alec

chud is one letter away from chad and the only thing that changes is u

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

great read on the sota for bcis by @_RobToews might have to get myself a @somneesleep 😛 forbes.com/sites/robtoews…

@almmaasoglu same issue

Looks like the openai api had a very weird anomaly just now two totally unrelated workflows in Codex and Zed both started returning the model 'gpt-image-2' does not exist. for no apparent reason. Seems fixed now, but that was a strange one

bearish "machine payments" + the crypto x ai grift apis, skills, tools, plugins, etc. are simply going to be baked into the harness

@PossibltyResult explain

We'll look back on "skill files" being markdown with disbelief

@jxnlco @simonw how is this better than a screenshot

app shots is truely changing the way i prompt llms @simonw I'll try to get to the bottom of this

@100xgemfinder the difference is there are no fundamentals in crypto

i have a buddy who ran up $1K to $200K during covid, blew his port twice since then. he's now up $2.7M trading stocks in the last 3-6 months. i've talked to people recently who don't know what a market cap is or do any research about stocks they buy and just use AI to pick stocks to trade for them and they're up 100% on their portfolio this year. dumb money is coming to crypto soon and the last time this happened it lead to dogecoin hitting $88 billion+ market cap. be on the lookout for substantially higher ceilings for memecoins once again and bitcoin starting to rally as people take profits from stocks and rotate. screenshot this because i know i'm right on this one

@Hyeyunie it’s definitely because it’s 0 calories

My more sinister theory is it’s bc it’s 0 calories

@FDavidsonT gm

I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years. For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything. I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built. It's been a game changer for early testers. Comment below for early access.

@sanjehorah > transgress against polite productive upper middle class society extremely based

i dropped out of university when i was 19 because i was pulled into prison for half a year because i was doing heroin in singapore because i wanted to transgress against polite productive upper middle class society as deeply as possible. KIV if i ever decide to found a company

@FangYi11101 @atreides_sf why don’t u go pitch @ScottWu46 to be head of marketing then

I knew about cognition from being terminally online. Can’t imagine there are too many people out there who 1) isn’t already aware of cognition, 2) can sign a multi-million dollar contract on their company’s behalf and 3) is swayed by this subway ad. There are probably better channels to reach them

Why is a B2B company advertising on the subway? To reach the handful of VPs of engineering who might see this on their commutes? For general brand awareness? Might make sense in SF, but in NYC?

@DevanshuXi if theyre asking u ts as a new grad they never intended to hire u🥀

Just wrapped up the interview process of stealth infra startup (NYC based) Team had people from OpenAI and Anthropic and Hedge funds. 5 rounds in total. Use of LLMs were completely restricted in the first four rounds. Round 1 started with a grid DP problem. Basic state transition was straightforward, but the brute force complexity was too high for larger constraints. Interviewer kept pushing on optimization. After thinking for a bit, I noticed the feasibility condition was monotonic: if a solution worked for some value "k", it would also work for larger values. So instead of directly searching the answer space linearly, I wrapped the DP inside a binary search over the answer. That dropped the complexity pretty hard and the interviewer seemed happy with the direction. We also spent some time discussing my search engine project: indexing pipeline, retrieval flow, ranking heuristics, and some infra decisions behind it. Overall probably my strongest round in the loop. Round 2 humbled me a bit. We have a tree with letters on edges. Count paths where the letters along the path can be rearranged into a palindrome. Main observation there was: a path is valid if at most one character has odd frequency. So instead of storing exact frequencies, I represented parity using bitmasks. Each bit represented whether a character count was odd/even along the path. I initially went with small-to-large merging on subtrees to optimize the brute force approach. But halfway through the discussion I realized there was probably a cleaner way using prefix xor masks + frequency counting on the tree itself. Could’ve likely reduced the implementation complexity a lot by treating it more like: “how many previous masks differ by at most one bit.” One of those rounds where you know the core idea, but afterwards your brain keeps replaying all the cleaner approaches you could’ve explored. Round 3 was systems design: I had to design a database schema branching system. Basically: - isolated DB schema branches for migration testing - schema diffing - merge conflicts between branches - metadata storage - avoiding physically cloning huge datasets - garbage collection for abandoned branches - how to visualize merge conflicts without making UX horrible Really fun discussion, i worked alot on this stuff in college, Told him about the tournament tree to collect the fanout results and three way schema merging algorithm. I was satisfied with this round. Round 4 caught surprised me. No coding. Pure database deep dive. We discussed - MySQL replication - binlogs - failover mechanics - zero-downtime schema migrations on 500M+ row tables - online migrations - high-level discussion around my vitess internals knowledge like VTGate and VTOrc. I didn’t know every detail perfectly, but I reasoned through most of it from first principles. Final round was with the CTO. Super chill compared to the earlier rounds. Mostly talked about: - why I like building systems - long-term interests - what kind of problems excite me - company vision and where they see the infra space going we even pair-programmed a tiny 8085 microprocessor emulator using Codex. debugged a few weird issues together, and honestly it felt less like an interview and more like two engineers yapping. Probably my favorite round from the entire loop. Final Verdict: rejected. But honestly, this was probably one of the best interview loops I’ve gone through. I personally think the reason of rejection was second round. I fumbled and struggle there. There could be alot more reasons. I didn't got any feedback where I lacked. Kinda crazy how much you learn when smart people keep pushing the edge of your understanding for hours straight. "Until death every defeat is psychological"

@CoreyLeander @Allsdolllapp @Noahpinion thats not what communism means lol

@Allsdolllapp @Noahpinion that word implies that the government controls the balance sheet of every consumer in the economy, and pseudo uniformity is imposed on society via a uniform UBI. How can you want this?

Zero downside that I can see. That would be great. The economy does not exist in order to be a jobs program for economists.

@catboosted her linkedin says she has a mscs

Walking, talking substrate She is a non-technical product manager so of course she’s going to say some something like retarded this

@skooookum i hit my weekly limits pretty consistently running 3-5~ agents concurrently on xhigh fast mode

Genuinely have no idea what’s happening here. I have >5 agents running in codex 8-10 hours a day and rarely hit my weekly limits.

@EndorsiVal @mil000 in reality prob some master peak

@mil000 lies about being semi-pro /close to pro in league

@thsottiaux @jxnlco - add a native /simplify skill (i had codex port over the claude code prompt)

@thsottiaux @jxnlco - creating a new worktree should keep staged changes on main and start fresh from HEAD instead of bringing diffs over, especially if i already have a thread/agent running on main

few product improvements for codex @thsottiaux @jxnlco 🧵