Ahmed

I used to write spaghetti code, now AI does it faster

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

@gauraavvii Taste and the ability to focus on something for a long time

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

@johncwat I just found the idea of a smart if statement really appealing when I came across this

[Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve]

I've seen people describe Jev as an "AI if statement". But what if it actually WAS an if statement?

Introducing Probably: a programming language powered by Jev: https://t.co/6OqaNPRK6b

Jev baked into the language. “feels” asks a question. “match” routes between descriptions. “while” keeps going until something stops feeling true.

This is obviously a toy, but it's fun to think about what something like Jev unlocks. Jev makes the decisions, an LLM does the writing, and a little program ties it together.

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

It’ll be a new language with all of this, plus a built-in System One model like Jev, bringing intelligence directly into the language.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

The next great "language for agents" should be:

- As fast as Rust
- As little design space as Go
- Have the strictest type/verification system ever written

Bend seems like an interesting first effort

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

@AidenAllred2

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

@mattpocockuk Couldn’t the language itself remain deterministic while treating AI inference like an external API call? The model makes a probabilistic decision, but the language handles the result deterministically 🤔

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

I completely agree with you. Programming languages should be deterministic.

But I feel like the next big thing is having intelligence as a first-class feature of the language, maybe through built-in AI primitives for smarter if/switch statements, while keeping the language itself deterministic somehow 🤔

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

@xiexieni007612 They share the same codebase, so Codex can review the diffs and run tests itself.

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

Copilot’s harness is already mediocre, and its CLI and VS Code UI somehow make it worse.

So I made Codex manage and delegate tasks to it. Had some unused Copilot tokens anyway.

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

@aksenHQ The CLI

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

At this point, I’m the bottleneck slowing down my AI agents.

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

Astra is much better at planning than Opus 5.5, It involves me in the decisions, explains the tradeoffs, and tells me why one approach is better than another.

Opus 5.5 just makes decisions on its own, like an arrogant person who thinks it knows what’s best for me, It’s honestly annoying.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

You need to become addicted to finishing what you started.

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

Generative UI is the future, and OpenUI is hands down the best approach to building it right now

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I’m convinced 95% of being a high performer is to just do 5 things:

- Be obsessed like a psychopath
- Have delusional optimism
- Avoid unserious people
- Take asymmetric risks
- Be relentless

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

ai counterintuitively is turning more people into workaholics who would otherwise not be

[tyler hogge @thogge]

i know approximately 100 people who, at some point, have told me how badly they wanted to build a startup but didnt know how to write code.

precisely 0 have built a product even though anyone can now write code.

lesson in that.

[Santiago @svpino]

For some people, coding was the only valuable skill they had.

If you made your money by selling your ability to write JavaScript, CSS, Python, or whatever else, I understand why you are pissed now.

"Writing code" is worth very little today.

The sad part is that learning to code wasn't easy. It takes years for someone to become a skilled programmer.

Imagine watching all of those years go down the drain.

If you are a programmer (I mean, just someone who knows how to write code in a particular programming language), your days are numbered.

If you still think AI can't do your job, you are just in denial.

But honestly, writing code was never that valuable anyway. If you were a code pusher, you already knew that the best people at your company weren't just writing code.

They came up with new ideas, designed solutions, architected whole systems, knew how to troubleshoot and fix problems, found different ways to build better software, and, in general, spent almost no time writing code.

Not only are those people thriving today, but they're also the ones who will ride the AI wave and learn to bend it to their will.

So don't cling too long to what you lost; embrace what's already here. AI is a tide that lifts all boats, but you have to be open to it.

[Ahmed @AhmedAlaa23]

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[hannah @erhannah]

one day you wrote console.log("here") for the last time and didn't even know it

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

engineers used to hate context switching and now that's all engineering is