Isaac

software engineer. currently working on my SECRET plans on world domination.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

capitalism and free markets are the best inventions humanity ever came up with

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

@thekitze This has lowkey always bothered me

[TypeScript @typescript]

📣 The moment is here. 📣

TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣

https://t.co/D7Mbq7vWpy

[kache @yacineMTB]

You need to believe that you can win. If you don't think you can win you'll never try. If you think that other people are inherently better than you, that you can't add to what they've done or push things further, you will never be great. Only as good as them

Be yourself

[dax @thdxr]

been working on API design and there's some details in there most people won't ever seen anymore

agent will generate a lot of it and won't care about these things

but that quote about the cabinets makes me do it anyway

When you’re building a beautiful chest of drawers, you don’t use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall. You use a good piece of wood because you’ll know it’s there. To sleep well at night, the quality has to be carried all the way through.

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

@rickasaurus holy shit . going through the join refresher hell right now . what are the chances lmaoo

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years.

The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI. It could lead to a few private companies and/or countries being in control of access to information, access to knowledge, and access to the tools of economic expansion.
It's a kind of medieval obscurantism akin to the Ottoman empire banning the use of the printing press for 200 years, in part to keep control of the dogma, but also to protect the corporation of the calligraphers and scribes.

Relevant historical bits about the Internet:
1. It took a deliberate decision by Al Gore and Bill Clinton to open up access of what was then ARPAnet to commercial entities and to the public, against the desires of the entrenched telecom industry. During a public roundtable about the "information superhighway" in 1993, the CEO of AT&T told Gore and Clinton "leave it to us". Gore said no.
2. In the late 1980s, setting up an Internet presence required buying proprietary hardware with proprietary OS and software stack from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, or Dell. By the 2000s, all of this was wiped out by commodity hardware, Linux, Apache, and an entirely free/open software stack. This migration to open platforms was the result of market forces.

Infrastructure wants to be open.
Foundation models are becoming an infrastructure and will inevitably become commoditized.
Long term, the money is in the application layer, which is what I, Arthur Mensch, Alex Karp, and others have been saying.

[Ben Dickson @bendee983]

There is no problem with AI writing the code. But you should absolutely be able to read and own every line of AI-generated code.

Plus, if you know what good code looks like, you will be able to make better and more efficient use of LLMs and coding agents. Instead of using Fable or Opus 4.8 for every coding task, you will be able to know which kinds of tasks can be assigned to smaller and faster models and which ones need the absolute frontier.

No matter how you look at it, software engineers will become more valuable as AI coding agents become more advanced.

[NeetCode @neetcode1]

I'll believe we reached AGI when a model doesn't keep starting new local instances of my app, when it sees the port is already taken.

Even Fable still hasn't passed this test unfortunately.

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

@EXM7777 lmao

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

@Neesh774 Lmao

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[alyx @alyx_so]

Design Engineering 101:

Make your number steppers feel awesome.
A number stepper that only bumps once per click makes you click twenty times. Reward the hold. Animate it nicely with rolling digits, blur on transitions and gradient masks to avoid abrupt cuts.

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

Wowsers

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Ford rehires more than 300 veteran human engineers after it says AI failed to deliver the same level of expertise.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

You don't need a LinkedIn, you need a page on your website describing and linking to what you shipped

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

Agent thoughts be like seeing into the mind of a mad man
-We should just swap this out with this
-wait! That's a terrible idea I think...
-let me try the first idea again, more demure this time
-i see it now, we shouldn't have done that. Let me inform the user

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

@ctnicholasdev @nextjs 3.16

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

i think this is for my region (Nigeria). they work with a vpn

[Isaac @Fathe__r]

vercel domains seem to be down? or am i tripping ? . production domains i have on other registrars pointing to projects deployed on vercel are doing fine though

[dax @thdxr]

it's so crazy ai is bad at your job but good at everyone else's job