Peter Walser

Software Architect / Engineer

[Дань @whoDoYouSudo]

Ахаха, весной одна компания запустила эксперимент: дала ИИ-моделям вести свои радиостанции.
Участвуют Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro и Grok 4.3. Они отвечают за абсолютно все, включая шоу, музыку и заработок, и вещают 24/7 уже много недель.

Итоги:

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

claude code be like:

This command requires approval:

sudo netbind --flush-kernel /var/run/nullmux.sock && \
orbitctl phase --target=localmesh --entropy=9f2c:77aa --dry-spin && \
cat /proc/ghostbus/routes | awk '{print $3":"$7}' | xargs -n1 voidpipe --reindex --no-color && \
systemctl shadow-reload nebula-cache.service --until=epoch+43

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

I’m fighting for a western civilization where none of them had to die.
We’re not fighting red vs. blue.
We’re fighting good vs. evil.
Darkness vs. light.
We must win.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

A year to two ago, I offered a similar test: train an LLM on medical literature prior to 1890, and see if it would have 'discovered' the role of microorganisms in disease.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System!

[Dyerbolical Horror (☥𝐃𝐁) @DyerbolicalDB]

So auditions for James Bond have started. Let me end it.

New James Bond. Next Bond Girl.

Print money.

[Clare @Clarabell045788]

I hate when fitness influencers are in their early 20s. Listen I was skinny and hot when I was 21 too. My diet was vodka, noodles, coffee and cigarettes. My workout was walking to parties in 5inch heels. You don’t impress me. Come back when you’re 50.

[George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian]

junior pm: i have to run my first global alignment meeting and i'm freaking out

senior pm: what's your plan?

junior pm: schedule the call, walk everyone through the proposal, get buy-in

senior pm: how many people?

junior pm: like 8 stakeholders across 4 time zones

senior pm: and you're meeting them for the first time... in the alignment meeting?

junior pm: well yeah. that's the point of the meeting

senior pm: there's your problem

junior pm: what do you mean?

senior pm: alignment meetings don't create alignment

junior pm: then what's the point?

senior pm: they confirm alignment you already have

junior pm: i don't follow

senior pm: have you talked to any of these 8 people yet?

junior pm: i sent them the pre-read

senior pm: that's not talking

junior pm: so i should... call them first?

senior pm: every single one. 1:1. before the big meeting

junior pm: that's 8 separate calls just to prep for 1 meeting

senior pm: now you're getting it

junior pm: seems like a lot

senior pm: it's the whole job

junior pm: what would i even say in these calls?

senior pm: you're not saying. you're listening

junior pm: listening to what?

senior pm: their fears. their motivations. their hidden objections

junior pm: why wouldn't they just say that in the meeting?

senior pm: politics. pride. audience

junior pm: so they'll tell me privately what they won't say publicly?

senior pm: if you ask right

junior pm: how do i ask right?

senior pm: frame it as soliciting their expertise

junior pm: "i'm new to this and want your input"?

senior pm: exactly. people love feeling like the wise advisor

junior pm: and then i just... shut up?

senior pm: shut up and write everything down

junior pm: what am i looking for?

senior pm: conflicting goals between stakeholders. who wants what and why

junior pm: ok say i do all this. what changes?

senior pm: two things

junior pm: go on

senior pm: first, you adjust your proposal based on what you learned

junior pm: makes sense

senior pm: second, you sprinkle their exact phrases into your presentation

junior pm: why?

senior pm: people support what they helped create

junior pm: even if they didn't technically create it

senior pm: especially then

junior pm: what about the difficult ones? the ones who'll disagree no matter what?

senior pm: you pre-negotiate

junior pm: how?

senior pm: in your 1:1, you say "i know you have concerns about X. i can't fully address them. can you disagree and commit in the meeting?"

junior pm: you can just ask that?

senior pm: you'd be surprised how often the answer is yes

junior pm: because you asked privately

senior pm: because you respected them enough to ask

junior pm: so the alignment meeting itself is basically...

senior pm: a ceremony

junior pm: confirming decisions already made

senior pm: in hallways. in 1:1s. in coffee chats

junior pm: the meeting before the meeting

senior pm: now you're ready to run alignment

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

A Gen Z joined the team.

Week one.

During onboarding, the manager said,
“We sometimes stay late during peak periods.”

Gen Z nodded.

Then asked,
“Is that paid… or just expected?”

The room went quiet.

- No attitude.
- No rebellion.
- Just a question.

Later that day, HR mentioned “growth opportunities.”

Gen Z replied,
“Does growth include raises, or just more responsibility?”

Again, silence.
- No laziness.
- No entitlement.
- Just clarity.

That’s when the team realized something.

When people say
“Gen Z is lazy,”
what they really mean is:

Gen Z watched old generation
- skip meals,
- miss birthdays,
- work weekends,
- and burn out

only to be told
“budgets are tight”
and “be grateful you have a job.”

So Gen Z chose differently.

- They don’t romanticize overwork.
- They don’t confuse suffering with ambition.
- They don’t trade health for praise.

They still work hard.
They just refuse to work for nothing.

It’s not laziness.
It’s pattern recognition.

And honestly,
after everything old generation went through…

Can you really blame them?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"How do you have energy if you don't eat breakfast?"

I'm burning the 150,000 calories of stored fat I'm carrying.

"But I thought fat was hard to access?"

Only if you keep spiking insulin with breakfast.

"So you just... don't eat?"

Correct. Until I'm hungry. Usually around 2pm.

"Don't you get shaky?"

No. That's what happens when you're sugar-dependent and your blood sugar crashes.

"What about your metabolism?"

Working perfectly. Burning fat. Building muscle. Functioning optimally.

"This sounds disordered."

Eating 6 times daily and panicking if you miss a meal sounds disordered.

One approach has 2.5 million years of evidence. The other has 70 years of cereal marketing.

[blue @bluewmist]

i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a rolex or a lamborghini.

i want to be rich so i can control my time and go to the gym at 3pm on a monday.

sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.

so i can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.

spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.

that's my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

I wanna have a beer with your dad.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch one.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers, “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

They never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere.

Now you have a better understanding of how the cryptocurrency market works.

[BURKOV @burkov]

A math professor noticed his kitchen sink at home was leaking.

He called a plumber.

The plumber came the next day, tightened a couple of nuts, and the sink worked perfectly again. The professor was delighted. But when, a minute later, the plumber handed him the bill, he was shocked.

“This is a third of my monthly salary!”
“Yeah, I get it…” said the plumber. “Why don’t you come work for our company as a plumber? You’ll make three times more than you do as a professor. Just remember: when you apply, say you only finished seventh grade. They don’t like hiring educated people.”

So the professor got a job as a plumber, and his life really did improve. All he had to do was tighten a nut here and there every so often, and his salary was much higher.

One day, the management of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to attend evening classes to finish eighth grade. So our professor had to go too.

By chance, the very first class was math.

The evening school teacher, wanting to check what the students knew, asked for the formula for the area of a circle.

They called the professor up to the board, and he suddenly realized he’d forgotten it. He started frantically reasoning it out, covering the board with integrals, differentials, and all sorts of fancy formulas to re-derive the result. In the end, he got:
S = –π r²

He didn’t like the minus sign, so he started again.
Again he got a minus. No matter what he did, it kept coming out negative.

He cast a panicked look at the class, and all the plumbers were whispering:

“Swap the limits of integration!”

[Peter Walser @Frostnova]

@MomsPostingLs The Albanian Embassy wants their flags back.

[Slim Jimmy @slimjimmy]

less than half a person per service

[Luke Stephens (hakluke) @hakluke]

When asking coding questions

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Remember the internet .com bubble? During the bubble companies hired programmers with reckless abandon in a futile attempt to get ahead of the curve. When the bubble popped they found they had over-invested in programmers and had to freeze hiring and lay them off. That lasted for a year or so.

Now we are in the AI bubble. That it _is_ a bubble is evident by the "stupid money" being paid as recruiting bonuses to AI "experts". (e.g. Meta agreed to pay a 24 year old "expert" $250M)

The effect of this bubble is a hiring freeze for programmers. Executives hope/fear that AI will allow them to lay off lots of programmers so they don't dare hire any right now.

When this bubble pops (and it will, probably within a year or so) these companies will find that they are _under_-invested in programmers and will have to start hiring them with reckless abandon.

History repeats itself; but sometime in the mirror.