Michael Johnson

Lead Data Scientist, deep learning, nlp, father of 4. YouTube: DataMike

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@garybasin Have you tried herdr? Had is own message plane

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@samuelcolvin @united Just connect with your phone and enable the hotspot for your other devices. Saves you from multiple logins anyways.

[Jon Stokes @jon_stokes]

Confession: I thought "vibe coding" was a dumb X thing until I did it today with Claude Code and shipped an amazing refactor with it.

I've had my head in the problems with this code for over a week, so I could guide the model through the decision tree and really direct it and micromanage it in a way that actually felt like coding but on acid or something.

Anyway, $28.12 in tokens later, I have a 2,300 LOC PR that cleans up a ton of the app and is impossible to review without also using Claude Code to go through it and understand all the changes.

I just tried this method of code review, where I gave Claude Code a prompt like this:

"I'm on a branch and what I need is a complete code review for this branch. You'll need to diff it from `main`, examine all the changes, and then first give me an overview of all the changes in the code. Then ask if I have any questions or want to dive deeper on a particular change. Then you may have to walk me through specific changes. I also want to hear your opinion of the changes -- are they sensible, do they make the code better or worse and why, could they be improved, are there any coding standards in our app that they fail to meet, etc."

From there, it was basically like playing one of the Infocomm text-based adventures, where I just sort of explored around the PR, gathering even more insights and understanding even more of what was happening.

Anyway, TIL vibe coding is real, and if you're not doing it then you will lose to people who do. (Sorry, but these are the facts as of right now in 2025. If you're some sort of coding purist, you should plan to retire ASAP.)

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@teknium Windsurf had a riptide function that does this.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

New course to bring you up to state-of-the-art at using AI to help you code: Build Apps with Windsurf's AI Coding Agents, built in partnership with WIndsurf (@codeiumdev) and taught by @_anshulr!

AI-assisted IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) make developers’ workflows faster, more efficient, and much more fun. Agentic tools like Windsurf are more than just code autocomplete—they are collaborative coding agents that help you break down complex applications, iterate efficiently, and generate code that spans multiple files.

Although a lot of coding assistants share the same underlying large language models for planning and reasoning, a major point of distinction is how they handle tools, keep track of context, and stay aligned with your intent as a developer.

For instance, if you make modifications to a class definition in your code and make the same modifications to other classes in the same directory, you might tell the AI agent "Do the same thing in similar places in this directory." Here, tracking your intent means understanding that “the same thing" refers to that recent edit you just made, which must be followed by appropriate search and tool-calling to implement the changes.

In this course, you'll learn the inner workings of coding agents, their strengths and limitations, and how to use Windsurf to quickly build several applications.

In detail, you'll:
- Build a mental model of how agents work by combining human-action tracking, tool integration, and context awareness to carry out an agentic coding workflow.
- Learn the challenges of code search and discovery and how a multi-step retrieval approach helps coding agents address them.
- Use Windsurf to analyze and understand a large, old codebase and update it to the latest versions of the frameworks and packages it uses.
- Build a Wikipedia data analysis app that retrieves, parses, and analyzes word frequencies.
- Enhance the performance of your Wikipedia analysis app by adding caching, and through this, also learn how to course-correct when the AI agent produces unexpected results.
- Learn tips and tricks such as keyboard shortcuts, autocomplete, and @ mentions to quickly call on agentic capabilities.
- Use image/multimodal capabilities of the AI agent to increase your development velocity; you'll see an example of uploading a mockup with sketched-out UI features, and ask the agent to use that to build new functionality to an app.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand agentic coding in-depth and know how to use it to make your development process much faster, more efficient, and enjoyable.

Please sign up here! https://t.co/IhFB3IwHAh

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@christianrais77 Windsurf $15

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨 NEW: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will get rid of fact checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X.

They will also:

- Reduce restriction on discussing immigration and gender
- Loosen their censorship criteria filters.
- Start promoting political content on feeds again.
- Move their trust and safety and content moderation teams from CA to Texas.
- Work with Trump to push back on countries wanting to censor US citizens.

It’s a new era. Zuck is now with the program.

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@calleymeans @HealthRanger Have you ever heard any podcast they have been on? Seems like obviously no.

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

WOW: A study involving 1.7 million children has found that myocarditis and pericarditis only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines.

Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems.

This is absolutely shocking.

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@MilesSleeping 😭

[Yannic Kilcher 🇸🇨 @ykilcher]

A measured response to the recent Stanford hit piece on open-source AI: https://t.co/BGpMKbAEz0

[comma @comma_ai]

New comma three price, $1499! Blog post about it: https://t.co/Nlw5m3fUIu

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@metastabilian @eigensteve Book purchased!

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

Playing video games increases cognitive ability (especially working memory) while watching YouTube doesn't.
https://t.co/iRAMbNVJaP

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@paulg 100%. I didn't read fiction for 15 years because of how annoying English class was. When someone told me that books are primarily about complex ideas I found myself drawn to reading them.

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@paulg @lexfridman To be clear I thought this troll from Gary was a pathetic attempt at character assassination, likely born out of jealousy. I just wonder how many people saw it and bought in.

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@paulg @lexfridman Maybe this:

[Michael Johnson @data_mike_j]

@comma_ai This is so impressive. How many takes did it take to get there without intervention?

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️THERMONUCLEAR BAD—Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped. Epidemiologist estimate >60% of 🇨🇳 & 10% of Earth’s population likely infected over next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the start—🧵

[Dave Kline @dklineii]

It's not me. It's you.

Here's a simple playbook for handling underperforming employees: