Joseph Magara 🇺🇬🇺🇬

@DefiantLs Don’t 3 year olds also fight each other 🤔

Dana White: "Can’t stand soccer, I think is the least talented sport on earth. There’s a reason 3 year olds can play soccer."

@theo No Cursor Composer 2.5 ☹️

This is the first code bench that actually aligns with how it feels to use these models coding.

What do you think about a base tax that gradually reduces the more productive you are economically? The top earners are not necessarily responsible for the vast majority of economic output. Bank CEOs and Politicians, Premiers, etc all get paid crazy sums but they don’t commit that much to economic activity, but what if you could actually reward and incentivise productivity by directly tying it to positive economic output.

A progressive income tax system is one of the dumbest tax inventions in human history, so much so that you would actually have a more productive economy under a regressive tax system because the people at the top are responsible for the vast majority of economic output.

@farmingandJesus @TheMuppetPastor 🤣🤣🤣

@TheMuppetPastor Yes

Guess who this pastor is 🥹

Thank you for posting and calling this out. Mo has some good points but the constant negativity about AI is also tiring. The reality is it is here to stay and the best thing to do would be to find out how to best use it for the good of everyone. The C-suite people may not care and may fire thousands of people to save a few dollars but that does not mean the average-joe cannot use it to better their life. One of the beauties of AI is that it is and will democratise the power of building systems. Yes, devs will be impacted (I myself being a dev) but if at the end of it all, the common man is able to rely less on the 9-5 for their daily living by creating other sources of revenue, if that is the outcome then I say it is a better one. We are in the season of painful transition but if we show people how to make the best of AI even after Job loss, the outcome may be better than the prior status quo.

Bashing AI gets more views, remember that

You can absolutely have strict contracts without GraphQL. The difference is the kind of contract GraphQL gives you. Strong typing, introspection, self-documentation, one schema across many clients, flexible querying without endpoint sprawl, less over/under-fetching, etc. The schema becomes the source of truth instead of contracts being spread across docs and dozens of endpoints (REST, I’m looking at you 👈👀).

@5imian @joemagara @theo @yacineMTB You can’t have a strict contract without graphql??

Graphql is genuinely the most retarded idea ever. There used to be an entire career around graphql Honestly the best part about automating programmers is that I don't have to hire people, which means that I don't have to tolerate bad engineering decisions

@yacineMTB Mr Bones (2001)

What movie should I watch with my wife? No horror movies

@5imian @theo @yacineMTB 100%. I haven’t heard a detailed explanation of why people seem not to like it. For me, it solves so many problems and does it in such an elegant way that it’s just fantastic to use. 🙌🏿

@joemagara @theo @yacineMTB Theo has a lot of good takes, but this one is the one I disagree with most. Its trendy to 'hate' graphql. You peel back the layers of criticism and it usually boils down to skill issue. In terms of modern agentic programming having a strict contract is actually awesome

100%! Totally agree. It’s an amazing spec for what it’s intended for but it doesn’t fix every problem, but then again, that’s not what it’s intended for. IMO, GraphQL feels like a cleaner and more mature predecessor to MCP: standardized and introspectable like MCP hopes to be. Once again, IMO, it remains one of the cleanest interface abstractions the industry has produced — strongly typed, self-documenting, introspectable, and remarkably consistent. I love it! 🙌🏿

@joemagara @theo @yacineMTB Most people who hate it IMHO Either don’t have the horsepower to understand it or never took the time to learn it. It’s an amazing spec, very well thought out but not for every problem.

@theo @yacineMTB Horrible take. Graphql is fantastic when you have multiple different types of clients and a single server. It’s simplifies use for clients (no/limited round trips). Don’t understand the hate for it.

@yacineMTB GraphQL largely solved political problems at big companies. Was very good at that. If you own both the client and the server, makes much less sense.

@theo @yacineMTB

@SlowToWrite Both of those are bad takes

White men shouldn’t be cast to play Jesus. But more importantly, NO ONE should be cast to play Jesus.

@EduardoHagn Both

🇦🇷 Julián Álvarez or Eli Junior Kroupi 🇫🇷?

@MatthewBerman @theo Called it. x.com/elonmusk/statu…

@theo Think they’ll actually leapfrog?

Called it, they are gonna use Cursor’s data to leapfrog

@RayCharlizard @MatthewBerman @theo Called it.

@joemagara @MatthewBerman @theo Yeah things aren't easy to cool off in space just cus they're in space. You need something to transfer the heat to, and in space there is no air or water to act as transfer material.

@RayCharlizard @MatthewBerman @theo Isn’t that the same issue that the Starlink orbital satellites face and have handled? They use thermal radiation to cool down (they emit infrared radiation). I would have thought this same approach or at least something similar would work.

This is both brilliant and absolutely diabolical! As a fellow Aussie founder, I salute the uniqueness of thought in coming up with this challenge but as an software engineer who’s been keeping track of the AI space, I’m quite tired of the amount of theft that’s going around. While I don’t think theft was the intent at all, I think it is the unfortunate outcome. In an age where code has suddenly become super cheap, process has now become the premium. HOW to hone and efficiently wield the power of AI is what truly matters. Those who can do it well will leave their peers who can’t in the dust. A test like this gives a company access to the processes of many great engineers and sure they may hire some of them but might not have space for all. However in the end, though they may not get the engineer, they will leave with his/her AI wielding process and THAT is worth its weight in gold in this age. Once again, I truly don’t think the intent behind this test is nefarious, but the unfortunate outcome still is. They may not even realise they’ve done it. It may seem to them as learnings they took from the whole process once the test winds down but man, they would have taken high value learnings in the process.

@BrendanFalk If you want an example of the theft I was referring to (theft I’m tired of seeing). Here’s what I mean:

This is both brilliant and absolutely diabolical! As a fellow Aussie founder, I salute the uniqueness of thought in coming up with this challenge but as an software engineer who’s been keeping track of the AI space, I’m quite tired of the amount of theft that’s going around. While I don’t think theft was the intent at all, I think it is the unfortunate outcome. In an age where code has suddenly become super cheap, process has now become the premium. HOW to hone and efficiently wield the power of AI is what truly matters. Those who can do it well will leave their peers who can’t in the dust. A test like this gives a company access to the processes of many great engineers and sure they may hire some of them but might not have space for all. However in the end, though they may not get the engineer, they will leave with his/her AI wielding process and THAT is worth its weight in gold in this age. Once again, I truly don’t think the intent behind this test is nefarious, but the unfortunate outcome still is. They may not even realise they’ve done it. It may seem to them as learnings they took from the whole process once the test winds down but man, they would have taken high value learnings in the process.

I believe we've found the best AI-native coding interview We call it the “Composer 1 interview” Candidates get 1 hour to build a real, medium-sized project live The only constraint: they have to use Cursor’s Composer 1 model