disclosures

Everything here is me and my opinion. Don't quote me as “$company person Geoffrey Huntley said”—I publish on their channels if I speak for a company.

I strongly believe in clear conflict-of-interest disclosures. I don't post sponsored content on my website, on my personal Twitter account, or anywhere else, so please don't ask. I'm probably leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars in sponsorship deals by taking this hardline stance, but ultimately it comes down to:

I only recommend things when they are cool and when I'm personally getting a lot of utility out of them. So, the trick is you want to remove friction. You've got to be cool and you've got to remove friction. I'm certainly not going to spend my personal money on your software or product or service if I've never heard about you. Sometimes I will pay for a product if it provides enough utility in life that it passes the toothbrush test.

freebies

Namespace Labs. Many years ago, I almost joined this company as one of their first engineers. Since then, they've continued to knock it out of the park. Maybe there's some regret about not joining there, but like, these people have built one heck of a product. Anyway, so I must disclose that, you know, my CI/CD is comped.
Memelord. Jason hooked me up with free access to MemeLord, and I use it day to day, probably more than I should, to generate memes.
xAI. The product team hooked me up with access to the new bot prototype, and I've been given enough credits to really explore what is possible in this new product category. I used to think the entire notion of an AI personal assistant was pretty crap, but the utility is growing on me daily to a point that I would likely pay for it, within reason to keep this service of functionality in my day-to-day life. But having said that, I wouldn't have adopted this mindset if xAI hadn't removed all the friction to me actually adopting and trying out this new thing.

investments

OpenAI. I have holdings in OpenAI, acquired when they bought a previous employer of mine. Personally, I would have much preferred the cash to OpenAI equity during the M&A, and I intend to exit my position as soon as allowed.
Canva. I have holdings in Canva because they were previously my employer. I intend to exit my position as soon as allowed.

ndas

It's safe to assume I have signed and executed NDAs with various labs, but because they're NDAs, I can't talk about them. From time to time, I have access to play with the latest things that are coming out before they're public.

ai

I do not sell LLM tokens for a living. I write about AI for myself (so I don't have to repeat myself) and for other clued-in software engineers. My primary concern is ensuring that more software engineers make it through this transitionary period in our industry. Nobody has paid me to write anything about AI, and if they did, I would disclose it.

cryptocurrencies

My professional work has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies, blockchains, or finance. I am not paid to write about cryptocurrencies or related topics. I'm a cypherpunk at heart and understand this space, but I have not yet found utility for cryptocurrencies. AI is changing things pretty fast. These agents are going to need some way to do payments. I think that in the next couple of years, some form of crypto plus agentic payments is going to become a thing, but that's just a ponderoo about where things could go in the future.

My wallet can be found here:

NFTs

I do have a wallet which contains an RR/BAYC NFT, which Ryder Ripps copyrighted as conceptual art and sent to my wallet to troll me in response to TheNFTBay.org. I think NFTs are dumb, and you should not buy or "invest" in them. If someone were dumb enough to submit an offer for a duplicate pointer on the blockchain linking to an image, I would likely accept it, as it would make an excellent talking point to demonstrate the absurdity of this ecosystem.