Bilal Zafar

I pretend to know a bit about computer programming.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

Charles Bukowski

[Mojisola Alegbe @yehhmisi]

As a software engineer for you to be free it means you’re actively neglecting work or just deciding to give yourself a break because there’s absolutely always something to do.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@Rameezay Mark Ruffalo is also pretty vocal about it tbh.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@itsankitakar Far from hot. It is an accepted fact and the term used for this is Agentic Engineering.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

What causes #poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, What causes #prosperity?

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

In the era of agentic engineering, the quality and speed of my thoughts is the only bottleneck left.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@minoqtopus Let's do it. I volunteer to teach Computer Sciecne.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@mahnoorrsheikh You network is your net worth.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@minoqtopus He might have signed the Persian copy as well in addition to English.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@shahahab_ turing? crossover?

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@JawadFaroo94817 Is this net worth or yearly income?

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@minoqtopus Lets make it!

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@minoqtopus If someone is going to have children, they should be willing to care for them deeply and not treat them as a means to fulfill their own unmet desires.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@umarsaif What you think software developers should focus on now? I see around myself the developers who have spent years learning how be a better engineer are scared about the future. What is the best thing they can for themselves?

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@ScholarshipfPhd Hi 👋

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@JonhernandezIA I can build that for him free of charge.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@abdullahjatt_x @Huk06 Yup, I used to think these are the initials of some fancy foreign brand.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@AribaShahid I live in Dubai and even I haven't had that.

[Bilal Zafar @bilalcancode]

@AribaShahid Pro tip: You can set your system prompt and instruct it to follow specific writing guidelines.