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making liquid go brrrr / sen software dev @shopify / cs alumni @ucl / he/him / (my opinions are my own)
London, England Entrou em Haziran 2011
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@karpathy I actually actively despise this feature especially in chatgpt, sometimes I ask about ice cream and he answers with: "knowing you're a software developer you could think of ice cream as..."
no I just want a recipe, I don't want it personalised to me being a software dev
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One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.
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Wow, I totally disagree with this statement. At the current state, AI actually amplifies the developer to developer difference. If you were a 10x developer, you had good ideas + architectural clarity, this is a brutal advantage when using AI. Steering is a fundamental part of today's AI development.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone. Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation. "I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody. It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)
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Casual reminder your life’s importance has no correlation to what percentage of the universe your body occupies and you are the tip of the spear of emergent complexity amidst an otherwise entropic universe with the agency to consciously direct the future of it
Gurwinder@G_S_Bhogal
A nice reminder that everything you're worried about is ultimately insignificant.
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BTW if you agree with this, you don't work on difficult enough problens
Jared Friedman@snowmaker
I realized something else AI has changed about coding: you don't get stuck anymore. Programming used to be punctuated by episodes of extreme frustration, when a tricky bug ground things to a halt. That doesn't happen anymore.
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If your friends aren't talking about:
• Ice cream
• Where to get ice cream
• When we are getting ice cream
• Soft serve vs. hard-scoop
It's time to find new friends.
Miles Deutscher@milesdeutscher
If your friends aren't talking about: • Claude • Perplexity Computer • Openclaw • Fitness • Investing • Ownership • Automated workflows It's time to find new friends.
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“not knowing how to cook is becoming an advantage” - ceo of mcdonalds
a16z@a16z
"Not having a coding experience is becoming an advantage." Replit CEO Amjad Masad: "You don't need any development experience. You need grit. You need to be a fast learner." "If you're a good gamer, if you can jump in a game and figure it out really quickly, you're really good at this." "Coders get lost in the details." "Product people, people who are focused on solving a problem, on making money, they're going to be focused on marketing, they're going to be focused on user interface, they're going to be focused on all the right things." "I think this year it's gonna flip, and I think not having a coding background is gonna be more advantageous for the entrepreneur." @amasad with @jackhneel
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the base thesis is that since wr e can shit out huge amounts of code now, therr's no way to review it all via human brains. sure.
but nobody seems to ask why we want shit out huge amounts of code in the first place.
mythical man month of the AI age.
Latent.Space@latentspacepod
🆕 How to Kill The Code Review latent.space/p/reviews-dead the volume and size of PRs is skyrocketing. @simonw called out StrongDM’s “Dark Factory” last month: no human code, but *also* no human review (!?) in this week’s guest post, @ankitxg makes a 5 step layered playbook for how this can come true.
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That's the work of a demoscener going through a midlife crisis.
Blonde of War (JJ)@BlondeOfWar
When Nothing Goes Harder Than The Pharmacy Sign 💃🕺 (Sound up)
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Let's start some arguments. Ionic supremacy here 💪
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This class of explanations for why Southern Italy, and especially Sicily, is poorer than Northern Italy fails to account for why this is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Sicily was wealthier than Veneto until the 1930s.
Yes, Central-Northern Italy was likely the richest area in the world during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, but at that time Southern Italy and Sicily were probably the second-richest place in the world – richer than – or at least on par with – the rest of Western Europe, let alone Northern Europe.
Purported genetic differences cannot really explain why the divergence has become pretty stable only after 1971.
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We literally know this isn’t the case from brain damage patients who retain their reasoning abilities unaffected despite having their language center cooked, and from all the living beings who have cognition despite not having language.
But the techbro midwit is undeterred.
Cheng Lou@_chenglou
Stupidly late realization on why LLMs are so good at reasoning: human’s reasoning capability is bottlenecked by language! It’s not that languages are good at reasoning; reasoning ended up being defined by language first and foremost. The medium truly shapes the message
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My entire net worth is in third order Rapture derivatives. If the chance of “the chance of “the chance of the Rapture exceeds 5%” exceeds 5%” exceeds 5%, i lose my house
tedfrank@tedfrank
So the reason this Polymarket “prediction market” is performing so insanely high is because there’s a second market asking if this market will go above 5%. People in the derivative market are manipulating this market. Which defeats the public policy case for prediction markets…
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you're right, game engines and netcode for non-turn-based games are known for being trivial. it's always auth where Blizzard, Valve, Epic etc spend most of their resources.
martin_casado@martin_casado
Man auth and permissions are just inherently complex. You can build a multi-player game engine in a few hours. And then spend a few days getting the auth and permission system to not suck.
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The drone usage is superb this Olympics. Absolutly breathtaking to see luge like that. Gives a much better sense for how insane these sports are.
Bilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu
This high speed FPV drone shot chasing athletes with synchronized telemetry got the winter olympics looking like a real life video game. x.com/BrandGraffismo…
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One thing I learned while working on this
Bun is running GC too much. Sampling the call stack in the idle & spinner loops showed about 2/3 of time was GC and 1/3 was JS.
Jarred Sumner@jarredsumner
In the next version of Claude Code Reduced CPU usage by (1) consolidating timers (2) slightly slowing timers when not focused
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I am looking for a job starting May 2026. I am an expert in SIMD programming, in particular for non-numeric applications such as text processing or database programming. Please have a look at my website for the sort of work I do. I am located in Berlin, Germany.
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