@zeeg I think PRs might work best for all, especially if they are actually getting reviewed. Hard to game if someone else is watching.
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Stas Bichenko
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on average its commits, but its also the standard project mangaement bits (issues, pull requests, etc)
i think any engineer should be able to drive at least one change per day. i would put that as a hard goal/requirement for teams.
beyond that tho different roles will spend different amounts of times in the other parts of the sdlc
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Lines of code has always been an irrelevant metric and LLMs have not changed that. Even the much celebrated lines deleted is garbage - as if removing things is always net win on the outcomes of a project.
What you should be doing: track your commit frequency. It should be every single day you work, realistically multiple times a day. Then track total contributions. Figure out how you get more contributions per day.
That is the metric. More isolated contributions that are of high quality, stable, moving towards the overarching goal.
AI makes it easier to build mvps, internal apps, to unblock smaller tasks. Those are areas where you can see contributions go up. It also makes it easy to do what Garry is doing: generating large volumes of useless code.
Lines of code at this scale is just slop generation. It is not real software, it is not how anyone who cares about the outcome of their work operates. It has real world consequence.
If you think this is reflective of what you should be striving for you should disconnect from the internet and focus on your work.
Garry Tan@garrytan
I’m trying to teach software engineers that their sacred cow of “LOC is bad” is probably wrong in agentic engineering You won’t believe that in another 5 years
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@ben_kew @OliDugmore > Difference is that every aspect of Britain is built on the foundations of Christianity.
Didn't take you for someone who's pro-immigration, especially for receiving more refugees and poor people.
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@OliDugmore Very clever.
Difference is that every aspect of Britain is built on the foundations of Christianity.
Islam, on the other hand, is an imperialist ideology that wants to impose medieval theocracy on useful idiots like yourself.
What is it that you love so much about it?
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Too many are too polite to say this.
But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination.
Perform these rituals in churches if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions.
Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation.
Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration.
It was an act of domination and therefore division.
It shouldn’t happen again.
Sadiq Khan@SadiqKhan
Today is Palm Sunday, marking the beginning of Holy Week as we approach Easter. Today's procession across Trafalgar Square to St Martin-in-the-Fields is a powerful retelling of the story of Jesus’s arrival in Jerusalem.
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@nikunj At Recombine (conversational AI platform), we made >$1M in revenue last year. We calculate it by cash received. We don't have inference costs.
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Alright let’s put this ARR debate to rest once and for all..
If ANY vibe coding startup with scale (>$5M claimed ARR) publicly discloses how they calculate it (esp sub vs. inference) and how much of it they subsidize,
I’ll donate $2,500 to a charity of their choice today 🫡
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@ikeijeh Another missed opportunity to make London’s Bankside more beautiful, whilst retrofitting much of the existing building
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Work starts soon to replace the Bankside building on the left with the right. Left isn't perfect. But its mock-warehouse aesthetic is far more suited to the river than the lobotomised crate planned. The historic Anchor pub sits helplessly to the far left. London self-harms again.
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🗣️ "It’s absolutely heartbreaking"
Blindsided by Labour’s land grab, Adlington residents are fighting to save their historic farming village
Find out more ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/2…
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Today, I’m heading up to Wigan to speak to residents, who claim not to have had a public consultation about THIS monstrosity built literally on their back gardens.
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@nise_yoshimi I wonder what @RestoreBritain_ has to say about this. This kind of crude racist humor is unacceptable in today's society!
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"We don't have the resources to support our infrastructure" - if only there was a way to get more resources, say, by having more high-earners who can afford a new house in your area and pay taxes to your local council.
Neil Hudson@DrNeilHudson
🌳 A proposal has been submitted for 150 houses in #TheydonBois on #GreenBelt. Green Belt protects the nature of our precious village. I will continue to do everything I can working with community groups & residents to oppose this development & to stand up for our community. 🌳
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In the past, multiple generations used to live in the same house. Now people prefer - and can afford - to live separately.
2.91 persons per household in 1971 turn into to 2.3 in 1990, well before large-scale immigration. This on its own requires millions of houses to be built.
Additionally, the avg lifespan increased from 70 years to >80 years, which means the older people don't free up houses by dying anymore.
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@DuncanStott @HCH_Hill If you have not had birth growth since 1973, this means the growth of immigration has been the biggest factor in housing affordability. The immigrants are getting mortgages etc.
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One of the most extreme examples of unaffordability in the whole country, but they just don't care. NIMBYs continue to suck the lifeblood out of our country.
Neil Hudson@DrNeilHudson
🌳 A proposal has been submitted for 150 houses in #TheydonBois on #GreenBelt. Green Belt protects the nature of our precious village. I will continue to do everything I can working with community groups & residents to oppose this development & to stand up for our community. 🌳
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@amix3k Do you think the competition in software is happening on the code-writing level?
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The risk to Todoist, Basecamp, etc. face isn’t that customers will vibe-code their own versions. It’s that the cost of building software is falling fast, and that will result in hyper-competition and compressed margins.
That shift will have major second-order effects across the industry. When software becomes increasingly commoditized and competition intensifies, downward pressure on salaries is likely to follow.
That’s not only bad. Lower barriers to creation and more competition should lead to much better software, lower costs, and a lot more of it.
Companies and people still have agency in how they adapt and where they choose to compete.
Jason Fried@jasonfried
A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.
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Just to spell out how bad this is:
- It is not possible for any US auditor to issue SOC 2 Type II certifications with less than 3 months of monitoring window (6 is typical)
- Delve issued a certificate in 2 weeks!!
This also means 11x (the customer) is likely not compliant...
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Damning evidence suggesting that compliance certificates issued by Delve (a startup founded in 2023) are fraudlent + worthless
I never understood how eg Cluely could be GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA compliant in ~a week. Now we know: they probably aren't.
Just wild
substack.com/home/post/p-19…
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SNL UK Promo with Tina Fey 🇬🇧
Live on Sky and streaming service NOW every Saturday from 21 March, or catch-up on demand!
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Reminds me of my ChatGPT a-ha moment from 2022. I asked to to build a simulation of a border collie herding sheep - and it one-shotted it. The sheep had one rule: move away from the border collie. The border collie had one rule: move towards the center of gravity of the sheep. Worked remarkably well!
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Emergent Mind Project #8: Forming a Planet
Dozens of particles pull on each other through Newtonian gravity, clump into a spinning mass, break apart, drift, and come back together again. On loop, forever.
Each particle just follows one equation: accelerate toward every other particle proportional to mass, inverse square of distance. No particle knows about the larger pattern, yet the result looks unmistakably like a forming solar system.
Collisions are nearly elastic so the system never fully settles. It stays in a perpetual cycle of assembly and disassembly.
If you want to get the full experience:
- Wait for around 20 seconds for the particles to find each other on their own first and form a ball
- Then, briefly click and hold somewhere far from the ball to pull particles toward your cursor
- Finally, click and hold for a few seconds in the center of the visualization then release your cursor
Link in the thread below:
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@JacobAShell @TheMindScourge Using that for the next app refactoring code review.
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@TheMindScourge This post is very Wahabism-coded, anti-preservation bc that's a form of idolatry
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St Peter’s is a perfect public space. It’s had to see how it could be improved upon. But it’s also static. It’ll look the same in 2100, and 2500, too. No one wants it to change
While Mecca is alive. It’s constantly changing. It won’t look the same in 2035, let alone 2050.
The recent developments in and around the masjid aren’t Lindy architecturally. But they are Lindy in another sense. Growth is Lindy, too. Our ancestors didn’t keep things the same. Stasis isn’t Lindy.
فالكون@iFalcon10
2011 تدشين التوسعة 2026 إكتمال التوسعة
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@sethbannon Yep - and imagine how many terrorists were created by the attack on the school in Iran.
Actually, @grok, can you help us estimate this? Use reasonable assumptions.
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Why did the man who attacked the Michigan synagogue do it?
Israel killed his brothers and their young children when it bombed their home in Lebanon.
There is no excuse to attack innocent people like he did. Jews in America should never have to answer for the crimes of Israel. What he did was 100% wrong.
But if we ignore that Israel’s bombing campaigns are radicalizing an entire generation, we’re putting our heads in the sand.
Even when a legitimate target is inside a house, killing children alongside them almost never makes the world safer.
War is sometimes necessary. Self-defense is just. But killing large numbers of innocent women and children fuels the fire of extremism and makes everyone, everywhere less safe.
Seth Bannon@sethbannon
Violent extremists are not finite. It’s not “there are 20,000 of them and if we kill them all, we’re safe.” Kill tens of thousands of children alongside those militants and you radicalize a generation, creating far more extremists than existed before.
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@the_bogolepov @BReguided The West won the cold war over the East so every symbol of power, anything good the East build had to be demolished and replaced with a mall or McDonalds.
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My unpopular opinion is that TfL should raise peak tube fares more. In the mornings, stations and trains are uncomfortably overcrowded and it's often difficult to get a seat. Higher fares would help with that and raise more money to invest in newer rolling stock.
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@zeeg @bentlegen That's probably a really bad idea, as the company will very likely have a claim on the IP - no?
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@bentlegen Im sure lots of folks trying to build their “start up” using company money
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An engineering leader told me they discovered numerous employees spending corporate LLM tokens to moonlight for other companies
Like, a *lot* of money’s worth
Is this a thing?
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@MathiasRusted @i_zzzzzz Our biggest rival not getting oil sounds like a good thing to me. Plus it could leverage them into leveraging Iran to end the war quicker
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The unexpected move of letting their own ships through the thing they’re blocking
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