it to work like a very junior programmer, but it works like a very drunk senior programmer that isn't listening to you very well at all.".
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You most likely would have had the key stolen in an elaborate phishing scam or straight up stolen from Mt. Gox.
“If I put $100 in Bitcoin in 2010 I’d have $2.8B now.”. No. If you bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010 and watched it go to:. $1k → $100k → $1.7M. and did nothing. Then watched $1.7M go to $170k. and still did nothing. Then watched $170k go to $110M. and still did nothing. Then.
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It was obvious we as a city and state would get to this point when I moved here 25 years ago (I ~always lived in IL) because of pensions. I just didn't think it would happen as soon as this. Thought it would happen after I retired.
Johnson saying city finances are at “a point of no return.” It’s like he finally realized the reality of the job he wanted. Economic growth would certainly help! Won’t happen with his admin in charge though. Also, disbanding the pension panel? LOL… That’s the key finance issue!!
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Coming out of a top MBA program and into MBB or IB, you think you're hot shit. Then you realize the rest of the world not only doesn't care, they don't even know why they should care.
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When I was a management consultant, I overheard my mom telling a friend on the phone, "he works in the Sears Tower". I could have been a janitor in the Sears Tower! She had no idea what I actually did.
“I don’t know what Salesforce even does”. Well have you tried to go out and learn or did you just think such knowledge would somehow emerge spontaneously in your brain?.
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This theory plays out in part of Neal Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell". I didn't like most of it, but that part of falling population made for fascinating reading.
Demographics in America will change so drastically over the next 10-20 years that real estate will see a massive and permanent correction/depression. I think the last cycle (of my lifetime) to make money is right now. We are in the trough.
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The same is true with Chicago. But people stuck in their own frame of reference will forever say that Chicago is a "driving town" and that bike lanes are "wasted space".
I’m so confident that if you replicated the past 5 years of infrastructure of Paris or Montreal in Philadelphia, there would also be more bikes than cars here.
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So, @AskPerplexity is doing exactly what we all expected from every AI crawl engine out there. Only difference is they got caught.
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