Martin Blais

This stupidity is precisely the reason so many men wreck their backs doing yoga. This is so wrong it's almost criminal. You should study the Stuart McGill assessment. This has nothing to do with nerves, it's simple mechanics and geometry, many people have bone structure that just will not allow their legs to do that. It's bone on bone, there is no way to do it, and the lower back ends up taking the load. I worked at it for years until one day i got the McGill assessment and I stopped being in pain after more than ten years on continuous pain because of this (including a surgery, caused by mechanical damage during janusirsasana B). Stuart McGill saved my life. If you see flexible yoga people it's not because yoga makes you flexible or that you need to train your brain, it's because the people without compatible hips self select out of yoga. Yoga is for dancers. Yoga will wreck your body a little bit every day and you won't know it until you hit 50. Don't do yoga.

This is why improving flexibility isn’t always about stretching harder. Sometimes it’s about activating the right muscles at the right time.

@karpathy We need a better way to diff.

Expectation: the age of the IDE is over Reality: we’re going to need a bigger IDE (imo). It just looks very different because humans now move upwards and program at a higher level - the basic unit of interest is not one file but one agent. It’s still programming.

@gvanrossum I couldn't work like this. Is this a way to announce something else?

@karpathy @shikhr_ If you never learned programming at a certain amount of depth, in those occasional cases where it does get stuck in a pit of slop I don't know if you're able to out of those at all.

@shikhr_ "prompters" is doing it a disservice and is imo a misunderstanding. I mean sure vibe coders are now able to get somewhere, but at the top tiers, deep technical expertise may be *even more* of a multiplier than before because of the added leverage. x.com/karpathy/statu…

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

@xtorol @BracketFights What?

@DrDominicNg What are the most effective ways to reload?

@cgtwts Sorry to hear you chose the wrong job for yourself. I'll be hacking until the bitter end

The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again in your life.

@HuggingModels I'll be more impressed when I can't easily tell which is real and which is not

NVIDIA just dropped PersonaPlex-7B 🤯 A full-duplex voice model that listens and talks at the same time. No pauses. No turn-taking. Real conversation. 100% open source. Free. Voice AI just leveled up. huggingface.co/nvidia/persona…

@Itsfoss Slackware

A Linux distro we all used to know, but this generation has no idea it ever existed.

One way to see it is it's an opt-out. Imagine if instead it was priced in and everyone had to pay for it even if they don't use it. This is better. Also I don't know why this has to influence your thoughts on Elon. You can disagree without making it a thing about him. It's just a business decision.

@elonmusk I'm usually numbered among your fans, but you just destroyed any chance that I will ever buy a Tesla.

Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter.

@Mericamemed Whoa

Even the lyrics sound like a Trump speech 🤣

@Matt_Pinner 20

10 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?

@googledocs Very surprised tonight trying to use Gemini with Google Docs, that the in-page chat assistant doesn't have access to a tool to make its suggestions in the document itself. It would be _so_ natural to do so. What are you waiting for?

@charliermarsh Awesome mom! :-)

Mom stepped in to help with childcare yesterday, thus unblocking the ty release. Thank you Mom!

@heyshipz La Barricada - Ruben Blades

IF you see this tweet please reply the last song you listened to. I’m making a playlist.

@16bitnostalgia M.U.L.E. on C=64

What is it?

@elonmusknews30 Twitter was more memorable. Keep the old brand.

I think something was lost with the graphing calculator and something was gained. In the case of math it was much more gain than loss because there was little value in the mechanics of it and you could quickly increase your intuition by leveraging the machines and get more of it done. In the case of writing, however, it'll be a different story: the mechanics of writing involve learning how to think, choosing what you'll write next and how you will choose to do so, both style and content, as you compose. It's hard and requires making lots of effort to get good at it. The computer brought typing instead of handwriting which didn't cost us much at the time (if anything it allowed us to write more and replicate text much more easily). But here we're talking of the act of thinking for us. So there will be less thinking made. Humans only learn by having to make efforts. I think without the need to make the effort of having to write - and therefore think - humans will lose a part of that ability. I am terrified of this future. This really could be the genuine creation of the Idiocracy generation. I think this is more likely than the opposite scenario, and a tragic outcome that is a real possibility.

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI. 2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later. 3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators. 4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc. TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

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