Robin

Short term optimist, long term pessimist 🏳️‍🌈(he/they). Better programmer than geohot™️. Rage bait and annoying people instantly blocked.

[ardnin @ardnin_]

Over the course of history, when old people complained about new tech like books, phones and the Internet, their worries were obviously unjustified.

So conversely, the fact that old people today don't see a danger in AI means that it actually is extremely dangerous

[Leila Clark @leilavclark]

incredible.

[Nora Rawn @norabird]

Best way to describe GLP-1s for me is that it allows for the distance to objectively evaluate your food options instead of being driven to eat them even when they’re not worth it. The French seem to have this ability innately but I fear I do not

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Even the All-In guys seem to have given up on "super intelligence"

@jdcapelouto

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

@smileyborg What about Apple engineers at hinge

[Your BMs DM 🎲 @RoninOTS]

Who trying to run this? I’m dead serious.

[Eklavya @Eklavya520]

‘Nude selfies for loans’ scandal sheds light on China’s rampant underground banking

Young women college students in China who were forced to hand over naked selfies to ensure they would pay money back to loan sharks.

[Victoria @VictoriqueM]

Fuck you vibe coders, fuck you ai devs. This is the exact shit you deserve. You make some dogshit. It runs, you don't look at the code cos you're a brain dead troglodyte and assume it works fine.

I've had so many cases of this happening to me in my code when someone tried to submit ai prs!

One of them just wiped out the entire validation service to "make it faster"

[Public Transit Nerd @takatakha]

That's because tech campuses are handful of places in vishwaguru that offer a safe walking space/environment.

[Sam 🏳️‍🌈 🚉 🎸 @flpcharthiatus]

The uncomfortable truth is that mass private vehicle ownership is impossible with modern population & urban density

There simply isn't room for everyone to store a car at their home address, drive it on a road, and store it at their destination

It's not 'wokery' - it's geometry

[Vin J @ini2vinit]

The real issue with these 'day in the life' videos isn't just showing off the perks - it’s how that lifestyle is weaponized. Until 10 or 15 years ago, when big tech tech companies brought US-level perks to India, almost no one had access to these kinds of jobs. Even now, only the top 1% get to experience it. The problem is when some people in that 1% flaunts this lifestyle to the other 99% who are hungry for opportunity and desperate to break in. When aspirants reach out for guidance, these creators sell them pipe dreams, LeetCode courses, and Topmate packages, profiting off the desperation of the very people they claim to help.

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

(This is also why modern London is one of the best places to live, you can just opt out of most status games and live your life)

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

chasing status is the worst thing you can do to yourself.

[Andrew Wilkins @Awilks679]

This is another epic article from a woman who went to Columbia, landed "her dream job" and then left it all behind to get into sales.

It's insane how consistent the themes are across high performers who go into these "prestigious" jobs.

1. Status had been a HUGE part of what drove her her entire life (she talks about the "glow in people's eyes" when she told them she went to Columbia.

2. She had a bunch of scattered interests so a job in consulting that would allow her to do a bunch of things was appealing and it also kept the veneer intact of being super impressive (which was a massive part of her identity).

3. At first the job was great, and she loved telling people what she did (she'd send pics to groupchats of insane lunches, trips etc.)

4. Inside she started to question whether she was actually adding value and whether she even liked what she was doing. She felt like she was barely using her brain/pushing herself, BUT the external image she could project to ppl kept her there.

5. After a lot of thought, she made an insanely scary decision and quit to get into sales (I wanted to hear more about the process of making this decision...she didn't really get into it).

6. Sales SUCKED at first. It was hard, she was bad at it, and was even embarrassed to tell her peers she was in "sales" bc it has a stigma attached to it.

7. HOWEVER things changed when she started closing business. As dollars began coming in that were directly attributed to her actions, she felt a sense of pride the "prestigious path NEVER gave her. In her words -->

"It wasn’t until I closed my first deal that my mental framework began to shift. I remember strutting over to my manager’s desk and banging on the gong. I DID THAT! Wow, it feels great to own your outcomes. And then, HOLY SH*T, I got it wrong this whole time. Prestige means work you’re proud of, not work others are impressed by."

SO awesome.

We need more stories like this.

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

Yaar ye Malhotra log

[Mohit Pandey @pandeymohitt]

Say what???

[Channing Allen @ChanningAllen]

RIP user interfaces?

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

@NCResq honestly, don't?

[Daniel Tan @DanielCHTan97]

So tl;dr
1. OpenAI is power-seeking, and pretty transparent about this
2. Anthropic is power-seeking but tries to appear as if they are good

This "overt" and "covert" misalignment is reflected in GPT and Claude respectively https://t.co/hgBzO1QOMD

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

having the world's most tired looking man present your product/method is like, anti-marketing lol. You need a guy swigging whisky and a cigarette waxing poetic, not tech bro slop

[Guillermo Flor @guilleflorvs]

Revolut's designers are moving off Figma.

Storonsky spotted one team designing much faster than the others. What they did:

1. Gave an LLM Revolut's design system at the code level
2. Prompted it to build new flows on top of that system
3. Got a live interface they can click through on a laptop or phone, instead of static frames

Result: 3-4x faster. Now he's pushing it to every designer at Revolut.

His job, as he describes it: find what works in one team and spread it across the company.

Full breakdown here:
https://t.co/3hEUv4r84n

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

@GergelyOrosz @mitsuhiko It’s a bit weird too: lots of the empowered devs (myself included) wasted lots of time in 2025 trying out software factories and not adding business value, while people who were more “use agents as autocomplete” may have done better. The former group now has to regain trust.

[Rebane @rebane2001]

hope this helps