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developer, fascinated by strength, wannabe creator

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

Engineer 1: Docker will really simplify things
Engineer 2: We'll need Kubernetes to simplify Docker.
Engineer 3: Helm really helps simplify Kubernetes
Engineer 4: Tigera does something with Kubernetes to make networking easier
Me: Pass the fucking Dewars. https://t.co/mBNv41vJmm

[John Arundel @bitfield]

“In cloud-native, network issues—mapping IP addresses, latency, retries—are now falling into the lap of developers.” https://t.co/tu7DwyGrke

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It's a decade later and most liberals still can't bring themselves to acknowledge or talk about these indisputable facts recounted by @matthewstoller.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

This is “environmentalist” Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht. It’s 87 feet longer than a football field. It burns over 1100 gallons of fuel per hour.

In a college commencement speech he urged students to help “stop climate change before we destroy the planet” as one of the defining issues for their generation.

Either he doesn’t really think man made Climate Change is a problem, or he’s one of the biggest selfish narcissistic assholes the world has ever produced.

These are the same people who say we should live in 15 minute cites, use electric stoves, drive electric scooters & eat bugs.

Whatever these Billionaires say, I’m doing the opposite.,

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

If we listened less to the Ezra Kleins of the world and more to average people on the street, things would be arguably better and we'd be arguably happier because kids are the greatest thing in the world.

[Brad Carson @bradrcarson]

Gotta say, my life in Oklahoma has led me to talk to many, many people, including many young people (university president). Never once heard this or been asked it. Just sayin'.

[AMWakeUp @AMwakeup]

Bezos's stepfather was a multi-millionaire. So was his father. His grandfather was the first director at DARPA. He had every single institutional & familial advantage & was making a ton on Wall St when Amazon launched. This re-write is just pathetic

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

DEAN: You're under oath. When will you comply with the law and release all the Epstein files?

BLANCHE: We have complied with the law

DEAN: There are 3 million more documents. And you know what you said to me? 'They include another guy named Epstein.' Nobody is buying it

*the time of the gentlelady has expired*

DEAN: I beg your pardon? How do I get cut off 2 minutes into this? What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

If you know how much Chicago (or any other university) is paying to give everyone on campus Claude Enterprise, my DMs are open. I am curious how this expense compares to the apparently “too expensive” humanities PhD programs Chicago has cut. I bet the answer is illuminating!

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

You should have voted to convict the scorpion in its impeachment trial, Senator Frog

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

If New York City ran its schools like you ran Amazon, the teachers would be on welfare and the students would be peeing and pooping in plastic bags under their desks. What an idiotic thing to say.

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

The Epstein saga and all the people it didn't take down is the saddest moment in American politics in a long time.

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

Next time someone tells you to vote, show them the Massie-Gallrein debacle to show them how little a vote matters in this country anymore. $35 million to win a stupid House seat in Kentucky that's already GOP. The MAGA crowd are just another cult.

[Lauren @cabsav456]

The Thomas Massie primary is truly insane. We are looking at the most expensive U.S. House primary in history, with spending pushing toward $35 million.

Massie's opponent, Ed Gallrein, has raised just $2 million on his own. The rest of the money, over $14 million, is coming from outside Super PACs who desperately want Massie gone.

On top of that, Pete Hegseth is being deployed to Kentucky to campaign against him. Stephen Miller & Con Inc. have been on massive Twitter tirades attacking him. And there was a highly coordinated smear campaign of unfounded allegations launched this week by Con Inc. influencers.

When the establishment is willing to spend $35M+ and go to these lengths to take one man down, it really makes you wonder why.

Whether you like Massie or not, this election will determine whether or not we as voters actually have a voice anymore. If outside special-interest money can successfully buy a seat and sway an election like this, we have a serious, serious problem.

[Bobby Sauce @takenaps]

Running a literal bag of sand against @MassieforKY is a total humiliation ritual for the people of Kentucky.

They are basically saying: we can run a complete empty suit, who won't debate, brings nothing to the table and you can't do anything about it.

They want to prove they can purchase a Congressional seat by smearing the other guy and spending 10M dollars instead of presenting a stronger candidate with better ideas.

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

A Massie defeat is just one more nail in the coffin of legitimate popular rule and the enshrinement of a cult of personality and money. The anger over Epstein is being washed away in a flood of money to sweep it all under the rug and the people of Kentucky are falling for it

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

If Massie is defeated, you see in real time what MAGA really is, an easily manipulated cult partially based on legitimate grievances after half a century of neoliberal policies but with no real core at all. If MAGA is real, Massie should be reelected in a landslide.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

You are watching in real time as billionaires steal a seat in Congress to punish the sitting congressperson who forced the revelation of their pedophilic tendencies. They are actively working to buy this seat & rob Kentuckians of someone who actually cares about their state.

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

Not to mention that if you read the thread even semi carefully, this isn't about software engineering going away, it's about it changing. Whether this is good or bad, who knows but the thread barely talks about layoffs. The FUD is coming from Aakash.

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

I wonder if the CEO of GTLB has any incentive to say all this. LMAO at Gitlab Act 2 when GTLB Act 1 looked like a train wreck as a public company. This has little to do with AI and everything to do with a Get Out Of Jail Free card for being terrible at running a public co

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Bill Staples runs GitLab, the platform roughly 30 million developers use to ship software. His 14-tweet thread on "GitLab Act 2" is the most honest layoff-and-AI-pivot announcement any public CEO has made yet. The line worth screenshotting: "Authoring code by hand may be going away."

A sitting CEO. Saying it on Twitter. With his face on it.

The pattern this fits into:

- Meta cut 21,000 in 2023, then committed $35-40B to AI infrastructure for 2024.
- Salesforce cut 7,000, then launched Agentforce at roughly $2 per conversation.
- Amazon cut 27,000 since 2022, then committed $100B+ to AI infrastructure for 2025.
- Microsoft cut 6,000 in May 2025, then crossed $13B in annualized AI revenue.

The math is consistent. Every dollar saved on payroll funds a GPU, a model contract, or an agent platform. These companies are running a swap: workforce that built version 1, out. Compute layer for version 2, in.

What makes this thread different is the transparency. Old playbook: hide layoffs in 8-K filings, blame "macro headwinds," never mention AI replacement. New playbook: announce both publicly, frame it as opportunity, post the explanation on Twitter. The CEOs who say it out loud first set the script everyone else has to follow.

Read tweet 8 carefully. "We intend for the majority of work to be done by agents." That is a public commitment, in writing, from the CEO of a 30 million developer platform. To his own investors. The same day GitLab opened a voluntary separation window across its 2,580 employees with no number specified, leaving the entire company in limbo until June 1.

This script is about to run through every white-collar industry. Legal, accounting, design, marketing, customer service, support. GitLab is choreographing it openly because the playbook needs a public test case. The cover story will be "your work gets more valuable." The math will be fewer roles, paid more, managing agents.

Watch the thread structure. Layoff in tweet 2. AI bet in tweet 5. Customer reassurance in tweet 6. Investor pitch in tweet 8. Operating principles in tweet 9. That sequence becomes a template by year-end. Save the screenshot.

[Not Set To Instance of an Object @BrettBim]

Also what layoffs have been hiding in K-1s? It feels like every public company this earnings cycle has been saying "we're laying off people because of AI". NET, CSCO, all of them.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Obama calling his presidency The Promised Land is also "Christian nationalism", just fyi.

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

Obama’s most profound mistake. He was listening to Geithner and Summers. There would be no Trump without this.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨HOLY SHIT. Thomas Massie just laid out who is trying to buy his Kentucky seat, and it's not anyone who has ever set foot in Kentucky

The guy won his last 3 primaries with 81%, 76%, and 75%. Now he's polling +1 because $10 MILLION in outside money is drowning the race.

MASSIE: "95% of it has come from the Israeli lobby."

"RJC, AIPAC, Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson funded a PAC called MAGA Kentucky, which is neither MAGA nor Kentucky."

"Miriam Adelson is the gambling magnate who ironically makes money from the Chinese gambling. She's literally an Israeli."

"She's given over $200 million to the president. He puts her on the stage. She's trying to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky."

A foreign billionaire dumping nine figures to install her preferred congressman in rural Kentucky. And we're supposed to pretend this is normal?

@RepThomasMassie is the only one in that building telling you who actually owns the place.

[José Valim @josevalim]

At this point, this is just irresponsible.

Yes, coding agents are leading to an increase of software production, but we are not seeing a similar push or increase in software quality.

If Anthropic focuses on safety and it believes software engineering is going away, then it needs to be doing much more to improve how we design, build, test, and maintain software (aka software engineering). Increasing the production of unreliable, poorly designed, and unverified software directly undermines safety.

Claude Code is claimed to be "fully written by AI". In the last two months, it took three separate postmortem-worthy failures and user complaints to surface what their own testing missed. Yesterday users were being over billed by hundreds of dollars. Software engineering isn't ready to go away and there is not enough progress to argue that case.

I am certain Anthropic would argue that AI progress in other domains is strongly dependent on having proper safeguards in place. I can't wrap my head around the cognitive dissonance when it comes to software.

PS: Mythos (may) improve software security, but that is only a subset of safety.