Sam VJ

@antinertia Growth

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Great Engineers are Also Artists. “I characterize art as something that is done for its own sake, and done well, and often creates a sense of beauty or some strong emotion. And a lot of engineers are introverts. As an aside, I hate the term “incel.” It’s just a way of putting introverts down. It’s the new “nerd,” if you will. If someone says that somebody is an incel, I’m more likely to want to interview them. So let’s move away from the slurs. But introverts tend to want to express themselves through other things rather than going out and expressing themselves directly. So what are they going to do? They’re going to express themselves through their craft. They’re going to create art. In my current company, at least half the engineers have serious artwork they’ve done on the side. World-class artwork—everything from elegant mathematical proofs to beautiful computer art, to literally sculpting things with clay, designing clothing, designing doorknobs, water bottles. There’s one who’s done incredible music videos, really good stuff. And I see a lot of the better engineers tinker with the AI art products, much more so than even so-called artists do. I think a lot of artists are scared by AI art products saying, “This is going to replace me.” Whereas someone who doesn’t have that identity of an artist and doesn’t feel threatened by it—it’s just a tool and they try it out to see what it can create. Anything done for its own sake and done as well as one possibly can is art. And great engineers are also artists. They’re capable of anything. It’s just they’ve chosen to be engineers and focused on building things because engineering is the ability to turn your ideas and your art into things that actually work, that do something useful, that embody some knowledge in a way that it can be repeated and people can get utility out of it. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be beautiful.”

In theory everything works. In practice barely anything works. Being a great operator is knowing the difference.

The bar has never been higher and lower at the same time. Higher to cut through the noise. Lower to deliver on quality.

My concerns for attrition in software engineering keeps dropping. Making AI software and dealing with non-deterministic outputs is 10-100x harder than “classic” software.

You can now use Claude Sonnet 4 directly in Xcode! 👏

@JulianGarnier Great work! Been waiting for this to drop 🔥

After 5 years in the making, I'm very happy to finally release Anime.js v4, my dream animation library: 🧩 New modular API ⚡️ Highly performant 🖱️ Scroll-linked animations 🫵 Draggables ↔️ Responsive ✨ Additive animations 🪽 WAAPI support And so much more! Link below👇

@brunostasse Great work!

Introducing Silk — The most advanced swipeable sheet ever engineered for the web. Native-like experience • Works on all devices • Unlocks dozens of UI patterns on the web. Available for React.

@blakeandersonw Congrats on getting this out. It looks really good! One question: what model are you using? And feedback: using a better one would be helpful so people aren’t lead astray.

10x - Learn Anything Live now👇

Sometimes, to move forward, you have to take a step back.

@bekacru This is low key one of the best dot releases of any project. Keep up the great work!

Better Auth 1.2 stripe plugin, api keys plugin, captcha plugin, access control, teams/sub-orgs, init cli and much more... release note ⇃reply⇂

Instead of starting with an idea, start with a moat: 1. Distribution 2. Data 3. Brand If you don’t have one of those, partner.

@Dsandoval20112 @yuris You got it. Here’s the full answer: claude.ai/share/1fbf14ed…

@samvj @yuris Hey share the answer if you want haha the weekly planning system, can be useful

Claude 3.7 Sonnet delivers.

@karrisaarinen Most products are optimized for market efficiency. It takes an unreasonable amount of effort and care to create quality products.

What are the reasons companies fail to create quality products? Why high-quality experiences are so rare in the world?

@LucaNetz This is unequivocally true for the app layer. At the same time, there is a massive opportunity space in the infra layer for agents that your app can hire to service specialized functions. It’s easy to write off infra as commodity, but then you get game changers like @vercel.

LLMs and blockchains are following the same path in the sense that the underlying technology will be commoditized & will ultimately perform the same function. The technology behind the chain or the LLM will not be the moat; instead, the brand, user experience, & community will be

@rauchg 100% x.com/samvj/status/1…

llms.txt and MCP feels like the beginning of the AI internet protocol stack. As these conventions proliferate, the network gets more powerful and intelligent, and a lot more applications become possible.

@illyism 📠

"take a year off" while we're in the most insane AI gold rush of our lifetime right now is the time to throw everything you have at your wildest ideas we're in peak accelerationism, right now is when you hit the fucking gas pedal if you come back in a year the entire world will be unrecognizable take a year off in 2026-27 when you've made it, not now when history is being written

@calcsam Great work. This is a masterclass in DX 👌

excited to announce that mastra is now officially in beta!!

@rrhoover Welcome to the team 🤝

I love air fryers. Gonna make it my whole personality.