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Alexandru Cambose. 🦄 🔗

Software Engineer. Web3. Occasional TA.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.

In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.

Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: https://t.co/wzNkwHs7IN

[Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books! @oldbooksguy]

thinking about this banger from Naval

[Hades @0xHvdes]

https://t.co/26ibXrwogg

[Dr. Brian Hoeflinger, MD @drhoeflinger]

I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.

Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.

This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.

To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.

Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.

Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.

Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.

Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.

You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Slow down and remember this:

Most things make no difference.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant.

Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive.

Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

[Thariq @trq212]

a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5

/eli5 <what you want explained>

"explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Your level of maturity is inversely correlated with how much you want other people to celebrate your birthday.

I have never admired anyone who insisted his birthday was big deal.

[Rizzo @masonrizz]

my favorite airplane observation is how everyone in first class is working or reading books and everyone in economy is watching movies

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/Gkd5qvcrAk

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

Here’s a radical idea.

Hold everybody to the same standards.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The biggest opportunities right now:

1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social)

2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts)

3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer)

4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building)

5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years)

6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching)

7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month)

8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected)

9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO)

10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast)

11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category)

12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%)

13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model)

14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild)

15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive)

16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business)

17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines)

18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for)

19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second)

20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore)

21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market)

note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up)

22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog)

23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support.

24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology)

25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs)

26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms)

KEEP BUILDING

[monotau @_monotau]

After a long back and forth, GPT-5.6 Sol produced a proof (formally verified in Lean) of the following Ramsey number inequality:

R(k+1,s+1) >= R(k,s)+2k+2s for 5<=k<=s.

As a consequence, this also establishes a new lower bound R(12,12) >= 1641.

[gabriel @g_br_l]

AI closed 90% of your support tickets. you released 10 new features this month but barely have any usage metrics yet to validate them. what now?

the bottleneck is now the organizational culture. most orgs are now sitting on an unexpected surplus of capacity, and don't know what to do with it yet.

a lot of the software org culture is still based on "the old days", when work was slower, planning took weeks and development took months. so culture was optimized to do things as fast as possible, as close as possible to "right" on the first try.

the immediate response from orgs to AI, in most cases, has been to keep the exact same approach and processes - just do the same thing, faster!

the problem is planning can't catch up. work planned for the whole quarter is done by the first month, and planning for the next quarter is still half baked.

a lot of people, myself included, have asked: "so... where is all the new software that AI is building?"

I think this question is mostly answered by the fact that most organizations, so far, aren't producing much more software. they're just producing the same thing, faster. so the remaining time they are either wondering what's up, doing internal politics, or just cutting half the engineering team because it's "superfluous".

the culture in software must adapt and switch mindsets. the edge is not anymore in producing the same with a smaller workforce. the edge is in leading the same workforce to produce MORE.

[Naval @naval]

Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t want your children to buy.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/GUwbNABiw6

[Dan Romero @dwr]

Would pay $99 a month to have ability to disable algo feeds and all retweets.

Reverse chron only.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

The biggest scam humanity has collectively accepted as normal, according to Claude

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

reminder

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/jKCIAEzai7

[Steve Donzé @steve_donze]

Prices chasing earnings. Not the other way round.