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You might believe you should spend less time thinking about code because of AI. I strongly disagree! We’re watching this play out live where tons of AI generated code becomes a liability. At the end of the day, an engineer needs to be responsible / on call for code that gets shipped to production. If you don’t understand the system you’re trying to debug, you’re probably going to have a bad time. Yes, AI can help with all of this, if you set up the proper systems. You can have agents triage prod logs, look at errors, etc. You can speed up parts of the investigation, but an engineer needs to make the call. There might be serious customer or financial implications from that change. I expect the trend continue for trimming dependencies, vendoring code so you can modify it directly, preferring simpler systems with fewer abstractions, and spending waaaay more time thinking about system design and code maintenance. I’ve said this before, but it’s a great time to get familiar with CS fundamentals and some of the history behind what great software looks like. Many parts will be different in the coming years as AI progresses, but also a lot more than people realize will stay the same.

Graphql is genuinely the most retarded idea ever. There used to be an entire career around graphql Honestly the best part about automating programmers is that I don't have to hire people, which means that I don't have to tolerate bad engineering decisions

No-human-code-allowed projects, are nicier and much more maitainable. Agents can actually follow strict guidelines and rules you set unlike humans who find bad shortcuts because they are lazy. No need to compromise or waste time convincing egos that solution X is better.

@rauchg just built my first ios app 100% with ai agents racho.xyz, used claude code opus 4.7 still offline only, working on the server now

Show me the thing you’ve built with AI you’re most proud of. Reply with a working product URL and what model / agent you primarily used.

@hdubugras > “because this is how we did it at my last firm” is not an acceptable Funny that you have to say this explicitly

“Hire me! I'm a great senior engineer (code monkey)” Hard pass. Finance bro relying on his “quant guy”? Harder pass. LLMs will out-do the best engineers and quants. That is the bare minimum. I want people obsessed with the problem, not the code. If you’re obsessed with credit, derivatives, real estate, or portfolio optimization, this tweet is for you. We’re building the most AI-native investment team on Earth. Not a fund though. I’m not sharing the who or what yet, but here's what I can say: you’ll be investing billions of dollars in your twenties, including all my proceeds from the Capital One acquisition. A few warnings: - 996 is easy. Here it’s closer to 8am-10pm-7 days a week. Don’t worry, I’ll be in the office before you arrive and after you leave. -We pay really well, but we expect even more. You’ll feel overpaid compared to your friends and underpaid compared to how much we expect. And let’s be honest: nobody gets rich out of bonuses. Real generational wealth is built through tax-deferred equity. - We expect first-principles thinking for everything. And I mean everything. If someone asks you why you’re doing something in this way, “because this is how we did it at my last firm” is not an acceptable answer. - We expect you to be full-stack. From vision, to building to execution. There is no “support”. If you can't use claude code to support yourself, then wtf are you even doing? - You’ll be expected to master complex concepts in a matter of days. - We will pair you with industry veterans so you can leverage their experience. Don’t fuck it up. Roles we’re hiring for: - Credit/Fixed income lead - do you think that emerging-market banks bonds provide a great risk reward, but most American investors are scared of it? Talk to us. - Real estate lead - are you up-to-date on all the new maps for OZs and have no patience for trophy assets that don’t have great after-tax yield? Talk to us. - Derivatives lead - You're able to represent any view by stacking the right structured payoffs? Talk to us. - Equities lead - You like stock picking? Save your energy. You deeply understand how risk models work from first principles, how optimizers are god’s gift to humanity and how every stock pick is never good or bad, it's just part of a portfolio? Talk to us. - Quant infrastructure lead - You’re obsessed with finding specific signals to generate alpha? Save your energy, Citadel is a better spot. You’re into building infrastructure to test new strategies, manage risk and optimize portfolios? Talk to us. If you think you’re a good fit, email me at henrique@sharpe.com answering the following question: What about the investment process in the asset class you have the most experience with will most materially change with AI and why? Happy memorial weekend :)

@nikitabier 24h, much better than years ago, it used to be a week

iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days? It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.

@LundukeJournal @sseraphini It's true

Can anyone in Brazil confirm this?

Small update to my polymarket client "login" without PK. You can search polymarket accounts and "impersonate" them. It's read-only obviously. You can see their positions in markets, but you can't see not open orders, and soon you'll be able to see their portfolio and current usdc available.

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Not knowing how to code giving you an advantage is absolute nonsense. The more you understand, the better your prompts, the better the feedback you give, the better product you ship. What will change is that the intricacies of syntax, compilers, module systems, the finer details of type systems, won’t matter as much to everyone. But you should absolutely understand how the pieces fit together. From syscall to pixels. Learn how data flows, because you’ll be able to secure your systems. Learn about performance, because you’ll be able to push your agent further. Learn about APIs, because they determine how to integrate systems. Learn about how systems fail, because you’ll be able to make reliable programs.

People get high on abstraction too early. They want the system before they’ve earned the insight. But the good abstractions are never designed. They’re discovered. You do the stupid manual thing enough times and the real bottleneck just emerges. Your initial agency might be driven by a hunch you had in the shower, but that moment won’t get you all the way to making something people want. The right way to make anything is forced on you by reality: what are the real jobs to be done? And what sequence? This is why “do things that don’t scale” still hits, especially now when AI makes it trivially easy to scale things that probably shouldn’t be scaled yet. PG’s point was never about suffering. It was about contact. When you’re the one manually doing the loop, you see the edge cases. The weird user behavior. The failure modes nobody designed for. The hidden dependencies that only show up at 2am when some flow or intermediate step breaks in a way you didn’t anticipate. If you automate before you have that contact, you just scale your misunderstanding faster. When the machines can help you vibe code perfection it gives you a false sense of power. I love that feeling as much as you do. But fuck perfection. Do it live. Be the loop. Feel every friction point. Notice what’s actually true every single time versus what just looked true because you hadn’t seen enough cases yet. Formalize that. Build the recursive version. Then keep checking that your abstraction is still attached to real humans and their needs. Because reality drifts. Your users drift. The ground truth changes under you. You may think you understand but no plan survives contact with the real users and what they want. You find those body blows in analytics and user feedback and we call them the roadmap. Humans left with not enough data hallucinate too. But just like the LLMs with enough data you unlock real transcendence. Real utility. Prosperity for humans in real life. The abstraction is a tool, not a destination. The moment you forget that, you’re cooked.

the security guy had a poor "doorman tie" and let the other guy have an underhook, then he apparently tries to do a koshi-guruma take down, but has no base, then the other guy counters with a tani-otoshi sacrifice throw and gets to side control + head and arm control

I think if I had a project with a single 40k line file my head would explode or I would constantly freeze, and that's probably why I'm still poor and I can't make it in indie hacking

One of my projects, uses a custom swift web framework I built, it is pretty easy to add new features to the server application and to maintain the code, but it does have a bunch of boilerplate, and all the code is split in many small targets. It is pretty reliable, but not very productive, for example, to add a endpoint I need to: - Add a new enum case for the route (for type safe routes) - Add a new parser for that route (for bridging http request with that enum case) - Create a new handler for the route - Call the handler That's just to get started, it's annoying, but it's reliable since there is no magic anywhere, just enum switches and function calling. Anyway, that slows me down a lot compared to using traditional web frameworks, but I just wrote some claude skill to move faster on that part, and feeling it might give me a huge productive boost, let's see how it goes.

@levelsio I never saw chef in villas in Brazil, I know south has tons of "Colonial Cafe/Breakfast/Etc", maybe that's a thing from south as well

🇧🇷 Waking up in Brazil near the ocean South Brazil has lots of great villas available although definitely not at the price point of South East Asia, I'd say 3-5x more expensive and whether that's worth it for you is debatable Build quality of villas in Brazil honestly really varies, a lot of it sucks and is cheap, but a lot of it is built with love and great materials too, kinda hit and miss, it depends if the owner is rich and built it for themselves or not Brazil is also a great place to build a villa, lots of land for sale, approval is fast, and there's no shortage of workers to build it (like in Europe) Brazil also has lots of great architects and interior designers, and they just make beautiful stuff This villa I love because it has that Bali white glossy stone (I think it's boho chic) and it's just great to walk down on barefeet, also I love the rotating stairs and this little jungle inside the living room Then you go outside and you hear the sea! I love living near the sea and I think the salty air really is healthy for you Only bad thing which is common here: no AC in living rooms, only in bedrooms. Why? People like to get the natural wind to cool although at peak summer (like February) it gets boiling hot Oh last thing many villas in Brazil come with a chef included (kinda like Bali and I think there's a colonial connection here as in Bali you sometimes get a "babu" and in Brazil it's called "babá") They cook for you what you want and get groceries etc Nice!

Now the Event interface shows the current and future events in the same event of the series and you can quickly swap between them.

Added a few small enhancement to the chart: 1. The Y axis showing the value in cents 2. Added outcome % chance to each item in the legend 3. The legend items sorted by % chance

Habemus charts. Gotta add some customization to it.

@camolNFT 👋 bulding a polymarket client for iOS and macOS

Prediction market content creators are creating some of the most interesting content on X right now. If you're making Polymarket/Kalshi content OR would like to start, drop a comment. I want to connect 👋

If anyone wants to try my lil polymarket iOS app, here is a link to the testflight. iOS 18+. Only 10 spots. testflight.apple.com/join/gX7zyvv2