Petru C.

programmer/philosopher/e-acc

[Petru C. @atompulse]

Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

MANUALLY DRAGGING BOXES FOR ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAMS IS FINALLY DEAD

There is a new open-source agent skill that turns raw codebases into cleanly routed https://t.co/f9zjBxfJLp diagrams without you placing a single coordinate.

The project, drawio-skill, runs directly inside Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.

Instead of opening a blank canvas, you just ask your agent to map the repo.

Here is what it actually does:
→ Extracts the module structure (supports Python, JS/TS, Go, Rust)
→ Uses Graphviz for auto-layout and routing
→ Drops redundant edges so the graph stays readable
→ Builds native, editable https://t.co/f9zjBxfJLp files

But the standout feature is visual self-checking.

Once it generates the diagram, the agent "looks" at the resulting PNG. If it sees stacked edges or clipped text, it auto-fixes the layout across up to 5 iterative rounds.

It runs from a single file. No MCP server. No background daemon.

Best part?

It's 100% free and open-source.

repo link in 🧵↓

[Petru C. @atompulse]

Please stop with the fucking loop!
thanks 🙏

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.

Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.

After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.

This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.

Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.

[Petru C. @atompulse]

@AlexFinn interesting… seems your “future view” is 3-6 months ahead… and for that period you are right…
on the long term I believe AI will be cheap and accessible… 10-15 years ago it was a serious challenge for most of us to own a macbook pro… now I have 3 along my mac studio…

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Mara Webster 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @Mara_Webster]

If anybody asks how I’m doing right now I’m going to send them this video as a representation of my current state of mind

[CENTAURO @Octavio_01]

Cuando le pido al señor me ayude..

[Petru C. @atompulse]

@realdanielnita Am ales: am fost in weekend la Bucuresti 🙌
Nu regret nimic, chill, mancare buna, 🍻

[Daniel Nita 🇷🇴 @realdanielnita]

Neata! Am fost in Paris in weekend si mi-am reamintit de nu as sta aici pe termen lung chiar daca mi-ai da bani. Nu numai ca suporterii lu PSG au distrus orasul si s-au batut intre ei fara motiv(asta arata prostie) dar si mirosul si murdaria de pe strazile pline cu sobolani+ oamenii destul de ciudați la fiecare colt. As sta mai repede in Bucuresti e mai curat si mai civilizat decat in Paris 2026. Parisul e misto pentru un croissant la colt de strada cu cafea cu lapte, arta si vibe dar cele de mai sus strica experiența. Tu daca ai putea alege ai sta in Paris sau Bucuresti?

[Klaas @forgebitz]

remember scrum masters?

wild times

[Pushpak @pushpak1300]

php devs, we no longer need to duct-tape python scripts just to parse a pdf 😭

launching Parsel: a fast memory efficient local document parser for PHP.

pdfs, office docs & images → text, structured data, bboxes, screenshots.

built for AI/RAG, NLP, invoices, search, and messy docs.

composer require shipfastlabs/parsel

[Kelindi @_kelindi]

every software engineer is just someone who wanted to make video games and quietly gave up on that dream

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

"We think that with AI we can replace all of our Jr developers in our company"

AWS CEO Matt Garman: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard"

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

We’ve been putting a lot of effort into making Claude Code more responsive & reliable.

Here’s an update on everything we’ve done:

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

You’re born onto a planet you never asked to exist on…

and society immediately hits you with: “Okay, now go earn the right to eat, sleep, rest, and have shelter.”

Like… zoom out for a second.

We’re floating on a rock in infinite space and we created a game where you have to spend most of your life working just to not starve or freeze to death.

The whole concept is actually insane when you think about it.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

@ThePrimeagen When the dust finally settles, and we all realize the discipline required to properly use agents, I think we will be looking at a productivity increase on the order of a factor of 2 to 5.

[Petru C. @atompulse]

@unclebobmartin @ThePrimeagen 🙌

[Zach Wilson @EcZachly]

Meta reached to interview me for a principal role the same week they decided to layoff 8,000 people!

I’m sure there was at least 1 out of those 8,000 people who got let go who would’ve been a good fit for the role they wanted to hire me for. A few of my staff engineer friends got let go so I know this is true.

Instead they:
- axe everybody
- treat them like a cost
- rehire where there’s pain

What ever happened to employee retention?

Why do companies expect us to be loyal to them if they don’t even try to retain us when they have hundreds of billions of dollars?

It would be cheaper financially for them to retain one of those 8,000 people. It would be cheaper emotionally for the people who got let go too

How do these big tech companies expect people to put their blood, sweat and tears into work while also saying, “yeah we’ll cut you at any moment.”

I don’t know. The culture around AI and layoffs has gotten unbelievably toxic