Ahmed Magdy

Lead Frontend Software Engineer at Teracloud

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@mtantawy @egypt1standlast Can't afree more seeing it all once but man there still like more 8 weeks I can't wait that.

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@tannerlinsley Congratulations

[Me2resh @me2resh]

في ساعات تبص تلاقي البيزنيس ماشي مع نفسه ويتكلم مع ال architecture في الأواخر. لما باسال ايه يا جماعة ماحدش كلمنا ليه، يقولك اصل مافيش حاجة تيكنيكال لسة. اقوم باصص كدة باستياء وقايل: “Architecture is having the right conversations with the right people at the right times” يلا بينا من الاول بقي.

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@the2ndfloorguy Pm_growth is your problem.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨 How the TanStack npm attack actually happened:

1. Attacker opened a normal-looking pull request (#7378) on the TanStack repo.
2. GitHub automatically ran CI tests on that PR.
3. Code inside the PR stole the workflow's GitHub Actions Cache write token during the test run.
4. The attacker used that token to plant poisoned files in the shared build cache. The PR could be closed afterwards. The poisoned cache stays.
5. The official release workflow later pulled from the cache, baked the malicious files into the build, and signed and published 84 malicious package versions to npm.

[Anthony @anthony_codes]

@IntCyberDigest excellent summary.
The postmortem is pretty good too. https://t.co/pwTsFROByN

[Samay @Samaytwt]

Unpopular opinion: "AI makes everyone a developer" is true the same way "cameras makes everyone a photographer"

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@ahmadalfy @MahHafez @AhmedGhazey هو فى السجن دلوقتى قتلتنى ضحك

[Mohamed Elsherif @Bashmohandes]

ايه العظمة دي, سبحان الله

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@husamql3 @xaaksw @AhmedHemaz محتاج حاجه غير الماك

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@Winter1v9 @ahmadalfy I'm not sure that aiden is related to shadcn in anyway.

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@evan__mk @amirbaqian yea I think the question if that product being developed or not yet. Anyway it looks awesome it is something U would like to build.

[mark @r_marked]

Using your brain, perhaps?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Bruno Simon @bruno_simon]

6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio.
1 year of actually building it.

My new portfolio is LIVE 🚀
Please, don't break anything!
👉 https://t.co/rVPv9oWkjL

[Ahmad Alfy @ahmadalfy]

"You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me"

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@ahmadalfy @AhmedGhazey انت دكتور كده كده ملكش فى الكود.

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@Bashmohandes @ahmadalfy Can't agree more the nightmare of engineers

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@yamanidev @ShadowFlandre @ArkadiyNyan @Hesamation Probaby same reason i Do windows but in same time I hate dual boot and switch system from Mac to work and windows for playing so the sweet spot is WSL for development and I still only boot once.

[Ahmed Magdy @AMagdy_h]

@Adityapandeydev don't use it :D