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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/06/2026

This is the first publicly-disclosed LLM prompt used by a major Wall Street firm to generate stock predictions. Only made available due to JPMorgan's recent patent filing for its AI stock picking system.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 11/03/2026

The best part of my day is picking up my kid from daycare :)

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 27/02/2026

Ok so maybe AI can't replace a senior developer yet

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 25/02/2026

Do you know how I know Meta juices their numbers? You can't unsubscribe to newsletters as a dev. The unsub link is there, the confirmation message is there, but they just never process it. This is a multi-billion dollar company and so I refuse to think this isn't intentional.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 25/02/2026

Alright, it took a couple of years but I know what my next project is going to be. Excited for the future 🚀

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 08/02/2026

Anthropic is actually a better fit for Microsoft considering they lean more towards enterprise than OpenAI.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 28/01/2026

As a consequence of being in the commodities supercycle, countries around the world are going to see street crime tick up as copper, platinum, palladium skyrocket in value.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 28/01/2026

I should have gone to VRIC instead of VR conferences 😔

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 21/01/2026

Prediction markets can be gamed easily according to www.jbecker.dev/research/pre... Just place limit orders and let others trade into you. Sell 'Yes' since people overpay for them. Focus on high-emotion, low-expertise categories like sports, entertainment, crypto.

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The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets

Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have…

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 20/01/2026

Wealthsimple is the closest thing to a super app in Canada.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 15/01/2026

AI diagnosis tools are going to be crucial in debugging AI-controlled robots. Robots process billions of parameters that human technicians aren't able to diagnose. Someone work on this, stat.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 15/01/2026

Video clips are today's pamphlets.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 11/01/2026

Content creators and online personalities have started sharing their portfolios' performances for 2025. Seeing them barely beat the S&P500 (and with so much effort) while being so confident in their posts strengthens my conviction that you have to do the research yourself.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 27/11/2025

I've always wondered: how well do venture capitalists perform on the stock market?

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 10/11/2025

When people ask entrepreneurs how many employees they have, what they're actually asking is how successful are you. This question will be outdated in a few years as smaller companies with higher revenues and lower profit margins (compared to non-AI software businesses) become the norm.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 13/10/2025

The 21st century play is turning out to be selling the materials needed to sell the shovels.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 09/10/2025

Could retail stock participation decline if tech weakens while precious metals and rare earths outperform? 🤔

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 07/10/2025

Canada's economy is going to be saved by mining. It's a great time to look into shifting sectors in your portfolio if you haven't done so already.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 06/10/2025

Over a decade ago, I traveled the world as a digital nomad running an ecommerce business. If I were to do it again today, trading and investing in the stock market would probably earn me more money than ecommerce. Crazy times.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 05/10/2025

I've been "fact checked" by people using AI so many times now. It's crazy to me how people still don't understand how LLMs work. And it's even crazier to think how this will develop poor and intellectually lazy habits in people, en masse.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/10/2025

Gemini models still sound like a robot. If Google is after the consumer market, they need to make it sound more like OpenAI, or better, Anthropic's models.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 02/10/2025

AI will be the greatest bundler of our century.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 22/09/2025

No one's going to buy your product if you use poorly AI generated images like this. AI generation is fine but don't be lazy about it.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 19/09/2025

Wow Codex is actually better at programming than Claude Code right now. How fast things change!

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 18/09/2025

Due to the "lost in the middle" issue with current LLMs, you should put the most important parts of a long message to LLMs at the beginning as per the research paper, "Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts" (arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172 )

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 16/09/2025

I get why @sama (Sam Altman) don't capitalize words anymore. LLMs don't care for capitalizations. When you use LLMs for so long, it starts to affect how you write.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 15/09/2025

Made this with my daughter over the weekend. Her face lit up when she realized she could bring her ideas to life with AI just by describing what she wanted to see. What a great way to teach kids how to be more detail-oriented.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 15/09/2025

Has the world gone insane? Headlines in my inbox today.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 15/09/2025

Favorite thing to do with my daughter right now: Creating AI generated images in the style of Cocomelon. It's a great way to teach her to think and describe things in detail while preparing her for the inevitable AI future.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 05/09/2025

One of my favorite standups. Happy Friday everyone

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 05/09/2025

It's crazy how much Sonnet and Opus have declined in quality, and it only took one month. This is another friendly reminder to never pay for annual subscriptions when it comes to AI models.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 04/09/2025

Seeing how people write prompts on X (grok) is alarming. Some of these prompts are terribly framed with no context. If this is how the average person writes prompts, future chat interfaces for all AI should show a list of questions to ask next like predictive autocomplete on kb

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/09/2025

The bane of my existence. I'm glad I won't have to deal with this anymore.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/09/2025

Funny enough, the reason why I had to do the file transfer in the first place is because of the Vision Pro.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/09/2025

Just for a damn file transfer smh

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/09/2025

I had to bring out my Quest 3 to do a simple file transfer. Had to go through so many hurdles including: restarting PC, restarting Quest, reinstalling Sidequest, going into Quest settings, finding my ultra long USB-C cable, and on and on. In the end, I just gave up.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 03/09/2025

I'm shocked at how bad the iCloud dashboard looks. I had to check I wasn't being phished.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 02/09/2025

When doing competitor research, note down the order in which features are listed. If the competitor is well-managed, you can tell from the order which features are most important to their customers. This can guide your own dev priorities.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 30/08/2025

The best place to follow progress and contribute is here: www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 30/08/2025

Privacy + AI is scary to think about. Imagine all of your internal dialogue accessible by a single corporation. As models get commoditized, open source tooling and shared prompting techniques must rise to the occasion to offer a competitive alternative to corporation-owned AI.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 29/08/2025

Do market research until it hurts. At first, market research is quite fun but the key is to do it and keep doing it even after it's become a dreadful experience. The dread and ordeal means you're seeing repeating patterns and nothing is new to you anymore. That's when you're done

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 29/08/2025

"Bluesky now platform of choice for science community" Hell ya! arstechnica.com/science/2025... When will startup and VC communities move to Bluesky? It's a more natural fit than X.

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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 27/08/2025

I had put up a listing to sell something and someone asked me to take a photo of the thing but with a pencil on top to make sure I wasn't a scammer. Sometimes I forget I live in a tech bubble.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 27/08/2025

When I get stuck on picking company or product names, I remind myself that a company called Microsoft exists. Micro. Soft.

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 26/08/2025

Beautifully put: "remember that a stock price is the price that the most optimistic person in the world is willing to pay at this second, not what the vast majority of us think it’s actually worth" - Random guy on reddit

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 26/08/2025

Before building out a product, I like to gather as many emotive quotes from potential end users. I surprised myself today when I realized I was adding AI generated text (from my conversations with it) alongside human quotes. Not sure if this is a good idea but they seem useful

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 19/08/2025

To use AI effectively, you have to be an excellent bullshit detector

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 30/07/2025

Want to get better at writing prompts? Expand your vocabulary so you have more specific, targeted words in your arsenal. There's a massive difference in instructing a chef to make "good pizza" vs "charred pizza"

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Peter Kao @peterkao.com · 27/07/2025

That's probably why they were leaning into VR so much for Horizon since that's an aspect Roblox will be weaker on.

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