Alexander Yevchenko

worse than a breakup text

@JsonBasedman @Shopify Get a few good waterloo interns access to the ground truth payroll historic data and the union contracts and a well funded anthropic account and they can solve this problem with Claude code in a few weekends. You don’t need us.

In a weird way, we're already witnessing humans being 'enslaved' by AI. Take a quick scroll through Instagram, and you'll find content creators that are clearly just putting a face to an AI-generated script. No excitement, no intonation, no real correlation between one video/post or another. Just glazed-over eyes reading off a screen, and you can tell they have no idea what they're talking about. And we still consume this, somehow.

The enablement of the internet is a double-edged sword. Anyone can share their content, which is quickly growing into little better than AI-generated slop, created by a real person to make you think that it actually has any value. I'm afraid that the majority of us will truly start to think and speak like this, spewing things for the sake of spewing rather than any clear purpose. I've noticed it in people close to me, and it's extremely sad to see as they've lost awareness of it. The slow trudge towards groupthink.

@KrishivThakuria @MITEECS Huge

First day teaching @MITEECS Covered the foundations of memory for LLMs and AI agents, starting from the context of the human mind Childhood dream

Another idea that's on my mind that I encountered from a fund manager: Be world class at everything that you do. From the simple things like taking a walk to the fundamentals - learning, communicating, creating. What does world class look like, and how can I emulate it?

One thing that really sticks with me is Charlie Munger's life advice: go to bed wiser than you awoke. The world is never in stasis, the status quo can be shattered at any instant (we're feeling this more and more with AI), and the people that stay ahead are those that are adaptable, the ones that continue to learn for learning's sake. The external rewards of being a polymath are now more obvious, though I think they were always there internally.

@KrishivThakuria A bug with a scroller that I couldn't figure out 😭

@ayevch What subject?

this new gemini model is great. One-shotted a problem that gpt5.1 couldn't solve in 30 min.

@micahomnd Haven't tried out Antigravity yet, I've just stuck to Cursor as old reliable. Why don't you like it?

@ayevch I feel the model is solid, but I've been disappointed with their other releases (e.g., Antigravity as an IDE)

@aelluswamy fascinating!

Full video of the ICCV '25 presentation

I was watching an MIT maker portfolio the other day, and one of the comments really stood out to me: "you have lived a lifetime." I think that's what it really boils down to in the end, making the most of what you have, and truly enjoying it. The thing that I notice most with all of the hyper-successful people that I meet is that they don't waste a second on 'not living.' They choose good things to focus on, and enjoy the process of dedicating focus, and in turn, they are rewarded, both internally and externally. Living life without any regret really boils down to not spending time on anything unworthy of you, both now and the version of yourself that you want to become.

do NOT google the mass of a proton

'Then, too, a record of failures -- particularly if it is a dignified and well-authenticated record -- deters a young man from trying. We get some of our best results from letting fools run in where angels fear to tread.' - My Life and Work, Henry Ford

The more I experience, the more I realize that genuine poeple are rarer than diamonds, and infinitely more precious. Value the sparks in those relationships -- when all else fails, the people that surround you are great sources of salvation.

WORLD SERIES!!!

time and time again, the most successful and talented people I've met are the quickest to respond to their emails. bias towards action

What good is money without culture?

The world is a video game. It exists for you. It is yours to explore, to build, to create. All of your environments exist for you to learn and to get better. The aspects of your life are there to be levelled up. Once you're out of your tunnel vision, it's magnificent.

Every day, we stray further from God.