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Please don't drain my $6.5 billion in Dogecoin.

Dragons are famous for sitting on gold.

Today, approximately 7%–12% of gold is used for micro-plating connectors, contact pins, and circuitry in smartphones, computers, and GPS devices.

> 1. Total AWS Gold: 10,000,000 servers multiplied by 1.875 grams equals 18,750,000 grams (18,750 kg).

> 2. Bezos's Share: 18,750 kg multiplied by an 8.5% ownership stake equals 1,593.75 kg

It's like Claude contains all these ideas and we only have to mine them.

https://adamsohn.com/sixty-hertz/

There isn't a day I don't ask Claude "What would Drupal do?"

I would not be surprised if approaching vibe engineering from the Drupal perspective is the way out of AI slop.

Nonetheless, although I had a blast one evening building custom modules using Claude wishing I had this tool during those hours of stress I suffered 15 years ago, I don't think there is a place for Drupal outside of higher educations marketing.

AI is not capable of empathy.

AI is not capable of having good taste.

I've been very optimistic about AI. Wow, your comment just gave me pang of terror thinking about the outcome for humans due to Whitney and his cotton gin.

It is still work! And, I have to struggle to get it to make sense and look nice. This means I'm interacting with the code and system which is how I learn!

[0] https://ciechanow.ski/sound/

[1] https://adamsohn.com/clap/

[2] https://adamsohn.com/algoviz/?algo=delta-week

You are bringing up a good point. Stupid me can be presented with on demand pretty animated cartoons in order to understand anything known. Imagine how this is going to improve learning speed the student on the engineering track? In a couple years, most engineering students will learn this in the first year of undergrad!

The LLM model was able to break down and express math in such a simple way that I could understand and follow the training of the LLM model itself!

Are the math and computation accurate? I don’t know, and likely there are significant errors. Nonetheless, if I had a little more time -- not infinite time -- I would be able to prove whether they are or not.

Likely this is the path forward for understanding the mechanisms of medicine, and since most humans learn by doing and interacting with an environment, interacting like this will become how we use AI for learning in the near future.

[0] https://adamsohn.com/grpo/

Ironically your comment will be cloned and used for training.

The AI companies focused most their effort on writing software and continue to do so. Software, SaaS, and software engineers are the first to be disrupted.

> but AI has completely changed that.

Exactly. However, it is because AI is focused on solving writing software first which is the step to solving everything else.

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I'm looking for a competitive, fast-moving team to join. I'm also open to contract work, but I would prefer to commit full time.

If your approach to making decisions is to spend 30 minutes using coding agents to spin up several infrastructure configurations on AWS, then use automation to stress test them for 5 minutes to find the best configuration for running your system; or to set up a grid of front-end frameworks like React and Svelte, implementing every state management system, like Redux and RxJS, in isolation to build a performance table so you can make informed decisions with empirical data, then I would be a good fit for your team.

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| https://adamsohn.com/reasoning-grid/

As a consultant and full-time engineer, I’ve led 0-to-1 product development across streaming, real estate, edtech, marketing, and media. Having worked at companies ranging from a 130-person AI organization to a scrappy 7-person team, I thrive most in fast-paced, high-ownership environments.

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I've been doing a lot of traveling for the past 3 years and I agree with you that it is `definitely not "most"`. Everywhere people interacting with each other in third spaces and cafes even if it is street food. There are open air markets around the world filled everyday with groups of people interacting with each other. There are parks and squares around the world filled with families sitting together on benches. Around the world there are churches, mosques, and temples filled with families and groups of people.

Most places in the world people will happily make small talk or have a discussion with a stranger even if I only know 100 words of their language.

Sure many or most people in some places are working 10 hours a day 6 days a week but I don't think it is the isolation I see in the United States. It is the same in De'Nang Vietnam or a market in Lima, Peru when I went everyday to get coffee in the morning; it was always the same person working ,any time or day of the week, but they were always friendly and welcoming and interacting with with the same people.

Neil deGrasse Tyson used the number 8 as an analogy to explain that mathematical similarities between two systems do not mean they share a physical connection -- they were discussing how both the universe and human brain can be described using fractal mathematics. He pointed out that you can count 8 planets in the solar system and 8 children in a room, but having the same count doesn't mean the children are planets.

The similarities say more about mathematics than it does about the universe and the human brain or planets and children.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zNnJ2AzmA4

Will the United States suffer the same problems as the Soviet Union when ~15 people control and own all the ideas?

This might not be communism or socialism -- this is whatever the Soviet Union was. There is owning land which is tangible and easy to understand. Everyone owns the land together because it is the means to produce wheat. Owning ideas is hard to grasp. If a person thinks something unique and writes that thought on paper, they own that thought. Every single machine is an idea: the light bulb, the transistor, the little piece of plastic that holds the two ends of hula hoop together, and the blue LCD. Owning the idea of the process has an extra step, but it is still ownership of an idea.

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Owning our ideas and their derivatives is so foundational to the American identity, some Americans might say, "I ain't no communist!" In order to promote intellectual discovery, the Founding Fathers decided that people are allowed to own their ideas, the rights to use those ideas, sell them, and to profit from them.

For better or worse, ignoring the United States Constitution and ignoring the fundamental tenet of ownership of ideas is a non-violent communist revolution.

The clause is what ensures profits from market sales or licensing of ideas go to the creator.

Removing (or ignoring in the case of AI companies) that clause in the US Constitution is what abolishes private ownership.

The first time a saw a documentary about Tetris it really hit me what communism is -- nobody owned anything they invented or created. [0] It was a long time ago and I remember feeling sad watching the story. In the Soviet Union, a group of ~15 people, Politburo, controlled everything including any thought written to paper.

It is this one line, Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8, that separates the United States from the disaster that was the Soviet Union:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

I don't think it is far fetched to call ignoring and disregarding the Copyright Clause a communist revolution, violent or not. That is the one thing the communists -- there have been many over the years inside the United States -- would change to make the United States a communist country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#Spread_beyond_the_Sovie...

They have a theory that artists who have to struggle more during the training and developing of being able to express on medium develop into better artists.

[0] https://youtu.be/2wiqPPICQP0?si=CK_4M8dghGl-oaX_&t=2104

  > 512 shards, each with one Postgres primary each on an r8g.16xlarge
  > 480 Neki routers, each on its own 8xlarge instance
  > We sustained 118,538,803 QPS for 16 minutes across 512 shards and 1.22 PiB of data. Our largest recording was 118,747,267.

  Component                      Detail                           Monthly  Hourly  16-min burst
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Shard compute                  512x r8g.16xlarge                 $1.41M  $1,930          $515
  Router compute                 480x r8g.8xlarge*                  $661K    $905          $241
  Storage (gp3 floor)            1.22 PiB @ $0.08/GB-mo             $102K    $140           $37
  Storage (io2 floor)            1.22 PiB @ $0.125/GB-mo            $160K    $219           $58
  IOPS (io2, light)              5K IOPS/shard, tiered rate         $166K    $228           $61
  IOPS (io2, medium)             20K IOPS/shard, tiered rate        $666K    $912          $243
  IOPS (io2, worst-case)         231,517 IOPS/shard (0% cache)     $4.56M  $6,251        $1,667
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Total (gp3 floor)                                                $2.17M  $2,975          $793
  Total (io2 floor)                                                $2.23M  $3,054          $814
  Total (io2 + light IOPS)                                         $2.40M  $3,282          $875
  Total (io2 + medium IOPS)                                        $2.90M  $3,966        $1,058
  Total (io2 + worst-case IOPS)                                    $6.79M  $9,305        $2,481

Florida politics? [0]

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[0] https://adamsohn.com/reasoning-grid/#walk-the-surface

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Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP, React, React Native, Svelte, Express, Bun, Angular, GraphQL, D3.js, visx, Backbone, jQuery, LangChain, Mastra, FastAPI, pandas, scikit-learn, Optuna, Chrome Extension API, Playwright, Electron, Stagehand, browser-use, Web Audio API, WebRTC, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Docker, Git, LLM agent design, agent evaluation, reinforcement learning, browser automation, MCP

Résumé/CV: Ask via email

Email: [HN username]@gmail.com

Portfolio of data visualizations:

| https://adamsohn.com/grammar/

| https://adamsohn.com/reasoning-grid/

| https://adamsohn.com/separate/

| https://adamsohn.com/clap/

| https://adamsohn.com/algoviz/

I bring 13 years of full-stack UI development experience alongside deep expertise in browser automation and agents, which I've been engineering since 2018. This blend makes me particularly strong in QA automation engineering and complex frontend architecture.

Notable projects include event ticket inventory management and a drag-and-drop CRM email builder for social marketing campaigns. As a consultant and full-time engineer, I’ve led 0-to-1 product development across streaming, real estate, edtech, marketing, and media. Having worked at companies ranging from a 130-person AI organization to a scrappy 7-person team, I thrive most in fast-paced, high-ownership environments.

| https://github.com/adam-s

| https://adamsohn.com