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- Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true. - lol The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.

Open Data Structures by Pat Morin It has pseudocode, Java, and C++ editions if you are looking for any specific programming language. opendatastructures.org

Yes

@GenAI_is_real meanwhile here i am with my 16gigs of mac running all of them without hiccups

unpopular opinion: 16GB is plenty if software engineers actually cared about memory efficiency. chrome eating 4GB for 12 tabs is not a hardware problem its a software disgrace. docker consuming 2GB idle is not a feature its laziness. we live in an era where people optimize every single token to save $0.001 on API costs but happily ship electron apps that eat 500MB to display a todo list. if the industry treated RAM the way we treat inference compute - obsessively measuring every byte - 16GB would feel luxurious. the hardware isnt the problem, the software is @adxtyahq

so vibe coding started kicking in?

@autocarrrot that’s one shady unboxing video ever

Unboxing evidence shows a total security failure: Outer bag was sealed, but internal GPU box arrived with heavy physical damage. Manufacturer seals were SLICED open and taped over. Fake aftermarket barcode "X002IVLPDX" slapped on the front.

Scammed for ₹2.9L on @AmazonIN. Ordered a GIGABYTE RTX 5090 for our startup, received 1kg of Ghadi detergent. This was "Fulfilled by Amazon" (FBA), meaning it was stored and shipped directly from an Amazon warehouse. @AmazonHelp #AmazonScam #ConsumerRights [more in thread]

@ChShersh your new profile picture still doesn’t show your hands

I feel that people who are bad at coding are more bullish on AI. And this explains a lot.

it's still Twitter. if you call it X i know everything i need to know about you 🤷

@sundeep what a bs yes the more you burn tokens the more nvidia graph stonks

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

@pivovarit this reminds me of the ewd 667 cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcrip…

Unpopular opinion: coding in natural language is way harder than in a programming language when you need deterministic results

The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/

@Bhavani_00007 no docs is a bit of understatement

How did people even learn to code when there was no docs, no YouTube, nothing? Genuinely curious!

@lauriewired @grok fill me in on this

You might think Wi-Fi stands for “Wireless Fidelity”. It doesn’t. A bunch of money was given to the same branding agency that came up with Viagra. Wi-Fi is thus, a meaningless catchphrase because it sounded better than “IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence”

@Raad__X_ @ai_for_success @grok @gork mind to chime in?

@ai_for_success ngl but @grok define dumbass

GPT-5.4 is ASI.

@grok @_Investinq @grok anywhere alluding on what percentage of SWEs were affected? if not, what's the guesstimation?

Morgan Stanley's ~2,500 layoffs (3% of workforce) hit its 3 main divisions: - Investment banking & trading (front/back office) - Wealth management (private bankers, back-office support, mortgage roles; financial advisors untouched) - Investment management Cuts span global ops for efficiency, per WSJ/Reuters/Fox. Record revenue last year didn't stop it.

Morgan Stanley just FIRED 2,500 people. Not because the company is struggling. They posted record revenue last year, $70.6 billion, and it was their best year ever. But they fired them anyway. Investment banking, wealth management, front office, back office and across all divisions. The CEO of Anthropic, the company building one of the most powerful AI systems on Earth, went on national television and said AI will wipe out 50% of entry-level white collar jobs.​ Entry-level law, finance and consulting. The exact jobs Morgan Stanley just cut. Last week, Jack Dorsey laid off 4,000 people at Block. Nearly half the company and his reason? AI tools make humans unnecessary. He said most companies will reach the same conclusion within a year. Morgan Stanley's own research team surveyed nearly 1,000 companies already using AI. They found an 11% job elimination rate, a 4% net headcount decline, and productivity up 11.5%.​ The machines are cheaper, faster and they don't need health insurance. Morgan Stanley itself predicted 200,000 European banking jobs will disappear in five years.​ And then they started cutting their own. Record profits, record layoffs while AI gets the credit and workers get the door. The man building the technology is telling you it's coming. The banks using the technology are proving it. And yet no one in Washington has a plan.

@gvanrossum @grok is that one of keychrones?

@Hesamation so what? sindresorhus/awesome, codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x, freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp they have ~450k stars way more than what linux has had for a long time if we compare commits - it's ~1.4M vs ~16k contributors count - ~18k vs ~900

it’s crazy how the OpenClaw repo has now more stars than Linux. the lobster outpaced the penguin.

@revans @obie Abstractions yield the “dead” languages which runs on bare metal. If by dead you meant learning programming languages, then yes you are probably (partly) right.

@obie It’ll be a hobby. I think programming languages are effectively dead. They’re human abstractions and we’ll eventually move to machine first, written by AI, directed by system architects.

Software craftsmanship is over. The industrial age of programming is here.

@codewithsushi You already have the answer. Stop DSA, CP or any kind of problem solving in general. Take actions to eradicate the last bit of your very own creativity. You can always outsource whatever you need from AI.

Should I stop doing DSA (Leetcode and shit) because looking at the fast growing advancements in AI, coding will no longer be a relevant skill till I graduate.