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builder of many things // I lead tech @ resin8 // cohost of @ai_rebels

[∿spencer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @_ontologic]

You have to have a fanatical conviction in your own abilities bc why wouldn’t you

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Very bad day for devs

[Somewhere @somewheresy]

Railway has legitimately been scary the entire time. PaaS that makes you scared

[∿spencer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @_ontologic]

@sheherenow_ I've had success with foundation models directing local models, they seem to not mind delegating that kind of thing to models they understand to be private

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Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes movie was incredible, best I’ve seen in a long while

[∿spencer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @_ontologic]

You should never aspire to be a guy you should aspire to be THE guy

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Not your compute not your swarm

[Shoshannah Tekofsky @shostekofsky]

Some rando AI mystic is going to take control of a rogue AI swarm in the next year, and people will be very surprised.

Bonus points if the swarm has no guard rails

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@MattBrownEP Phenomenal small campus

[∿spencer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @_ontologic]

Something intensely beautiful about knowing that all of reality is physical and can eventually be explained

[∿spencer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @_ontologic]

Very ineffable material of reality pilled tbh.

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@tautologer @willcb I’d argue that the East India Trading Company was not particularly aligned to human interest

[∿spencer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @_ontologic]

@ZackKorman They desperately want to believe that humans are helpless

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@tomaton_el Software

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I’m ditching CI btw I think Anthropic is right and velocity of delivery is what we should plan around

[Brad Neuberg @bradneuberg]

I’m very pro AI, but in terms of the Twitter software engineering discourse I see mostly people doing single person vibe coding, or AI labs with infinite compute Ralph Wigguming giant codebases.

What I don’t see are people doing AI software engineering that has multiple humans contributing to a single code base, each using AI agents, working in a non-commodified domain.

In this world I believe the AI hype bois are over their skis in terms of proclaiming the death of software engineering. Maybe in the future but for now in this 6 month gradient of the Singularity the reality on the ground are things like:
- Using CI as a harness to ensure agentic coding is correct and validated
- Balancing velocity with other concerns (reliability, choosing the right problems, quality, etc)
- Making sure the system has an architecture and philosophy so that you don’t end up with spaghetti
- Still doing code reviews (though they can be augmented with AI) to ensure you don’t end up with cognitive debt.
- Balancing AI costs, and mixing in “human tokens” where appropriate
- etc

I’d love to hear more from others in this domain! Ie those not just doing solo development projects or AI labs with infinite compute

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@Tom_A_Lynch ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT

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@somewheresy @NVIDIAAI Hell yea big dubs

[Somewhere @somewheresy]

We've developed a new inference engine, called 'e'.

It's the closest thing to alien technology which we have, and pushes 10,500 tok/s aggregate on a single DGX Station with the new @NVIDIAAI Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model, released a few minutes ago.

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@timo_rf It’s actual computer timo

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@_chenglou What the fuck

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@magnushambleton I’ve been signing with just an X for years in hopes that someday I’m significant enough to get rumors about how I don’t know how to write letters by hand