Alejandro

I make companies ship fast ☁️⚡️
🧑🏻‍💻 Cloudops Consulting $120k+/year
📉 Options $40k+/year
🏠 Real estate $10k+/year
🕐🏃 Longevity

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

"The whole point of civilization is that we exceed the limits of nature. You tedious little primitives."

Commander Guyen, Children of Time

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@KobeissiLetter Dang

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Oh no

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Oh no. Jensen is out.

Bad news for Nvidia and the entire AI industry.

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@GergelyOrosz I am glad I didn’t throw money on certifications

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

Bro 💀

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

WOW I JUST LEARNED LORI HUANG PAWNED HER WEDDING RING IN 1995 TO SAVE NVIDIA FROM SHUTTING DOWN

$NVDA

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@stats_feed Just overpriced

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@MurrayHillGuy1 Animals

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

Nooo 😭. Such a heartbreaking scene.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Ohhh that's how they met

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

A wifey who has been there for 20+ years doesn’t deserve this.

[Thelma Louise @iamthelmalouise]

We will all talk about Nvidia but I keep thinking about her.

The wife behind the now powerful man that once worked at Dennys.

Lori Huang

Forty-one years married to Jensen Huang.

She was there before the black leather jacket, before the trillions, before any of it. She built a family with Jensen while he built a company.

Today, the whole world got to read his apology in a company memo.

She has to live it....

Lori is the woman standing next to him in thousands of photographs like these, finding out- along with the rest of us... what was happening behind her back.

He'll answer to his board

He'll answer to Congress

The market will do whatever it does

But in stories like this one, Lori is always the one who pays the highest price for something she never did💔

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Disengaging from syntax is not disengaging from engineering.

I’m working on a significant project at the moment. It’s in a pre-production state so far. More than a prototype, less than ready for real users.

I’ve been making multiple passes over the structure for each of the following concerns: Architecture, coverage, race & concurrency, security, API, etc. Each of these requires significant interrogation and review of verification procedures; but not review of the code.

At base are the /ub-mode (https://t.co/L3UhDJXshE) rules that keep the agents disciplined as far as coding structure and tests are concerned. But above that it’s me making sure that all the bases are covered well enough to keep my client safe from stupid sloppy mistakes.

I am the engineer. I am responsible. The agents are just my tools. They are power tools, to be sure. But power tools in the hands of novices result in missing fingers. So I am very careful.

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@catalinmpit Maybe when I retire as a hobby

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@itsolelehmann Traveling messes up work, health, routine 🫠

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@theo Claude takes five more times to ship a ridiculously simple feature. Just add tests.

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@indexnforgetit Cooked

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@thsottiaux I have the pro 200. Just ridiculous how much I can get done

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Saw a crazy blog post about an AI lab firing an engineer partly for using AI agents to review and auto-merge non-prod code.

They’d rather see PRs take weeks or even a month to merge. If true, insane.

The mindset that AI-generated code is slop needs to die.

You can’t let humans and processes kill your shipping velocity.

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@unusual_whales This is easily explained by the fact that 90% of the staff is usually a bunch of lazy people that do the bare minimum

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

There was a time in my life where I was tackling a bunch of languages bc I wanted to be a 10X engineer. Then I figured it was better to be focused on devops only.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

I used to be a language lawyer. In the late 80s I _studied_ the ARM (Annotated Reference Manual for C++). I knew the language cold, inside and out. I could make it do backflips. I shipped a lot of code using it. A LOT.

I’ve attacked other languages with a similar intensity and depth. Until recently, that was simply the only way to become adept at building software systems.

I now consider the deep understanding of a language to be a supreme waste of time and effort. I don’t want to learn Rust, or Golang, or Typescript, or any of the thousands of other languages out there. I’ll leave that to my agents.

What I need now is to understand the high level gestalt of the system. I want to see the systems and subsystems. I don’t need to inspect the cogs. If I truly need to understand a detail at the cog level, I’ll interrogate my agents. I’m not going to pretend to be a language expert anymore.

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@marclou Same here, except my girlfriend is American and banks/people do whatever she asks when she calls.

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@GergelyOrosz @poteto I’ve always wanted to learn react to do frontend. I will probably never learn it, but I can do frontend in the age of AI 🙂

[Alejandro @SlabbedWorks]

@GergelyOrosz Exactly. I get my hands into everything whether it’s a startup or a company.