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[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

“Vibe code cleanup specialist”

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

During Toy Story 2 (1999), Pixar accidentally erased about 90% of the movie with a single command. The studio backups failed. The film survived only because an employee on maternity leave had a copy saved at home. Pixar later called it a miracle.

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

I just got a "You're (mostly) right."

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

Spent the entire weekend reading about differential dataflow

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

I just found Yales entire academic course on Game Theory.

This might be the most important Lecture Series you ever watch:

[Neil Chudleigh @neilsuperduper]

my son asked me, dad why don't people build UI like this anymore.

slowly i turned to him, and told him the uncomfortable truth.

"we can't, we dont know how to do it."

[chris @cwamidon]

To absolutely nobody's surprise: I hate this with every fiber of my being and think the investors should be ashamed of themselves.

Cluely—you should read their manifesto, linked below —is a grotesque distortion of what technology is supposed to enable.

It doesn’t celebrate innovation. It glamorizes laziness, intellectual theft, and a nihilistic worldview that mistakes shortcuts for success.

1. A Manifesto for Mediocrity
“We want to cheat on everything.”

This is not a bold vision. It’s a surrender. Rather than using technology to elevate human capability, Cluely tells you to stop trying altogether. It weaponizes defeatism—don’t strive, don’t learn, don’t build—just “win” by outsourcing your mind to a machine. It’s not ambition; it’s an abdication of responsibility.

2. Intellectual Cowardice as a Brand
“Feeds you answers in real time. While others guess – you’re already right.”

This pretends to be about performance, but it’s built on fear. Fear of being wrong. Fear of thinking. Fear of wrestling with hard problems. The tool is marketed not as a partner in exploration, but as a crutch to avoid effort. And they have the gall to compare it to a calculator or spellcheck—tools that assist thinking, not replace it.

3. Rebranding Cheating as “Leverage”
“The future won’t reward effort. It’ll reward leverage.”

This is Silicon Valley rot at its worst. Strip away the euphemism and what you’re left with is a doctrine that effort, integrity, and expertise are obsolete. Just find the newest shiny object and ride it to the top. This is the logic of Ponzi schemes and tech grifters—not builders, not scientists, not leaders.

4. Equating Ubiquity with Morality
“Because when everyone does, no one is.”

This is the most cowardly line of all. It’s the ethical equivalent of looting and justifying it by pointing at the crowd. “If everyone lies, lying is normal.” But ubiquity doesn’t erase harm. It magnifies it. And when technology becomes an arms race of who can cheat better, the only losers are those who still believe in the value of learning, trust, and mastery.

5. Nihilism Disguised as Disruption
This isn’t visionary. It’s cynical. It asks nothing of the user—no growth, no improvement, no principles. Just passive consumption. And in doing so, it turns the human being into a vessel for software prompts.

If Cluely wins, the future will be filled with people who can parrot perfect answers they didn’t write, understand, or care about. A world of hollow competence. No thinking. No originality. No soul.

I hope it's not the world we end up with. We deserve and can do better than this.

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

I think about this take regularly, and I agree 100%

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Steve Jobs talks about how worthless consultants are

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

@jamonholmgren @AIrunmole It seems like Legend State will have to deprecate `get()` in favor of useSelector hook (as hooks don't get memoized), I love the freedom of mobx that I don't have to write any selectors, but apparently this will have to change 😔

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

16 months into 6 months away from AI stealing your job, but trust me bro, o1 makes your job so over, you are just one prompt from being jobless, wifeless, homeless, kidless, catless, and KEKWless

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

@MSTjavascript @thegedge @harrybrundage @gadget_dev Question, there's no typescript errors in 7.0.0-pre.2 for the following code, did we lose inference in the create?

[effectfully @effectfully]

whether you like it or not

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

That's bad

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Apple Removes Ability to Easily Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1

Big Tech's war against "sideloading" continues. With Microsoft and Google not far behind.

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

@Saadeghi In material 3, that would be called “tonal”

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

This the wagyu of shrimps

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

@yetone Amazing, can’t wait to try it, (love those neovide cursor animations 😍)

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

@BTCMax21 @jack Damus / Nostur

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

So happy, I haven’t flown my drone in a long time, managed to get this photo today 😍

#photography #drone #bali

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

Frying my brain on xstate right now

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

@jamonholmgren Last time I used RN was in 2018, is there a good native navigation now? Is that project from wix mature?

[Cesar Dias @cesrdias]

Yay, finally 🎉

[EGOIST @localhost_5173]

TypeScript finally fixed this