Muntasir Wasit

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!

In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.

I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.

One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.

When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.

Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.

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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.

[Revolt @revolt_71]

A pictorial Thread of Darbar Hall on February 25, 2009 before the massacre.

1. The Officers are sitting inside the Darbar Hall on February 25, 2009 at 9:02 am.

[Tahamid Samin @Tahamid_Samin]

Indian fundamentalists with verified profiles are spreading lies and propaganda in the name of Save Bangladeshi Hindus. Please don't fall in this trap.

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

By Anika Tasnim Tusty (KUET, 2K20)

[Tanvir Haider @tanvirhaider538]

Shajalal University of Science & Technology

Students need new teachers who have strong spine..

#BangladeshiStudentsareinDanger
#BangladeshBleeding
#BangladeshQuothaMovement

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

Students remembering the kid who was shot dead on the roof—

"We will again go to the roof of our house when our country will become independent."

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

"চোখটা এতো পোড়ায় কেন? ও পোড়া চোখ সমুদ্রে যাও! সমুদ্র কি তোমার ছেলে?"
https://t.co/5FpQtK6Dip

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

"I am the book you never cared to read, but you are the verse that I keep highlighting."

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Feynman Lessons for Excellence:
• Starve you distractions, feed your focus.
• Set Goals.
• Read every day.
• Time is non-refundable. Use it with intention.
• Have a vision.
• Live inspired.
• If you don't go after it, you won't have it.
• Make mistakes and pursue failure.

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

"মাঝেমধ্যে আচমকাই মন খারাপ হয়
কী জন্যে হয়
আমি জানি না—
তখন হঠাৎ মনে পইড়া যায়
আমার তো কেউ নাই
যারে কিছু কইতে পারি
হেমন্তের নির্জনে
পাতা ঝরার পর—"

— হাসান রোবায়েত

[Ishaaq Newton @Ishaaq__Newton]

7 signs that you’re a losing man:

1. You are lazy and you procrastinate

2. You don’t respect your parents

3. You don’t study

4. You don’t workout

5. You watch porn

6. You are afraid to fight

7. You don’t have a purpose of life

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Engineering is generally considered to consist of the major primary branches of:

1. Chemical engineering
2. Civil engineering
3. Electrical engineering
4. Mechanical engineering
5. Interdisciplinary branch

1. Chemical engineering subdisciplines:
• Biomolecular engineering
• Materials engineering
• Molecular engineering
• Process engineering
• Corrosion engineering

2. Civil engineering subdisciplines:
• Environmental engineering
• Geological engineering
• Geotechnical engineering
• Transport engineering
• Structural engineering
• Utility engineering
• Water resources engineering

3. Electrical engineering subdisciplines:
• Electronic engineering
• Computer engineering
• Power engineering
• Optical engineering

4. Mechanical engineering subdisciplines:
• Acoustical engineering
• Manufacturing engineering
• Optomechanical engineering
• Thermal engineering
• Sports engineering
• Vehicle engineering
• Power plant engineering
• Industrial plant engineering
• Energy engineering

5. Interdisciplinary branch:
• Aerospace engineering
• Agricultural engineering
• Applied engineering
• Biomedical engineering
• Biological engineering
• Building services engineering
• Energy engineering
• Information engineering
• Industrial engineering
• Mechatronics engineering
• Engineering management
• Military engineering
• Mining engineering
• Nanoengineering
• Quantum engineering
• Nuclear engineering
• Petroleum engineering
• Project engineering
• Railway engineering
• Software engineering
• Supply chain engineering
• Systems engineering
• Textile engineering

[Muntasir Wasit @WasitMuntasir]

তুমি তা জানো না কিছু, না জানিলে,—
আমার সকল গান তবুও তোমারে লক্ষ্য করে!
—জীবনানন্দ দাশ

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

প্রতিদিন

روز سوچا ہے بھول جاؤں تجھے
روز یہ بات بھول جاتا ہوں

“প্রতিদিন ভাবি— তোমায় ভুলে যাবো,
আমি প্রতিদিন তোমায় ভুলতে ভুলে যাই।”

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

কাগজের নৌকা

اب تری یاد جو آئے بھی تو یوں آتی ہے
جیسے کاغذ کی کوئی ناؤ چلے پانی میں

“যেভাবে পানিতে কাগজের নৌকো ভেসে বেড়ায়,
সেভাবে এখন তোমার কথা মনে পড়ে আমার—”

— সাহিদা হাসান (চট্টগ্রাম, বাংলাদেশ, ১৯৫৩)

[Muntasir Wasit @WasitMuntasir]

"প্রেম ধীরে মুছে যায়, নক্ষত্রেরও একদিন মরে যেতে হয়।"
- জীবনানন্দ দাশ

[Shihab Ahmed Tuhin @TuhinShihab]

"तुम ही दुनिया लगते थे
तुम भी दुनिया निकले"

"তোমাকেই পুরো পৃথিবী মনে হতো,
তুমিও পুরো পৃথিবীর মতো হয়ে গেলে!"