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Here’s a secret that every genuinely original thinker knows: there are no original ideas. there are only original combinations. Every “breakthrough” is two existing ideas from different domains meeting for the first time inside someone’s head. The person who reads only within their field will only ever have ideas that their field has already had. This is why the most interesting people are almost always polymaths. Go wider. Read the thing that has nothing to do with your work. Talk to the person who has nothing in common with you. Visit the place that makes no sense on your itinerary. The irrelevant input is the one that will combine with everything else and produce something nobody’s ever seen.

"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings." —Nietzsche

@milan_milanovic lvl 5 now, moving on :)

What's your AI adoption level? Most engineers I talk to are somewhere between level 2 and level 4. They have an agent in their IDE. They review the diffs. They're careful — and that's a reasonable place to be. But level 6 looks completely different. You're running multiple agents at once. You're steering the work, not writing it. Reading summaries, not diffs. And level 8? You've built your own orchestrator. Claude Code runs Claude Code. The gap between level 3 and level 6 isn't time. It's a mindset shift about what engineering actually means. Where are you? ↓ Via @Steve_Yegge / @Pragmatic_Eng newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/i/187563524/3-…

The cost of code is coming down, so we will consume more of it. The productivity of coders is going up, so they will become more valuable. Coding now includes training and driving models. @naval

@SilverB89630825 ta vrsta feminizma je nanela najvise stete upravo zenama a da nisu ni svesne. btw nisam primetio da su zene izjednacene kada pricamo recimo o vatrogascima, elektricarima, gradjevincima, soferima itd zar ne?

Feminizam je izjednačio žene s muškarcima ali ne i muškarce sa ženama, pa sad žene rade sve što i muškarci ali retko koji muškarac radi sve što i žena.

@yacineMTB @gabriel1 word

@gabriel1 You can outsource your thinking But not your understanding

there is still no substitute for perfectly understanding every single line of code in your codebase i fall into the trap of just skimming through ai changes to "just make sure it looks good" all the time, and it makes me lose so much time to not perfectly understand every line

many such cases

It's probably accelerating from here. More code, more software engineers. More apps, more SaaS usage and revenue. More cloud consumption. And a whole lot of tokens through it all. If the cost of hiring software engineers was previously a bottleneck on software deployment, then making it cheaper to ship code means the entire software ecosystem will start to grow faster.

Just realized why I’m so addicted to Claude Code. It’s literally a video game for adults. You get stuck on a level, try everything you can to beat it, and eventually break through. And every level you stack skills and get stronger.

@elonmusk Yes they are. X users observing the highest level of thought on other platforms

We've added a new command to Claude Code called /insights When you run it, Claude Code will read your message history from the past month. It'll summarize your projects, how you use Claude Code, and give suggestions on how to improve your workflow.

In the next version of Claude Code, you can customize spinner verbs for yourself and your team

Even before AI the easy days at work were when I could just code all day. Hard part was always collaborating with other teams, figuring out which systems we needed to use, or build, product constraints, etc But ya the ability of indie hackers to churn out mountains of slop is🚀

@mdo @pierrecomputer Really nice, a similar feature exists in jetbrains IDEs when u do merge, rebase commits

Let me introduce y’all to Diffs—a new, open source diff and code rendering library. We’ve been working on it @pierrecomputer for a few months now and we’re stoked for you to see it.

I’m seeing some hot takes that AI assisted coding means that you don’t have to be technical anymore. That’s only gonna last you until the first database migration, or the first security issue, or the first cloud migration, or the first scale out, or the first major regression, or the first refactor that ends in slop. I am finding that I’m learning more and I have to be as technical or more technical than ever before to get the kinds of high-quality output that I expect of any code, regardless of whether it comes from my fingertips or someone else’s - including an AI. Whether your source comes from open source libraries, your own hands, or an AI via your clever prompt, there is exactly one responsible person for the output. That is you. I never want to be accused of gatekeeping AI assisted programming, as non-technical people can get a lot of interesting work done. Until they hit a wall, and it’s gonna surprise them how quickly they either need to get technical, or get a technical person to help untangle the mess they’ve made. The art and science of programming is taking intent and turning it into shipping products. I will never blame an AI - nor should you - for bad output. Own the code that you ship.

I genuinely don’t understand how someone can be a socialist. It’s basically an admission that you don’t trust yourself to run your own life, so you outsource it to bureaucrats who’ve never built anything, never risked anything, and only know how to regulate, tax, and expand their own power. To keep their relevance, they create more bureaucracy. To justify that bureaucracy, they take more taxes. And most of that money ends up paying people who sit in offices managing forms, rules, and other people’s lives instead of creating value. Socialism is you saying: “I don’t trust myself. Please control me.” So tell me again, why would anyone want that?

At some point with enough regulation producing fines, it borders on looting. You can have more fines from over-regulation, or you can have a growing economy, but you can't have both.

Here's the moral case for free market capitalism in one sentence: It’s the only system where serving others is the path to serving yourself.

This is the result of the AI hype