Milan Kohút

System Reality Model (SRM) A framework for constructing an auditable representation of reality from incomplete, conflicting and context dependent information. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

@oldstackjournal I’m only human. I start swearing.

When AI changes the wrong thing in your code, what do you do first? - check the logs - revert and re-prompt - explain the architecture again - switch models - take over manually I’m curious which habit actually saves people the most time.

@SledgeDev And what about the holes? Every other aisle?

ive decided to run for president. the first thing i will do as president is convert every golf course into a data center e/acc

@FU_joehudson In principle, an insult only has power if you accept it as valid.

Any insult someone says about you is both true and untrue. Defending yourself is just an inability to see that.

@MediaKing After reading this, my only thought was, “Do we know each other?”

Don't start a business unless it's the only option. To be an entrepreneur, you basically have to be unemployable. Being told what to do makes you want to scream. You're overflowing with ideas on how to improve things you don't even own yet. You're just the right amount of broken.

@AskYoshik You’re already asking too much from the average developer. Very few can replicate the environment well enough to have an identical setup for development and production, never mind everything else. You can’t be that idealistic.

please i'm begging you to learn linux, networking and system design. i don't want another vibe coded application that is hosted on vercel with 5 users. please.

@sharran But the feeling of pissing someone off... priceless.

The fastest way to become miserable: We buy things we don’t need… with money we don’t have… to impress people we don’t like.

@soychotic I can actually imagine this as an add-on. You could unlock a rare senior developer skin, buy another attempt to close a ticket, and have every microtransaction deducted directly from your paycheck.

@soychotic I doubt anyone would be willing to camp there.

God damn I love receiving quests from questgivers .. Just not over Jira

@dara_venture I’d like to see one VC with the guts to back deep tech without demanding details before it’s protected. You won’t find one. They’d rather count pennies.

"Hey im John, I Invested early in Air BnB" Some venture capitalists will literally quote their portfolio (voluntarily) as part of their identity.

@HashamBuilds Apparently not every founder. Some are more concerned with how to keep everyone from showing up at once.

Every founder asks: "How do I get more users?" Better question: "How do I become easier to discover?"

@inhumandept_vp Qualifications aren’t enough, I’m afraid. Competence matters more, but HR will apparently never understand that.

Hiring manager tip: always hire qualified people. Follow me for more hiring tips.

@victoriazmei I love ignoring both.

Frameworks are mental operating systems. Rules tell you what to think; frameworks teach you how to think.

@TheGBreaker The inability or unwillingness to go deep.

What’s the biggest reason most people never become rich?

@hr_unhinged Damn, so all those years I was doing my job instead of socializing in the kitchen like I was apparently supposed to. Good to know. Late, but still.

I noticed one employee wearing noise-canceling headphones. Not earbuds. The big, cushioned over-ear kind that create a tiny personal universe. I asked if everything was alright. He said yes, he’s just trying to focus. I told him we value focus, but isolation can misread as resistance to collaboration. He said he’s literally sitting at his desk doing his job. I told him we track human presence, not just output. He asked how presence is measured. I said imperfectly, which is why it's so important. Then I logged “avoiding spontaneous culture building opportunities” in his engagement profile.

@hr_unhinged To make it perfect, they should lock him in an open-plan office in the basement. A happy employee. I’m sure someone that talented will be a great asset to a company that takes such good care of him.

I refuse to be outsmarted by a 23-year-old using keyboard shortcuts. I asked a junior analyst to pull the annual turnover data. He did it in 4 seconds. I asked him how he bypassed the manual data entry protocol. He said he just used a VLOOKUP on a spreadsheet he made. I told him that using hidden formulas to obscure his workflow creates an environment of deceit. He asked if I was mad that he saved us three hours of busywork. I explained that efficiency is only valuable when it's transparent to leadership. I noted "relies on digital witchcraft to avoid hard work" in his file. Then I uninstalled Excel from his machine. He can use an abacus until he learns humility.

@sudo_override Except for building in public, I agree.

college students and early professionals: stop collecting certificates start collecting shipped projects with real users one deployed side project that solves a painful problem beats 10 online courses and 5 internships build in public and document everything the proof is in the product not the paper

Context is critically underestimated. Modern IT mostly works with current values while ignoring context as a vector. A value tells you what is true now. Context tells you how it got there, under which conditions it is valid, where it is heading, and what it actually means. Data without context does not reconstruct reality. It only captures a snapshot.

@thezlatkom Harmony exists when each side’s imperfections fit within the other’s tolerances.

prove you're not AI. write something useful.

@Hazel52389 Sometimes the greatest struggle is choosing not to fight and simply observing. A direct confrontation may only escalate things in a direction you never wanted. It is a conscious way of controlling where things go.

Strong people are not always the ones who never struggle. They are the ones who keep adjusting when things get difficult. Falling behind is temporary. Refusing to move is what creates distance.

@mardehaym The person who approved the code is responsible.

A senior architect told me she'd stopped approving AI-generated PRs from her juniors. Her VP noticed. Approval rates dropped. Cycle times spiked. Suddenly, she's the bottleneck. So she invited the VP to a code review. Just to observe. The junior explained the PR. Confident. Articulate. Code executed. Tests passed. Then she asked, "What happens if we add a second payment provider next quarter?" Silence. The junior stared at the code. The model that generated it doesn't know the roadmap. The code didn't contain an answer, because the system design didn't exist beyond the current ticket. In 8 months, the juniors shipped 40,000 lines of code. None of them could explain how the system worked outside of their immediate task. They thought they understood the codebase. They never actually read it. "They're not bad engineers," she said. "But they've never been wrong long enough to learn anything." The VP had offered courses, certifications, book clubs. But the architect needed something else, and it wasn't more training. She needed permission to slow things down, so the juniors could build a real mental model. One that lives outside the chat window. Juniors don't develop judgment from getting things right. They develop it by sitting with wrong answers, long enough to understand why they failed. You want to test their understanding? Ask them to diagram the system. No IDE/docs/ AI. If the diagram has gaps, those gaps exist in their heads too. You won't notice, until something actually breaks.