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Max Spero
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Dec 2, 2025
    I do believe that AI detection is "not very hard" in the sense that the problem is solvable in ways that many people believed to be impossible. One in 10,000 false positive rate, generalizing to unseen OpenAI models. 20+ languages. Created by a team of less than 10. Sounds like
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    roon
    @tszzl
    Dec 2, 2025
    ai detection is not very hard and nobody even really tries except @max_spero_
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Oct 22, 2025
    Man it's so cool living in Brooklyn Wanna go to NYC? 0 minutes Wanna go to Philadelphia? No need
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    The Bratt Pack
    @TheBrattPack63
    Oct 20, 2025
    Man it’s so cool living in New Jersey Wanna go to NYC? One hour Wanna go to Philadelphia? One hour Wanna go to the beach? One hour Wanna go skiing in the mountains? One hour Wanna go ride roller coasters? One hour Wanna go see a show or concert? One hour I love it here man
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    May 29, 2025
    Replying to @publicinte
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Oct 9, 2025
    GitHub of an unemployed 22yo: GitHub of a distinguished engineer at Google:
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    Karan
    @karankendre
    Oct 9, 2025
    Mfs with a GitHub graph like this ask me for referral
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Jan 21, 2025
    I was a TA for Stanford's 2018 class on cryptocurrency. I helped teach the math of blockchain, cryptographic primitives that make up Bitcoin, smart contracts etc. But every office hours I would field questions from struggling students asking which coin they should buy. I kept
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    Molly White
    @molly0xFFF
    Jan 20, 2025
    Replying to @molly0xFFF
    >be young
>think crypto is a force for good
>FnF mock you for years as the "crypto guy"
> Trump about to become the president
>"See, it was legit. I didn't waste my life ok" 
>Trump launches $TRUMP and $MELENIA proving it indeed is a clown industry and you are a top comedian

[Ben Affleck smoking cigarette meme]
    
Gafoor Khan
@gafoorkhann
Trump onboarded normies to crypto today, sure.

But for what?
A memecoin pump?

Some made life-changing money. 
They’ll chase 100x gains forever, 
never learning what blockchains are all about.

Others? 
They’ll buy the top with their hard-earned savings. 
Exit in disgust, 
never looking at crypto ever again. 

This isn’t onboarding. 
This isn’t education. 
This isn’t how we build a better future.

As someone building in this space, it’s heartbreaking TBH.

We can do better. 
We have to do better.
    
JJcycles
@JJcycles
I joined crypto because I genuinely saw a potential major impact on the financial system. 

Here we are, president of the United States Of America launching his own memecoin. 

Genuinely questioning whether I want to be involved in any of this much longer.
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@tier10k
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Gensler is laughing at us
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Apr 28, 2025
    Replying to @redaction
    this is actually a really cool way to infer the biases inherent in the model. wouldn't be surprised if they have introduced some pro-black/female bias to counteract the initial bias towards white people in internet datasets
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Aug 28, 2025
    this post makes so much more sense when you realize this guy is just a kid with two internships under his belt
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    Dada
    Sorce (YC F25)
    @marvy_101
    Aug 27, 2025
    honest question you're 22 and you value work life balance why??
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    May 29, 2025
    this is exactly the kind of soft power we lose when we restrict student visas
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    AF Post
    @AFpost
    May 29, 2025
    Laura Loomer called for the deportation of Xi Jinping’s daughter, Xi Mingze, who attended Harvard and lives in Massachusetts. Follow: @AFpost
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Apr 20, 2024
    Something that never made sense to me is people who believe this graph will be reality. If you're training on a bunch of data that's between the green and the orange line, how do you do better than asymptotically approaching orange?
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    May 31, 2025
    Google shipping an underpowered LLM in the AI overview has been incredibly damaging to the general public's perception of AI
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Oct 15, 2025
    Is it just me or is 40 million paying ChatGPT users kind of low? Spotify has 276 million paid subscribers. Just kind of surprised that there are 760 million people who don't feel like they'd derive an additional $20 of value from a more capable model.
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    Wasteland Capital
    @ecommerceshares
    Oct 15, 2025
    Latest OpenAI numbers from the FT: 800m users, 5% paying (40m). $13bn in ARR. Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user. 70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API. $8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Aug 3, 2025
    Despite the Gemini team training an excellent frontier model, I can't help but feel that Google is lacking direction on the AI product side. Why can't I give Gemini agentic access to my Gmail? Why can't it read my Google Docs to get the context it needs? Why can't I ask it to do
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Aug 28, 2025
    My advice for any new grad is to find a job where you can maximize your learning potential. This has less correlation with WLB than you might think. 40 hours a week on a good team at Google can teach you a lot more than 80 hours a week at Tinder for Jobs.
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    Max Spero
    Pangram
    @max_spero_
    Nov 8, 2025
    Replying to @Nexuist
    Just pure love of the game
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