Tucker Atkinson

Software engineer who's now a tech recruiter I guess.

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@Mat_Sherman Won't this not be able to see all of the private code that engineers push to GitHub?

Some of my actual worst code is my public OSS stuff https://t.co/YP507MC0Cf

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Analog TV hacked radio, to add images.

Digital TV is hacked analog TV, to use digits.

Cable internet is hacked digital TV, to send data.

The internet is just a hacked form of radio 🤯

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Reading Plato's Allegory of the Cave is like getting unplugged from the Matrix.

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GPT-5 seems like a really mid software eng. Like, way-too-complicated code.

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@serenaa_ge Definitely a senior-level thing lol. By staff-level he'll be back to a MacBook Pro.

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@steventey I'm the target market and I didn't buy 🤷‍♂️

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@Saboo_Shubham_ lol it’s an in-memory index that uses mp4 as the file storage. Just use sqlite with a vector search plugin.

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How it feels to read docs with AI

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@unclebobmartin Tests are the yeast of the Pharisees.

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My startup's task management needs are so extreme I need Jira.

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A lot of expert software engineers seem to make recommendations without considering: 1. cost, or 2. externalities

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@shinboson Around 30, the majority of the teachers who taught you have retired. The school you once knew is gone forever.

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Banger of a prompt to make a professional radio DJ-style playlist:

(Use https://t.co/ehA4mZiADs to export your playlists)

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Here are my "liked" songs, which are songs I just pressed like at one point in the past 10 years or so (I may not even like them that much), and then my most-played songs for the years of 2016-2024.

Please put together a playlist of 100 songs for me to work to (I code). I don't mind lyrics when working. Think like a top-tier radio DJ. What principles would he apply? Throw in a lot of my favorites, some stuff I haven't heard, throwbacks, recently most played, etc.

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Ah yes, thank you ChatGPT docs. The very relatable example of inquiring about the quotient of Noetherian rings.

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There's something kind of unsettling about setting up Next.js 15 with Sentry. It's like, chaos + compliance. I'm a little unsettled by not knowing what's running under the hood.

I feel like there's probably a simpler, freer alternative. Maybe Web Components.

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@TheConquerMM While this is probably true, diet and exercise isn't really a main theme of the Bible.

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@p8stie Following my dad’s line up, my ancestors were all engineers, builders, or pastors.

Kind of like Jesus.

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@Alphafox78 I showed this to my wife and she asked me what the name of the studio was.

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It was Spectrum. @Ask_Spectrum cut the line.

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One 10x engineer can be equivalent to:

2x backend engineers
2x frontend engineers
iOS engineer
Android engineer
product manager
engineering manager
architect
product designer