Dragos Roua

I took vibe coding seriously in February. Back then, I had 1 app in AppStore. Now I have 10. I think vibe coding is a completely different beast for senior developers. Full article here: x.com/dragosroua/sta…

@steipete Your skill is not skill

Folks: when you write skills, ask your agent to be token efficient, relax grammer. I see too many skills that write books in the skill description, and all that crap is loaded into every context. I wrote a skill that finds the worst offenders. github.com/steipete/agent…

@chrissyinspace that looks like a very expensive frustration. Hope both you and the laptop are well now.

You gotta try to see the positive I hit my expensive MacBook against the wall at the hacker residency, and it left a visible dent First instinct: frustration But maybe it’s just a reminder of my time here Now I just have to keep telling this to myself until I believe it

I was looking forward to see a setup like this and looking forward to the full review. I wonder how it feels to run 70+ billion parameters models on this toy.

@michalmalewicz That’s like “I’m going on a retreat and not tweet for a week”, but for AI.

I'm coding with AI right now. My productivity is through the roof. I will not release what I've built, just burn tokens and forget about it.

@steipete dangerously skip permissions, they said. It will be fun, they said.

New pet peeve: cli's that install new skills onto my system without asking.

The amount of Reddit users on this thread, that believe Claude is just like another human being, is, well, a bit alarming: reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s…

@KaiXCreator You should learn what Time Machine does, it’s the single most useful top right icon in your Mac toolbar

I’m a Windows user, just switched to macOS for the first time What should I do first?

@MicroLaunchHQ Glad you like the idea! Looking forward to hear your feedback after you use it for a week or two.

@dragosroua this is so cool for travelers + nomads✈️✈️

What are you building this week?

@naval When it goes into the water, Claude doesn’t get wet. The water gets Claude.

Anthropic doesn’t have Claude, Claude has Anthropic.

@athcanft Overnight success takes usually fifteen years…

don’t get discouraged seeing people “make 10k in 2 weeks” most of the time, it’s taken them years of failed projects and compounded learnings to get there and some of the time, it’s completely fake just focus on your own shit and keep going

@KaiXCreator Flight Lens - think crypto fear and greed index, but for aviation: how safe it is to fly today? Check it out: apps.apple.com/us/app/flight-…

Are you building something people actually want ? If yes what 👇

@paulg If you can do pattern matching on a corpus of texts, you can train your own model and filter them at the root. We had spam filters before, now we should build AI slop filters.

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.

@balajis I think ideology matters less than technology these days. Of course, we can map the techno factions on old ideological datasets, but the tension is between tech and non-tech. The next revolution will be technological, not ideological - I guess: dragosroua.com/technology-ide…

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Last century had the centralizing technology of mass media and mass production. But this century is driven by the decentralizing technology of the smartphone and the Internet. So, while last century saw a centralized left and centralized right shooting it out for Europe, this century may witness an anarcho-communist left and anarcho-nationalist right battling it out in America. (And indeed, we already see this on the Internet every day, with pockets manifesting in the real world.) So: while I agree that the mood is anti-state, that in itself is no panacea. Rather than left and right tyranny, we could see left and right anarchy.

Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right. The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American right is getting, so one can expect them to mirror leftist tactics eventually, just as J6 followed BLM. A problem then arises. You see, when communists and nationalists duke it out, technologists tend to be hated by both sides…and tend to leave. That’s what happened in Europe. In the early 1900s, Europe was the undisputed center of science. But then the far left rose to power in Russia, and in response arose a far right in Germany, and then those two psychotic factions blew each other up and took much of Europe with them. The result was that scientists with options left. Shown below is the graph of Nobel prizes. Science used to be centered in Europe when America was still a relative backwater…renowned for cranking out widgets but not much else. Then, as Europe tore itself apart, the smart scientists (and capitalists) simply left for America. Many had no choice; you just couldn’t be a Russian capitalist in the Soviet Union or a Jewish scientist in Nazi Germany, no matter how many years your family might have been in the country. Passionate protestations of ideological loyalty and everlasting patriotism didn’t matter. At best the enemy classes and races were unbanked and denaturalized; at worst they were simply killed. And arguably, all of that — the communism, the nationalism, the wars — all of that arose from the disruption wrought by the Industrial Revolution. We might anticipate similar levels of disruption from the Information Revolution. If so, if America is torn between Democrats and Republicans, or Wokes and MAGAs, or whatever factions succeed them, it’s just not going to be a good place for technological progress. Instead, progress will decentralize to other locations around the world, as it did before.

@KaiXCreator 16, first line of code in Beta Basic on a Z80 clone in communist Romania.

At what age did you started coding?

@Scobleizer @itskaveriirl I'm not even trying this now, we're too early. I see 2 directions: - edge models, trained at one thing and one thing only (summarization, image recognition, etc) - heavily quantized models used as proxy for frontiers models on more powerful hardware maybe in 6-9 months.

@itskaveriirl It's possible. But how long does your battery last? How hot is your phone? How good is what the model does?

bro i just ran an ML model directly on my iPhone no API. no internet. just... my phone thinking why did nobody tell me this was possible 😭 #CoreML #iOSDev #mlx

@thekitze At the 1 year and half mark now with my third, can't wait for the jump you talk about. But ngl, he's incredible cute and lovable at any age :)

what no one tells you about kids is the jump from 2 to 2.5 years old these six months are INSANE when it comes to growth in every aspec, she's a totally different kid. we have a little human and a friend now. we talk all the time. she's amazing !!! ONESHOT THE KID ANON

The litmus test for any form of actual intelligence is whether or not they can acquire their own energy. As of today we’re using software on machines for which we unapologetically control the energy.

@yacineMTB @BecomingCritter That's quite a jump from 10k to 270k+, kudoz!

@BecomingCritter Around 10k I realized I was in an exponential. Some sort of function that is a positive feedback loop. As long as the constants stayed the same, it would continue. And here I am (I don't post for followers, or anything outside interacting with people who are likeminded)

does the number just... keep going up?