Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

Strategic Advisor and Fractional CTO/CPO for startups & mid-sized companies—I was building AI products before ChatGPT dropped vertrees.co New York | Mumbai Joined February 2010

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

4 months ago

Anyone watch that hilariously depressing "interview" Piers Morgan did with real, actual physicist @seanmcarroll and sentient Markov text generator @EricRWeinstein? As loathe as I am to link to anything Piers does, it's worth watching to see what happens when a grifter (in my…

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

4 months ago

Just tried @Reddit Answers for the first time. This is why users need to be given control, or at least visibility into, the system prompt. This is some serious "many people are saying..." energy. YC's @koomen recently wrote about this. Highly suggested reading:…

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4 months ago

Seriously this thing could turn a single good statistician or data scientist into an entire data engineering team.

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

4 months ago

Opus 4 is scary good at data science engineering. Yikes.

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

4 months ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro goes off the rails when its (very substantial) context starts getting full...

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

5 months ago

@cursor_ai I wrote 11 tickets for myself yesterday for something I'm toying with, and for fun I exported them to a CSV, threw them in an empty repo, and asked @cursor_ai to close them out. It just kept going until they were finished, and I had the foundational stuff done (DB, auth, most UX)

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

5 months ago

@cursor_ai It's also, without any actual integration, able to "collaborate" with v0 in ways that just weren't feasible previously. As in generate specs for v0 based on requirements and the back end code it wrote, v0 generates code with placeholders, then @cursor_ai refactors to write it up…

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

5 months ago

I haven't had much time to any coding for the last ~2 months, but I just updated to the latest version of @cursor_ai and have been trying Claude 3.7 MAX and, uhhhhh it is one-shotting some pretty complex stuff.

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

5 months ago

So is ChatGPT actually working on this in the background or not? @OpenAI

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5 months ago

So apparently using a VPN while traveling is enough to get your @Delta account locked, which then takes 3 - 7 days to resolve. Thank god I'm not out of the country with only a Delta ticket to get home on.

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

6 months ago

#CryptoCrash Who has puts on $MSTR?

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

6 months ago

Ya'll ready for this? #BlackMonday #CircuitBreakers

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

6 months ago

.@MhShoab bruh

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

7 months ago

Data Schadenfreude | ˈdadə ˈSHädənˌfroidə | noun Pleasure derived by someone who takes data governance seriously as they watch others, who don't, suddenly realize their LLM is as confused as they are about how to find anything in their data warehouse. "The Data Governance…

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

7 months ago

M1 Pro with 32GB and @Microsoft @Office can't handle two documents with 20 pages between them being open at the same time.

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7 months ago

Will AI Really Write 90% of All New Code Within 6 Months? Probably @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei open.substack.com/pub/vertrees/p…

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7 months ago

Curiosity is Not Uniquely Human open.substack.com/pub/vertrees/p…

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Keith Vertrees @keithvertrees

7 months ago

AI Psychology and the Umwelt of LLMs LLM Interpretability is like AI neuroscience. Maybe we should also be trying psychology. open.substack.com/pub/vertrees/p…