Chris "CSJcode"

New experimental UI on Verafy AI, view multiple AIs fact check results, w/confidence levels on each. @verafyfoundtn swarm.verafy.ai/ask

Various sources, not just Grok: ibm.com/think/insights… For example: "Based on an internal IBM test, IBM developers using IBM watsonx Code Assistant projected that they could see a 90% time savings on code explanation*, 59% time reduction on documentation** and 38% time reduction in code generation and testing."

@csjcode @PeterDiamandis Because I work for them maybe? Perhaps being an AI engineer I know a bit better than your hallucinated AI assistant what tools are allowed to be used inside the company to code, don't I?

IBM is hiring MORE entry-level employees because young people are better with AI than older generations.

@TrueRick312 @PeterDiamandis So you're saying they do not allow any AI tools for coding or to be used by engineers?

Is this true? How do you know? Grok: "IBM actively develops, deploys, and uses its own AI-powered coding tools internally, and it has integrated Microsoft Copilot capabilities in certain contexts." > "AI-powered programming tools are not approved for internal use, nor are they expected to be approved in the near future, everything has to be done manually."

@PeterDiamandis This is simply not true. AI-powered programming tools are not approved for internal use, nor are they expected to be approved in the near future, everything has to be done manually. What IBM is hiring are cheap consultants in India and Morocco, who just happen to be young.

@DamonZumbroegel Of course the Zocalo, all around it are some restaurants, pastries/ice cream La Esperanza (2 locations), main fresh market at 5th/16th,the Fort (Fuertes Historico. Also Cholula (San Pedro barrio centro is for the zocalo and pyramid) is great, take Uber (easiest, most direct)

@DamonZumbroegel Museo Amparo (do cafe at top), tacos arabes (Taqueria Oriental, Don Pastor solid chains, any others too), La Pasita old bar small liqueur drinks (fun, cheap, 2 locations, 1 standing only), Poblano cemita (big) from El Carmen mercado

Monday I head to Puebla—next leg of this Mexican adventure. I arrived in Mexico with zero plans, zero hotel bookings, and never looked at a map of Southern Mexico. I am following the magic of the open road, and my intuition. From people I meet, to replies to my posts, many people recommend Puebla is where I should head next. They say, “Puebla is UNESCO colonial heart, Talavera tiles popping everywhere, mole poblano birthplace, volcanoes, Baroque in Capilla del Rosario, ancient-meets-new at Cholula pyramid.” But what is the real heart of Puebla? I’m going to go try to find out. As an architect I’m already excited: colonial buildings, Biblioteca Palafoxiana (oldest library in the Americas), Museo Amparo, Toyo Ito’s Museo Internacional del Barroco. Yet what interests me most, is how the history of Mexico shows up in the modern life and architecture. From the simple vernacular to the big new museums: how is the history inherently in it? I’m excited……what shouldn’t I miss? What should I avoid? Hidden architectural gems, authentic mole/cemitas/chalupas spots, off-the-path walks to magic spots, local festivals, or just “go here at sunset”? Or should I skip it all together, and go somewhere else? I have really enjoyed, learned from, and listened to the advice of the folks making suggestions in replies, so drop your tips, and I’ll make good use of them! I’ll Post about it soon!

@deedydas Also, when they do use it, they often have poor skills with it. It's crazy... AI coding is a skill. You can't just type something vague in the chat and expect it will come back "perfect" (based on many assumptions the AI knows nothing about).

I’m not exaggerating, I hear from so many big software cos which don’t use Claude Code/Codex. CTOs are asleep at the wheel. Engineers are typing code by hand. Fixing a bug a day. Like it’s 2024. If youre at these cos, demand change or leave. Now. You’re in for a rude awakening.

The symbol of an eagle eating a snake on the Mexican flag is actually a Spanish mistranslation. What the Aztec's depicted in the eagle's mouth was actually an "atl", the glyph for Sacred War. The glyph is made up of an intertwined stream of blood and water. The Spanish who first saw it assumed it was a snake, and given that the eagle eating a snake is common in European and Christian symbolism as good triumphing over evil, it stuck. But the Aztec atl symbology is actually much more profound. It represents the Aztec belief that life requires death, and that blood is the fuel of existence. The gods sacrificed themselves to create the earth, and for the sun to continue to rise and for the rain to continue to fall, the earth must be continually replenished with the blood of warriors or the blood of sacrifices. The massive blood debt to the gods was a sacred duty and reciprocity. The stream of blood is depicted with flames, showing the violent manner in which it was taken. The water is the inverse, the new life that flows after death. Blood and water wrap around each other in eternal balance. There's some evidence that the original Aztec founding bird is not a Golden Eagle, but a caracara, which is found more commonly perched on cacti at ground level, and has the distinct feathered crest. The nopal cactus with its red, heart-shaped fruit is the Aztec Cosmic Tree, their Axis Mundi. It is commonly shown growing from a corpse or a heart. In the Mexican coat of arms it is rising from a stone, but not just any stone, the stone depicted is the island where the heart of a vanquished god was thrown by Huitzilopochtli, the Sun God. The island is Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, surrounded by the waters of Lake Texcoco. The roots extend to the underworld, the cactus is this earth, and the eagle connects it to the sky. The Aztec were fanatically devoted to their war god Huitzilopochtli and served him with fervor. They were the chosen ones with the duty to replenish the earth with blood. Wars were waged for victims. Warriors were promoted for capturing prisoners, not killing enemies. Thousands were sacrificed. Sometimes tens of thousands. Socially, the Aztecs were outcasts from a resplendent civilization of city states flourishing at the time around Lake Texcoco, a tribe of barbarians relagated to living on muddy islands, humiliated by stronger cities. Their religion gave them the energy to take their jihad to the ends of the earth, conquering their known world in less than 100 years. In some ways the rise of the Aztecs is a more incredible story than their downfall at the hands of the conquistadors. When you see the crest of the Mexican flag you're not just looking at a pleasant depiction of the Aztec founding myth where a tribe stopped and settled a place because they saw an omen, you're seeing an entire theology, pulled together by a set of symbols, which animated a small group of people to such a degree that they committed violence with a ferocity that is rarely matched in human history.

I use Claude Code mainly but I also cross-check with other LLMs sometimes as well. I have about 15-20 different custom Claude skills on my current project, and whenever I do something I think could be re-used a lot in the future, I will create a new skill for it.

Most people use AI coding w/o proper constraints, rules and skill files. But also some rules get missed so you also have to build in some redundancy. For example, I have code modularity rules, but I also separately have a modularity agent file. If one gets missed, it gets caught by the other. Also sometimes I run it 2x, and on occasion it does catch something missed in the first run.

Damn... even messin' with Hershey chocolate bars, what is going on? I'm sure some PR flak shows up "People love our rubber product at this price point"

Agreed, I see it as improved self-healing automated testing. Multiple AI agents and test rules can be guardrails checking for errors before deploy. No human is required for that. ex: If Claude makes a mistake the other AIs, tests get an error, don't deploy, and tell Claude you made a mistake, and Claude tries again.

@csjcode @ALEngineered It is still basically automated testing which we have had for years. AI also makes mistakes even when you put specifically rules in place that it should observe it will still sometimes overlook them. Claude does it all the time in little ways

AI lowers the cost of writing code but increases the need for code reviews, verification, observability, and operational excellence. It also exponentially increases the surface area for security. I think software engineers are safe for at least another 3 years.

@Mithrandir48 @SCHIZO_FREQ Or maybe its too many managers? Shouldn't be a problem with engineers + AI now, velocity much higher. (unless too many managers, or poorly run tech team)

@csjcode @SCHIZO_FREQ As a middle manager who is stuck in meetings all day, I can tell you the main issue I have is just not having enough engineers to get the work done.

If coding actually does get replaced by AI it's gonna be super ugly The last 30-40 years appear to have been a gradually intensifying "revenge of the nerds" fever dream, and non-techies really did not enjoy watching these people make 250k/yr remotely without degrees I predict low levels of sympathy in the case of mass coder layoffs

P-token is now live on testnet!

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@49agents Yes! I like to just chill out, drink some wine on Friday night, listen to vibraphone.. here's another classic... Cal Tjader - The Way You Look Tonight youtube.com/watch?v=gBYgpP…

@csjcode haha good one. but fr the vibraphone is underrated, the vibes era was actually solid

With all this talk about vibe coding... Can we bring back the vibraphone age? youtube.com/watch?v=OAKwXa…

And this is a cool jazzy rendition, wish it was longer, but shows the genius of the hook/riffs... youtube.com/watch?v=MS8Bzn…

Friday night, music and glass of red wine... This is one of my favorite instrumentals. youtube.com/watch?v=hqRsFg…

@SCHIZO_FREQ A good dev, above average, earns...