Clayton Castro

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[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

It's 2026 and your CEO just sent you a 2,400 line pull request.

You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.

It's a disaster. A dozen unrelated refactors. Unused methods with names like `convertFromBase10` and `normalizeBeforeSerialization`.

You catch a few hardcoded API keys, but that's ok. It's part of the dance. They didn't consider that someone might look at this diff. Here's a comment buddy.

They respond in an hour (after Copilot, qodo, CodeRabbit and Greptile finish their reviews) saying we shouldn't worry about "implementation details" anymore, those are relics of the past. Hey let's jump into a room and figure it out. We can't just agree to disagree, this is probably my last job in tech and I can't watch this fucker burn the place to the ground.

The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of apathy and dread with Hannah the intern (she has to review his AI generated social media posts ever since Grok got too imaginative).

That night you go to sleep and have nightmares of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids.

You go to work the next day ready to quit. You no longer understand the system. There is no foundation. Time to use those savings and an SBA loan to buy a liquor store and never login to GitHub again.

[stupid tech takes @stupidtechtakes]

if this is surprising, you know nothing about big tech companies

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

@t_blom Nobody is afraid, it’s particularly your yc child labor camp bs that nobody has appetite for anymore

The focus should be the product, not your inflated arr metrics luring investors into your circlejerk fraud ring

Your mentality is repulsive and everyone is sick of it

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

If you are born into a family with financial security I actually think dedicating your life to actively trying to help people is probably the best you could do.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

I don’t know how many Muslims are in this guy’s district. I know there are tens of thousands in mine. They are parents. Entrepreneurs. Police officers. The firefighter-paramedic giving CPR to save your life.

They are us.

They are American.

This tweet is NOT American.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

[ayyyesha @ayesha4t]

this kid was someone’s whole world

when you think of each kid that was killed by america and israel, you have to imagine how many worlds they killed and the generations of trauma they created

if it happened to americans or israelis, they wouldn’t shut up about it for 100 years

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor”—Tupac

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

the only way I can interpret this vote is that congress is full of people in power using sex as leverage. Whether for status, promotions, or votes. There is *no* other reason to hide this information from the public.

Congress has a $18,000,000 dollar *PRIVATE* slush fund to pay off sexual harassment claims and we the people aren't allowed to know anything about it? LOOK AT THAT VOTE. 357 to 65. WTF.

Id like to file a claim of my own cuz as citizens we are getting f*cked.

[CangurSediciós ✯☭ 🇨🇺🇵🇸🇪🇭🇱🇧🇷🇺🇨🇳🇷🇸🔻🦘 @CangurSedicios]

I still can’t process the fact the White House is openly boasting of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and against the law of the sea. 200 young men returning from a ceremonial naval exercise thousands of nautical miles away from the conflict zone, a ship with no active weapons as it was in India on an invitation to participate in a naval event/festivity which includes sporting events between sailors, last thing they would expect is to be a military target. Not only attacked and sunk but then left to drown, Nazi U-Boats would help rescue the sailors of the ships they sank, when the British and Spanish sank each other’s galleons and frigates they would pull the sailors out of the water and leave them at the nearest port… it is an age old law amongst seamen and also part of the Geneva Convention

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu is the extremist who killed 75,000 in Gaza.

The extremist who said invading Iraq would create "enormous positive reverberations."

The extremist who has pushed U.S. presidents to go to war with Iran for decades.

Finally, he found a President who said yes.

Tragic.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.

Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.

Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.

And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.

Yes, this is oligarchy.

[Neet @neet_sol]

LinkedIn is only a few days away from obtaining a nuclear weapon

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Ohhh. @JDVance did it.
They hate JD. They don’t ever want him to be President. So now that they fucked up so bad and they are getting our military members killed for Israel, it’s JD’s fault.
Not Trump’s fault. Or any of the neocons screaming 24/7 in his ear.
What’s the truth?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The administration admits 🇮🇱 dragged us into the 🇮🇷 war that’s already cost too many American lives and billions of dollars. Before it’s over, the price of gas, groceries, and virtually everything else is going to go up. The only winners in 🇺🇸 are defense company shareholders.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran.

Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.

Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.

These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?

Does anyone really believe that?

[Jack J @Jack_Frodo]

the prius that just cut me off is days away from obtaining nuclear weapons

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how media lies to you in real time.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.