Nicolae Namolovan

Software engineer driven by the potential of technology to create positive change. Better web with @behind_overlay (100k users).
Ex Ebay, Expedia.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@GergelyOrosz Security is a really hard domain. It's probably cheaper to be hacked once in a while than trying to avoid 100% chance of being hacked.

Good security practices raises this bar significantly. But if it's a state actor involved, they are really at a disadvantage.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

Not sure what people see in OpenAI models for coding. To me Anthropic model are way better. Used codex briefly, it really lacks the depth of anthropic models.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

So I wrote over 1000 prompts for this side project of mine, about 60 prompts per day in claude.

For sure, you get a result faster. The interface has completely changed.

But the grind remains. It still takes a lot of time to create a project that is successful.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@mandubian True.. But thinking about this more. Maybe LLMs is just a layer of abstraction higher than normal programming languages.
Maybe it's the same kind of shift when higher level programming languages were invented making assembly programmers deprecated..

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@mandubian I'm convinced there are tons of bots with anti EU sentiment on the internet. EU is too naive trusting US et al with social media. The biggest mistake ever..

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@mandubian You're right about the issue and the new jobs needed. Maybe one/few persons startups?
But honestly there are so many walled gardens. The market and the internet is more closed than ever..

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

Finally find a way to burn tokens, lol. #tokenmaxxing

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

What a great feeling to wake up on a Saturday morning, have a cup of coffee, and find your weekly Fable quota reset.

My latest project is a weekly AI magazine built from all public Facebook posts in Moldova. "Cirip" means "a bird's chirp. English version https://t.co/le8zUYDLCL

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

LLMs are such a powerful way to collect data from everyone...

China and the USA probably have more data than they could ever get through with traditional packet inspection.

A bit speculative, but data security with cloud-based LLMs seems almost non-existent.

Local LLMs ftw.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

I honestly don't feel like Opus 5.5 to be better than Opus 4.6. It doesn't follow instructions, start using random embedded skills.

I also feel like you need to change the MD files with every model. Changing models It's too much effort once you're happy with one model.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

I always have a good idea durin a run. It's always a surprising "aha" moment. Moving your body is also moving your brain.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

After cardio, I feel like a genius.

After lifting, my brain feels like it slows down.

Why is this?

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@UnsettledGreg @GergelyOrosz That's a good point.

Some CTO I've seen recently where completely invisible and irelevant for the company. No wonder they didn't lasted long and didn't had any visible impact.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

Claude keeps hanging with high cpu usage. It needs to be -9lled every time. Will switch off their new /tui feature to see if it's better. Honestly it's quite impressive that they are unable to make the scrolling work in a stable way. fyi @AnthropicAI

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@internetarchive I was clearly into anti-viruses in 1999 ;o)
Looks like Symantec and McAfee updates were important if it's under "Smart Update" ; )

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

Love @internetarchive.
Found one of the first web pages I've created from 2001 when I was 13 :)
Actually the software version listed are all from 99, so it's even earlier than this.
All pages had a background, unfortunately it was not saved for some reason.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@adam_fresko @GergelyOrosz They probably tried to avoid anti monopoly case.
Also look how much hate ChatGPT gets for being first. But nobody hates Gemini.
It was a brilliant move by Google imo.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

I've been saying something similar about AI: Asking the right question is half the solution.

[Adam Warski @adamwarski]

The main role of a software engineer nowadays seems to be asking the right questions. Exploring paths the coding agent didn't think of, and getting a genuine "you're absolutely right".

Or maybe this was always the case - we were just interrupted by coding.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@mandubian This looks interesting. But could you record a demo of what it is and how it looks when it runs :)
Maybe one example where it's useful.. "what agents need in order to run unwatched, delegate, and self-modify under verifiable law" could be a demo.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

@mandubian The markets can stay irrational for a long time ; ) But the truth is, the revenue growth of Nvidia is insane, +85% 2026 alone.
So from this perspective, trying to capture the software side may be a good move.
HG were really lucky do be in this AI space at the right time.

[Nicolae Namolovan @nicolaenmv]

Really glad for those guys originally from Europe who made it 👏

Also can't help but notice that to make it big you really need to be in the US..

[Linas Beliūnas @linasbeliunas]

All of Hugging Face’s founders - three French friends who once built a teen chatbot - are now multi-billionaires after Nvidia’s $13 billion acquisition.

Their story is one of the most fascinating in tech:

→ 2016: Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf launch a sassy AI “friend” for teenagers, named after the 🤗 emoji

→ The app peaks, then stalls. The NLP tools they built to power it are better than the product.

→ 2018: Wolf spends a weekend wrapping Google’s BERT in PyTorch.
Researchers go crazy for it.

→ They kill the chatbot, open-source the stack, and birth Transformers - the library that becomes the default way the world uses modern AI.

→ Hub follows. Then BLOOM, Spaces, datasets, enterprise tools.
3M+ models, 18M developers.

→ Raise ~$400M, hit a $4.5B valuation in 2023, stay lean.

→ Closed labs own the frontier AI models. Nvidia wants the open distribution layer and the developers who live there.

→ Jensen skips the slow path and buys the whole platform for $13B - Hub stays open, no Nvidia-chip requirement.

→ Each founder is now worth ~$1.8B. The 12% employee pool plus a $1B retention package turns early hires into millionaires. The first wave is looking at roughly $2-50M+.

This is the beauty of startups at its finest.