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The darkness is a homy place.
It keeps calling you.
It keeps you calling.
Set light to the darkness.
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Nilan Marktanner
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Nilan Marktanner
@_marktani
2025 is the year of clarity. currently re-wiring myself. let's go!
Berlin Katılım Mart 2014
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@AskYatharth what do you mean? branch is a first-class concept in git
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the mental model of git that GitHub gives is completely at odds with how git works
GitHub makes people think in terms of branches and diffs. whereas all that exists in git is commits
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@wesbos but Wes IS cool, one two three. there's no reason to hide this from the world!
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Or maybe venv is a good abstraction, and the ergonomics just suck.
coding agents do solve bad ergonomics quite elegantly
contemplating...
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I am worried coding agents incentivize us to stop caring about good API design and abstractions. If AI can use it, why bother building it right?
Anyway, @AmpCode just helped me set up a venv and run a script with python3, truly a breakthrough in my engineering career /s
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@nosilverv why not 3 though, that's sort of the magical number... well, or 7!
jk, please tell us more
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Holy fucking shit balls I think I've managed to reduce what I've been trying to say for half a decade to 4+2 concepts
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@signulll so, is this your pitch to say they should have consulted you?
n1 one
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openai responding at length to anthropic’s ads was a huge pr self own imho. i’m truly neutral here, so i can break it down. i just like good competiton.
1) this reads like it was assembled in a war room by committee. you can smell the post it notes. the “more texans use chatgpt than claude” line is especially bad.. someone clearly thought it was clever, then couldn’t let it go, so it got reused multiple times. sounds like insecurity more than confidence.
2) why on earth would you expect a competitor especially one with a totally different ideology to engage with your internal narrative? that’s not how ads work. anthropic wasn’t speaking to openai. they were speaking to users of chatgpt. responding as if this is a good faith philosophical debate is a category error.
3) the optimal response was likely silence. the second best response was a single graph of active users with the caption “lol”. anything more is just validating the frame you’re supposed to ignore.
by responding seriously, openai elevated the ads, accepted anthropic’s premise, & turned a joke into real discourse. this is usually a classic mistake of people who are powerful but insufficiently online.
they should’ve consulted someone who lives on the internet not someone who lives in talking points.
Sam Altman@sama
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.
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I'm more triggered by the random space in front of the ',' than about anything else in here
Catalin@catalinmpit
Hetzner bad. And yes, I have apps running on the instance.
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@divyenduz There can be first mover advantage where taking the initiative unlocks compounding gains.
Or there's second mover advantage, benefitting from the outcomes that took another team to invest significant time and effort, without paying the same upfront cost.
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@TylerAlterman "Hey, I have some personal feedback that may be difficult (or some other qualifier based on the situation, maybe it's a compliment etc.?) to hear. Are you open to hear it?"
90% of the times people says yes, in my experience. And it gives them an easy out in case they need it.
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Two extremes:
1. Never give people feedback unless they ask for it
2. Proactively offer feedback from a loving place
What‘s the wisest spot on the spectrum between these two extremes?
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@patio11 what was the actual error message? this is too interesting
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(As always, dialogue in this format is not verbatim. In particular, it did not make the “Humans.” joke, but I was amused by the mental image of an AI evaluating a senior engineer who was surprised that error messages might not accurately reflect root causes.)
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Me: *searching for a particular claim in a mainstream media audio interview*
Me: Can you find the link to MP3 file on this page so I can download it to transcribe?
GPT-5: Oh no, copyright concerns. But I could give you a one line regular expression to run against curl output.
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@GergelyOrosz @Pragmatic_Eng thanks! sorry, did not see this before.
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@_marktani Umm, my follow-up tweet is literally this.
I covered in @Pragmatic_Eng. You should subscribe and get these :)
blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-so…
x.com/GergelyOrosz/s…
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
If you're asked to do someting potentially illegal at work: know that if you do so, you're the one could well have to face consequences. A few more stories about when engineers went along with illegal asks, and are now in hot water: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-so…
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Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
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*Character presented with obvious Call to Adventure.*
Dialogue choices, excerpted:
* [Character specific option] Doesn't have anything to do with the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm out.
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Using LLMs for content generation is occasionally amusing because sometimes the combination of model and prompt will result in hyperfixation on a particular phrase, which is probably not fit for purpose but can be hilarious.
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i’m 100% convinced llm emoji use is because of those fucking github awesome lists
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‘Why on earth do you need Japanese for Iranian philology?’
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@eveningkid maybe it refers to the "light work" part and not the "repository" part?! 😬
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Claude Code with $20/mo is good for...
"repositories [...] under 1,000 lines of code"?
What project has less than 1,000 lines of code? 🤔
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Gmail's UI has a blurry icon since months and I am no longer ok to be quiet about this.
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@patio11 What happened before you said "ok try calling yourself [now]"? In other words, what did Ruriko refer to with "what I just did"?
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(A staff engineer who experienced it in their own family could diagram out why and then immediately decide that anything, anything at all, would be better than pushing that boulder up a hill on behalf of a very small number of users. “Only millions.”)
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Ruriko: *several hour unsuccessful adventure in getting kids to be able to call her from their tablets*
Me: Oh honey this is an Amazon org thing.
Ruriko: How is this an org thing?
Me: The API boundary is not the real boundary here. You’re caught between two international offices.
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A year ago I made a tiny little webapp that organizes your bookmarks by throwing them at an llm and it tries to organize it.
Should I set out to remake it now that it's been a year to see how far I can take it?
When I built it before I didn't know how to setup a react project.
aizk ✡️@Aizkmusic
3D bookmark visualization
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