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Alan
@bitforth
Founder, Ex-Big Tech SWE obsessed with product, growth, and systems that scale. I post deep dives into the technical levers behind product growth
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The more you read this article, the worse it gets.
Eg it claims Delve doesn't have a single legit US auditor firm, and outsources auditing to rubber-stamp firms
If true, truly a house of cards
Also would be a massive stain for Y Combinator to lend credibility...
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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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@codeaholicguy @sundeep In the near future, nobody will debug codebases without LLMs anyway.
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@sundeep Token burn rate as a KPI. That's how you end up with a codebase nobody can debug without an LLM.
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“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”
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It's also depressing that Meta has world-class scientists building insane, mind-blowing prototypes, but almost no serious product leadership to turn any of it into real, shippable products.
And the incentives are completely misaligned, everything is optimized for short-term optics, green dashboards and performance review season. It was meant to push rapid iteration, but all it really does is reward shallow thinking and short-term wins.
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@publicinte @bitforth @vasuman It sucks to because meta hasn’t released anything that good since their llama model epically for the money they’re throwing at it I saw them release an interesting sound isolation model but besides that I tried one of those insta chat bots they were promoting and it sucked
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As someone who worked at Reality Labs: the Metaverse had real legs but was obliterated by middle management completely out of touch with how young people actually use technology.
I built a V1 tool that game developers genuinely needed, and the moment it was done, it got shipped to a team in London (to die), and I was reassigned to a "higher-priority project" that zero developers asked for.
Multiply that by every team, and you'll understand why this never took off yet cost 80 billion.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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Christianity is the fulfillment and continuation of Israel. The Church is the people of God under the new covenant established by Christ.
Modern judaism (rabbinic) is what you get when you reject the Messiah. Your claim about God making an unconditional covenant with Israel is heretical and you should be ashamed to call yourself Christian if you believe that.
You are elevating ethnicity above Christ and turning the covenant into something independent of him. The covenant was never meant to exist apart from its fulfillment. You’re effectively denying that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.
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The church is not the "new Israel."
Christians are not the "new Jews."
There are Gentile believers in Jesus, and there are Jewish believers in Jesus. This is the church.
Israel remains a literal nation of ethnic people who God made an unconditional covenant with, and no man's twisting of scripture will change that.
This is the truth.
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At Meta you can rack up little badges on your internal profile for arbitrary stuff, like coding in 5 languages or whatever. In RL they even have dogfooding badges for using the product, 10h, 50h, 100h, etc.
The funny part is hardly anyone in the Oculus org actually has the 100h badge. That kinda tells you everything.
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@vasuman As a quest user it feels like no one working on it uses the product.
The easiest tell is the fact that there is no nighttime/void mode.
I don’t want to be in some fake world when im going to bed.
Had to side load a solution
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Esta semana empecé a trabajar como software engineer en YT shorts, en las apps de iOS y Android. Voy a estar laburando en el core del producto y recomendaciones.
Pocas cosas se comparan con trabajar en tu producto favorito, realmente un sueño cumplido.
Time to ship @YouTube 🚀
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i am so fucking sick and tired of this shit. can women just stop? just fucking stop. just stop with your pathetic stupid bullshit agenda.
nothing has stopped women from coding and designing ai.
nothing has stopped women from getting involved in tech.
there is no problem. nothing needs to be fixed. but there always has to be a problem for DEI losers because if there isn't a problem, how can they sell the solution?
this whole world has demonized men and made it "problematic" to do anything. Fuck off- women are such a problem and genuinely this kind of shit makes the strongest argument for stripping away rights.
I am sick of it. I am sick of all of it. I am sick of loser women doing the bidding of a corrupt few men who are ruining everything while they sit cozy with their empires in the shadows.
women have actively made everything they've tried to "fix" WORSE.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
DEI AI, what could go wrong?
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@Yihao_Gao @paulgb You’re attributing the actions of an entire company to a judge the character of a single individual who happens to work at said company. That’s at the very least not fair.
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Insane that Vercel picked one of the kindest, most well-meaning people in tech to go after.
sunil pai@threepointone
Oh god, I was going to reach out to you on Monday after the weekend. I was really just experimenting here myself, I really should have added an experimental label or whatever. My plan was to play with it a bit and then come back to chat to you about adding hooks. I tried my best here, this wasn’t about beef or whatever.
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@bitforth Yo trabajé para una empresa que hacía APIs para aseguradoras. El problema no es acceder a sus web services (no tienen API), el problema es que son una basura, son viejas, tardan mucho en responder y a veces se caen y muchas funciones no están en esos servicios.
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Se burlan mucho del vato de las aseguradoras, pero hace casi 10 años le hice un producto a alguien y le dije que el producto era sencillo, pero que lo complicado iba a ser acceder a la información que quería mostrar (cara y altamente regulada). Para mi sorpresa, a las ~3 semanas le dieron acceso.
No sé si el de las aseguradoras esté conectado o no, pero muchos lo ven desde su perspectiva de programador, donde no conoces a nadie fuera de tech. Para la gente de otros rubros, cosas que al programador promedio se le dificultan, a ellos se les hacen fáciles.
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it never gets old to watch americans on youtube either drill or slice and open a wall in their house like it's made from cake 💀 cartoon ahh houses
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You’re misunderstanding what the Christian claim actually is. And as evidenced in the comments, many people who call themselves Christians misunderstand it too. When someone says things like “there are no good people” that’s simply false. People clearly perform real good acts all the time.
Christianity's claim is that goodness is not sufficient.
A person can perform real acts of courage, generosity, and compassion. Like saving a child from a fire is objectively good. No serious Christian denies that.
But good actions alone do not repair the deeper rupture between humanity and God.
In Christian theology, Jesus is the means of reconciliation between humanity and God. The claim is that humans cannot repair the fracture on their own, so God initiates the repair.
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This is where Christianity loses me.
So if a person lives a good life and does good things and lives in a way Jesus would have approved of...but he's not Christian. That is treated as a problem because he's not "saved."
This means goodness doesn't matter. You can't say "God is good" at that point because the good acts no longer matter without endorsing the right guy.
In Judaism they understood that anyone had the capacity to be good. That's why they didn't seek converts.
Ancient synagogues had sections for "God Fearers" which were non-Jews who worshipped alongside Jews.
You get judged by your merits as a person, not by what "team" you're on.
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Wesley Huff: "Jesus condemns moralism... if Jesus is nothing but a moral example, then you can save yourself and you don't actually need a Savior."
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BREAKING: Trump to hold a news conference at 11:45am.
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En 2004, Jürgen Habermas y Joseph Ratzinger nse sentaron a dialogar.
El tema: ¿puede sostenerse la democracia sin religión?
Abro hilo 🧵
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La fórmula final del debate es sorprendentemente conciliadora:
-La razón necesita aprender de la religión (para no volverse cínica).
-La religión necesita la razón (para no caer en fanatismo).
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@jcuth20192 @Uncommonsince76 That’s the point. Palestinian Christians have never left. Therefore, if your argument rests on genetics and immigration patterns, Palestinian Christians have a stronger claim to the land than Jews and Muslims.
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@bitforth @Uncommonsince76 I really don’t even see the point. Thousands of Messianic Jews have immigrated there despite legal hurdles.
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“Jesus fulfilled it all. There is a new covenant. Those that are in Christ, that is the new people of god. The church is the new Israel. The land is meaningless.”
-Carrie Boller
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Humans’ prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until they’re around 24 years old. Sending teenagers off to college to live independently is one of the riskiest decisions someone can make with their own children.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that. The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them. Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?
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@MattWalshBlog Humans’ prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until they’re around 24 years old. Sending teenagers off to college to live independently is one of the riskiest decisions someone can make with their own children.
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I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that.
The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them.
Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?
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