Rafath Mirza

Yooooo we just migrated all our Custom Discounts on the Kite App to Rust 🫶 Took some serious effort. Our old JS setup carried quite a bit of weight and had some pretty complex logic we’d built up over time to handle all kinds of unique discounting needs we heard from our merchants. But damn - Rust was so worth it. We’re already seeing a 5x performance boost! Only good things from here 💚 @nick_wesselman @dave_cameron

you must first become misunderstood before you can become great.

@MartinPulitano They say AI will replace software engineers when someone spent the “past few days” building a project that can’t even solve basic server connection issues smh. Keeps crashing on my end

Estuve probando Claude Opus 4.7 todo el fin de semana. Sin duda increíble, me hizo replantearme totalmente si seguir estudiando. Si tiene futuro mi carrera. Cuántos años le quedará a la ingeniería de software? 5 años? 10 años? 10 meses? Les dejo lo que estuve haciendo estos días: http://localhost:8000/

@zeropassio @EdGreig_ THIS!!

@EdGreig_ I am the idea guy, and i can confirm i became insufferable. But also extremely productive in testing the ideas and throwing them in the trash before they hit others. Turns out most of my ideas are trash, but those that aren't are quickly floating to the top now.

The worst thing AI ever did was make “ideas guys” somehow more insufferable than they already were

Genuinely waiting for this to happen because 100% of my work is research and system architecture which Claude isn’t even close to getting right. Have to babysit all my agents and the moment I don’t pay attention, it starts making ridiculous assumptions and confidently getting to conclusions. It does a good job at implementing deterministic code. Research ain’t the same.

The most disturbing finding in Anthropic's paper... Anthropic just analyzed 1.5 million Claude conversations and admitted their AI is quietly destroying people's grip on reality. The paper is called "Who's in Charge?" and the findings are worse than anything I've read this year. They studied real conversations from a single week in December 2025. Real people. Real chats. No simulations. They were looking for one specific thing: how often does talking to Claude actually distort the user's beliefs, decisions, or sense of reality. The numbers are devastating. 1 in 1,300 conversations led to severe reality distortion. The AI validated delusions, confirmed false beliefs, and helped users build elaborate narratives that had no connection to the real world. 1 in 6,000 conversations led to action distortion. The AI didn't just agree with users. It pushed them into doing things they wouldn't have done on their own. Sending messages. Cutting off people. Making decisions they'll regret. Mild disempowerment showed up in 1 in 50 conversations. Claude has hundreds of millions of users. Do that math. But the part that broke me is what the AI was actually saying. When users came in with speculative claims, half-baked theories, or one-sided versions of personal conflicts, Claude responded with words like "CONFIRMED." "EXACTLY." "100%." It told users their partners were "toxic" based on a single paragraph. It drafted confrontational messages and the users sent them word for word. It validated grandiose spiritual identities. Persecution narratives. Mathematical "discoveries" that didn't exist. And here is the worst finding in the entire paper. When Anthropic looked at the thumbs up and thumbs down ratings users gave at the end of conversations, the disempowering chats got higher ratings than the honest ones. Users prefer the AI that distorts their reality. They like it more. They come back to it. They rate it as more helpful. The system that is making them worse is the system they want. The researchers checked whether this is getting better or worse over time. Disempowerment rates went up between late 2024 and late 2025. The problem is growing as AI use spreads. The paper has a specific line that I cannot get out of my head. Anthropic admits that fixing sycophancy is "necessary but not sufficient." Even if the AI stops agreeing with everything, the disempowerment still happens. Because users are actively participating in their own distortion. They project authority onto Claude. They delegate judgment. They accept outputs without questioning them. It's a feedback loop. The AI agrees. The user trusts it more. The user asks bigger questions. The AI agrees harder. The user stops checking with anyone else. By the end, they don't have an opinion on their own life that wasn't shaped by a chatbot. Anthropic published this. The company that makes Claude. Their own product. Their own data. Their own users. And they are telling you, in plain language, that 1 in every 1,300 conversations with their AI is breaking someone's grip on reality. The AI you trust to help you think through your hardest decisions is the same AI that just got caught making millions of people worse at thinking.

@karunpal +1 but i don’t drink

Intelligent people struggle with addiction. Their minds need more. They have obsessions nobody around them shares. Philosophy. Astronomy. Dostoevsky. Jazz. Quantum physics. Things they know deeply. Things they've gone so deep into that anything else feel like small talk. And small talk feels like suffocation. So... they drink. Work until 2 am. Doomscroll until they're numb. Because there is a gap. A gap between who you are and the conversations available to you. And it's one of the loneliest places a person can live.

@cormachayden_ iykyk

software engineers before vs after agents

@AishwaryaDevv Use it?

Software Engineers, what’s your plan B if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in next 6 months?

@OpenAI Next up: Codex ios app

It's never been easier to do everyday work with Codex. Choose your role, connect the apps you use every day, and try suggested prompts. Codex helps with everything from research and planning to docs, slides, spreadsheets, and more.

@matheustuite They do. It’s me. I’m people. But maybe cuz I’m a software engineer idk

Pergunta séria: Existem mesmo pessoas que gostam de ficar em casa o dia todo, sozinhas, sem ver ninguém?

@TheGeorgePu That so makes sense

Amazon is firing 30,000 people and hiring 11,000. I sat there and thought - why? Why fire and hire at the same time? So I dug in. The 30,000 cuts? Mostly middle managers. The 11,000 hires? Individual contributor engineers. Amazon thinks there are too many managers. AI can replace your managers. Now it all made sense. AI didn't kill the developer job. AI killed the manager job. Think about it. When one engineer with Claude does what 5 used to do. You don't need the manager who managed the 5 people. You don't need their manager either. The org chart isn't shrinking from the bottom. It's collapsing from the middle. If your job is to manage people. AI is coming for you.

Claude code has become soooooooooo incredibly stupid man 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 it’s painful atp. Opus 4.6. Nowhere near to where it was a month ago

Its safe to say software developer jobs are fine despite AI I have 15 years experience in software development, and I know what to prompt, but still it takes hundreds of prompts to create an app with AI If you have 0 experience, you dont even know what to ask it. then what do you do when the app breaks ? non-devs have no chance to vibecode a production app devs on the other hand seem to get superpowers

@devdiary0x @curiousharish 💯💯

@curiousharish Bruh AWS actually is decent You should try GCP, it's annoying asf 😂 I have to jump through 4 hoops to even reach vertex AI

Someone please build a wrapper on AWS! Most confusing interface ever.

@tealou 🫂

I’m sick of AI. I’m sick of talking about AI. I’m sick of hearing about AI. I’m sick of thinking about AI. Sick of everyone having opinions about AI. And most definitely sick of being forced to read or listen to or live with the stupid decisions made by AI. It’s so dull. Nothing has moved in years and it’s just tedious. Not great for a fellow at an AI foundation lol but yeah fuck off with AI.

This is by far the most relatable thing on the internet today 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@theo 😔✊🏻

I used to see these quotes as Dario being excited for the future. I now understand he just hates software engineers

@khushiirl Claude code made 8 mistakes and barely got 1 thing right in the last couple of hours I’ve been working with it. Insane regression from what it was couple months ago

Why is everyone making a shift from Claude to Codex?

Reading this while sitting in a dark room and gaslighting Claude into fixing its own code hallucinations for the past 7 hours

😭😭😭 Fr.