Alade Yessoufou

Software engineer | Creative problem solver, built

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

"Engineering, product, and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"

Yeah... I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.

Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles, someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main Thing™

That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad, but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.

AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet... you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.

The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair, sometimes this is true! Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.

However, it is going to be incredibly hard to disrupt the extremely human parts of corporate jobs. You really think there's going to be a PM who also does some engineering and design on the side at JPMorgan Chase?

This is true for the simple parts of most jobs, like people wanting to have ownership over something and do good work, move up a career ladder, support their family, get paid well, make an honest living...

And also the hard parts: internal politics, some critical business system that has a bus factor of 1 which has been running for 15 years and isn't documented anywhere because it's that guy's job security. The real world has a lot of this stuff.

It's easy to pontificate about all roles collapsing but it's actually really nice to have a specific person or team who is an expert in one thing that you can work with. I don't expect that to change. Further, I think AI disruption to knowledge work will take decades to play out because it is more fundamental to the human condition (e.g. sociological/organizational) than pure intelligence.

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@DanielSmidstrup Selling

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

https://t.co/7HgbIBXhRJ auth page.
This is the real KISS

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

Just can't trust those benchmark

[MiniMax (official) @MiniMax_AI]

Introducing MiniMax M3: The First Open-Weights Model to Combine Three Frontier Capabilities

- Coding & Agentic Frontier: 59.0% SWE-Bench Pro, 66.0% Terminal Bench 2.1, 34.8% SWE-fficiency, 28.8% KernelBench Hard, 74.2% MCP Atlas
- MiniMax Sparse Attention scales context to 1M
- Natively Multimodal from Step Zero

API: https://t.co/fHRdSV7BwZ
Token Plan: https://t.co/BDCycxepZw
🚀New! MiniMax Code: https://t.co/GvB4YiB6Ul

Weights & Tech Report in ~10 Days

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

Minimax 3 just one shot this. I used one of @LexnLin prompt
@MiniMax_AI

[Leon Lin @LexnLin]

Seeems promising.

But unfortunately can't trust benchmarks anymore. I only trust @datacurve

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@LexnLin @datacurve Waitin for deepswe benchmark

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@prathamdby @LexnLin @datacurve You build this with minimax ?

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@cabrerajelias I don't use opensource model anymore because they do take time do thing.

Might try them in December

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@shadcn They don't mention the maintenance part.

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

Opus 4.7 / GPT 5.5 prepare the prompt and composer 2.5 execute.
I love the speed of composer 2.5

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@sflorimm I've run 10 sub agents in parallel

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

https://t.co/RH1XsUYpZC

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

With ShipNode, you can deploy your changes on a Friday; if you notice that you’ve shipped a bug, you can just roll back.

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@webadderall @ricouii Just deploy your app to cloudflare page and they will give you one by default.

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

don't want to post for posting.

[X @X]

all you have to do is start posting

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@DavidOndrej1 Fall behind you ?

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

@mikeysee Kimi K2

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

Need to watch this podcast

[C.NASIR @CNASIR2_0]

This is peak engineering.

@thdxr you were on fire on that podcast. Really enjoyed it.

[Alade Yessoufou @dev_alade]

Backend > I can do frontend. I don't need a frontend guy anymore
Frontend > I can do backend, I don't need to a backend guy anymore

[Edgar Allen Poe 🇬🇲 @allenakinkunle]

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