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the top 0.1% of the AI Engineers

you'd be surprised. I've yet to live in a place where either is consumer-friendly...

makes you wonder why openai/chatgpt/xai are in bed with government so much...

> How did pissing off your customers ever become a business model?

Airlines, banks, health insurance…

TIL, I thought Tobacco was used as the source for nicotine. Is it all synthetic these days?

Tobacco has never been more lucrative. Between Zyn and vapes, they’re swimming in cash

united by a Performance Cycle

I interviewed at Linkedin in 2020 or so - interview went great, team fit was great, all the interviews were great, the recruiter told me he was going to prepare an offer... then I never heard from them again.

4 years later, a recruiter messaged me saying that they found my name as a potential candidate and knew that I declined the offer, back in 2020, so they wanted to know if I wanted to re-interview. I told the recruiter I never rejected anything. She looked into it and apparently it was your exact same situation: recruiter left that day, a bunch of candidates got marked as "declined" shortly after.

You’re doing native apps wrong if they’re 300mb. And also no web app in 2026 is just 50kb!

I know, I agree both have their uses :-) I was just jesting about the kind of extreme OP went for.

webapps are inefficient, clunky, slow substitutes to actual native apps. I think decades of marketing and billions spent by Google trying to convince people that webapps are better is what makes many tech people think they are. Literally.

People "want" webapps to be what users "wanted" bc it pays their salary...

Any promising techniques so far? I’m working on a rather large monorepo and very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it. Looking for ideas to improve comprehension.

PSC happened...

having heard the arguments made by some VP + C-levels throughout the Tokenmaxxing Tulip Mania, I think the interpretation that those mandates were made intentionally for "forcing employees to start leveraging AI in meaningful ways" is too charitable.

Most companies focused entirely on doing "what everyone else is doing" at best or "to see if Programmer Joe can be as productive as the entire team so we can fire the rest".

And many indeed fired employees in droves because they were "underperforming in token spend".

Yea I think this was somewhat true back in 2001. With bots composing half the traffic of the internet, governments controlling massive social botnets and the polarization of politics everywhere, the internet became a full scale spam/hate fest

this is sorta like saying that being able to run your blog on your laptop will completely implode the cloud business

Viruses are nature’s GPUs

Every time a big paradigm shift happens in technology, people try to find equivalences between brain/consciousness/humanness and the latest tech they can comprehend. We are “just” magic clay golems, mechanical contraptions not unlike a complex clock, convoluted electrical devices, inefficient analog computers, now just a form of “messy LLM” or “a stochastic parrot”

Same for the Vision Pro. Locking down a $3k media consumption device to a single user is such a greedy move, it's unbelieavable

this entire administration has been a constant stream of "important turning point for the US" moments

I think this ship has sailed pretty hard, by now. Pretty much any app you can possibly use, from iTerm to Slack, is sending data to third-party LLMs (sometimes explicitly, most times as small features here and there)

Vscode’s performance is pretty bad. It’s “tolerable” just like any electron app.

It’s just irrelevant for most users. These companies are getting more adoption than they can handle, no matter how clunky their desktop apps are. They’re optimizing for experimentation. Not performance.

80% of the world population back then is less than 50% of the current number of people working in farming, so the assertion isn’t wrong, even if fewer people are working on farming proportionally (as it should be, as more complex, desirable and higher paid options exist)

> If you have not learned CS, how do you expect to separate the LLM wheat from the chaff?

I didn't mention anything about learning CS. You can be a great engineer without having A* memorized line by line, no?

We're at a point in the LLM curve where there's two huge, polarized groups of developers:

- the ones who don't see any value on AI for coding and dismiss it as a fad at every change they get

- the ones who are in love with the new tools and adopting as many as they can on their workflows

I know the arguments of the second bunch well. But very curious about what the "AI is a fad" bunch thinks will happen. Are we going to suddenly realize all these productivity gains people are claiming are all lies and go back to coding by typing characters on emacs and memorizing CS books? Will StackOverflow suddenly return as the most popular source of copy-paste code slop?

It doesnt really introduce anything that makes Vision Pro in any way better, though

The medium shapes the message. People who use Twitter a lot tend to write in tweet form.

I just hope I don't start calling people dumb when they don't get what I'm trying to tell them do with a single prompt/request, like I do with Claude

in an age where junior engineers are no longer _reading code_ due to LLMs, VSCode isn't exactly the worst offender

did someone already tell Opus that Rob Pike hates it?