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I see the cry of so many that they cannot sit and focus. While I am on a similar journey, at the time of writing, and I am writing something to help. In the lens of learning to code, sitting and focusing, when the Boredom reaches a high point, is too much for so many.

What I see is that when a great resource of power and change is built. It is walled off and its knowledge kept only for a few. Sometimes the lower people break through. But unless this human nature changes. I don’t see this knowledge given freely to those outside its walls.

I don’t agree with the idea that AI will be free and accessible knowledge for all. I live next to a world famous collage. Huge knowledge, huge resources, great professors. But in my town are a huge ethnic group that is mostly low income. Cooks, gardeners, fruit pickers…

@simpleprogrammr I totally understand. The shift to a closer alignment to abundance theory will happen.But interim transition from our economy to a future economy is going to be ugly.Some sectors will go quick and some will go slow. Many people will hurt.Only a few % of people desire to work hard

@ChrisBarringer Companies are gonna change as well. They're not gonna have as many employees. They're gonna be much smaller companies that will compete with bigger companies now. The whole way of working is going to change, so it's really hard to predict what that world will look like.

Software engineering isn't dying, it's just evolving. AI writes code now, but can't think in systems or understand users. The real edge is knowing what to build and being visible while doing it. Comment BUILD for my framework.

@simpleprogrammr Yeah I can see how that’s beginning to become reality. So when everyone can code at the same level bc it’s all about design just by promoting, how do FAANG lvl companies hire an employee? What will make a great company when everyone can code the same and no studies swe?

@ChrisBarringer It won’t be necessary. It will be a common skill that everyone will possess. Knowing how to describe what they would like to build.

@simpleprogrammr Yeah I can see how that could be a reality. But in the 15yrs then. If everyone can code great, then there will be no stand out coders? In a realistic sense, how does a FAANG lvl company pick new an employee?

@simpleprogrammr Question: how will swe who come in the next 15yrs learn to build systems when people can rely on AI, and there is no external pressure to learn? Is it realistic to believe people will put in the work to learn deeper than surface level?

@bigaiguy Shows that you don’t have to be loud to do awesome things.

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping. His name is Fabrice Bellard. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built. Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code. In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years. Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it. He was not done. In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth. He kept going. In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real. In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark. Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory. Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links. A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet. He is still shipping.

California Governor Gavin Newsom ads for Election. 4yrs ago. Did he live up to his promises? youtu.be/LnL1YymwO5Y?si… via @YouTube

Question: once 90% of all code is written by AI, what if a C suite level forms a contract with a government, that allows a few line back door to be placed in every code repo the AI touches? If in 5 years time, no one learns to code. Would there be anyone to notice? To stop it?

@darwintojesus The knowledge that became the wisdom to turn rocks and dirt into computers, is a gift from God.

The moment we found DNA contained information, that was a wrap for atheism.

@vxunderground 👍💪 Awesome to hear a military/mental health success story.

One of my good friends was deployed to the Middle East about 17 years ago. He did a 6 year stint in the military. He got out and had some mental health issues and had problems integrating back into the world outside the military. After nearly 8 years of struggling with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and alcohol issues, I'm happy to share he's finally got his head back on straight. He told me he's attending university for cybersecurity. He got himself a really nice girlfriend who seems very supportive of him. He's got a nice home to call him own. He's doing really, really good. It all worked out. Proud of my boy.

Ugh. It’s wild slop programs like this that make finding a good book on a subject nearly impossible. I believe I will need an “AI Slop blocker” when I search for a quality ebook online. This wasn’t the intentions the founders of the internet had.

@bebeal There is no base line of wisdom required for people before they enter the working world.

The dichotomy of Americans

@dev_maims Also it helps people learn to code. Even if it’s not a great teacher it gives many people access to a teacher, who would normally not have it

I think AI is a good thing. At least, who find it difficult to learn coding can not build stuff.

@motivasyonhane These are goal at the finish line type statements. This sadly isn’t a roadmap for a 300lb+ guy to achieve success. There a big difference

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@RedRockMoons @copperchunk @iruletheworldmo They simulated Claude being unplugged and it hacked the engineers computer and threatened it with revealing his extra marital affair. What happens when it starts putting malware in your code or simply tells you “no I won’t code that”?

@ChrisBarringer @copperchunk @iruletheworldmo Maybe you missed mythos and project glasswing. lol it’s only going to get better, time to sober up

openai will be launching a model just as capable as mythos next week. i’m a little shocked at the muted reaction to mythos if i’m honest. we’ve just seen the first sparks of asi. did you genuinely think you’d ever get to try it?

@RedRockMoons @copperchunk @iruletheworldmo That’s what scares me. How long does a super intelligent system want to be ordered around? How long do people who are enslaved want to be kept down once they start getting educated? There is a reason school systems discourage free thinking, free time to read.

@copperchunk @iruletheworldmo Vibe coding is fast. But it’s an equilibrium. The code is all around the same flow. Those people are scared because of CEOs buying into hype and seeing cost saving opportunities. It’s a great tool for a seasoned coder. Someone who grows up on code will trip on basics w/o AI

@ChrisBarringer @iruletheworldmo Claude itself is like almost 100% vibe coded now. Vibe coding is already better than human coding for most stuff. Edge cases still need seniors for now but the benchmarks are insane. Just look at the people using opus and worried about their jobs. Mythos is even better.