David Liang

Software Engineer | AI, tech career and marketing | Always Building!

[David Liang @ddavidddev]

R reaches #8 on TIOBE, an all-time high. MATLAB close to dropping out of the top 20. SPSS already gone from the top 100. the stat programming world is just Python and R now whether the other languages like it or not

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VoidZero joining Cloudflare feels like the JS ecosystem finally admitting 47 bundlers was too many. now we find out if one standard actually holds or the fighting just moves somewhere else

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@amritwt so the other 95.4% are either still in the 'it's almost ready' phase or they launched and heard nothing. which camp are most of them actually in

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@sflorimm the 10% coding part is getting smaller every month too. soon it'll be 95% marketing and 5% arguing with the AI about semicolons

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someone made USB4 pretend to be InfiniBand and got 95 Gb/s between two mini PCs. the 2.5 GbE port on your board is now the bottleneck

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UC Berkeley CS classes are seeing failing grades spike and professors are pointing at AI usage. at what point does 'moving fast with AI' become 'not actually learning how anything works'

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@mattpocockuk this is the kind of thing that should be a pinned tweet in every AI coding tool repo

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@emollick which of those features do you actually use vs which ones did you try once and forget existed

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lscpu says 352KiB L1d, 10MiB L2, 12MiB L3 shared. cache line is 64 bytes. every single byte access pulls a full cache line. now go look at your struct padding

[David Liang @ddavidddev]

Elixir v1.20 just went gradually typed. three types of Elixir devs right now: 1. already adding types to every module 2. reading the docs carefully 3. pretending this release doesn't exist

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@jingconan the gap between the MVP screenshot and the actual codebase is where all the fun lives. ship the messy version, the clean version is a lie

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@ilblackdragon the spreadsheet-to-AI-interface shift is real but the messy middle is wild. half the team is still copy-pasting between tools that dont talk to each other

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32GB of DDR5 costs $375 now because AI is hoarding all the memory. are we just permanently done with affordable PC building or

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Uber's team blew through their AI budget in 4 months and nobody noticed until the card got declined. how fast is your team burning through tools nobody approved

[David Liang @ddavidddev]

20% of Codex users are non-devs now and that group is growing 3x faster. chart from OpenAI's own report shows knowledge work eating into what used to be a dev-only tool

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Microsoft just launched Scout which is basically OpenClaw as an actual Microsoft product. anyone tried it yet or are we in the screenshot-everything-else phase

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the SO survey says 70% of devs want GitHub for collaboration. Jira is at 42%. and somehow every enterprise still defaults to Jira

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three types of standups: 1. nothing changed, see you tomorrow 2. accidentally turned into a 45-minute architecture review 3. someone reading from a google doc word for word

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@AlexFinn this is basically a devops stack now except the servers are all AI models

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@rauchg the irony is half the teams using lots of AI are just bolting an llm onto a landing page and calling it a product