The idea that we will automate work by building artificial versions of ourselves to do exactly the things we were previously doing, rather than redesigning our old workflows to make the most out of existing automation technology, has a distinct “mechanical horse” flavor
I finally understand how large language models actually work
After reading the 2025 textbook “Foundations of LLMs”
It blew my mind and cleared up years of confusion
Here’s everything i learned (in plain english):
ai coding has brought out one of the dynamics i hate most about engineers
a few years ago there was a trend where everyone would just regurgitate frontend framework facts they memorized
"gotta SSR on my PPR till i ISR"
and there would be all these useless debates back and…
Coding was never really about writing code.
It was about breaking a problem into steps, imagining the edge cases, and knowing where trade-offs live.
AI just took away the boring part.
What’s left is the real work: thinking clearly.
Cursor is killing your ability to think for yourself.
Before you can architect a solution, AI throws slop on the screen as you blindly hit tab.
You spend the next 30 minutes debugging why the code doesn’t work or compile. In the end, you learned nothing.
Two engineers on our…
I'll say it again:
In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law; they are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won't matter.
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Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon run on.
Because that one will actually happen.
@clairevo Genchi genbutsu is a Japanese phrase meaning "go and see for yourself”.
Especially with technology, execs need to be able to ‘walk the shop floor’ for whatever function they supervise and recognize what quality or lack of it looks like.
Easiest way is to still be able to do the…
Let me tell you a dirty secret about a lot of execs:
They're extremely smart.
And they haven't had to do their own work for years.
Look inside any mid->large size company and you'll find VP+ executives that were promoted fast and furious in their early career because they're…
> be us
> Larry & Sergey
> at Stanford with a crawler and a dream
> accidentally organize the entire internet
> call it Google
> build search, email, maps, docs, OS, phones, browser, car, satellite, thermostat, AI lab, TPU farm, and quantum computer
> 2025
> everyone talking…
> be me
> software engineer in 2025
> LLMs everywhere
> doomscrolling takes about “AI replacing devs”
> realize this is copium
> you’re not losing to AI
> you’re losing to people who actually know how to use it
> local AI isn’t a flex
> technical depth is non-negotiable
>…
> be Google in 2017
> small team drops “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv
> execs nod politely, go back to selling ads for socks
> let Transformer gather dust for 5 yrs like a vintage Beanie Baby
> be Noam Shazeer, OG wizard
> quits, builds AI-boyfriend app…
> be you
> random CS grad with 0 clue how LLMs work
> get tired of people gatekeeping with big words and tiny GPUs
> decide to go full monk mode
> 2 years later i can explain attention mechanisms at parties and ruin them
> here’s the forbidden knowledge map
> top to bottom, how…
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