Camin McCluskey

I think like half of tech is in claude psychosis rn

@cramforce trust your gut king

You need conviction and be ready and willing to eat your words

Our pocket holds a device capable of capturing every thing, place, and person that brings us joy. How often are those images ever looked at again, let alone framed for others to enjoy? It will always come down to the desire to create. Those with the desire will always find the means.

Another thing missing from this whole debate is the reality of how few people are interested in building in the first place Brenda in HR doesn’t wanna create a movie or build an app if all she had to do was wish it into existence. Y’all need to get out of this bubble, most people dont give two fucks

the years before the work finds its shape are the years everyone misreads. from the outside: aimlessness, indecision, a person who can’t explain what they’re doing because what they’re doing doesn’t have a name yet. circling a subject with a devotion that looks, to everyone watching, like paralysis. from the inside: a fever. a low, constant, productive fever. the mind is assembling something that the craft can’t deliver yet and that the mouth can’t name and the inability to describe the thing you’re becoming to the people who knew the thing you were - that inability is its own particular wilderness. and I have lived in it, and the living in it was the making of me, though I couldn’t have told you that at the time. at the time, I would have told you I was lost.

@Ricburton @LouiseEmery @rapeganginquiry Likewise. Shame that much of the atrocity may never be known by those not on X

@LouiseEmery Once I read about the @rapeganginquiry I had to be involved

Can we flood X with our membership letters?

@SteveStuWill @paulg Very clear why this is. Actual progressives were exceptionally effective at marketing anything less than their standard of moral purity as classless x.com/caminmc/status…

Faking wokeness to fit in: 88% of students report pretending to hold more progressive views than they really do. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/faking-woken…

@paulnovosad @ashdgandhi

@ashdgandhi “I don’t want my cancer cured if the discovery came from an AI” says approximately nobody

I’m not sure which scares me more: a world in which journal editors/reviewers are inundated with AI slop or a world in which papers written by AI are actually really good.

@anselm_io True but not the kind of guys that would get along if left alone together. Many male friendships operate in this way

I avoided trying codex for the longest time because claude is a kind of guy I get along with really well Turns out codex is just another kind of guy I also get along with really well

@PradyuPrasad @adi_baradwaj Sometimes stackoverflow would go down I guess

@adi_baradwaj You were always the bottleneck? In the pre LLM days, what exactly was the bottleneck?

Hilarious anecdote. Many software engineers are having this realization at the exact same time

Claudical gets brutally framemogged by an AGI frat leader

@RoxCodes But full day+ paid, actual work is the way to get enough signal to answer these questions well. If you're on the fence after that, it's a no. In fact, anything less than "hell yes" after that is a no

@RoxCodes 2 questions: 1. "Would I be ok stuck in an airport with this person for several hours (layover test). 2. "Could I see myself working for this person?". For more junior talent: "could I see myself working for this person one day"

anyone have any tips for interviewing well? hiring more senior roles now and i just feel so unsure of how to walk away from an interview confident someone can do the work AND is a good culture fit

@minordissent worship progressivism, you will end up unmoored from reality, and what connects us as people. Constructing ever more elaborate in-groups to demonstrate your devotion.

When you realize that progressivism is just the newest religion and includes all the fixings such as celibate monkhood (phd researcher), priest class (academia), unfalsifiable axiomatic truths (no racial or sex differences etc), ultimate evil (Hitler), and all the rest, everything about the modern world makes so much more sense.

@paulg @CompSciFact This used to be true

@CompSciFact Implementing something doesn't guarantee that you understand it, but it's among the best evidence that you do.

'Just because you've implemented something doesn't mean you understand it.' -- Brian Cantwell Smit

kill me

Efficient markets ❤️

@viemccoy @ZyMazza Novel to me and interested to see if it’s possible to classify these kinds of blind spots (if that is indeed what they are) Here’s another interesting failure case x.com/caminmc/status…

@ZyMazza Thanks! I am surprised nobody else has said this before (maybe they have?)

I think the "how many R's are in the word strawberry" is a sort of optical-illusion that affects minds of the transformer type. You wouldn't dismiss a human genius because they are susceptible to misperceiving the color of a dress! Total red herring, and not the only example.

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it's kind of boring to review markdown documents to then watch someone else do my job for me We're at an awkward transitional point where developers, who don't want to write, nonetheless have to because they're the only ones that know what to write. Honestly considering adopting a different workflow: 1. Write a first draft plan with Codex 2. Pawn off all the trivial bits to Codex to implement 3. (rather than go back and forth in English on the thornier bits) Jump into Cursor, with the plan as context and implement directly This obviously keeps you more engaged in the process (underrated). Secondly, lots of bad implementation decisions get made in documents - it's much harder to do this when you're hands on with the code. Entire classes of issues go away also. E.g. dead code is impossible to spot in a planning doc, but easy to spot in the codebase. I could see this being faster over time, even if every individual feature takes longer, as implementation stays tighter and reworks are less necessary. (something, something, the agents are only going to get better... Sure but unless they can read minds*, I think it tops out) *i.e. Even you don't know what you want when you spec a feature