Judy G
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Judy G
@webdecoded_g
Just another engineer. https://t.co/Zpg8DhfRI4
Manhattan, NY Sumali Ağustos 2015
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The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:
- frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs)
- hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling)
- database
- authentication (custom, social logins)
- blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed)
- email
- payments
- background jobs
- analytics
- monitoring
- dev tools (CI/CD, staging)
- secrets
- ...
I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.
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@BobbyThakkar @OpenAI I'm also looking for credits, were you able to get them?
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Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.” Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!
In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.
As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!
Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.
I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.
One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.
When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.
Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.
[Original text: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issu… ]
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I'm glad to see lot of new tools for learning from YouTube but wonder if it affects the algorithm or creators?
Like more users get data from your video -> less watchtime
Y Combinator@ycombinator
📚@miyagilabs uses AI to transform YouTube content into complete, interactive courses. They're helping people learn better with 100+ courses from top professors and creators. ycombinator.com/launches/Mr9-m… Congrats on the launch, @tyronedavisiii and @will20850!
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ICYMI - Roivant's presentation Why Investors Should Own Roivant in 2025 at the JPM Healthcare Conference this afternoon ⬇️⬇️⬇️
jpmorgan.metameetings.net/events/healthc…
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@jurajsalapa This would be so helpful for researchers! I'm also interested into learning more about clinical trials, how did you get access to the database?
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i have been thinking exactly the same thing
oss deep research + direct API to clinical trials database
o3-mini
agent swarm as structure
still work in progress but a good start
Deedy@deedydas
If Deep Research had the ability to specify corpuses like "only look at arXiv and Scholar" "only look at SEC data from EDGAR" "only look at patents" "only look at prior case law" "only look at PG essays from 2015" it would be a game-changer that kills many startups overnight.
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@damengchen I'm sure we haven't heard of any of the tools he is using
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We built ElevenLabs as a global company - in mission and presence. We’re proud to be incorporated in the US, our core market and international hub for AI innovation; to have our main base in the UK; and to hail from and invest in Poland, all while building a remote, global team. We keep learning from all three and many more as we expand internationally.
This week at the AI Action Summit in Paris, I was honored to represent the company and speak with policymakers and leaders about AI opportunities. We also joined Europe’s top companies in launching the EU AI Champions Initiative - working together to push AI innovation across the continent and beyond.

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if you don't like your corporate job watch #severance —you'll end up hating it.
halle@shivsclaire
how am i ever supposed to feel normal again
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I just took a crucial step: sending my first cold emails with @resend
Finding customers begins now this is the first move in scaling any business. February is crucial month for me
#buildinpublic

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