Alan

Co-founder @tortastudios Ex-Facebook, Ex-Microsoft. I build systems that make AI Growth workflows observable, repeatable, and scalable.

[Alan @bitforth]

Soy dev convertido en fundador. Pasé más de 10 años en Big Tech construyendo productos y sistemas de crecimiento a escala (Meta, Microsoft).
Si eres un dev con mentalidad de producto, o un PM con alma de dev, comparto análisis técnicos sobre desarrollo de productos.

[Alan @bitforth]

Los picateclas siguen defendiendo el código escrito por humanos, cuando PHP2Shell llevaba más de una década escondido en código escrito y revisado por humanos, mucho antes de que existieran los flujos de trabajo con agentes de IA

[Alan @bitforth]

The vulnerabilities were found in human-written, extensively human-reviewed code that had been in production for years before LLM generated code was a thing

[Wes Winder @weswinder]

not to pile on but

called it

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Immigration policy must be driven by the present, not the past, and business leaders are too terrified of the left AND the right to acknowledge this.

Recent H1B discourse revolves around a longstanding immigration sleight-of-hand. H1B proponents point to exceptional people who came here decades ago as if they represent the current state of the program in the same way that advocates for low-skill/illegal immigration point to very favorable immigrant crime/welfare/education/etc statistics that do, in truth, have them beating native-born Americans on many fronts.

It is all a sham. The world that created those statistics, people, and businesses no longer exists. Brilliant but desperate Vietnamese fathers who fled communism have nothing in common with young men from Honduras, and the crime rates/economic acccomplishments/integration of the former should not be used to justify mass migration of the latter.

Nor should the accomplishments of people who managed to get an H1B visa in the 90s (when the program was capped to just 65,000 visas) be used to justify staffing agencies and tech companies using the program to replace American jobs for less money. The obvious abuse going on is politically suicidal and something that even the most ardent supporters of the visa should want to crack down on, no immigration program can possibly survive the obvious and widely known reality of what is going on. I am a longtime outspoken advocate for stealing the best people from other countries to make our own better, runaway abuse of existing programs robs the government of the worker trust required to do so.

Lots of people in the tech space know this. Even the dumb people are smart enough to see it. Nobody actually believes these are all incredible people with unique talents performing jobs no American can. Everyone knows the guy in Cubicle Bay 7 doing mediocre but functional web design for half the salary of his American peers is no savant and doesn't meet the statutory requirements for his H-1B visa.

Unfortunately, most people with power or profile are terrified that any public statement or acknowledgement will get them attacked by the right (You guys have been screwing over American workers for years with visa abuse, you damn hypocrite!) or the left (You are racist, sexist, misogynist, and sucking up to this fascist administration!). Or, more likely, both. I know too many tech execs in particular who feel trapped, like the only winning move is to stay silent.

JD is blowing the whole thing wide open by putting facts and stats front and center that nobody wants to engage with. Critics will talk about anything and everything else but these damning facts and this obvious truth, that H1B visas serve neither their original purpose, legal purpose, invented purpose, or the American people.

[Alan @bitforth]

But isn’t your sample size made up of men who pay for sex? I wonder how many are in sexless marriages, and whether anything that reminds them of their encounters with their wife could turn them off (like reading a little disgust or whatever)

And could paying also suggest a preference for a willing partner over using force?

[Alan @bitforth]

@VynseDev The one that starts at $95/mo

[Alan @bitforth]

@tebayoso No tengo nada en contra de él, pero sus seguidores son bien tóxicos

[Alan @bitforth]

he visto que X en español se amplifica mucho a los pesimistas y negativos, y a los que comparten información útil siempre llegan los pendejazos con IQ de un dígito a decir “EsTo No Es LinkeDiN”

[Alex / CEO of money @Cleverbilling]

@bitforth twitter tiene buenos programadores con buenos tweets. twitter tech MX es todo lo contrario jajajaja

[Alan @bitforth]

Tyler, I follow your socials and I think you’re a world class operator. I know you frequent Mexico a lot, so you might be familiar with an idiom we like to use in occasions like this one, so here it goes: “se la metiste doblada”

It’s a positive one lol if you don’t get it, I’d say ask a Mexican to interpret it for you lol

[Alan @bitforth]

@digitalshane_ The people who complain are people with dormant lists and/or put 0 effort in growing them or building their network of publications.

[Alan @bitforth]

@TravisBiziorek @denk_tweets @marclou Travis I think you’re panicking in public. Tyler addressed every single one of your points.

[Alan @bitforth]

Correct. Beehiiv has a rich network of publications, and a bunch of incentives for advertisers and publishers alike. Even if Marc copies the features he can’t take the network from beehiiv.

If Marc wants to keep all the penny pinchers, I’m sure beehiiv is more than happy to send them his way.

[Alan @bitforth]

My heuristica es la opuesta 😅

Si no está al tanto de todo lo que de habla en X, automáticamente asumo que está desactualizado

[Héctor de León (El loco de los perros) ⛧ @powerhdeleon]

Crean más en las personas que sí laboran como programadores, personas que poco o nada usan redes sociales, no creas en chalio3456 que dice cualquier cosa por buscar polémicas en X.

[Alan @bitforth]

Quizá suene exagerado, pero los que están súper AI-pilled, si se acerca mucho al concepto de religiones. El comportamiento es muy similar.

[Héctor de León (El loco de los perros) ⛧ @powerhdeleon]

Hay una corriente que cree que la IA es todo poderosa, que puede hacer absolutamente todo, esta corriente parece una secta, y aseguro que pronto van a comenzar a adorar a la IA como un dios (o ya). También estos mismos si ven a otro usando IA, creen que no son dignos de usarla.

[Alan @bitforth]

@BenyaminHolley The issue I have with AI writing is how repetitive and monotone it can be. It’s always the rule of three, everywhere.

Everything follows the same rigid structure all the time. Even when you tell it to not do it.

[Alan @bitforth]

@BenyaminHolley Corposlop never fails. Even C-3PO doesn’t want to read it.

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

Who’s going to tell the old school coders that there’s going to be nothing but vibe coding in like 6 months. All companies will need are people who can describe what they want properly, and someone to look it over. These tweets that make vibe coding seem stupid, are naive.

[Alan @bitforth]

@rpenacastro Yep. Yo tengo ChatGPT 500, Claude 200 y Claude enterprise lol y con API cuando llego a mi límite semanal en 2 días

[Alan @bitforth]

Si le enseñan el video de harambe a sus hijos antes de ir al zoológico y les dicen que avientan a los niños que no se portan bien con los gorilas van a tener un lindo paseo familiar 👍

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

If men went to therapy we'd never have flying cars