Christian Kjær

Co-Founder/CTO at Yaay ( reimagining travel 🌞 •• ✍️ at •• 🧪 at ••

[shadcn @shadcn]

You know why I don’t buy the “everyone will build their own software” take?

I can build this. I have the tools. I know how (probably). But I don't want to.

I want someone else to to build it maintain it, and charge me for it.

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

Think I'm on like hour 5 of having cursor set up and validate Maestro end2end tests for our iOS App

Every test takes something like 2-10 min to run, so the iteration loop is super slow

Is there a faster tool than this out there? 😅

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

Tbh, quite worried that SpaceX is gonna end up in any index fonds I invest in

It is so crazy how they’ve dropped all the rules that are supposed to protect consumers from getting left holding the bag

More need to do this

[TNW @thenextweb]

A $25B fund just refused SpaceX at any price.
It says the company can't be worth more than $1T, half the $1.8T IPO target, and Musk's 85% control makes it impossible to fix from inside. https://t.co/j6sRxoAT08

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@LetsStopC9 I would like to say this “unreasonably outraged” me, but I actually think the reasonable reaction is the utter curb stomping of this guy

I cannot imagine someone doing this to my wife

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@LetsStopC9 Throw around a pregnant woman, you need to get absolutely fucking obliterated

Netherlands, arrest this piece of shit cop, or fuck out of the EU

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@LetsStopC9 A bit of a pan-European opinion

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@karrisaarinen I mean, there’s always been a disconnect from non-technical ppl, they just didn’t have a clear alternative path like AI before that misleads them this much

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@karrisaarinen A common trend I see in non-technical CEOs is a complete disconnect what how much work is involved in the technical ideas they have

So when AI came with hyped promises, they were desperate to point to it as their panacea for all their time and work problems

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@karrisaarinen I’ve seen it take quite some time to realize the canyon there is between quick AI prototype and actual product building, and usually it only comes if they start trying to build smth themselves and run into the walls

Only after that can they start thinking realistically about AI

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

The only thing worse than this post is the amount of ppl larping as hardcore software engineers because of a person not disabling sleep mode on their laptop 😅

[Bhavy☄️ @Bhavani_00007]

software engineers before vs after AI agents

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

Wasn’t basecamp spending something like $2M on S3 per year? Doubling that ain’t fun 😅

S3 gives you cross-region redundancy exactly so you don’t have to cover this case. Not well versed in GCP, but the cost of running duplicate file storage can be crazy expensive

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

Needing to plan for having backups on another cloud provider in your business continuity recovery plan was usually more of a “if the data centers burn down” kinda thing, and not exactly a “they’ll delete your account” kinda thing

Not a good look for GCP

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This wild.

Two years ago, Google deleted a large customer’s account: Unisuper, an Australian retirement savings fund.

It seems they now blocked an even larger customer, cloud provider Railway.

This kind of story you never hear with AWS, Azure, or even Oracle. GCP 👎

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

Like, you’ll normally make database backups across providers, but it’s not that normal to also replicate all your file storage as well, since that could amount to an enormous cost for duplicating that storage

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@zdeborova @eiszett As you should? They are a student, and your job is to teach/guide them

Quite a difference from that and then publishing the paper to the rest of the world as credible science. If we cannot trust the papers, the value of the publisher diminishes. Have to draw a line somewhere

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

@zdeborova @eiszett At the very least, the part I’m citing it for, yes? Ctrl-F is such a low bar to check that you are remembering correctly, and even lower if you are just checking something an LLM wrote for you in the first place

I’m confused why this crazy simple step is suddenly so hard?

[Christian Kjær @codetalkio]

The debate around this is so weird

Having written papers myself, I’m baffled how anyone could introduce a hallucination in citations

Citations are crucial for credibility, and publishing LLM slop should absolutely have consequences

No excuses

[Zeke Darwin @Zeke_Darwin]

If you leave AI hallucinations in your paper why would we trust anything else published in the paper?

There’s a difference between using AI to help you and copy/pasting AI’s words into a paper without even checking whether or not it’s accurate or entirely fabricated.

This is a big deal for a high school / college paper. It should be an even bigger deal for published research.

[Curtis @curtismakes]

@staysaasy miss when code review felt like gardening instead of customs inspection for a robot shipment

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I find myself doing a lot better work, being more satisfied, and also learn a lot more+faster when I do *the hard work* and don’t outsource it to AI.

As in, I’ll use AI as a *tool* with substasks, additional research: but I don’t turn off my brain or kick back, assuming it can do the work for me.

Every time I “hand over the” hard work part to AI and mentally turn off, I either regret it or find myself eventually needing to go back and spend more time on it.

I also see slop work coming out from people who assume the AI does better work than they would.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.