Boris Vulikh

Software engineer growing into product. Building with AI, writing about why things break. Espresso-powered, ADHD-wired.

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

Making a dent in the universe…

[DHH @dhh]

The age of agents belongs to Linux!

[💙Abir Kara אביר קארה @AbirKara2]

@AvielX266 @alexandertg57 @PZelekha אינשטיין אמר שיש שני דברים שהם אינסופיים היקום וטיפשות אנושית.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

AI has eaten tactical programming, so juniors need strategic experience in a low-blast-radius environment.

Here's one way to make that happen:

1. Give them responsibility over a large chunk of work
2. That work must be low stakes, but not no stakes - ideally an internal tool (AI makes these kinds of projects easy to justify)
3. Let them move fast and fail fast. Give them the same AI budgets as your senior engineers.
4. When failures happen, work with them to figure out what went wrong (learnings can also be pulled upwards into the rest of the org)

In a sentence:

Hire juniors. Give them work that matters. Watch them fail. Pick them up.

[DHH @dhh]

We have secured nearly TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN TOKENS from leading labs. Lead by @AIatMeta as Founding Token Patron and joined by @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @FireworksAI_HQ this is an incredible haul of pledged tokens. We will use them to FIX EVERYTHING 🤠 https://t.co/8nT9oJJCxJ

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

Hey X @Support , it seems that the login via the password is broken on Firefox. When clicking on the password option nothing happens.
Also, why do I need to click anything to have the password field visible? That's a clearly broken UX.

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

Update:
@t3dotcodes is off the hook. The blame is solely with Codex. T3 displays the context window size faithfully.
Codex 1M claim is somewhat misleading.
https://t.co/BhqhJi52ds

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

Does anyone know how to set Codex context size in @t3dotcodes to 1M, since it effectively ignores the model_context_window setting in ~/.codex/config.toml file?

I'm sure that I'm not the only one asking, but was it build like that on purpose?

[Eran Efrat @Eran_Efrat]

אני לא אומר סתם.
אביר זאת מכונה לפיצוח בירוקרטיה וחסמי שוק.
ראיתי את זה בלייב אינספור פעמים.
תופעה.
אין היום מישהו בפוליטיקה הישראלית ברמה הזאת.
אף אחד.
יש הרבה שחושבים שהם ברמה הזאת, אבל אין להם שמץ של מושג.

[💙Abir Kara אביר קארה @AbirKara2]

מידע בונוס: אני סבור שבממשלה הבאה אנחנו חייבים להקים מחלקה/רשות לאומית למלחמה בהונאה והגנה על האזרח, שיודעת ללחוץ על כפתור אדום מול כל הגורמים להצליב מידע לרשות אחרי נוכלים ולהשיב כספים תוך 30 מרגע ההבנה שנגרם עוול או עוקץ זה אפשרי!

משטרה לא יכולה לעשות את זה זו התמחות מיוחדת בהונאות, גניבת זהות וכן הלאה, למשטרת ישראל אין את היכולת בלחיצת כפתור למנוע הונאות אין לה כפתור שיכול להשפיע מצב במקרה שבו נלקחו הלוואות על חשבון קורבנות אין לה את היכולת לתאם ולקשר בין כל המערכות, בתי משפט, בנקים, גופי אשראי, משטרה, יצוג לקורבנות.
אנחנו צריכים מערך שמייצג קורבנות ומלווה אותם מרגע העקיצה ועד השבת הכספים בפועל,
רשות שמפעילה משרדי חקירות פרטיים, יודעת להתריע בזמן אמת עוד מרגע שקיבלת פנייה או שילמת לעוקץ, אנחנו צריכים להיות צעד לפני הנוכלים. זה אפשרי!

[Idan Eretz @Idaneretz]

הכנסת אישרה בוועדת ההסכמות של הקואליציה והאופוזיציה את הצעת החוק שיזם @AbirKara2 להגבלת תביעות ייצוגיות נגד עסקים קטנים.

עסקים עם מחזור עד 2 מיליון יהיו מוגנים, ועסקים עד 20 מיליון יקבלו זכות תיקון עם פיצוי מוקטן.

היכולת של אביר ליזום ולנצח פשוט מדהימה. מי יזכה בו ברשימה לכנסת?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Special Message from the Office of Approved Opinions Regarding the Ceuta Incident

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

The Hypocrisy of the Left & Pro-Palis When It Comes To Spain 🇪🇸

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

@BoyGeorge Thank you. We will dance again!

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Boris has some really good recommendations for engineers who like to optimize their work. It was so good I had to do a video about it!

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Would be easy to say NY Mayor is just an ignorant bigot, but he is not dumb. He's an evil anti-Semite who deliberately lies about serious things like "genocide" to stoke Jew hate. If anyone should be arrested, it's the Mayor of NY for incitement. NYC should be ashamed.

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

Watched a cashier scan the same yogurt 5 times when a "×5" button sat right there.

Assumed bad software. The manager set me straight.

Some friction is waste. Some is load-bearing.

https://t.co/4bWiaaWwtO

[Boris Vulikh @BorisVulikh]

@peterrhague Fine plus impounding the bike.
Make him responsible to pay for any damage for years to come if he actually hits someone. Psychologically this prospect is scarier than jail for this age group.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

🚨BREAKING: The IDF found and destroyed another two underground terror tunnels, each 200 meters long, in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah, like Hamas, built terror tunnels to kidnap and murder Jews.Share this.

The mainstream media won't.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?