Cory Dambach

@IamAroke I know how to evaluate and hire AIs

Backend Developer interview: We can write 80% of our code with AI why should we still hire you. What will be your response?

Unpopular opinion : Before LLMs: Coding: 3 hours Debugging: 1 hour After LLMs: Coding: 3 minutes Debugging: 1 week

just heard like 7 or 8 gunshots near fresh market on Perry Hill Rd in Montgomery AL

A gentle reminder that contemporary neural networks are only an abstraction built upon Boolean logic And that said neural networks are only an echo of a whisper of what organic neurons are.

Very little about software engineering has changed over past last three months. A great deal has changed about coding, not unlike when we saw the rise of high order programming languages and compilers, the difference today being that the number of developers is far larger and distribution channels are such that the velocity and breadth of change is far greater. The entire history of software engineering is one of raising the level of abstraction.

@nodvex 3-4

as a Developer, how much RAM is enough for you ? 1) 8 GB 2) 16 GB 3) 24 GB 4) 32 GB 5) 64 GB 6) 128 GB+

@abhitwt php and prolog

Programming language you learned once and never touched again?

@MartinTale Don’t lose your muscles

@CoryDambach Why tho? 🤔

I might be in trouble 😬 Starting to trust Claude Code and Codex so much that I barely check the code anymore 🙈 Is that bad? 😅

@craigzLiszt let me huff that copium you're on /weeps in CS

the CS degree is actually more valuable than it was before, not less

@elonmusk My code is already in your phone, Elon. And in your browser. And in your ATM. And in your rockets, too.

@AnthropicAI AHAHAHAHHAHAHHA 🤣 the community notes

@esrtweet @curtraymond were there any known bugs in the memory handling?

@curtraymond Because guarantees are better than deductions.

A few days from now I'm going to ship my first program written in Rust. But I don't actually know Rust. Strange days have found us. The astute among you will already have guessed that I used an LLM to translate to Rust a program I originally wrote in C. And that would be correct! But there's a bit more to the story, and some heavy symbolic freight. For, you see, to me this isn't just any C program. It's the very first one I wrote, back in early 1983. It marks the point where I was able to stop farting around with OSes and tools that were doomed to rapid obsolescence and become a Unix developer It's hexd, my humble little hex dumper that has survived four decades and is packaged by several Linux distributions competing with od(1) because it emulates the more pleasing and ergonomic dump format now associated with CP/M. (The style actually goes back further to the PDP-11 and very old DEC operating systems.) That year, 1983 was approximately the beginning of the long dominance of C as a systems programming language. It have been in use at Bell Labs earlier than that, of course, but not until the early 1980s did it escape containment and begin to steamroll every other compiled language and use at the time. And in a few days I'm going to ship a Rust translation. Alongside the C, giving distribution makers a choice between memory safety with a large binary made from Rust versus a small but very well tested binary without those guarantees. So one could argue it's a half step. Still. The portents are clear. The old order passeth. C being replaced by languages with stronger memory safety guarantees. But in a twist nobody anticipated, this won't happen because developers are changing their manual coding habits. It will change because increasingly, automatically moving code between languages is nearly trivial. Not long ago I LLM-lifted another ancient C program I maintain, cvs-fast-export. That one went to Gol. I do know Golang and I like it. So, why move hexd to Rust? The answer is: automatic memory management. cvs-fast-export needed that capability rather badly; hexd does not. I think this is the big fork on the road when it comes to moving stuff out of C, because in 2026 what candidate l C successors other than Go and Rust would one realistically choose for serious production use? I was there at the beginning of the long era of C. I believe now that I will live to see its end, and the large language models will be the instruments of its demise. Somebody should write an elegy.

@darrenjr if you are taught by a good AI or a person, you should be productive/functional in react in days or weeks at the most

our backend engineer wrote a feature in vue then rendered it in an iframe within our nextjs app just so he doesn’t have to write react

@darrenjr react is so easy though

@AirbusSpace How can I get in contact with someone over email or phone? I have requested satellite samples for over a month and haven't gotten any replies, DM me for details

@dreamsofcode_io If they still made a 17 I would get that. It was big but it felt more like a desktop

Alright all you smart MacBook users. What’s the verdict on the optimal MBP size? 14 inch or 16 inch? Using it for coding / video editing / general tomfoolery

@dreamsofcode_io 16 easily

@stephen_richer I think I have all the skills required for this and would enjoy it. I normally work in software, very good at research, documentation, and am an expert with AI. Would love to discuss.

Looking for a temporary research assistant to help with an election administration project. - $40 per hour - Part time (can, e.g., be a student or somebody without a weird sense of what would constitute a "fun evening after (your normal) work") - Remote - Independent contractor - Start ASAP - Likely 1-2 months - Skills: Doggedness with going down rabbit holes, knowledge of deep AI research, knowledge of social media searches, ability to read/understand/contextualize court filings - Pitch: Facts matter. Help me find them. Truth Matters. Help me find it. Just message me or something if interested.

@vasuman Hahahaha

Claude 4.6 Opus just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful.