Good Stuff 62 - AI for Freedom Tech
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Yo discusses the impact of AI on freedom tech development and programming challenges.
Yo joins from Sovereign Engineering to talk about how AI has transformed freedom tech development since SEC-04, when Paul demoed a wallet vibed into existence in 30 minutes and blew everyone's minds. The conversation covers the euphoria wearing off, the slot machine addiction problem, why LLMs are "extremely confident, extremely good at English usage, but extremely dumb," and the coming IPO exit liquidity dump. Uber burned their entire annual AI budget in four months and shipped nothing. Claude Code still has that terminal flicker bug from week two. Coding is not solved. But used as tools within their constraints? These things are genuinely great. FIPS, the peer-to-peer internet architecture routing to Nostr identities instead of IPs, was largely written by Claude, but every single line got human review. That's the model: Claude as a team member with specific jobs, not the entire dev team. YOLO++ kicks off July 20th. **Key Moments:** - [02:47] Paul's 30-minute wallet demo at SECO 4: "Everybody was blown away by this capability" - [04:14] "There's no hope if I am to come back to programming by hand. I'm not going to produce anything." - [07:11]…
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