Faraaz Ahmad

Coffee Nerd, Software Engineer.

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

Football won today
#ucl

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@lucasmaes_ This is amazing! I'm curious can world models be built to understand distributed systems? How does one generate the training data for it?

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@hardmaru Amazing! Does this also mean even more distributed training is possible?

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Eid Mubarak! 🌙

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

Pulls SEC filings, quarterly earnings reports, latest news, direct and indirect competitors, geopolitical news, and forms an informed opinion.

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

I've built AI agents to help me analyze US stocks.

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[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

I've built AI agents to help me analyze US stocks.

Here's $NOW

[SJ🏌🏽‍♂️ @itsnotovaaah]

Just tucked in my shirt on the tube to pay my respects 🥀

[Scott Tolinski - Syntax.fm @stolinski]

100% hand coded a project for a couple of days and felt great, accomplished a lot and have a really awesome product at the end of it. super productive.

Vibe coded something today and have been endlessly more frustrated. Codex spinning up endless dev processes, ignoring specific instructions just writing shitty code in general.

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

@catdaddyissues France? Nice

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Elixir's pattern matching goes so hard

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@thorstenball I'm a heavy /handoff user, have you run evals on how much performance starts degrading with % context filled?

Given this (admittedly 2 years old) research: https://t.co/KmMGKLlPgK

I think 90% might still be too high.

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@catdaddyissues Lake Como?

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I'm a project-based learner i.e. I prefer to learn concepts by building something along those lines.

But then how do I learn distributed systems concepts without "re-inventing the universe"?

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

Feeling the slop fatigue.

The soul yearns for physical books.

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

@vixsheikh @nbaschez What's the potential for world models (JEPA) in a situation like this?

[viba ☀️ @vibamohan_]

figma was never the hard part. thinking claude code's design mode removes the need for figma is stupid. all the same rage bait as lovable saying they were replacing figma.

design is taste. it is knowing the story you want to tell. its knowing when to surprise. it is knowing what to keep and what to remove.

shipping is now universally accessible. design won't ever be.

[Elvin @elvin_not_11]

it's beautiful that I can traverse through 25 years of UI design history by clicking 3 times on Windows 11.

[José Valim @josevalim]

We just shipped Distributed Python on top of the Erlang distribution, with full Elixir and Livebook integration: https://t.co/wrJYcIo83R

And much more: intellisense, zero-copy Apache Arrow, and more. Read the article for all the details.

A huge thank you to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring our work. They are always looking for new ideas and you have until April 1st to join the next batch: https://t.co/D7EI3MPrOJ

[Chinmay Naik @chinmay185]

I have heard the argument - SQL doesn't scale and I'll use NoSQL here. Then the teams end up with modeling relations in documents.

It doesn't go well. Now they are doing joins in memery in application.

Arpit is right. Scalability is just one aspect of databases. For vast majority of cases look for domain model and which type of db can model it well. (spoiler, again for majority of use cases you'll discover that the answer is relational dbs).

Mongo, Cassandra, Redis have their own use cases. Use them for that. Don't use the for storing your inherently relational domain data.

[Faraaz Ahmad @Faraaz98]

What goes around comes around.