Jacob Barrieault
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Jacob Barrieault
@jbarrieault
Programmer. Not ex-FAANG but I'm THAT GOOD.
Michigan Katılım Ekim 2013
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There’s an empty lot in my town everyone wishes a Trader Joe’s would open on.
The lot would be way too small to fit enough parking on though, so I think there’s a real chance a TJ’s will open there.
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2018 -> 2025
for the first couple years we had no landscaping budget and the front lawn was mostly sand, then poppies and bachelors buttons, now daffodils and a field
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Before and after
Client was sick of the dusty old floors that were often cold in the winter
We fixed it up with something tasteful and modern
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@ThePrimeagen If you look closely you can actually see some green.
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Back in January I started doing this thing where any time I leave my desk to use the bathroom I make myself do 20 pushups.
Just 3 months later, I have seen a huge increase in the amount of time I can hold my pee.
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Jacob Barrieault retweetledi
Wow, I totally disagree with this statement. At the current state, AI actually amplifies the developer to developer difference. If you were a 10x developer, you had good ideas + architectural clarity, this is a brutal advantage when using AI. Steering is a fundamental part of today's AI development.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone. Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation. "I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody. It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)
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I'm sorry, you'll have to speak up. I can't hear you over all the Copilot pull request comments.
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Wife: Is this text message legit?
Me: No, and never trust text messages.
Wife: Okay, got it!
*5 minutes later*
Wife: Is THIS text message legit?
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didn’t realize my AirPods were dead before I got to the gym so just did my entire workout in complete silence like some kind of psychopath
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The way I know there’s no god is because alcohol is this magic substance that gives you the best, most memorable nights of your life.
But the dark version, which tastes like heaven itself wakes you up hung over, hating life. But vodka soda, which tastes like nothing wakes you up feeling completely normal.
Make it make sense
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I really want a $22 bowl of ramen for lunch.
But as a good family man, I'm having plate of mixed leftovers from our last 3 meals.
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We still need adults in the room.
More now than ever.
Lukasz Olejnik@lukOlejnik
Also, whoa, non-public corporate technical notes are now casually flying in the media? ft.com/content/7cab4e…
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@AdamRackis she'd be lethal driving around upper manhattan
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* daughter driving to the mall *
Her: “Whoa 74 that’s scary”
Me: “Huh?”
Her: “The speed limit - 74”
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Me: “No sweetheart that’s the highway we’re on”
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