Guilherme Carvalho

If you are interested in the philosophy of free will and selfhood i wrote an interesting piece on substack, link in the comments

@artman terrible quotas, terrible coding

It's kinda crazy how Google is incapable of getting developer mind-share. For all I know Gemini is a great model for coding, yet I know literally not a single person that uses it as their daily driver. Seems like Google is missing one Satya to make them cool and used again.

@sandislonjsak Doesn't the premise itself deny that anyone is actively doing this? you would see a lot more complex software being built if this was in any way a tractable system of work at the moment.

@saisatvik_ i was having these issues initially when the first wave of reports came in but then it fixed itself about a day or 2 later, still not sure what is going on, its interesting that it doesn't seem to be a user wide thing

Ppl who are saying “I never hit my limit” I feel happy for you Honestly

@amritwt peter thiel sounds retarded

Peter Thiel is driving with his friends far more aggressively than necessary like a racetrack. His driving eventually attracts the attention of the California Highway Patrol, and he is pulled over. When the officer asks if he knows how fast he was going, the others in the car feel a mix of relief and anxiety, glad the reckless driving has stopped but nervous about the consequences. Thiel, however, remains completely calm and composed. Instead of answering directly, he questions the very idea of speed limits, suggesting they might not make sense as a concept. He goes further, framing speed limits as a potential violation of personal freedom and even hinting that they could be unconstitutional. The officer is left silent.

whats up with @claudeai all of a sudden using all of my quota with very little work? i used to not ever get close to session limits and all of a sudden its eating it up like its nothing (I am no max)

@megagoose11 and about as much fraud as in the actual Russian economy

Oh yeah that’s just about… uh lemme check… one Russian economy.

@justalexoki italians eat pizza with french fries so this whole debate is mute

pineapple on pizza is really funny because literally everyone who's actually tried it likes it, proving the rest are just cattle attaching to whatever the herd told them to believe

@camsoft2000 you should be rewriting it once you have the shape of it, refactoring progressively as you get the shape of the project more defined

I’m getting to the point with one of the projects I work on where the complexity of AI slop is becoming a real issue. While I can still happily prompt the agent to add x feature and it will do so and it will likely work perfectly, the code is just getting too complex and fragmented. Agents love to copy and paste and keeping patterns DRY is a real challenge. The agent will start diverging all those copy and pastes until you’ve got loads of similar but slightly different blocks of logic. Again it all still works and solves the problem I’m after. But I just can’t get any kind of consistency anymore, the code is a mess and I just don’t have a handle on it. I want a clean unified architecture but agents just code with tunnel vision. The project is now too big and complex for an agent to fully reason with and too big and complex for me to reason with. The only real solution is a complete rewrite. Maybe this is the way things will go. Code will just become disposable. I don’t really want to care about the code and to be honest I don’t but I do care about consistency and maintainability and the AI slop is hurting those very things I do care about. I know some will say “I’m holding it wrong”, use x,y,z skill, tool whatever and already use tools and anti slop skills, plans, docs, etc but the outcome is the same. Vibe coding something into existence is truly magical. But turning it into a mature product with months of iterations is painful. I can’t even hand code this thing because I don’t understand the code anymore and I’m too lazy to try and code myself because I’m addicted to AI. So what’s the solution, either start again and accept that’s just the way we have to roll, or just carry on fighting the slop and accept each new feature will take longer to implement than the last. I’m tired. I’m addicted.

@alanchanguk Respect your opinion, i want a stronger Europe, a proud Europe but i think part of that is creating a safety net an environment that helps the average person flourish and doesn't only reward the the end of the curve

@strivingpolymat If that’s what you want that’s your choice, and if you build something useful to society you have my respect, even if we disagree the best way to build, but I have issue with people who don’t build trying to bring down people who work really hard who do

This article is anti-ambition, anti-excellence, anti-merit. Europe is falling behind, and instead of asking why we don’t produce enough generational companies, the author has decided the real threat to society is young men working too hard, competing too hard, and wanting to win. What a joke. Nothing is easier than mocking people who are actually trying. Nothing is cheaper than dressing up resentment as moral sophistication. The author hides behind the noble language of "inclusion" to attack the only thing that actually democratises success: an obsession with output. We are told that intense, hyper-focused teams are "monocultures" that build bad products. History disagrees. Every technological leap was forged by relentless, obsessed groups of people who sacrificed their comfort to solve hard problems. Calling that a "monoculture" is the cope of the comfortable spectator. We are told that an intense work ethic excludes people. Is 996 for everyone? No. Does having a family change your priorities? Of course. But demanding we lower the speed limit for an entire continent just because some people prefer the slow lane is a recipe for terminal irrelevance. The actual exclusionary culture is the one advocated by this article: a bureaucratic, HR-driven gatekeeping where you are judged on looking good rather than being good. The people writing these pieces will never build companies that matter. They will never invent the future. They will simply stand on the sidelines, sneering at the few people still willing to do something difficult. That is not wisdom. It is decadence. Europe does not need less edge. It needs more. More obsession. More work ethic. More conviction. More builders who do not ask permission from people who have built absolutely nothing. sifted.eu/articles/europ…

@alanchanguk So then why is it bad to advocate for balance? why is it bad to criticize it? look at the US and you see the grind mentality everywhere in society because its become near impossible to live a comfortable life with a regular job, i don't want the same here

That's not the point. It's okay for people to choose to work at whatever pace, whether it be 40 or 80 hours a week. My point is that attacking people who do the latter is NOT okay. It's like expecting Man Utd to train less because there are other much worse footballers, and they are not being inclusive by training too much.

I am an entrepreneur, i work regularly 12 to 16 hour days, but this mentality does not understand what Red Queen Race is, looking at the state of our society and wanting everyone to be like this is self defeating, Europe shouldn't blindly copy the US it should find its own way

@fabianstelzer @PernotLeplay @MistralAI not sure what your point is, no one can take my productivity and wholesale outcompete every human in the world? maybe you should think a bit more, ask help to an AI maybe? before making retarded points

@strivingpolymat @PernotLeplay @MistralAI how much publicly available data did your brain "steal" over the course of your life?

In the FT, @MistralAI CEO Arthur Mensch suggests a European tax on AI companies to compensate their use of publicly available content. That would be 1% of their revenues, used to support new content creation. In exchange, it would shield AI companies from US-like huge fines related to content training.

Cable TV was $100 a month with 50% ads. YouTube is free with ads, but for $15 a month you can remove them. It’s not that bad.

@Keller Just wanted to say, i had been a naysayer when you showed the first videos in good weather but i am happy to have been proven wrong, this is looking so impressive

The Bitter Lesson of Robotics: It's extremely easy to make a video of a robot doing something once under perfect conditions then post it to X. But it often takes a decade to harden systems and design for all the insane edge cases of the real world. Many companies raising $$$$ on cool demos, but all the hard work comes after

I am hopeful more positive changes are coming to Europe.

@Shpigford would it still be dishonest if for my future company i put it as "we hope to be as successful as:" ???

i think some folks are just taking a swing at manifestation

@tekbog Zuck is the equivalent of the guy/girl who changes their personality with every new relationship they get into

hows the AI lab coming along?

@FreyaHolmer looks interesting, what if it you somehow have to balance the sides so that you actually have to think about their "weight" distribution before playing?

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything