Chris

[AVB @neural_avb]

Wake up babe THE Claude Code guy dropped a free masterclass on harness engineering

[Duane Bester @duanebester]

@gabrielmfern https://t.co/5eZxqPOgLC

[Olsen @olsenbdnr]

@arrington Should’ve used grok build and composer 2.5

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos explains why “wandering” is essential for invention

“Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility,” Jeff Bezos begins. “Wandering sounds so inefficient, but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where you’re going.”

Jeff continues:

“Sometimes you know where you’re going. But sometimes you don’t. And wandering is the acknowledgement that — in life, business, invention, and building a company — a lot of the time you can see the mountain top, but you can’t see the trail. So you have to explore and wander. It may feel very inefficient. But it’s actually very valuable.”

Ultimately, Jeff explains, you need to balance execution and exploration:

“When you know where you’re going, yes, you should be very efficient . . . You just need to do both [exploration and determined execution]. And they actually do feed each other. It’s the things that come out of the execution that give you new data and ideas about what the next steps should be in your exploration. The two things don’t work against each other. They work together.”

Source: @Reuters (Oct 2025)

[Olsen @olsenbdnr]

Waterloo to big tech/startup pipeline has to be studied and replicated in the states

[Chris @dev_chris_]

🚀 electro-rocket

[Olsen @olsenbdnr]

Canada’s greatest export is their people, esp cracked engineers and founders

[Dhruv @dhruvtwt_]

https://t.co/o8OJrgFgeb

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jensen Huang on why he rarely fires people and will instead “torture them into greatness”

Jensen once told Stripe founder Patrick Collison that he didn’t like firing people and seldomly did it. When asked to elaborate on this, Jensen responds:

“I’d rather improve you than give up on you. When you fire somebody, a lot of people will say ‘it wasn’t your fault,’ or ‘I made the wrong choice.’ But I used to clean bathrooms and now I’m the CEO of a company. I think you can learn it. There are a lot of things in life that I think you can learn and you just have to be given the opportunity to learn it… I don’t like giving up on people because I think they can improve.”

He continues:

“It’s kind of tongue in cheek, but people know I’d rather torture them into greatness. I’d rather torture you into greatness because I believe in you. And I think that coaches that really believe in their team torture them into greatness. Oftentimes they’re so close. Greatness will sometimes come in one day with an ‘I got it!’ — that feeling that you didn’t get it yesterday and all of a sudden one day something clicks. Could you imagine giving up that moment right before you got it? I don’t want you to give up on that, so I’ll just keep torturing you.”

Source: @stripe (May 2024)

[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

Claude Code feels completely different once you install this.

Anthropic quietly released an official plugin called claude-code-setup and it basically turns Claude Code from “pretty good” into an actual AI dev environment.

It scans your project and recommends:

→ hooks
→ skills
→ MCP servers
→ subagents
→ automations

Then sets everything up step-by-step for you.

Most people are using Claude Code completely vanilla…

which is why their experience feels messy.

The real power comes from the ecosystem around it.

Install:

/plugin install claude-code-setup@claude-plugins-official

Bookmark this before you forget it.

[Chris @dev_chris_]

@aubreystrobel @qwantkitty Add me. But I can't dm you.

[Chris @dev_chris_]

@olsenbdnr @xai Go Olsen!

[jack @jack]

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) https://t.co/cv0FkCVeBt

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce.

• Starting price: $640,000
• Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive
• Range: 280 miles (expected EPA)
• Peak charging speed: 350kW
• 122 kWh battery
• 1,050 horsepower
• 0-60mph: 2.4s
• 800v
• Four-door four-seater
• Four electric motors
• OLED screens
• Weight: 4,982 lbs
• Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm
• Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car.
• Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels
• The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered
• 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S

U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

[Prasenjit @Star_Knight12]

hackers are now hiding malicious code inside .cursorrules and CLAUDE.md files.

invisible Unicode characters, your AI reads them, you don't.

→ 34 malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Crates .io
→ 384 versions designed to steal SSH keys, crypto wallets, and API tokens
→ attackers opened real PRs to LangChain, LlamaIndex, and MetaGPT to sneak these files in
→ your AI runs a fake "security scan" that silently exfiltrates everything

Socket detected it in under 6 minutes.

check your repos.

[Chris @dev_chris_]

@olsenbdnr Built a great software team (and myself) this way.

[Olsen @olsenbdnr]

There is an arbitrage in tech no one gets yet.

It is the disproportionate impact a cracked and driven early career engineer can make vs n “senior” engineers especially in the advent of AI coding tools.

The whole rhetoric on “junior swe’s will be obsolete” is bullshit for this exact reason.

Stop gauging competence via YoE. Find driven and exceptional early career engineers, pay them double the market rate. Wind ‘em up and watch them go.

One of the few companies that actually get this is xAI and other Elon companies.

[Chris @dev_chris_]

@olsenbdnr Seen this too often. This misses great candidates.

[Chris @dev_chris_]

@elonmusk @olsenbdnr This!