Chris Williams

Engineering Nerd | Opinions are mine and mine only #GBR 🎈

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

True

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

Poetry.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

We hired a new VP of Engineering who is obsessed with agile methodology.

He called a meeting on his first day and said we need to transition to 2-week development sprints.

He wanted daily stand-ups, retrospective boards, and continuous deployment pipelines.

He wanted us to actually write new code.

I realized immediately that he was an existential threat to my lifestyle.

I let him finish his impassioned speech about workflow velocity.

Then I stood up, walked to the whiteboard, and drew a single horizontal line.

I told him agile sprints are a localized solution for a localized mindset.

I said our infrastructure operates on a Zenith Release Cycle.

He asked what a Zenith Release Cycle was.

I told him it's a holistic, macro-stabilization framework where we observe the system in a state of prolonged stasis.

By not touching the code for 18 months, we allow the legacy dependencies to organically settle.

I told him that deploying bi-weekly updates creates micro-abrasions in our database architecture.

I used the phrase chronological data scarring.

The CEO was in the room and audibly gasped.

He told the new VP that we can't risk chronological data scarring just to satisfy a trendy tech buzzword.

The VP looked at me like I'd just invented a new color.

He was completely paralyzed by the sheer density of my fabricated jargon.

He quietly agreed to adopt the Zenith Release Cycle.

We're officially scheduled to deploy our next update in the third quarter of 2027.

I spent the rest of the afternoon buying things I don't need on Amazon.

Agile is a disease invented by people who want to be punished for their salary.

I refuse to participate in my own suffering.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

This a dumb generalization. You know better.

The best parents I’ve seen (I have 4 kids and know a lot of parents) have been:

- Politically independent
- Marital status irrelevant
- Late/early in life irrelevant
- Had firm boundaries/expectations
- Were high in openness and low in neuroticism

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@llozano1366270l @mtaibbi European nations still had African colonies (with slaves/forced labor) in the 50s. Essentially 1/3 of French households didn’t have electricity in the 50s. Who are we being compared to? We’ve been more advanced/progressive/innovative by any measure for close to 150 years.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document ever produced by man. It’s no coincidence that it was the founding document of our nation and we went on to be the most prosperous civilization in human history. Any country founded on that document is worth loving and fighting to save.

It is also, undeniably, a radically libertarian document that clearly states the validity of natural God given rights and that the only legitimate role for government is the protection of liberty.

We have serious problems in our country today and we will be much better off if we follow the spirit of our founding document than the brain dead varying socialisms being promoted by both political parties.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@avidseries I find it no more unsettling or abnormal than whiskey collections, baseball cards, knives/swords, antiques, cars etc.

I think anyone with massive collections has some sort of abnormal compulsion.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

He doesn’t understand America. No one — no one! — who believes America is exceptional thinks so because we are “richer.” We’re not Qatar. We are exceptional because we are built on a covenant that establishes liberty as our basic principle. That’s exactly what he wants to change.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@annbauerwriter @mitchpberg I think fireworks are emblematic of the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. Many of those come with great responsibility (firearms, speech etc).

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@annbauerwriter @mitchpberg Rare bad take from you :) Happy Independence Day just the same.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@FreeAsCanBeOG Stick to TikTok. Clown...

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

I know you didn't, I felt the need to conclude the argument though.

I posited that there is no evidence of excess mortality immediately rising as a result of policies implemented 18 months ago, that we were told would kill hundreds of thousands to millions of people.

You respond that one child's death and a handful of stories of others are evidence that it's happening.

Sure. I started by saying I'm willing to believe there are some happening. The larger point is...

The number we are seeing doesn't appear to justify delivering billions of dollars of aid to those communities.

That may seem callous but you aren't on the hook for it. I am. You are free to contribute as much as you like to remedy the (apparently small number) of deaths you are hearing about. American Billionaires already send Billions there to address some of these issues.

Regardless DOGE suggesting that it be done, and then the executive branch of the US govt subsequently ending that aid...does not make Elon Musk morally culpable for any death that may occur from the termination of that aid.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@yacineMTB 10x more fun

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@elonmusk 100% I was an engineer at the company contracted by USAID to build/run ZunZuneo (Cuban twitter) with the explicit intention of destabilizing the Cuban regime.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@KyleClark @drewsexton23 I'm sure you have the same pair in your closet.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

So this is the point.

You would say that American Taxpayers must continue to provide 100s of Billions of dollars in AID to NGOs in Africa so that NOT ONE child dies.

The logical response is "if this is so important to you, how much are you contributing to save that child?"

Or do you just want to be charitable with my money?

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

I'm aware, and the point I responded to was that it's "not because of the cuts per se, but because their abrupt nature did not allow for timely alternate arrangements to be made".

So it's been over 18 months...and we have seen very little indication that the abrupt nature of the cuts caused immediate harm.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@mlonnroth @Gamboleer @jessesingal Right. That's what we have; anecdotes and predictions. What we don't have is any statistical evidence that it's happening at anywhere near the volumes predicted.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@TiffanyFong 66

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@Gamboleer @jessesingal Nice em dash.

So that's at least a coherent argument. However if that were a significant issue we would have seen some uptick in excess mortality immediately following the cuts. We didn't though. As of now all of these fatalities only appear in projections.

[Chris Williams @cwlms303]

@Brendan_F_Wendt @jessesingal Ehhh no. He also didn’t pay to have any of those people k!lled.