Max Ischenko

“Habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag..even the most arrant theft, in the hands of the robber’s grandchildren, becomes sacred and inviolable property.” -Will Durant

“Civilization begins where chaos and insecurity end.”

“The theme of the twentieth century seems destined to be an all-embracing conflict between the East and the West” ^^ Durant, 1935. Seems just as relevant here in 2025.

“Your first few hires in a startup are really more like founders—they are your peers basically, you don’t have to (or want to) manage them. They have to be self-motivated” -pg

Products with extensive/rich UIs lots of sliders, switches, menus, with no scripting support, and built on opaque, custom, binary formats are ngmi in the era of heavy human+AI collaboration. -Karpathy

Те, що ми зараз маємо — це не останній рівень важкості. Буде важче. І чим далі — тим хуйовіше, причому для обох сторін. ^^ хвилинка оптимізму від військових

“I judge that it might be true that fortune is arbiter of half our actions, but also that she leaves the other half, or close to it, for us to govern.” ^^ виявляється Макіавеллі це вже людина сучасності

it’s genuinely hard to get normal humanlike labor out of LLMs.. The lack of continual learning is a huge problem. (..) The LLM baseline at many tasks might be higher than an average human's. But there’s no way to give a model high level feedback.

As a manager, your empathy needs to be highly conditional. Your job is to get to the truth of a matter in a respectful way, not make your team feel good.

“Instead of training a model on how to be good at a task in the abstract, they could train it on how to do something exactly like you do.“