Borja

VP, Product Engineering @Citi

[Borja @borjadotai]

@paw_lean @OpenAI Let’s gooooo 🚀

[Borja @borjadotai]

@levelsio @Cloudflare I feel the same about Spain, having left the country young and having come back now after living in the UK for a long time, seems like such a wasted potential. An incredible country and place to be in so many dimensions but so behind, slow and promoting the wrong mentality.

[Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ @CoinbaseDev]

We are excited to introduce x402–a new open source payments protocol built on HTTP rails.

Let’s break it down:

[Shayan @ImSh4yy]

I'm extremely grateful that I got to learn programming the hard way before AI.

[Borja @borjadotai]

@robjtede It isnt, car subscriptions are popping 😁

[Borja @borjadotai]

@PandelisZ yessss sir 🫡

[Borja @borjadotai]

@World2FlyHelp Customer service team said they didn’t know, refused to let us speak with a manager and hanged up on us.

[T. Costa @tcosta]

Last week, we launched our latest feature page. But just a month ago, it was only an idea.

Here’s the creative process from draft to final product 🧵

(1/10)

[Borja @borjadotai]

@robjtede @msdev @msdevUK Well deserved!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Actually, really liked the Apple Intelligence announcement. It must be a very exciting time at Apple as they layer AI on top of the entire OS. A few of the major themes.

Step 1 Multimodal I/O. Enable text/audio/image/video capability, both read and write. These are the native human APIs, so to speak.
Step 2 Agentic. Allow all parts of the OS and apps to inter-operate via "function calling"; kernel process LLM that can schedule and coordinate work across them given user queries.
Step 3 Frictionless. Fully integrate these features in a highly frictionless, fast, "always on", and contextual way. No going around copy pasting information, prompt engineering, or etc. Adapt the UI accordingly.
Step 4 Initiative. Don't perform a task given a prompt, anticipate the prompt, suggest, initiate.
Step 5 Delegation hierarchy. Move as much intelligence as you can on device (Apple Silicon very helpful and well-suited), but allow optional dispatch of work to cloud.
Step 6 Modularity. Allow the OS to access and support an entire and growing ecosystem of LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT announcement).
Step 7 Privacy. <3

We're quickly heading into a world where you can open up your phone and just say stuff. It talks back and it knows you. And it just works. Super exciting and as a user, quite looking forward to it.

[Bartłomiej Cupiał @CupiaBart]

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.

Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Today I learned that Steve Jobs created the podcast

[Jon Church @jonchurch]

Wow, HTTP QUERY landed in Node.js 21.7.2

GET with request body 🤯

[Borja @borjadotai]

@nicocary Let’s gooooo

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

Can't believe I got this working 🤯

Live preview of a Blender scene with the Vision Pro.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# automating software engineering

In my mind, automating software engineering will look similar to automating driving. E.g. in self-driving the progression of increasing autonomy and higher abstraction looks something like:

1. first the human performs all driving actions manually
2. then the AI helps keep the lane
3. then it slows for the car ahead
4. then it also does lane changes and takes forks
5. then it also stops at signs/lights and takes turns
6. eventually you take a feature complete solution and grind on the quality until you achieve full self-driving.

There is a progression of the AI doing more and the human doing less, but still providing oversight. In Software engineering, the progression is shaping up similar:

1. first the human writes the code manually
2. then GitHub Copilot autocompletes a few lines
3. then ChatGPT writes chunks of code
4. then you move to larger and larger code diffs (e.g. Cursor copilot++ style, nice demo here https://t.co/u8ueY0mGxZ)
5....
Devin is an impressive demo of what perhaps follows next: coordinating a number of tools that a developer needs to string together to write code: a Terminal, a Browser, a Code editor, etc., and human oversight that moves to increasingly higher level of abstraction.

There is a lot of work not just on the AI part but also the UI/UX part. How does a human provide oversight? What are they looking at? How do they nudge the AI down a different path? How do they debug what went wrong? It is very likely that we will have to change up the code editor, substantially.

In any case, software engineering is on track to change substantially. And it will look a lot more like supervising the automation, while pitching in high-level commands, ideas or progression strategies, in English.

Good luck to the team!

[Borja @borjadotai]

@craftworkdesign Slam

[Borja @borjadotai]

@pontusab @middayai @viktorhofte Will the code base be open source? Lots of gems in there from what you’ve shared!

[Borja @borjadotai]

Do I know anyone who's a lates and greatest @nextjs expert? I'm getting stupid slow load times when navigating across pages using Next14 with app router and RSCs and I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong or RSCs and app router just isn't there...