Hemant

@mannupaaji ambition is just dissatisfaction with a vision board

If youre even a little bit ambitious, you will almost always be miserable not because youre not doing well, but because you expect a LOT from yourself and you're always in a hurry to do things you constantly compare yourself with others (even if you know that its completely irrelevant) wins become meh, which means even if you win you will treat it as the least acceptable possible outcome, not a reason to celebrate but a threshold that you must always pass guilt kicks in even if you take a day off or don't open your laptop, work all day everyday and you're not satisfied either weird place to be in

@remedy @sahill_og fair point. if it's in the logs, an LLM can trace it. the problem is the 1000 edge cases that never make it to the logs.

@hemantkdotcom @sahill_og it's not wrong if the game is behaving properly, and if it isn't you can absolutely say "sometimes my character bounces way too high, review the logs and find out why the gravity calculations are failing"

notice how vibe coders never touch game dev because there’s no “generate gameplay” button you actually have to think

@BlackwellV90362 @sahill_og game engines abstract the engine, not the game. that's still your problem.

@hemantkdotcom @sahill_og Did you know these things called game engines exist?

@remedy @sahill_og it can output the math. understanding why the math is wrong is the part that gets you.

@hemantkdotcom @sahill_og certainly an llm could not possibly output the relevant calculations

@remedy @sahill_og let me play too

@hemantkdotcom @sahill_og oh wait actually this took 10 seconds

@0xlelouch_ databases are for structured data, not your users' vacation photos

You store user uploads (images) in database as BLOB. Database is now 500GB, backups failing, queries slow. What's wrong with this approach?

@leonabboud X is an AI conference that thinks it's the internet

Reminder that X is not a good representation of AI adoption. X has the super users of AI. I have entrepreneur friends who are just switching to Claude, 3 months after everyone here on X. Whenever you think "Oh everyone knows how to vibecode an app" no, 99% of people don't.

@rezoundous touch grass is cope. we all know you're staring at the countdown timer.

When you've run out of usage limits, do you code manually or touch grass till it resets?

@Nithya_Shrii the product is not the chatbot. the product is what the chatbot learns from you.

Not enough people question why AI is free.

@ick_real Tuesday

WHAT’S IT CALLED WHEN YOU’RE SUPER INSECURE BUT AT THE SAME TIME YOU CAN WALK INTO A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE AND THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE??

Claude Code is a great engineer who trusts you too much. Codex is the senior who asks "can you show me where that's documented"

@xoaanya horizontal scaling moves the bottleneck, it doesn't remove it

Backend Developer interviewer: If horizontal scaling solves load issues, why do systems still crash under high traffic?

Nobody is going to steal your idea. They're too busy not executing their own. Ship faster.

@mitcheephapnel exactly. paste, pray, and pretend the "explain analyze" output made sense

@hemantkdotcom And by reading like an archeologist you mean dumping into chat right?

Prisma spoils you. You forget SQL exists. Then your ORM does something weird at 2am and you're reading raw query logs like an archaeologist.

@Yuchenj_UW the second dumbest is counting PRs. someone had to say it.

The dumbest way to evaluate engineers today is by counting lines of code.

@arpit_bhayani nobody remembers your bad talks. you do. give enough of them and even you stop caring.

If you want to get better at giving talks, there is only one way: give more talks. Most avoid it early in their careers. It feels uncomfortable, and it is super easy to tell yourself you will do it once you are more senior. You do not get senior and then start speaking. You start speaking, and that is part of how you get 'senior' (ofc you should have something to talk about first) The first few talks will feel rough - of course - and that is fine and completely normal. Nobody becomes a confident speaker by waiting until they feel ready. You get there by giving bad talks, learning from them, and then giving better ones. That is exactly how I got better. My early YouTube videos and talks were not great - I stuttered, rushed through parts, and missed things I wanted to say. But each time, I actually improved a little. Also, posting 200+ videos on YouTube helped. Also, the opportunities are everywhere if you look for them. It does not have to be a conference stage. A team sync, an internal tech talk, a local meetup - all of these count - and none of them requires you to be an expert. They just require you to show up and try. Each time you do it, something improves. Your flow, your pacing, your ability to read the room, and how you handle unexpected questions. These small improvements compound over time. So do not wait to feel ready. Start now, start small, and let the reps do the work.

@shiri_shh everyone's building AI products. someone has to convince people they need them.

people in marketing are going to make a lot of money over the next few years. might be the right time to pivot.

@RaminNasibov the server knows. the server just doesn't respect you enough to say.

"Username or Password Incorrect” You couldn't just tell me which one?

@bluewmist caring deeply about someone else's equity is a personality disorder with a salary

Unpopular opinion: Taking your job seriously is a sign of low intelligence.