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It used to be that you built a brand on Twitter using your real name, so the incentive was to showcase your interests or your achievements. The rise of anon accounts along with how monetization works has seriously eroded this incentive, as what pays best is what provokes.
Them: We need a modern Bell Labs. Me: It's called Google, they invented all the AI stuff. Them: ...But Google didn't even profit off of the stuff they invented! Me: ...Tell me what you know about Bell Labs...
The fact that this site is now 76% b o t s tells me that the old Twitter verification process, which had gatekeepers and was perhaps a touch too restrictive (and sure, it led to stupid clout games of why some Twitter famous personality wasnāt āverifiedā) worked better than this.
The @nytimes doesnāt report ānewsā anymore. Just ājuicy collection of narrativesā with click-baity headlines, which then unleashes a tsunami of hysteria against all kinds of targets. Mainstream media, with notable exceptions, is 1-2 years ābehindā most trends and happenings.
But, plot twist: The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as theyāve found any job, if not slightly higher.
AI agent demos would be better if they did tasks like contest an insurance claim (tedious work) than make a reservation at a restaurant. When I go out to eat, I want to personally explore menus, check out photos etc. Itās part of the fun, and I donāt want AI automating fun.
One thing AI models are *really* a godsend for is ⦠scripting with bash. Bash is so terrible in so many ways, yet itās ubiquitous and often the best tool for many tasks. Having AI models write most of my bash with me just having to do minor edits is such a luxury.
As code *generation* becomes solely the purview of AI, code *review*, qualification etc becomes all the more important. I expect people who review code to have *more* subject matter expertise, not less, especially for critical production code involving money or confidentiality.
As code *generation* becomes solely the purview of AI, code *review*, qualification etc becomes all the more important. I expect people who review code to have *more* subject matter expertise, not less, especially for critical production code involving money or confidentiality.
Personally, I donāt feel the need to join in with everyone saying how tacky Bezosās wedding was. If youāre vaguely familiar with Indian oligarch weddings, Bezosās wedding feels like a quiet affair in comparison. š A price tag of āonlyā 66m is like Walmart wedding territory.
As widespread use of AI for āhomeworkā becomes the norm, I wonder if Western countries will adopt the Asian approach of ⦠having your grades entirely be determined by closed book, hand-written tests and exams, where youāre not allowed your phone, or calculators, or computers.
As widespread use of AI for āhomeworkā becomes the norm, I wonder if Western countries will adopt the Asian approach of ⦠having your grades entirely be determined by closed book, hand-written tests and exams, where youāre not allowed your phone, or calculators, or computers.
This might be one anecdote, but what a soul-crushing environment to work in, with no leadership, no engineering mission, no camaraderie between coworkers, no clear ownership ⦠just isolation and disorientation. And to think of all the VCs who said go work for Twitter 2.0 ā¦
The #1 rule of scalable systems is to avoid congestion collapse. This is when a system slows down, starts timing out, then gets hammered by retries that also time out, in an infinite loop. Iāve accidentally broken Dropbox and Convex this way. Here's 7 tips how not to:
2021 was 4 years ago, which is quite a long period of time, but it just doesnāt *feel* that long ago to me. I vividly remember 2017, 2018, 2019, and even 2020. But 2021 - 2025 has become something of a blur that I canāt really tell apart. š
Recently, I've been discussing throttling with one of our teams. It's a super deep topic, probably deeper than it gets credit in modern systems, so I decided to write some thoughts on the matter: blog.joemag.dev/2025/06/the-nuā¦

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