Fred Oliveira 🧠

Most things that cause me anxiety are coordination problems.

@joshpuckett @karunkaushik_ @grok first ask grok use that I nodded at

@karunkaushik_ @grok can you list the core components of 'deny & defend' framework in crisis comms?

There’s been a lot of allegations against Delve. But we haven’t been able to share our side of the story until today due to ongoing cybersecurity and forensics investigations. Maintaining customer trust is central to everything we do. That said, we grew too fast and fell short of our own standard. To our customers, we deeply apologize for the inconveniences caused. We take these allegations seriously and have made changes: a new auditor network, free re-audits and pentests for all customers, enhanced transparency in audit communications, and more. However, we also want to set the record straight on the anonymous attacks. The evidence we have points to a targeted cyberattack from a malicious actor, not a “whistleblower.” We believe the attacker purchased Delve under false pretenses, exfiltrated internal company data, and used it to launch a coordinated smear campaign. The posts rely on a mix of fabricated claims, cherry-picked screenshots, and stolen data taken out of context. See the link in the comments for more details. Delve was built to modernize compliance. We are not going anywhere and are committed to building what's next.

@badlogicgames classic introspectmaxxing by steve jobs, as they say

that's illegal introspection

@pitdesi @bryan_johnson at a regulatory level, huge swaths of these could be handled. It shouldn't be up to the individual to audit every plastic container, bag where we pack groceries, the fabrics in our couch. But we should *certainly* be able to trust that someone does it for us.

@bryan_johnson The quest to find every hidden risk is unwinnable! There are surely 000s of chemicals & exposures in every home that no person can audit or know about. But keep looking

@badlogicgames "so what skills do you use"

this literally happened to me at a conference ...

in this thread, people who need to read Breakneck (heck, everyone should read that book) 👇

@elvissun @artee_49 @FastCompany @garrytan 😂 what

@artee_49 @FastCompany @garrytan you are missing the point, by the time system gets to that level the gradient descent would have self corrected already

this thread is what mass cope from legacy devs looks like. i talked to @FastCompany about why @garrytan's "AI slop" is actually the future of software engineering. the mass code review. the line-by-line gatekeeping. the "craftsmanship" that was really just slow iteration disguised as rigor - that era is over. and the engineers who built their entire identity around it are panicking. @gregorein brags about burning 3 billion tokens last year while dunking on garry for flexing lines of code. i've burned 6.6 billion in the past three months on codex alone. by his own logic, i'm 8x as credible. see how silly that sounds? yes, he found real issues. yes, they got fixed. that's exactly the point. karpathy's autoresearch proved this already - AI agents can solve very complex problems just by operating inside feedback loops, iterating to optimize a loss function. this is what software engineering is now - gradient descent. ship, measure, self-correct, repeat. all by the agent itself. this is the new startup playbook. your job isn't to review every line before deploy. your job is to build systems where agents observe outcomes - mrr, analytics, error rates, user behavior - and self-improve. the engineer's role shifts from gatekeeper to building the machine that builds the machine. you could run this level of audit (using AI) on any production site and find the same issues - most just don't have a billionaire CEO attached for virality. mocking the people who adapted is easier than adapting. but the craft is evolving whether you like it or not.

That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

@RuiGoncalves most of the time is spent in a harness like claude code (or Pi) inside cmux, and then I've been reviewing changes in cursor or zed

@f Which tools are you currently using?

very much feels like this new cursor UI wants to be its own thing, fully separate from its VS Code base. It's been going in that direction for a long time - starting to feel like the time has come.

@dscape I really like VSCode, even though I've moved on to different tools. @cursor_ai clearly wants to move in directions where the VSCode codebase is a bottleneck. They should probably start fresh with their new UI and a direct Monaco implementation. Costly, but the right move.

@f The reason I don’t use cursor is vs code

@steveruizok font rendering is the bane of all design tools

this one one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. I'm going to yeet this into tldraw, our text measurement has been impossibly hard to improve

@_chenglou good choice of text there ;)

3. Multi-columns magazine layout, but _responsive_ and dynamic chenglou.me/pretext/dynami…

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

@badlogicgames they say it's Mythos now

@NPCollapse @ControlAI that is the struggle of the founder! Onto the next one. Godspeed - @ControlAI is lucky to have you. As are we all!

@f @ControlAI Those people you describe definitely exist, I have had the immense privilege of working with many of them, but finding them took hiring and firing many many not so good people!

I have joined @ControlAI as US Director and have moved to Washington DC! If you're in the area, give me a shout! If you want to read my retrospective on Conjecture and lessons learnt, link in next post. Excited for a new chapter!

@NPCollapse @ControlAI Basically I'm saying: surround yourself by people who live and breathe the mission, but who can read the room and know when they should explore vs exploit. Apologies if any of this is clearly wrong - again, casual external observer who is a fan of what you've done over the years

@NPCollapse @ControlAI I'm a very firm believer in giving people the trust and agency/ownership to do great work, but not everyone is fit for that position. You do need creative people who can defend (and run with) ideas, to do the things you were trying to do at Conjecture. That balance is *hard*.

the word "vibe" served us well for a while there, but please. No more.

@stewartbrand I think the play button is only visible on the main gallery page. These are awesome, though.

@pdrmnvd not having the workflows is what causes the midlife crisis now

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows