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@GrantObi This has to be a first order effect representing how much more software is being written.

For context on how absurd this is: a website could have perfect uptime for the entire year, be down for the entire month of December to go travel and be home with family, come back to work on January 4th, fire up the servers again, and still beat this.

@sweatystartup This is a cope, homie.

AI tools right now are more expensive than my international team. We can't afford them and they are heavily subsidized all the way up. What happens when they 5x in cost? The bubble is popping soon.

@sebastienlorber I’m aware of no other programming context in the history of software engineering that demands this degree of nuance to solve such nonsense problems. The fundamentals are broken. Start over.

👀 React / JS / TS trick Use symbols instead of null/undefined to represent missing values This React provider example: - makes it possible to provide "null" - still checks that the user didn't forget the <Provider> There are cases where "null" is a perfectly valid ctx value

@0xlelouch_ For some reason no one has ever made a serializer that works as easily as JSON. Having to programmatically convert to code generated data types is rough.

If gRPC is faster and more efficient than REST, why not convert all our APIs to gRPC?

@Chizitere_xyz Jesus Christ.

The True Story of Carnell Alexander In the late 1980s, a man named Carnell Alexander from Detroit, Michigan, became the victim of a system that completely stripped him of his financial freedom and his peace, all over a child that wasn't his. An ex-girlfriend had applied for state welfare assistance. To receive the benefits, she was required to list a father, and she wrote down Carnell's name. When the state sent a process server to notify Carnell about the child support hearing, the server handed the legal summons to someone else entirely. Carnell had absolutely no idea the hearing was taking place. Because he didn't show up to a court date he knew nothing about, the Michigan family court system entered a "default judgment" against him. With the strike of a gavel, an absent man was legally declared a father and instantly put on the hook for decades of financial support. Years later, Carnell learned about the child and the massive, mounting debt attached to his name. He immediately demanded a DNA test. The results were absolute: He had zero biological relation to the child. He took this undeniable, scientific proof straight to the family court, expecting the system to clear his name and erase the fraudulent debt. Instead, he faced a completely heartless bureaucracy. The court ruled that because Carnell had failed to contest his paternity within the strict legal timeframe, a timeframe that had expired long before he even knew the child existed, the DNA evidence was completely irrelevant. The judge ruled that he still owed over $30,000 in child support arrears to the state. For years, Carnell lived under the terrifying threat of incarceration. The system literally prepared to throw an innocent, working-class man into a prison cell for failing to fund a child he didn't create, simply because acknowledging the truth was an administrative inconvenience for the state. He spent years fighting a grueling public and legal battle just to prove that his life shouldn't be ruined over a clerical error and a lie.

This is true. Does it matter?

Whatever version of civilization this is, it is our duty to make a different one.

@Dearme2_ Let me assure you that it’s not enough but it is a requirement.

A daddy’s girl becomes a loyal wife. A daddy-hater becomes a man-destroyer. Bro to bro: please marry a girl who likes her dad. It’s very important.

15,000 LOC every day is possible now. Quality work too, probably few are as harsh on code reviews as I am on my agents. My engineering team is half the size of 2025 but can produce 20-30% of our entire code base every week now. Crazy.

@anuraggoel This can’t be good right?

AI is quietly deprecating GitHub. Agents do not need branches, PRs, or CI/CD rituals. They want to ship code straight to the cloud. The rsync renaissance is here. High availability. Zero bloat. Faster loops.

@leonardaisfunE @TrevorSheatz There is no chance this is real. God save this couple if so.

@TrevorSheatz This has to be rage bait.

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

This guy gets it. Sure you can vibe your way into a v0.1. Try maintaining that for more than a few days and two scaling attempts. Good luck.

@aakashgupta Prediction: TeslAiX buys Samsung's foundry business.

The math on Terafab should scare every chipmaker on Earth. TSMC made $122 billion in revenue last year. It controls 70% of the global foundry market. It took nearly four decades, over $100 billion in cumulative capex, and the concentrated talent of an entire island to build that position. Elon just announced he’s spending $25 billion to build a competing fab from scratch, in Austin, targeting 2nm, with zero semiconductor manufacturing experience. Here’s why dismissing it might be the wrong call. TSMC’s largest individual fabs cost $15-20 billion each and process around 100,000 wafer starts per month. Samsung’s Taylor, Texas fab ballooned from $17 billion to $44 billion across two modules for 50,000 wafer starts. Intel’s two Arizona fabs went from $20 billion to $32 billion before producing a single commercial wafer. Every major fab project in America has blown past its budget. Terafab’s $25 billion estimate is probably low. But the demand math is what matters. Elon claims existing global fab capacity covers roughly 2% of what Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI will need across vehicles, Optimus robots, and orbital AI satellites. Tesla ended 2025 with $44 billion in cash. Its 2026 capex guidance already exceeds $20 billion before Terafab costs are folded in. The company spent $8.5 billion in capex last year and generated $6.2 billion in free cash flow on $94.8 billion in revenue. That’s thin for a project this size. Tesla’s own 10-K acknowledges the company may need to raise additional capital. Now consider the demand side. Tesla wants millions of Optimus robots, each needing inference chips. Cybercab fleets need onboard AI compute. SpaceX filed with the FCC in January to launch up to one million satellites for orbital data centers. xAI needs training and inference silicon at scale. If even 20% of that roadmap materializes, no external supplier will prioritize one customer’s capacity over existing commitments to Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm. TSMC allocates capacity based on margin and volume commitments. When the queue gets tight, and it’s already tight at 3nm and below, you either own your supply or you wait. Elon has spent a decade getting told that vertical integration was a dead end for an automaker, that no car company could build a charging network, that manufacturing your own battery cells was impossible. The Gigafactory in Nevada was dismissed as a vanity project in 2014. The 4680 battery program was late and messy. But the Gigafactory model worked. The question is whether that playbook transfers to semiconductors, where the physics are harder and the talent is scarcer. One detail worth watching: Tesla already designs its own inference chips. The AI4 and AI5 are custom silicon. Terafab would move from fabless design to in-house manufacturing. That’s the leap AMD avoided and Apple never attempted. The last company to pull it off at scale was Samsung, and it took them decades. The semiconductor industry spent 40 years consolidating into three companies that can make leading-edge chips. Elon just bet $25 billion that a fourth seat at the table exists.

@NapoleonBonabot Supplying the water is simple if we build this somewhere between the Neches and Sabine Rivers about 100 miles inland.

The Texas Triangle is also about 4.5x the size of Taiwan. The Greater Austin Area alone is about 1/3 the size of Taiwan. As long as Texas can manage its water availability issues, it will become a semiconductor capital.

@skeptrune It’s not, imho, but it just builds upon ridiculous constraints that could easily be resolved.

>the era of agentic coding has convinced me front end is significantly harder than back end

@stevekrouse @daniel_levine We have used programming languages since the beginning. Not because we weren’t smart enough to write English compilers, but because we needed the subset of English that we use to be context free.

the reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated i am getting increasingly good at arguing why english will never be a programming language i spent 10 hours writing a blog post by hand. i would be delighted if you read it stevekrouse.com/precision

@rami_hashimi Delusional takes all around.

@ContrarianCurse Yeah this Elon guy definitely spends all of his time twiddling his dick for 5 years at a time. /s

Terafab is such a blatant fucking pump it actually disgusts me. There will never be leading edge chips from them. There will never be Datacenters in space. This is such a blatant effort to IPO SpaceX on the back of some pie in the sky bullshit and then merge with Tesla, do a humongous raise and keep twiddling his dick for another 5 years

@brankopetric00 Well they are generally half the problem in most orgs because they make you build things that shouldn’t be built and run things in crazy ways.

The fastest way to mass-produce burnout in tech is to give one team a pager, call them SRE, and make them own every incident for services they didn't build, can't change, and weren't consulted on.

@CollinRugg Surely there is a discrete number between 0 and 25 years that would have been more appropriate for armed robbery. Heinous crime yes. But seriously. If 6 years of prison wouldn’t fix this guy, 25 won’t either, and we should immediately solve that problem.

NEW: Family of a Texas teen loses it as judge sentences him to 25 years in prison for robbing a convenience store. Judge Raquel West was seen torching 18-year-old Caden James Fontenette before handing out the sentence. "There was a time some years ago that there really wasn't even a question... State's attorneys were recommending youthful offenders probation. Let's give everybody an opportunity..." West said. "You don't have a good likelihood of being successful if I were to put you on probation... I'm going to sentence you to a term of 25 years." Fontenette pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery for a 2025 incident where he and two others robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. The suspects were caught on camera assaulting the store clerk. Fontenette will likely be in his 40s when he is released from prison.