Cryptic Ben

@0xPrajwal_ To entertain the models

Interviewer: If AI can write code, why should we hire you ?

@Yuchenj_UW To be honest, I haven't even tried Opus once. Sonnet works perfectly for me. If anything, I am looking at smaller models to run locally. But I am also not vibe coding apps, I am mostly fixing bugs and doing urgent changes, so my tasks are very well defined.

1 year ago, when “vibe coding” was coined, I was like: no real engineer would build serious projects with AI slop anytime soon. 1 year later, everyone is a vibe coder. Today, Claude Mythos looks like a huge leap, while Opus 4.6 is barely 2 months old! Scaling laws aren’t hitting a wall. RL works. AI is accelerating faster than ever. The craziest part: by the end of 2026, we’ll look back at Mythos and laugh: “what a weak model, and they were terrified to release it.”

Agents send a definition of their tools to the model. Many agents use a JSON format and the actual tool invocation is quite close. Often there are just a few missing bits. An RFC could improve compatibility. In fact, I used other agents with Sonnet and other models with Claude. Both is possible.

Devs rewrote the leaked Claude Code in Python and Rust within 48 hours. Before Anthropic could even finish the legal paperwork. Now it works with any AI model you want.

@DThompsonDev When you look at all the agent CLIs out there you will realize that they are very similar. A system prompt, some tools, strategies to manage the context, etc. So you may actually swap out the interface. As long as you keep the model you may get similar results.

After reading a lot of the Claude Code base that was leaked taught me two things 1. I have never been more reassured than I am now. Software Developers will be around for a long time. 2. Claude Code has a hidden command to hide that a contribution was made by a Claude employee

@rezoundous No. I use AI only for cross project full stack work. When I know the code base and it is not a huge refactoring, then I get better and more sustainable results doing the coding myself. But I do use AI for PR reviews as that doesn't hurt and occasionally finds issues.

So it has been about a year since. Is AI writing 100% of your code?

@CodeByNZ Must have been an employee that got fired

Do backend devs really find joy in doing this ?

@Adidotdev Account enumeration

Interviewer: When you click “Forgot password”, The site says : Reset link sent if the email exists. Why not just say : Email not found ? What attack are they preventing?

@r0ktech userId, userid, or user_id, depending on the language.

which one do you prefer ? -userID -user_ID -UserID -userId -user-id

@vivoplt Depends on the protocol. If you are talking about a Bearer token then the only concept you have is token expiration. In the context of OAuth you can also do token revocation. And for OpenID Connect there is an RFC for logout. But hey, just throw these tokens away and pray.

Interviewer: If JWTs are stateless, how do you “log out” a user?

@Manixh02 Basically searches recursively for from and require statements, then extracts the library name and prints all out by sorting and removing duplicates. And yes, I can do that myself and in a way that is easier to understand. Go step by step and then create a script later.

The people who are saying AI will not replace Software Engineers I just want to ask them Can you write this below code? or Can you just explain me what this code do??

@SidJain_80 UUIDs can be beneficial if you ever have to import data from one DB into another and the target DB already contains some data. No clashes.

Simple question for backend engineers: Why are UUIDs preferred over auto-increment IDs in sharded databases? What problem are we actually solving?

@brentwoodmomof3 @aakashgupta Nice examples. That's what makes it a non-trivial challenge to solve.

@be_ncrypted @aakashgupta But consider these scenarios: Person to Chat: I can never please my manager. Help me figure out why. Another one: I want to get a gift for my friend to say thank you for all they have done for me. Etc, etc. you can’t program it to skip words without context.

Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway. Run the math on why. A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes. The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit. Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance. Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error. 67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results. Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.

@trikcode It's easy, you learn English. You don't need a huge vocabulary either. It is a very bad idea to use your native language anywhere near code.

Honest question. People who English is not their first language… how do they code?? Do Germans code in German? Do Arabs code in Arabic??

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@djcows @allvibesnoskill high income and high rent. It balances itself ( a bit )

i just learned Switzerland has ZERO capital gains tax??

@djcows @allvibesnoskill If you have a job where you can work from home and don't need a busy city life, then consider property in the country side. Glarus, Solothurn, etc. Also consider that mortgage rates are low, around 1% currently.

@allvibesnoskill last time i went to Switzerland, i was shocked by how clean the streets are, trains always on time, low crime etc... but real estate is insanely expensive, that's the big catch

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