The Word/John Varane

Lead Software Engineer || Java × C++ × C# x JavaScript x Python x Golang || Storyteller

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@DStv @DStvNg @DStvCare

The people running the DSTV Now help chat are human routers, it would seem.

They "give you information on where to get assistance from" when you have issues with the app they're supposed to be supporting, especially if you're Nigerian.

Wonderful.

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@Themrbachelor Go and learn real work. Posting hilarious lies on X is not a sustainable source of income

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

"Have the model run through a checklist over and over until it gets it right."

But how can write a checklist to build something you don't really know? And how can you know if you don't really learn?

I love AI and use it daily, but loops is a scam

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

"Loops" is essentially abstracting yourself from the work, which diminishes technical growth and general learning.

It's the newest "clever" way these AI doomers want you get addicted to AI and spend more money on tokens

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

https://t.co/eq0oL4fIaR

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@sameer_alnamri Lmao!

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@VICTORO22982472 @vian337 And then after this prayer, una go vote for Tinubu.

Don't worry. Angel will come down to do the thing God gave you Nigerians brains to do.

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@jayhemz @AntoniNeutron Microsoft does 4 interviews in one day per candidate. It's called a full loop. And each interview is about 45 minutes. Not 5 hours, yes, but long interviews are nothing new in tech

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

This is why moniepoint's CEO said there's no talent in Nigeria, because what is this?

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

VP of Engineering position using LinkedIn "Easy Apply".

Why is a company like @joinkuda using "Easy Apply" for a top position like this? 😭

I think before chasing world class talent, many companies need to embody world class operations. No company that goes the "Easy Apply" is serious and any serious talent will just look and ignore.

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@tomilola_ng So you decided to join in on the pile-on to prove how much of a great friend you are.

Wonderful

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@LizzieMarbach My wife doesn't game, and if she has the ick, she hasn't told me. 2 PS5s and 1 Series X, and I don't give a shit. I work too hard to not enjoy myself every once in a while.

Plus, there are lots of things she loves that I don't particularly care for but support. Such is life

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@dannyclassi_c I wouldn't subscribe to this solution, but I still appreciate the thought process. Thanks for sharing

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@Akintola_steve Everything he said is facts. If you've ever worked for international companies or even operated a business and had to hire talent, none of this would surprise

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@zuess05 As someone who is currently managing a team of senior, mid-level, and junior devs, I can promise you that junior devs are not using Claude to write codes at senior level. Whereas senior devs are using Claude to at levels never seen.

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@Akintola_steve This is not a race condition. This is a shitty software architecture condition.

If it were race condition, the balance would be 20, not -60.

Api 1 was successful, balance = 20. Api 2 was successful, balance = -60.

Ans to interviewer: who wrote this code?

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@TheGeorgePu This did not happen

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@N3urogenic @shantanugoel But then that would defeat the whole purpose of speeding up agentic coding.

And i feel very sorry for any fool who allows AI to write and deploy code unsupervised

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@Suryanshti777 @karpathy 1 token per second? Lmao ok

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@hewarsaber All these posts about "x is cooked" because of AI are so fucking dramatic

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@SeverusChud You're complaining about race swapping Chani in the 3rd installment of a critically acclaimed movie series? Are you just trying to give yourself a reason to rage about race?

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

You clearly don't know what you're talking about

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Thank god MCP is dead

Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was

It's all dumb abstractions that AI doesn't need because AI's are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there which is APIs

[The Word/John Varane @I_TheWord]

@ahmednadar @levelsio @chiropractic This is exactly what it leads to. I'm not sure OP understands what LLMs.txt is used for