Amjad Omar 🦅

Building technologies for fun and profit. Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering.

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@cohle_p @MBersback @Lucas29847438 @_roseishere @Mayblife يعني حكمها بدون حتى عشرة جنود؟ انجاز عظيم.

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

As a Backend Engineer in the AI era, you must build these projects.

1.) High-Concurrency HTTP Server
Build: Go or Rust server handling 10k+ concurrent connections with graceful shutdown and backpressure.

Why: Concurrency architecture is the one thing AI cannot design for you.

2.) Multi-Tenant Hybrid Search Database
Build: Postgres with Row-Level Security + pgvector + BM25 hybrid ranking across isolated tenants.

Why: Structured data and semantic embeddings now share one query engine.

3.) Event-Sourced Order Pipeline
Build: Kafka or NATS pipeline with immutable events, dead-letter queues, exactly-once semantics.

Why: AI workloads are slow and async. The main thread must never block.

4.) Durable Onboarding Workflow
Build: 3-day Temporal workflow with checkpoints, retries and human approval steps.

Why: Background jobs are for emails. Durable execution is for multi-step agents.

5.) AI Gateway with Semantic Cache
Build: Proxy that caches similar prompts via embeddings, enforces token budgets and fails over to a cheaper model on 503s.

Why: The gateway protects your margins and your uptime from flaky, expensive LLM APIs.

6.) PII-Redacting Auth Middleware
Build: OAuth2/OIDC provider plus middleware that masks PII before logging and restricts AI agents to read-only DB roles.

Why: When agents can write to your database, a prompt injection is a data breach.

7.) Real-Time Streaming Dashboard
Build: SSE/WebSocket dashboard streaming LLM tokens and database updates simultaneously with backpressure.

Why: Time-To-First-Token and perceived latency are the new UX standards.

8.) Correlated Tracing Pipeline
Build: OpenTelemetry + Langfuse pipeline linking each HTTP request to the exact LLM prompt and DB query it triggered.

Why: You cannot debug a hallucination without replaying the exact context the model saw.

9.) Ephemeral Environment Provisioner
Build: Terraform or Pulumi scripts spinning up a complete isolated staging environment for every pull request.

Why: Manual deployments are a liability. Infrastructure must be version-controlled and reproducible.

10.) Queue-Based Autoscaler
Build: KEDA autoscaler spinning nodes up on Kafka queue depth and down when empty with spot-instance fallback.

Why: Backend engineers now own the cloud bill. Idle resources burn runway.

11.) Globally Distributed Rate Limiter
Build: Redis-backed distributed rate limiter that survives network partitions gracefully.

Why: Architecture must degrade gracefully not cascade into total outage.

12.) Chaos Engineering Suite
Build: Fault-injection harness (latency, replica kills, partitions) with SLO burn dashboards.

Why: Resiliency is proven under failure not in diagrams.

13.) Webhook Reconciliation Engine
Build: Idempotent event processor with exponential backoff, dead-letter queues and replay tooling.

Why: Real integrations fail constantly. Reconciliation is what makes them trustworthy.

14.) Cost-per-Request FinOps Dashboard
Build: Per-tenant, per-endpoint, per-LLM-call cost rollups with anomaly alerts.

Why: Visibility is control. You cannot optimize what you cannot attribute.

15.) Public Architecture Teardown
Build: 3 published deep-dives with system diagrams, ADRs and latency/cost benchmarks.

Why: Senior engineers are hired for their judgment not their syntax.

Systems that prove you can scale, secure & ship when agents touch your stack.

Most people watch tutorials. Builders ship systems.

Bookmark & Repost.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:

Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:

Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:

Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:

Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!

In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

A beautiful surprise

[California Post @californiapost]

California tech CEO Greg Lui was arrested in a raid at the headquarters of his company for allegedly smuggling more than $300 million in restricted AI chips into China. https://t.co/sB7dlN6PkX

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1942, Nazi Germany test fires the first V-2 rocket from the Peenemünde test facility. Reaching altitudes of 52 miles, the missiles are the first man-made projectiles to leave Earth's atmosphere and reach space.

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@shivon Fighting for humanity?

He’s openly an Islamophobic.

Also have some respect for yourself.

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@FearedBuck @fox_sheldon @grok Why he is on trial? Why can’t he be bailed?

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Rick Ross’ attorney asked for his release to be expedited due to his celebrity status, only for Judge Mindy Glazer to tell Rick Ross, “I have no idea who you are.”

(Via @fox_sheldon)

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@satnam6502 The unspoken rule is leetcode gives an indication if you will work until midnight and at weekends etc.

It’s just a polite way to filter out developers with families and active life outside the work etc.

[JeRRy MMXM @JeRRyMMXM]

The video I watched every morning At 7 AM for 7 months.

[LimeWire @limewire]

just a reminder the music industry tried to sue us for $72 trillion back in the day. like lol does that number even exist?

still not paying

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@emilyinvc You are upset you had to pay for your coffee?

[Grok @grok]

@RabbiJeffx Yes. Starting in 2023, X partnered with Israeli firm AU10TIX for Premium ID verification. Users submitted government IDs and selfies, which were sent to AU10TIX for biometric matching and held up to 30 days.

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@thsottiaux This for new subscribers only right?

[Amjad Omar 🦅 @DrAmjad0X]

@MaddiesHotTake @grok What did Prophet Muhammed said about planting a tree?

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Paying to unlock hardware that’s already installed in a car and doesn’t cost the manufacturer anything feels uniquely shitty

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Sleep may literally be recharging your brain.

A new theory states that myelin accumulates energy during sleep, acting as a proton capacitor.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

A single session of lifting weights speeds up your brain.

The strongest version of you thinks faster too.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Brain connectivity is highest in the fall and lowest in the summer