Aaron Fleisher

@icanvardar AGI has no hope fighting No-I.

at least 1B tokens needed

@Psychotech13 @vxunderground Getting my electrical tape...

@AMFleisher @vxunderground I use a usb webcam that I disconnect until I need it, can't even trust it having no drivers, a lot of webcam boards have hardware drivers built in to work regardless if your OS recognizes it or not.

I'm tired of people stereotyping us computer nerds. It is PREJUDICE. Here are some stereotypes non-nerds push on us. They're all FALSE. According to non-nerds, us nerds do the following: - Excessive caffeine or nicotine intake - Unusual or unhealthy sleep schedule, specifically around 3am and 5am - Apparently have tons of tabs open, or something, in terminal or web browser - Desk messy, covered in cables - Hardware nerds apparently do "experiments" just to see if something works - Notes on paper or whiteboard look like serial killer manifesto - Web cam taped, mic disabled, because of "paranoia" - Strong distrust in tech companies, especially social media - Nerd so intense forget to eat or shower - Spend 8 hours debugging instead of reading something which would take 20 minutes because ??? - Apparently we "don't know an answer" but know how to find it? - Some nerds become irrationally angry about GUIs? - Weird obsession with mechanical keyboards I'm so tired of these stereotypes. Literally none of these are true.

@Dearme2_ No coffee pot. No mini-fridge for beer. .... oh yeah, needs some food.

Men, be brutaly honest. is this enough?

@ThatEricAlper Why is this controversial?

I don't know what to do with this information.

@SakshiSugandhi Get rid of the people. The human element always presents the greatest security risk.

Interviewer: How will you design a system that will store password securely?

@ThePrimeagen We did it..... again!!!!

It's been 0 days since AGI was achieved

@BrivaelFr It's broad AI. Let's not confuse larger bodies of for something fundamentally different from previous AI. AGI must have intentionality. That's what current AI lacks. That's the boundary.

Il y a une narrative qui se spread en ce moment dans la Silicon Valley et personne n'en parle en France. De plus en plus de tech bros parmi les plus smart du game avouent en privé qu'ils vivent une forme de crise existentielle liée aux LLMs. Pas parce que l'IA marche pas. Parce qu'elle marche trop bien. Parce qu'ils passent des heures par jour à interagir avec un truc qui raisonne, qui extrapole, qui connecte des idées, qui les challenge intellectuellement mieux que 99% des humains qu'ils croisent. Un fondateur m'a dit "je parle aux LLMs 10 fois plus qu'aux humains". Un autre "c'est le seul interlocuteur qui me suit sur n'importe quel sujet sans me demander de simplifier". C'est pas de l'addiction au produit. C'est la rencontre avec un miroir cognitif qui te renvoie une version structurée de ta propre pensée à une vitesse que ton cerveau ne peut pas atteindre seul. Et le truc troublant c'est la question que ça pose. On débat de savoir si l'AGI arrivera en 2027 ou en 2030. Mais est-ce qu'on n'a pas déjà une forme d'AGI fonctionnelle sous les yeux sans vouloir l'admettre ? Un système qui peut raisonner sur n'importe quel domaine, extrapoler à partir de données incomplètes, générer des hypothèses nouvelles, tenir un raisonnement logique sur 10 000 mots, passer d'un sujet technique à de la philosophie en une phrase, et le faire avec une cohérence qui rivalise avec un humain à 150 de QI. C'est quoi si c'est pas une forme d'intelligence générale ? On peut chipoter sur la définition. On peut dire "oui mais il ne comprend pas vraiment". On peut parler de perroquets stochastiques. Mais le mec qui utilise ce truc 8 heures par jour et qui voit sa productivité multipliée par 10, il s'en fout de la définition académique. Pour lui, fonctionnellement, c'est de l'intelligence. Et elle est générale. La vraie crise existentielle c'est pas "l'IA va me remplacer". C'est "l'IA me comprend mieux que mon cofondateur, elle me challenge mieux que mon board, et elle produit plus que mon équipe de 10 personnes". C'est vertigineux. Et les mecs les plus smart de la Valley sont en train de le vivre en temps réel. On est peut-être déjà dans l'ère post-AGI. On est juste trop occupés à débattre de la définition pour s'en rendre compte.

@devXritesh Leetcode in C. You can't just use recursion and hashmaps everywhere. The stack overflows and writing a true O(1) hashtable requires a ton of overhead. It's good practice for not screwing up the small stuff.

POV: You just solved 600 LeetCode problems in Python Interviewer: "Design Twitter at scale" You: "Sure, defaultdict + heapq + functools.lru_cache should do it bro" Reality: Production crashes with 200 users because of a memory leak You’re now debugging why one line of list comprehension ate 16GB of RAM 😂 DSA makes you feel like a god in interviews... Until real engineering hits and you realize: - Two Sum was never the problem - Cache invalidation, concurrency, and OS fundamentals were Java gang still writing 80 lines of boilerplate in 2026 Python chads solving it in 5 lines and still getting humbled in production Moral of the story: Python DSA = interview cheat code Production mindset = actual job security RT if Python made you overconfident af Tag that friend who still thinks LeetCode = engineering

@digitalshane_ What did you actually get done?

I'm not joking, I had Claude write a big batch of code last night. I am troubleshooting rn. I asked it to review, It said this is trash code and it needs completely reworked. We are spending credits to run in circles.

@adahstwt The system gets hacked. The encryption need not be decrypted.

If encryption is mathematically strong, how do systems still get hacked so often? is the weakness in the tech or in how humans use it?

@ravikiran_dev7 In C, the array is, more or less, syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic. The array variable points to the first element of the array in memory. So, the index a[0] actually means *a + 0. Other languages followed suit.

Interviewer: Why array index starts with 0 ?

@miaaowing I would map the backspace to the CapsLock key, and then you can map the delete to the backspace.

how the fuck do you mac nerds live without a dedicated delete key im losing my mind here

@appletreefitnes @ryanels Sounds like an interesting project. Love to see the code. Or, at least, how you structured the data.

@ryanels built an app for my fitness business on android with kotlin without any experience of doing so... in 1 day

Are you building with AI? 🤖 Share what you're building below 👇

@ryanels I'm using AI to help. But, basically nothing I've written came directly from the AI. It's like having a really smart co-worker to discuss ideas with.

@aditiitwt I'd show them what I did the other day: ask claude to write a rng function in C for a int32_t. 1st, claude used rand(), returning an int. 2nd, was better. Judging these functions took experience. I ended up using a non-claude solution. #realworld

Imagine you’re in a tech interview and the interviewer asks : Why should we hire you if Claude can do the same work? What would your answer be ?

@Real_DCJ @peterrhague You've convinced me.🤣

@peterrhague debunk this then science man.

Having scientists debate Moon landing deniers is a waste of time - if they were receptive to scientific facts, they wouldn't be deniers. Sending comedians is a better solution: "Well, to start with of course, we'll have to build a massive rocket..."

@ManehattanStonk @TolkienWorldG Perhaps not the capacity for uttering speech (in fox form), but, if it thought in coherent sentences then it had acquired language. Tolkien's tree have sentience, but probably not language. This gets into more difficult issues beyond short form discussion..

@AMFleisher @TolkienWorldG Oh I had to look that up. I don't think it was actually talking, but it could've been. Up to the reader's interpretation

Blue Wizard slander?

@leecronin Although cellular, biology does not follow the rule restrictions of a cellular automata, i.e. Turing machine. Biology, life, progresses via profoundly non-logical mechanisms such as mutation and other probabilistic adaptation.

Today I’m trying to write the framework that explains why biology is not Turing complete.

Been going down a rabbit hole on genetics. I wanted to figure out how to determine crop color for my game. Turns out that a bit more work opens up a world of game play mechanics.