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this right here is good engg leadership.

After using Codex and Claude separately for a few weeks, I find that it's not Codex vs Claude. It's Codex AND Claude.

okay so claude+bun+ts vs openai+uv+python. this is nice.

You can go to a gym, run a marathon or eat the most healthy food. If you don’t learn to deal the bullshit people around you, you will always be unhealthy. You can’t change the people around you. But you can change the people around you.

fallen soldier.

amazing read. highly recommend.

they literally pieced everything together. amazing stuff.

2026 AI prediction: By the end of the year, the distinction between technical and non-technical will become irrelevant. Tools like Claude Code will make it obvious that the only skill that matters is how precisely you can articulate your cognitive goal. Bad news for seasoned SWEs who cling to their perceived intellectual superiority (I get it!). Great news for everyone else!

quite accurate.

Flight attendant comes over intercom: “your flight is oversold, I need two volunteers to take a flight this afternoon for a $300 voucher.” I spring into action. I was born for these moments. This is why I studied game theory. Literal tingles. I pull out my megaphone and address our boarding gate: “guys, they absolutely must off board at least two passengers or this bird isn’t taking off. Every 3 minutes they will increase their bid by $200. If we all hold out for 45 more minutes, 2 of us can make nearly 5 grand each. Textbook prisoners dilemma, this is (3,3) in its most visceral representation. I’m not even going to give up my ticket but I know value when I see value. Let’s make Nash proud ladies and gentlemen. Do not acquiesce. Do not defect.” Anyhow 2 people immediately accepted $500 and I called them retards on my megaphone and was placed in a detention room by airport police. This is why we study game theory.

new normal

@AnthropicAI really cooked with opus 4.5. the way it debugs and drops clean solutions is unreal.

There is one health advice you will never hear from anyone. You can go to gym and build muscles, you can train to run and become a marathoner , you can get your 4ltr of water everyday, you can get your 7hrs of sleep , you can get all the superfoods and supplements. But if you don’t learn to deal the chaos in your head and bullshit people around you, you’re still going to be unhealthy. You can’t change the people around you. But you can change the people around you. Ignoring some people for your mental health is not a weakness. It is your superpower.

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency? Grok explanation is ~close: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next. It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

really feel this questioning your way to knowledge is the ultimate learning hack, feel free to contribute!

don’t be this guy, it will make you bitter and regretful.

Everything depends on the relationship you have with money and work. If you have always loved your work, and raised in relative abundance, you will tend to dedicate your life to impact (think US tech billionaires, they’re all missionaries) But if you don’t have a lot of money growing up, and suddenly stumble into a lot of wealth working without agency (usually as an employee), you will tend to use that wealth to overcome the one thing you haven’t in your life - control over your own time. This is why Deepinder Goyal fired his top executives after the Zomato IPO. They were not intrinsically motivated to work, and after becoming millionaires, they had no hunger left and wanted to vacation.

Imagine in 1925 you told someone that in 2025 we'd have - Self-driving cars, - instant communication with anyone on the planet for free in hi-res video, - Infinite encyclopedias in our pockets - self-landing rockets, - treatments for ~all common diseases of that time, - reduced global poverty by 90% - Instantly generated audio, video, text - Flying machines that take us anywhere in the world, any time. You would've been considered beyond delusional optimistic and yet, we've surpassed it all. What we consider delusional optimistic today might be the lower end of what we will hopefully achieve as a species in the next 100 years. Optimism is the way to go!

@AmpCode going free if you give access to train on your data and okay with ads. @ctodotnew being open about selling data for training and giving access to frontier models. (got in and tried it, lot of improvements needed) interesting.