Iván Álvarez

No eres buen informático si no tienes una Raspberry Pi(s) al fondo de cajón que jamás usaste

DO NOT use Claude for your personal finance, I'm begging you As someone that studied Economics and worked at JPMorgan / fintech startups these are my 2 cents: 1st and most important! SECURITY I know it's read-only BUT I still wouldn't connect my bank accounts. It's some of the most private information u have. (speculating on this one of course but, once a company knows your income, it's very tempting to use it. So they will use your data, "but Dante, the terms say they won't." sure, and if they ever do, they'll pay a fine like every big company does) It sounds nice to have everything connected in one place, but if that has a problem, everything is exposed. Security is always the most important, do not be lazy please. If u want AI for this, look at a model that runs locally or a service built only for finance. 2nd I've used ChatGPT and Claude every day for a long time. I have LLCs, I make cashflows, test financial models, I worked with accountants in different countries, and more. Models are getting better, but they ALWAYS forget some number, and then guess who's f*cked, you my friend. A wrong number in month 1 of a cashflow ends up in every month after it. A wrong number on a tax form is worse. If u own a US LLC from abroad and miss one form, the IRS penalty is $25,000, and it can grow. Other governments have their own fines. u pay it or it stays with u as debt, and fixing it later is way harder than getting it right the first time. 3rd Personal finance is very important but you have to learn it, not depend on an AI to do it. 4th Trust but VERIFY, if you wanna use it to make your workflow faster, do it. But check it, every time against the real statement. Do your manual cashflow, a list of costs, and then double check it with the AI results. Final thoughts, I use AI in everything I am not saying not to use it for finance, just be careful and double check everything. Also we are moving to speciliazed LLM's so I think it will still be better as you use an Image / Video model, there will be options specializing in finance like cfosilvia.com/ or for legal like harvey.ai/legal. Disclaimer: haven't use neither of these services so can't vouch it's just an example of what I'm saying. Sorry for the long post but I think these are the kind of conversations we need to have moving forward as AI companies keep pushing their boundaries and getting into more products and services. Let me know your thoughts

Cool, en @platzi Day, dos de mis cursos más queridos están gratis este fin de semana, empezando por el de Fundamentos de Bases de datos (4.7⭐️) y luego el de MySQL (con 4.9⭐️) platzi.com/cursos/bases-dato…

Por acá les comparto mi participación en @codigofacilito, la charla fue: ¿Cuáles son los nuevos roles en la industria tecnológica? Empieza en 1hr 55 minutos. Cualquier duda por acá :) youtube.com/watch?v=AK_0h5w5…

He decidido empezar de cero. Me pasó el día orquestado agentes y trabajando con pantallas. Así que, en mi tiempo libre estoy comenzando a leer libros de Ingeniería del Software para volver a los origenes, las bases En curso 👇🏻 Designing Data-Intensive Applications Próximamente 👇🏻 AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models

A carrot a day keeps the bugs away

Llevo usando Markitown desde las primeras betas en el Mac, iPad e iPhone. Una maravilla de editor con todas las ventajas del ecosistema Apple.

We did it, live translation + captions (ES ⇄ EN) at this edition of @jsconfmx 🇲🇽 Nearly 1,000 connections over 2 days 27 listening at once at the peak ~43 hours of listening Accessibility is close to my heart. Lots left to improve, but I'm proud of this one 👇

Just landed in Rome, Italy! 🇮🇹 First thing I did? Check if the bugs I fixed right before my flight didn't break anything else😄 Just another typical day in the life of an indie hacker. Any indie hackers in Rome? Hit me up! Would be fun to grab a coffee and meet some fellow builders☕️