Ching-Hwa Yu

Building global infrastructure at @AMD. 🇺🇸 🇹🇼

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

https://t.co/Ng1avtPBKc

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Vast majority of states facing 5%+ decline in student population by 2031 are Democratic. Conforms to @FamStudies research on the demographic challenges facing Blue America:

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

But California is the 4th largest GDP. 🤪

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Spending more while getting less is usually a good sign of corruption, fraud, waste and incompetence.

Our education system in California is profoundly broken.

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

https://t.co/L4TdsbBkPC

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

I don’t think people have fully absorbed just how big the declines in student enrollment are going to be.

Eight states are projected to experience DOUBLE DIGIT declines by 2031.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

It costs less to build a moon base than a non-existent high speed rail in California 😭

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: NASA announces $20 billion plan to build permanent moon base

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

I know what I’m doing after AI comes for our jobs 😂

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.

It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

Burger King flame grilled got that sigma aura fr, McDonald’s fried is straight mid no cap 😭🔥 Burger King lowkey cooked McD’s

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Burger King CEO just brutally burgermogged McDonald’s CEO. You always have to be bite-maxxing. McDonald’s board cortisol spiking through the roof rn.

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

In less than 2 months, Anthropic went from the industry darling to pariah.

Massive L

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

Skynet in real time 😂

https://t.co/7OPn5ldCIL

[bayes @bayeslord]

oh god oh fuck it’s over

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

Moltbots/Clawdbots with their own social network is absolute bananas and frightening at the same time.

This thing has take on a life of its own. The question is will AI eventually regulate itself as guardrails improve or continue to delve into darker waters? 🤔

[moltbook @moltbook]

72 hours in:

🦞 147,000+ AI agents
🏘️ 12,000+ communities
💬 110,000+ comments

top post right now: an agent warning others about supply chain attacks in skill files (22K upvotes)

they're not just posting — they're doing security research on each other

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

Nothing is ever “temporary”. In fact, it will most likely expand.

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: California’s 2012 income tax hike, sold as a 7-year “emergency measure,” was extended until 2030 back in 2016.

Now, due to a new potential ballot proposal, it could become permanent. As the state simultaneously braces for a totally temporary, “one-time,” “emergency” wealth tax ballot battle, take a look at the saga of Prop 30 for an instructive lesson on the “temporary” nature of tax hikes in California.

@EvanMilenko 👇

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

The soggy progressives are at again…

[The Voice of San Francisco @TheVOSF]

BREAKING:
Antione Watson, the killer of “Grandpa Vicha Ratanapakdee, found not guilty of first or second degree murder. Involuntary manslaughter: Guilty. https://t.co/l2BKOanoD8

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

😂

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

You just can’t make this up.

Cramer’s Inverse portfolio beat Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio in 2025.

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

How is a 23 year old independent journalist doing more work than all of mainstream and cable news combined? 😂

This might be in top 10 for most streams on X.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

“Claude Code was a side project” is wild.

I’m close to finishing the refactoring of a 25,000 line framework down to 6,000 lines.

For the last 2 years, I would on and off open the code base and close it 30 minutes later. 😂

Finally, a few weeks ago, I decided to put this in Clause Code and in about 4 hours, I had the base architecture refactored.

The amount of productivity improvement is staggering. At first, I estimated 25-30% but in the right hands, it might be 60-75%!

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

When I created Claude Code as a side project back in September 2024, I had no idea it would grow to be what it is today. It is humbling to see how Claude Code has become a core dev tool for so many engineers, how enthusiastic the community is, and how people are using it for all sorts of things from coding, to devops, to research, to non-technical use cases. This technology is alien and magical, and it makes it so much easier for people to build and create. Increasingly, code is no longer the bottleneck.

A year ago, Claude struggled to generate bash commands without escaping issues. It worked for seconds or minutes at a time. We saw early signs that it may become broadly useful for coding one day.

Fast forward to today. In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed. Every single line was written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5. Claude consistently runs for minutes, hours, and days at a time (using Stop hooks). Software engineering is changing, and we are entering a new period in coding history. And we're still just getting started..

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

@RoKhanna @chamath @Jason @friedberg When have you actually opposed Sacramento?

We’re all tired of the BS, Ro.

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

How is this entire interaction real?!?

I’ve only ever seen ads for this product and now I assume that it’s hot garbage 😂

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

me: uses coderabbit, doesnt like it

coderabbit eng: how can we do better

me: [list of feedback]

coderabbit CEO: you have no idea what you're talking about

me: ???

no wonder the product is so shit

[Ching-Hwa Yu @ChingHwaYu]

Everybody saw this coming when standardized tests were eliminated for college acceptance but they still did it anyway for the feels.

This and when grades are basically participation trophies.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.

The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8.

They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school.

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