Mat Balez

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@matbalez

open money & open intelligence @spiral_xyz • co-founded @cityblock • average tennis player • prolific vibe coder • dad of 4

Vancouver, BC matbalez.com Joined August 2007

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Mat Balez @matbalez Oct 29

it's a bit hard to know what to build next or even why to build at all right now. but we musn't stop.

what to build?
the answer i think involves: big ambition, science, data, robots, value networks & storytelling

and why?
as ever, to build the world you want to see

read on:

Spiral Verified account @spiral_xyz Oct 29

Some coping strategies for builders who are feeling bummed out by the unrelenting acceleration of AI. spiralxyz.substack.com/p/building-bey…

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Mat Balez @matbalez Oct 31

(30 mins later)

i used an agent in omarchy
to make a lightning wallet
..for omarchy

[using the @lexeapp SDK; which has never once failed my building needs]

Mat Balez Verified account @matbalez Oct 31

running omarchy
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Mat Balez @matbalez Oct 31

running omarchy

Mat Balez @matbalez Oct 30

but what if the utilization of local compute was actually made much, much higher because we all shared a public network for distributed inference

no need to ask what if

meshllm.cloud

meshllm.cloud Mesh LLM Mesh serves large local models across multiple machines through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

morgan — Verified account @morqon Oct 29

sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources

“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre

but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time

you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment

somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”

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Mat Balez @matbalez Oct 29

people shouldn't be sad. it is an amazing time to build!

just build the right things for the right reasons

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Thariq Verified account @trq212 Oct 28

very weird thing happening rn

technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless

non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better
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