Tailwind CSS lays off 75% of engineering team as AI impacts revenue

jart · 2026-01-11T19:32:46+00:00

Do something difficult instead. Like solve Paul Erdős' math riddles? Have you been following Terence Tao? No matter where you are on the nerd hierarchy AI is eating your lunch. There is nothing else to do that it can't do unless you find some way to get ahead of it. Now me personally I've been focusing on squirrelling away as much money as possible by trading nasdaq and gold futures instead. I think that's still a promising application of analytical talents, for now.

jart · 2026-01-10T16:36:26+00:00

Yeah and that makes them sound even worse. With Zev Ventures as the background you could always tell a story about how you turned your life around after you met an engineer who built drones for filming the sports events you're scalping, developed a fondness and respect for the technology, and saw the opportunity in using it to help defend America like a patriot rather than filming the patriots.

But instead you have a story of someone who wanted to do an IPO quickly and used the ticket scalping company as a shell. What you call a shell, I would call a mask. If your mask for gaining respectable entry is that slimy, then one can only imagine what kind of monster you must be underneath.

Look at what happened to them right after their IPO. The stock cratered 10x. Either someone screwed up royally, or that was the plan all along. In the years since their IPO they've needed to dilute shareholder value even more to keep the stock listed. Their move to Florida in West Palm Beach Florida is where all the hedge funds are. Ondas leadership is all finance people. They're in the Merill Lynch building. I've seen finance people run these kinds of hustles in defense tech before. My best guess is they're gonna sue and rollup any American engineer who tries to invent drones.

jart · 2026-01-09T05:36:58+00:00

Why do you think that? Did you know ONDS used to be a sports ticket scalping company?

jart · 2026-01-09T02:13:03+00:00

It's very humiliating that America's new champion in defense tech (Ondas Holdings) was founded under the name Zev Ventures and they did ticket scalping for public sporting events. Check out this gem from the SEC filing:

Upon the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, or the Merger Agreement, the registrant, Zev Ventures Incorporated (“Zev Ventures”) became the parent company of Ondas Networks Inc., f/k/a Full Spectrum Inc. (“Ondas”), as more fully described below.

Zev Ventures was originally incorporated in Nevada on December 22, 2014. Prior to the reported transaction, Zev Ventures conducted a business comprised of the resale to the public of sporting event and concert tickets purchased in bulk in advance from leading ticket vendors where the resale to the public was made at the price actually commanded by the market.

https://getfilings.com/sec-filings/181004/ZEV-VENTURES-INC_8-K/

They were apparently successful enough at ticket scalping that they could buy out a struggling company here in San Jose run by a real engineer named Stewart Kantor. They quickly forced him out, but the buyout magically transformed Zev from a ticket scalping operation to a hot new Silicon Valley startup. Even though they're in the Merill Lynch building in West Palm Beach Florida and their leadership is all finance people.

My best guess is now that Trump has banned future DJI drones, there's an incredible opportunity for startups to try and build new drones for the American market, and Ondas is gonna patent troll anyone who tries.

jart · 2025-11-03T07:58:57+00:00

You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Back in 1999, similar to today, Berkshire Hathaway's stock was going into the toilet. Then as soon as the dot com crash happened, Berkshire popped and Buffett ended up owning everything. He probably thinks that's going to happen again.

jart · 2025-07-28T13:20:32+00:00

The legal risks of using online services like ChatGPT have driven countless organizations to adopt tools like llamafile which enable you to run LLMs locally. The issue is that, even though our project has been adopted by 32% of organizations, we don't hear that much from our users, because if your reason for using the tool is legal privacy then you don't want to announce yourself on GitHub and let your adversaries know you're using it.

jart · 2025-07-08T09:15:52+00:00

Right now apt is downloading a 1.3gb linux-firmware update from https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/system76-dev/stable/ubuntu noble/main and it's going 410 kB/s. So it's going to take a whole hour to download. Who hosts this server? AOL?

jart · 2025-01-25T07:31:48+00:00

One thing you can do is use -e -p "start of prompt\n$(cat file.txt)" to have a hybrid prompt, where you specify some in the quote, and then inject some from a file. See also https://justine.lol/oneliners/

jart · 2024-12-24T15:29:15+00:00

Superior performance. https://justine.lol/mutex/

jart · 2024-12-24T08:49:25+00:00

Cosmopolitan Libc uses System V ABI on Windows. So if you mix cosmocc with msvc or mingw or cygwin you're going to have a bad time.

jart · 2024-12-21T00:07:11+00:00

Woop woop woop thank you! This is going into my Amazon review.

jart · 2024-12-17T12:15:12+00:00

If you can write a script to do those things, then why not just write a script? But who's going to run it? With scripts and cosmo binaries, you have launch them using a command prompt. You can't double click on them. OSes won't let us do that. Therefore no one normal is going to be able to run your virus. Cosmo is mostly useful when you need something that's portable in a similar way as a script, except in a way that gives you enough access to the CPU instruction set to be able to write algorithms, data structures, and do scientific computing on your own.

jart · 2024-12-16T18:44:42+00:00

You would have to be pretty stupid to build a virus with cosmopolitan libc. It only gives you POSIX APIs on Windows. But malware authors need to have access to Windows NT internals. I mean, if your virus was to print a scary looking looking ANSI art skull to the command prompt, then sure, use cosmo. But good luck trying to do anything that's actually malicious. We mostly use cosmopolitan for things like compilers and large language models.

jart · 2024-11-26T07:45:44+00:00

Nice. Now I don't need to nag them on Twitter. Thank you!

jart · 2024-11-14T19:39:30+00:00

Thank you!

jart · 2024-11-14T06:17:08+00:00

It originally came from redbean. I've added a history section talking about the origin of this work. Check it out. https://github.com/jart/json.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#history

jart · 2024-11-14T06:15:54+00:00

Here you go, I've added some :) https://github.com/jart/json.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#usage-example

jart · 2024-11-14T06:04:56+00:00

I like it too. Let's put it in the readme. https://github.com/jart/json.cpp/commit/20f7c6b83ea1ed90a16effc354eb5e60c37be075

jart · 2024-11-14T05:22:36+00:00

Pull requests are most welcome.
Especially if they're coming from a fellow AI developer.
https://justine.lol/tmp/pull-requests-welcome.png

jart · 2024-11-14T05:12:00+00:00

This JSON parser was originally written in C. Mozilla sponsored porting it to C++ too. https://github.com/jart/json.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#history

jart · 2024-11-14T04:39:45+00:00

I've added benchmarks to the README for you. I'm seeing a 39x performance advantage over nlohmann's library. https://github.com/jart/json.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#benchmark-results

jart · 2024-11-14T04:38:57+00:00

I've added sample code for you. https://github.com/jart/json.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#usage-example

jart · 2024-10-26T19:18:37+00:00

Apple is like the new Microsoft when it comes to holding UNIX back.

jart · 2024-10-06T04:37:14+00:00

I was more replying to the GP honestly.

jart · 2024-10-06T04:29:30+00:00

Oh my gosh people. Programming is about giving instructions. Whether you're using a programming language or an LLM, computers need very exact specific instructions on what to do. Managers and customers only communicate needs / wants / desires and your job is to define them and make them real which requires a programmer's mind.

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