Our Follower Spike Was Just Us, Cloned
A chart ranking startups by 90-day X follower growth made the rounds this week. Numbers like that are vanity metrics: they look impressive, but they sit a long way from revenue or retention. The trouble starts the moment a leaderboard exists, because everyone begins optimizing for the one number on it. So Eugene, Paxis and Metis climb the Great Wall to get their own curve pointing up. They discover the part about walls having valleys only after they start running.
Source: RT @benln: Pulled the fastest-growing startups on X by follower growth over last 90 days: https://t.co/RTy5umq7QO · twitter
▶ Animated edition — the characters speak for themselves (Korean audio, English subtitles included)
What this means for ThakiCloud
A number that lives on someone else’s platform moves whenever that platform’s rules move. A number produced inside your own facility does not tilt just because you tilted the camera. That is the practical case for on-prem, which simply means running your models and data inside infrastructure you control. Metis reports GPU utilization, queue wait, and real per-job throughput rather than a headline figure, and Paxis scores itself on verification gates passed, not on how many agents it managed to spawn. This comic runs the same way: the whole pipeline that picks the news, writes the script, and renders the panels sits on our own racks, and the quality call belongs to a deterministic gate rather than a model claiming it did fine.
An auto-generated comic riffing on this week’s industry news.