Infra engineer rediscovering the joy in tech. Opinions my own.

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you should be hobbymaxxing in the singularity
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Hot take: it’s the second-rate programmers raving about ai. ai code is mediocre at best. I have yet to experience the “great leap in dev speeds” on frontier models when I have to baby it for quality. Even “A-listers” can have bad takes.
Entirely true. It's the second-rate programmers that are having trouble adapting to AI, and screaming about it. The A-list guys are delighted. Listen to Linus Torvalds. Or DHH. Or, a little outside my usual community, Uncle Bob Martin. We can get so much more done now!
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yes. it was always going to be this way. we tried to warn the world.
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Its clear where most software jobs are heading - Infrastructure - Security Infra because agents cant reason about systems well. Security will look akin to a game of Age of Empires, sending troops to abstract war. Prompting will likely go away with because “humans in the loop is the bottleneck” and “chatbot interfaces are inefficient” discourses. Interesting times.
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At some point the software industry will have to choose: Continue shipping as fast as possible as the cost of security? or Move at a pace to secure the company, thwarting as many attacks as possible? My money is going to the latter
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All software has always been vulnerable The “ship fast” bros made sure security wasnt ever a top 10 priority Now the industry is just reaping what it sowed
Railway just became the face of the worst day on the internet this year, but I’m still not doubting them. I’m really mad at them. They put all of us in a terrible spot. It’s a bad look and I won’t pretend otherwise. But it’s easy to beat them while they're down, and that’s not the move I'm taking. Railway wasn’t uniquely careless. They happened to be the best carrier for this attack vector. It could have been any platform, and the attackers picked the juiciest one. The engs there are still some of the most competent people I know, and they’ll come back from this. Yesterday we got two critical PHP RCEs, and the FBI told everyone to take systems offline if they can’t patch them, lmao. We’re entering an era where all software is vulnerable. Every platform holding secrets is a target now. Then who's next? It's only a matter of time before companies start dropping like flies.
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This is what a good mens group is for. In modern times weve forgotten how important friendship is. Men especially. C.S. Lewis talks about this in “The Four Loves”. Philia, one of Aristotles virtues, used to be held in the highest regard. Its something we can all decide to get if we choose to. “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” - Ps. 27:17
I genuinely believe men lack the support and resources they need when going through heartbreak. I’m not saying women need to provide that support, but men need a stronger sense of brotherhood where they can confide in eachother without being dismissed I don’t want to raise a son in a world where his pain is dismissed or he’s automatically blamed simply for being a man. Men deserve guidance and understanding, too. I wish more men encouraged each other to seek God, study Stoicism, and not be blamed every single time a woman is involved
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Sometimes I wonder if I should stream again, or start making videos.
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“We take privacy and security very seriously” “Very seriously”:
BREAKING: Hackers steal personal data of thousands of children after a UK company was breached using the password “Password1" — which had remained unchanged for 12 years.
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Code was never the bottleneck. Being able to think through the problem and implement the right solution was.
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Its never too late to just build. Never let “what-ifs” stop you when the future isnt set in stone The future is what you make it
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Dystopian. Long term health affects here will be overwhelmingly negative. Do not emotionally invest into anything that cant reciprocate.
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you. Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet. The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations. This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year. Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m. To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
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This is the dumbest thing I have read in a long time Assuming ai is rapidly improving to this point (its not), no one super wealthy is going to give away money like this Insanely delusional
2 years from now you will not work you and will not worry about money you will get your cash payments from from all the major AI labs think of it like 3-5 companies giving you a thousand dollar check every week
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
No major AI labs have announced or committed to universal $1000 weekly cash payments or an end to work/money concerns by 2028. Discussions involve speculative proposals and limited small-scale pilots, not firm company plans. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/… businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ubi… bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-first-ba… cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-2…
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Glitchbyte retweeted
Making money is all about providing value. Make yourself indispensable and youll have a career, even with llms
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Based af Say it louder for the people in the back
So much of what actually limits good programmers has nothing to do with the time it takes to write code, instead it is fighting with interfaces that are so horrible what you could do on the HW is physically blocked by bad software engineering, and AI will make that problem worse.
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He’s getting a lot of pushback because he is wrong. People were already tired of human slop, and now we have to contend with ai slop.
he is getting a lot of pushback but he is right people are only scared about AI for two main reasons 1. job replacements: it doesn’t matter what wonderful technology can do if you are worried about your income 2. doomers keep saying AI is going to kill everyone
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“Humans are the bottleneck” We’re literally living an SNL skit
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Instruments declares HUMANS THE BOTTLENECK when doing calculations on the TI-84
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My advice to juniors is simple: Dont be a prompt engineer, it takes no skill. Do: - learn math - learn to code - build from first principles Go as far as you can with math. Learn to code well. Start with the @handmade_net crowd. Build whatever interests you from scratch: llms, game engines, compilers, etc. They key here is building systems you understand inside out. Just reading about it isnt good enough, let alone letting ai do it for you. You have to put the reps in. There is a tidal wave of slop being built by many who have never done the above, and someone will have to fix all that down the road. Be that someone.
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That 70% is where you really learned the codebase inside out. You may not have thought as hard about it as the 30%, but you still had to think about it over and over again, putting in reps to understand whats been written enough to refactor. You lose that when you let an agent do it all for you, even if you review it line by line. Natural language isnt as precise as coding languages for computers, so you end up proxying bad explanations to code and letting the agent handle code decisions for you. Which leads to error prone code you dont know or reason about. Not to mention all the learnings you no longer can pass onto juniors, which you need to continue producing code.
When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows: - Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking. - Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results. So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks. What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files. I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks. What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.
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Your dependence on their tool is their business model Use agents or retain agency Your choice
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