Joshua Hardy

Software Developer

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

I want some better tools to deal with these AI tools. I think it's called an agentic orchestrator. I'm trying to build one, because git is annoying, maybe normally, but especially so with multiple simultaneous agents.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Vinny Daniel @Vinny_Daniel0]

As a consolation to AI taking everyone's jobs, I now have a vibe-coded app that shows me what bar patios and restaurants are getting the best sunlight in NYC on a Saturday evening.

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

Launched new GIS web app + iOS mobile app

Not a taxpayer dime was spent!!! And the GIS web app will replace a system that costs $18,000 annually, vs $10 bucks a month in server hosting fees.

https://t.co/TK24yTdCOh

https://t.co/CYSR7ImaoY

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

Domain acquired.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost.

The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people.

They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound.

All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are.

Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well.

This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world."

—@iamjohnmackey

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

AI is erasing:
•execution labor
•technique signaling
•process prestige

AI is not erasing:
•taste
•direction
•aesthetic judgment
•narrative intent
•client trust
•vision

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

@popexenon @ReplitSupport Looks like @Replit is down for me too. No responses are given when chatting with any projects .

[Ghoul of xenon @popexenon]

Hey @ReplitSupport is Replit agent down? Just bought Replit core and the chat function is not at all working ?

No response in both pc and ios app

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan has a raw moment on air as he struggles to process the news that Charlie Kirk is dead.

This clip takes you back to the moment we all first heard the devastating news.

Rogan buries his face in his hands, stares off to the side, visibly shaken.

This goes on for two minutes straight.

Charlie Sheen was disturbed, too.

[EchelonFront @EchelonFront]

A good leader detaches and elevates above the tactical situation, where they can see what really matters.

Before diving into a problem, ask yourself:

How will this problem impact the team's strategic goals?

Can it cause mission failure?

Is it worth the time and effort to fix it?

How bad can it get if I leave it alone?

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Would you like 1-5M more followers? Before you answer that, answer this: How might your life change if you -- and often your family -- had to deal with death threats, stalkers, suicide letters from fans, etc. on at least a quarterly basis? There's no free lunch with exposure.

[John Krafcik @johnkrafcik]

We're now using the 4th-gen Waymo Driver on our expanded southern US trucking routes (AZ↔️TX). 5th-gen Waymo Driver comes to our trucks later this year, with new Waymo lidar, radar, cameras, compute. 🤖🚚

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

Love is like a sweet melody. http://t.co/v7oWQVKQmj

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

Love this latest Banksy. Each and every retweet will be laced with irony! #Banksy

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

Just met @shanselman I feel like a school girl must feel after meeting Justin Bieber. #AngleBrackets

[Joshua Hardy @JoshuaRHardy]

Here at #anglebrackets learning the history of javascript from @toddanglin, fascinating stuff.