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A lot of software is about to get a lot better, right before it becomes unnecessary.

@ericjackson UWaterloo computer science is one of the most elite programs in the world.

71% of Waterloo's best engineers leave Canada (UWaterloo SE Class of 2022 graduate survey). And nobody riots. In any other country, a 71% talent export rate would be a national emergency. In Canada, it's Tuesday. The problem isn't the people who leave. They're rational. The US pays 2-3x more, taxes less, and builds things that matter. The problem is the people who stay and never ask why the system is designed to make leaving the rational choice. Canada doesn't have a brain drain problem. It has a demand problem. Nobody demands better. Not from the universities. Not from the employers. Not from the government. The best leave. The rest adjust. The cycle continues. Every country gets the talent retention rate it deserves.

@emollick gpt-5.4 is unmatched at this point in time for problems at the frontier of a field (particularly mathematics).

GPT-5.4 Pro continues to be the only model of its class. For anything really hard & complex, I throw it into the maw with every bit of context I can think of. More often than not, something very useful comes out. I can't get the same results from Codex or Code or anything else.

@kr0der Clopus/4.6 easily beats Codex/5.4 for UI. But for all things that are backend, complex architecture, and especially mathematical research, 5.4 is way better.

look, i love GPT 5.4 a lot, i use it for 99% of my tasks. but you’re telling me to write an entire design spec WITH screenshots, colour palettes, user stories, copy, and more when i can go to Opus 4.6 and say “use frontend design skill, make it look nice” and still get a better frontend. at some point you just gotta admit that Opus 4.6 is ahead by quite a bit in frontend. it’s kinda like when people were setting up 25 ralph loops just to get Claude Code to run as long as Codex can by default. now we’re writing up design books just to get Codex to do frontend. just use Opus for frontend until the next GPT model.

@craigzLiszt It will be in a datacenter far away from SF.

SF might actually be sacred grounds after all, this could be where ai god is invented

@thsottiaux Codex is awesome.

Codex team is busy with pretty much an end to end rethink of how everything works to scale with future model advances and I’m glad we have Codex to help refactor it all or it would take months.

@Rainmaker1973 One of the most elegant Physics experiments ever conducted - brilliant simplicity and profound consequences. Another one was the Michelson-Morley experiment.

Small objects can show that gravity is real. The Cavendish experiment proved that even tiny masses pull on each other, showing gravity works everywhere, not just between planets.

@wisdom_walkss The architecture of these temples is seriously impressive.

I seriously felt like I was in another country for a second🤯 Location: BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chinó Hills, California. The Temple: this place is unreal. Everythingis made of hand-carved marble and sandstone, and every detail is insane. The pieces were made in India, shipped to the US and assembled like legos here. It's also an active place of worship, so it's very peaceful and quiet. Be respectful, this is a sacred place.

@dwarkesh_sp gpt-5.4 is further ahead of others in Math at this time.

Terence Tao thinks AI is already very good at using existing, well-understood math techniques to solve problems. An important question is how many open problems in math could be solved this way, without developing any new ideas. An extreme case of a proof like this is the four-color theorem, which was proved by checking a thousand examples one-by-one. If there are lots of problems that are vulnerable to just mechanically applying existing techniques, AI could start to produce new math results incredibly rapidly. But these proofs might not help advance our civilization’s knowledge the way math has in the past.

@minchoi Too real 😂😂

Being a developer in 2026 is wild... AI is coding for you while you doom scroll at work. We are so cooked 💀

@tiovikram In spite all the criticisms, SF remains the best city in the world for builders.

First day in SF and already met Garry Tan at Chipotle on his birthday Told him what I was building and the guy invited me for an interview SF is truly the greatest city on Earth

@craigzLiszt Hand-coding character by character is irresponsible at this point.

every competent engineer vibe codes now, in at least some way

@fermatslibrary Primes get "sparser" as we proceed forward on the integer number line.

First 4 million integers marked on their being prime or not - white is prime.

@DavidKPiano Use Clopus/4.6 for frontend.

GPT 5.4 is like a really skilled developer who mostly does backend stuff They can have like 30+ years of experience and be geniuses, but... don't let them touch the frontend too much

@gdb gpt-5.4 is the most powerful model around at this time.

ChatGPT helped Sid find cancer treatment options after doctors said there was nothing left for him to do:

@sherwinwu I found Clopus/4.6 better with frontend work. I use Codex/5.4/xhigh for most of the other work.

If you put in the thought and intentionality required for it, you actually get pretty great frontends from GPT-5.4! Check out some best practices here: developers.openai.com/blog/designing…

I don't get the MCP craze. CLI is almost always the better route.

@TheCriticalDri1 @grok is this real or a joke?

The single most DEI moment in sports history.

@craigzLiszt English is used everywhere in Indian schools and corporations. There is one state in India where no one speaks or even learns Hindi (TN). If there is one language that unites all Indians, it is ironically English.

was thinking about learning an indian language, just in case hindi feels obvious but i’m told it’s not the one what should i actually learn, just in case?

@rohanpaul_ai "being v. good at idea generation, adaptable to a rapidly changing world". These are the key characteristics for success now.

"Learning to program was so obviously the right thing in the recent past. Now it is not." ~ Sam Altman on skill to survive the AI era. Now you need High agency, soft skills, being v. good at idea generation, adaptable to a rapidly changing world