Robert Roeser
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@garrytan This has been the case with every competent startup engineer I've talked to in the past 6 months.
Multiple terminal tabs + worktrees. Humans are the bottleneck now.
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@garrytan You're still coding - its just prompts, mds files, and design docs...
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@romxdev the problem isn't the AI, it's the bureaucracy. dump those strict rules into reusable skills in a user folder. the agent learns your stack once and you go right back to vibing.
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vibe coding is officially dead
I had to say it. we thought AI would let us relax and code "on chill", but instead it turned us into architectural bureaucrats. we write strict laws, define rules, limits, and principles.
if you don't obsessively review the code agent writes, your project will mutate into a massive landfill of tech debt within a month.
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@thin_signal @asaio87 If you do anything past creating a web page or rest service it needs a baby sitter. Skills are just prompts - they aren't going to change the model's weights.
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@asaio87 Might be a skill issue at this point, if you are not able to use Claude Code to automate your development tasks.
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I tried Claude Code a few days ago, good tool, average results... give it anything more complex and its messing things up.
Here is an idea: give this guy claude code $200 max subscription, and film him while he develops an app.
lets see how he flops...
Zuck said this exact same thing 2 years ago, we are nowhere near there..
CG@cgtwts
Anthropic CEO: “In the next 3 to 6 months, AI will write 90% of the code, and within 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI.” the job isn’t coding anymore, it’s telling machines what to build.
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@adamzwasserman @mfranz_on No one knows that well written Python will out perform Java or Swift because it doesn't happen.
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@mfranz_on Did you know that very well written Python outperforms mid level Swift, and comes within a hair of mid Java? And that well written Python is slightly faster than well written TypeScript on the vaunted V8 VM?
If you use a screw driver to hammer in a nail, things do not go so well
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"Python is slow because its dynamic design requires runtime dispatch on every operation"
This article is full of good hits for understanding better how python works. Very good work!
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@_avichawla Scatter/gather on expensive memory is going to get replaced at some point.
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@kellabyte @arielhelwani Yeah you should totally discount Dana White...no track record of success in combat sports.
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@arielhelwani Laughable he’s walking around acting like he’s taking over boxing when his fighters talk about outside belts in post fight interviews and putting fights on in front of 100 people.
Spike era UFC at least filled casino venues w/ few thousands of ppl.
Apex energy is embarrassing
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Yesterday, Dana White defended Conor Benn’s pay and said it’s 'never a bad thing when guys make more money — you should be happy about it.'
Was Dana happy when Francis Ngannou left and signed that massive deal? Of course not.
Is Dana going to be happy when Conor and Jon say, 'Pay me'? Of course not. He’ll say, 'They didn’t want to fight.'
This is all madness. Jai Opetaia probably made more than Charles Oliveira and Max Holloway to fight in front of 3 people at the Apex. Why would they be happy?
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@burkov Whoever thinks that people write reliable code should be kept away from computers. henricodolfing.ch/en/case-study-…
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Whoever thinks that LLMs write reliable code should be kept away from computers.
Because of how LLMs are trained, they write code that works most of the time.
There's nothing in the training objective about efficiency or reliability.
pashov@pashov
🚨Claude Opus 4.6 wrote vulnerable code, leading to a smart contract exploit with $1.78M loss cbETH asset's price was set to $1.12 instead of ~$2,200. The PRs of the project show commits were co-authored by Claude - Is this the first hack of vibe-coded Solidity code?
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@MingtaKaivo @karpathy Prompting Opus to port it back to Java so you can use a thread.
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@karpathy Ported 10K lines of Java to Python last month. Opus did it in 4 hours. The question now is what humans are even for.
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I think it must be a very interesting time to be in programming languages and formal methods because LLMs change the whole constraints landscape of software completely. Hints of this can already be seen, e.g. in the rising momentum behind porting C to Rust or the growing interest in upgrading legacy code bases in COBOL or etc. In particular, LLMs are *especially* good at translation compared to de-novo generation because 1) the original code base acts as a kind of highly detailed prompt, and 2) as a reference to write concrete tests with respect to. That said, even Rust is nowhere near optimal for LLMs as a target language. What kind of language is optimal? What concessions (if any) are still carved out for humans? Incredibly interesting new questions and opportunities. It feels likely that we'll end up re-writing large fractions of all software ever written many times over.
Thomas Wolf@Thom_Wolf
Shifting structures in a software world dominated by AI. Some first-order reflections (TL;DR at the end): Reducing software supply chains, the return of software monoliths – When rewriting code and understanding large foreign codebases becomes cheap, the incentive to rely on deep dependency trees collapses. Writing from scratch ¹ or extracting the relevant parts from another library is far easier when you can simply ask a code agent to handle it, rather than spending countless nights diving into an unfamiliar codebase. The reasons to reduce dependencies are compelling: a smaller attack surface for supply chain threats, smaller packaged software, improved performance, and faster boot times. By leveraging the tireless stamina of LLMs, the dream of coding an entire app from bare-metal considerations all the way up is becoming realistic. End of the Lindy effect – The Lindy effect holds that things which have been around for a long time are there for good reason and will likely continue to persist. It's related to Chesterton's fence: before removing something, you should first understand why it exists, which means removal always carries a cost. But in a world where software can be developed from first principles and understood by a tireless agent, this logic weakens. Older codebases can be explored at will; long-standing software can be replaced with far less friction. A codebase can be fully rewritten in a new language. ² Legacy software can be carefully studied and updated in situations where humans would have given up long ago. The catch: unknown unknowns remain unknown. The true extent of AI's impact will hinge on whether complete coverage of testing, edge cases, and formal verification is achievable. In an AI-dominated world, formal verification isn't optional—it's essential. The case for strongly typed languages – Historically, programming language adoption has been driven largely by human psychology and social dynamics. A language's success depended on a mix of factors: individual considerations like being easy to learn and simple to write correctly; community effects like how active and welcoming a community was, which in turn shaped how fast its ecosystem would grow; and fundamental properties like provable correctness, formal verification, and striking the right balance between dynamic and static checks—between the freedom to write anything and the discipline of guarding against edge cases and attacks. As the human factor diminishes, these dynamics will shift. Less dependence on human psychology will favor strongly typed, formally verifiable and/or high performance languages.³ These are often harder for humans to learn, but they're far better suited to LLMs, which thrive on formal verification and reinforcement learning environments. Expect this to reshape which languages dominate. Economic restructuring of open source – For decades, open-source communities have been built around humans finding connection through writing, learning, and using code together. In a world where most code is written—and perhaps more importantly, read—by machines, these incentives will start to break down.⁴ Communities of AIs building libraries and codebases together will likely emerge as a replacement, but such communities will lack the fundamentally human motivations that have driven open source until now. If the future of open-source development becomes largely devoid of humans, alignment of AI models won't just matter—it will be decisive. The future of new languages – Will AI agents face the same tradeoffs we do when developing or adopting new programming languages? Expressiveness vs. simplicity, safety vs. control, performance vs. abstraction, compile time vs. runtime, explicitness vs. conciseness. It's unclear that they will. In the long term, the reasons to create a new programming language will likely diverge significantly from the human-driven motivations of the past. There may well be an optimal programming language for LLMs—and there's no reason to assume it will resemble the ones humans have converged on. TL; DR: - Monoliths return – cheap rewriting kills dependency trees; smaller attack surface, better performance, bare-metal becomes realistic - Lindy effect weakens – legacy code loses its moat, but unknown unknowns persist; formal verification becomes essential - Strongly typed languages rise – human psychology mattered for adoption; now formal verification and RL environments favor types over ergonomics - Open source restructures – human connection drove the community; AI-written/read code breaks those incentives; alignment becomes decisive - New languages diverge – AI may not share our tradeoffs; optimal LLM programming languages may look nothing like what humans converged on ¹ x.com/mntruell/statu… ² x.com/anthropicai/st… ³ wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-erg… ⁴ #issuecomment-3717222957" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/tailwindlabs/t…
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@BowTiedRanger Fine but after u pay off ur mortgage it should absolutely go away. Additionally it shouldn’t ever b based off of how much ur home is deemed to be worth at any given time.
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Property tax is literally the only tax that makes intuitive sense.
A local tax based on the property you choose to live on that goes toward things such as roads, police, fire departments, etc. that are amenities directly connected to that particular property.
Meanwhile, the federal government just sends your federal income tax dollars to fund Israel and gay pride parties at the Department of Labor.
Of all the taxes, property tax is the least retarded and I’m tired of hearing boomers complain about it.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Officers arrived at the scene before Vance Boelter even entered the home, got into a shootout, let him go into the home and take the lives of Melissa Hortman and her husband, and then leave.
Is this adding up to anyone else?
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@RichardAngwin @WallStreetMav What gives you the right to virtual signal with other people’s money?
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@WallStreetMav USAID saves lives worldwide, delivering critical aid to millions. Trump's cuts threaten vulnerable populations, undermining U.S. leadership and humanitarian values. We need to protect, not dismantle, this vital agency.
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We are taxed. Taxes go to USAID.
Leftists create a NGO.
NGO is funded by USAID.
Leftists in NGO do 0 real work.
NGO pays Leftists huge salaries.
Leftists donate salaries from NGO to Dems.
It's why Dems are freaking over Trump & Elon killing USAID.
Simple!
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Rates For Programmars Will Tank
Non-techies creating full-stack web and mobile apps will reduce demand for devs by around 15-20%
This will happen in ~3 months and will cause a massive drop in the TC for SWEs. Some elite engineers will still command a high compensation, but even that will last about 12 months.
If someone blindly recommends pursuing a CS degree right now, they are not thinking straight.
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@leavinAtrail @ScottAdamsSays Good to know Elon and Trump are the best- unless magic happens they aren't going to live forever. We could try to solve the problem you mentioned with incentives and acknowledge human nature.
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Elon and Trump team are THE BEST. I do not like our Congress. They all have become greedy and filled their pockets and with our tax money, bribes and stock earnings ( which should not be allowed) from early stock tips. We need a whole new Congress who has not been ruined by these options. Very few who have not indulged in this activity.
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I'd make it a bonus structure with a balanced budget as the trigger for releasing it.
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian
Elon Musk floats pay hikes for Congress, top government workers to fight temptation for corruption | Ryan King, New York Post “Special government employee” Elon Musk has floated a pay raise for members of Congress and senior government employees as a means of rooting out corruption at the federal level. “It might make sense to increase compensation for Congress and senior government employees to reduce the forcing function for corruption, as the latter might be as much as 1000 [sic] times more expensive to the public,” Musk, 53, wrote on X Thursday morning. Back in December, the billionaire helped torpedo a government funding measure that would have given lawmakers in Congress a 3.8% pay hike — worth approximately $6,600 per year in extra cash to rank-and-file members. Most federal legislators receive an annual paycheck of $174,000, which hasn’t been increased since 2009. The proposed pay hike had been nestled into a continuing resolution, a stopgap measure that Congress needed at the time to avert a partial government shutdown. But Musk whipped up public opposition against both the resolution and the pay hike, grousing at the time while overstating the increase amount: “How can this be called a ‘continuing resolution’ if it includes a … pay increase for Congress?” The concept of high pay for government workers to discourage corruption has been used in other countries. Late Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, for example, was famous for championing exorbitant pay with ministers raking in millions a year. Lee argued that paying government workers well would help reduce perverse incentives for them to pad their pockets through illicit means. Some good-government advocates in the US have also suggested pay raises for lawmakers to attract a higher caliber of candidates or job applicants. Read more: nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-…
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@EricLDaugh @DataRepublican Cool idea. Lets have the feds look at every purchase you make. Or maybe you could not grow the IRS 20,000% ala Adam Smith and have a ~1% land value tax.
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The thing about an income tax is that it literally just makes it a pain to succeed.
A consumption tax makes it a pain to consume things you don't need. BIG difference.
In a consumption tax-heavy environment, when people are tight on money, they can simply do what any rational person does: buy less "wants," buy only necessities.
In an INCOME tax-heavy environment, it doesn't matter. You lose a flat 15-30% of your income. It doesn't matter how smart or purposeful you are with your money. The government just swipes it away. Then, it essentially throws it into a black hole.
And the REAL problem, and why the elites DON'T want a system based on tariffs and domestic consumption taxes?
They encourage self sufficiency. You don't pay taxes on potatoes and peppers growing in your garden. You can take steps to eliminate purchases, or the prices of the things you do buy by shopping smartly, thus lowering your taxes, while having more money. Consumption based taxes, taken to their logical end, would mean a government that physically cannot be as bloated as it is now while still remaining even somewhat solvent.
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I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its people.
When the government relies on taxing individual income, it shifts from serving its citizens to exploiting them as a revenue source. This dynamic creates an inherent friction, where the government no longer answers to the people but to the system that extracts from them. And if you look around, it's clear—whatever our tax dollars are funding, it’s not serving us.
This is what modern economists fail to grasp when they dismiss tariffs, sales taxes, or luxury taxes as harmful. The structure of taxation matters, not just the amount collected. The income tax distorts governance itself—and it needs to go.
Publius@OcrazioCornPop
@DataRepublican @Rothmus Paying taxes in the USA is extremely unethical and immoral. Much more net harm is done than good with the money. Our Founding Fathers knew this well.
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@leavinAtrail @ScottAdamsSays Congress doesn't earn enough so we get B players that grift. Talent goes to private industry. Create a pay package that incentives them to balance the budget, grow economy, grow real wages...Novel and hard to understand for most...
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@rroeserr @ScottAdamsSays We are talking about giving Congress a raise or not.
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@leavinAtrail @ScottAdamsSays Yeah - we should totally hire people with the perfect morals and expect them to magically balance the budget with zero incentive. Got it.
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@ScottAdamsSays Giving addicted cocaine users prescription cocaine does NOT make them refrain from their abuses. They will take the script AND still buy it on the side. Same with Congress who are taking bribes. They will be happy to take the Raises and the bribes.
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@KrissyB007 @elonmusk You're right- we should pay less now so people are incentivized to grift more. Good to know. 👍
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