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I've decided to become Dinesh D'Souza. His idea that America is "just an idea" had resonated with me so strongly that I've unlocked a new conclusion: Dinesh D'Souza is also "just an idea". I'm Dinesh now. Buy my book.

The GOP senators seem to be under tremendous pressure from their puppetmasters to make this bill go away. You think you have choice in this country, but you don't.

Nowadays, when I put up a tool on GitHub, I’m not expecting you to use it. I’m offering it as a template that you will adapt to your purposes. I’m not maintaining it for you. And I’m not soliciting pull requests. The tool works for me. If you think a tool like it will work for you then point your AI at it and have it make one for you that fits your specific need.

Some people won't believe that a senior engineer didn't know about the browser dev tools debugger. But this comports with my experience. The bar is in hell.

The new skill to be a software developer is RESEARCH. Want to make a game? Better get to the library and read about linear algebra, quaternions, octrees, CUDA, forward/deferred rendering, PBR, SSAO, network prediction, vertex/fragment shaders, etc. etc. Your competition is.

@gauthampai @fleetingbits Yes, this is why it's important to revisit old code and ask the AI to refactor it.

@fleetingbits No, but if Opus 4.7 is anything like its previous versions, the fix is not to replace but to add more code. And such spaghetti code always has risks of blowing up in unforeseen ways.

there is no such thing as technical debt anymore can opus 4.6 write code so complicated that opus 4.7 cannot fix?

@fleetingbits Indeed! This is a great point. But there is still legacy architecture that can slow down the AI. So it's important to have a well-structured architecture first (even if you use AI to design it).

first, it helped me complete my sentences. I could code faster then, it helped me complete features. I could just think about the architecture now, it helps me solve problems. I can just think about the features next, it builds the product. I̵ ̵c̵a̵n̵ ̵j̵u̵s̵t̵ ̵t̵h̵i̵n̵k̵

@GavinNewsom @dpakman I wonder if Gavin feels dirty when he sees the lowbrow low-IQ liberal slopposts his interns put up on his twitter.

Donald Trump has wrecked our economy. We used to be the envy of the world. Now, our gas prices are soaring. Inflation is up. Unemployment is sky rocketing. And he’s busy in court fighting to TAX the American people.

@johncrickett Alternately, don't learn Python, and just let the AI write it.

If you're a software engineer who hasn't learned Python yet, 2026 is the year to fix that. Here's why: 1. It's the language of AI. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, LangChain. Nearly every major AI and ML framework is built in Python or has Python bindings. If you want to work with AI, Python isn't optional. 2. You can be productive in hours, not weeks. Python reads almost like English. There's no fighting the compiler or wrestling with types just to get something working. You write less code and ship faster. If you like static type checking, modern tools and type hints provide that too. 3. The standard library does most of the heavy lifting. HTTP requests, file parsing, data structures, concurrency. It's all built in. Python's "batteries included" philosophy means you spend time solving your actual problem, not plumbing. 4. And if the standard library falls short, the ecosystem has you covered. PyGame for games. NumPy for numerical computing. Polars for data analysis, Django for web apps. There's a well-maintained package for almost anything you can think of. 5. It runs everywhere. Windows, Linux, macOS, embedded systems. Write it once, run it anywhere a Python interpreter exists. 6. The community is massive. Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular languages in the world. That means better docs, more Stack Overflow answers (remember those?), and AI gets it too. I've used it to build high-performance compute platforms and data pipelines processing over 100TB a day. It punches well above its weight. What's your reason for learning it, or what's been holding you back?

@KeepdapingB @unclebobmartin I saw your upvote appear within 2 seconds of me posting that, so I assume you're a bot that's gonna be banned soon. It was nice knowing you, sir bot. 🥲

@acid__lemon @unclebobmartin Take my upvote.

Why don't most programmers know about mutation testing? Because it was virtually impractical to use. Now it's not.

@BreannaMorello Loki Fink

@BreannaMorello This guy is Loki. He switches allegiances in a second.

🚨MUST SEE🚨 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says the WOKE pendulum swung too far left. Fink was the one pushing companies into the WOKE agenda and openly admitted to forcing companies to change their “behaviors.” Do you think Fink is now being authentic?

@trikcode We used to have smart developers who were capable of taking a question like this, and translating it into an action plan such as "find German developers, go look at their githubs".

Honest question. People who English is not their first language… how do they code?? Do Germans code in German? Do Arabs code in Arabic??

@ivanburazin Very dumb mentality, Ivan. A startup is not a warband of opportunists "hunting" loot. It is a company, or becomes one faster than you'd think. If you hired a Microsoftie as a 5-person startup, that's an avoidable and predictable self-own. If @ 20+ ppl, you killed the golden goose

We once hired a super senior and decorated person from Microsoft. Turned out to be a complete mismatch and we had to let them go. Expected all the work to come inbound. Whatever came in, they'd get done; if not, they did nothing. In big tech/corporates, work gets pushed to you by the market or management. In small, early-stage startups, you gotta hunt yourself. Nobody's feeding you.

@stylewarning This is the curse of FAANG. They hire high-IQ whiz kids without common sense. Some of these make it to management (typically during downturns when there's a hiring freeze). There, they really do a lot of damage mandating refactors over features.

I'm overhearing a FAANG tech meeting about how this 10?-year product written in C is being transitioned ("modernized") to C++. Started by changing to a C++ compiler, and slowly rewriting to use classes/exceptions, &c. It's been 3 months, and the C++ service keeps failing in prod.

So is he "India First" in the Trump way (meaning "globalists first")?

@toddsaunders @BryceDelRio It takes a special kind of person to see a bunch of incumbents, each with years of honing and fine-tuning, and think "I can take bits from these and make a new company" The only way this works is the way VC always works: Your investors get their friends to use your product.

@BryceDelRio TBH I think their idea is to do this across multiple incumbents

We all knew this was coming… but today I heard about it actually happening. A seed stage company backed by a well known VC openly admitted (in a board deck) that their strategy is to get access to a large incumbent’s software from a customer, clone the entire thing using Claude Code, and offer it at 90% less. Not “build something better.” Just copy it and offer it for less. The VC endorsed this as the GTM strategy. And even wrote back in writing that it was a good idea. Using a customer’s licensed access to reverse engineer a product and clone it is ethically bankrupt. I don’t know how else to put it. It likely violates terms of service. It may violate trade secret law as well (but I’m certainly not a lawyer). And a reputable VC putting this in writing in a board deck is genuinely insane. But it’s going to happen anyway. Everywhere… all the time. I don’t know where this ends, but we all knew this was coming and now it’s here.

@toddsaunders This is retarded because the startup will still be cloning while the incumbent will also be using AI to advance their product. But VCs are retarded so I'm not surprised. Everyone else already thought of this and dismissed it as stupid.

today I read about one of the top peers of mine from AWS getting let go in this most recent round. known globally inside the company. incredible impact on the business. 10+ years. widely looked up to. delivered a lot of results. I just don't know how you drop all these great top L7s and expect it to be ok