Shreya

she's all that and a bag of chips

🌌 one track mind, many trains of thought

🎶 off-key kazoo 🎶

[Shreya @discountdali]

@gdgcblr at the DeployFest hackathon. This is how it started...

[Shreya @discountdali]

Almost done...

[Shreya @discountdali]

@gdgcblr Look at these tabs...

[X @X]

the last thing my bangers see before being posted

[Shreya @discountdali]

At #WTFbyMarmeto, the conversation got me thinking about ai tells that make me want to close my tab. It's sentences like this 👇

"It's not just evident - it's also highly obvious."

[Joe Reeve - 🇬🇧/acc @isnit0]

Since I posted this video, I've had three different people representing various groups of museums reach out to me asking to collaborate.

The app took 2 hours to vibe-code on Sunday afternoon.

We're so early / You can just do stuff / build in public

[Neil Zeghidour @neilzegh]

Me defending my O(n^3) solution to the coding interviewer.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Most valuable thing I learned from a senior engineer:

How to read a codebase you've never seen.

1. Find where requests come in
2. Follow one path end to end
3. Map the data flow, ignore the logic
4. Only then zoom into the details

Took them 10 minutes to teach. Saved me years of fumbling.

Some skills are so fundamental we forget they need to be taught explicitly.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

This is nothing. I LITERALLY created an agent to replace my entire family during the holidays:

.claude/
- agents/
- daughters/
- snack-negotiator[.]md
- why-asker[.]md
- sibling-conflict-instigator[.]md
- screen-time-lobbyist[.]md
- spouse/
- calendar-synchronizer[.]md
- dinner-decider[.]md
- social-commitment-rememberer[.]md
- gentle-reality-checker[.]md
- parents/
- unsolicited-advice-generator[.]md
- guilt-trip-scheduler[.]md
- grandkid-spoiler[.]md

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[sysls @systematicls]

Career Alpha: Of all the most right tail outcome people I have met, a common thread tying them together is a confidence bordering on insane that they can achieve anything, learn anything, do anything.

I believe it’s this specific trait that allows them to jump into the abyss for any task or project, no matter how gargantuan or seemingly impossible it is.

Of course, most people won’t make it and achieve the right tail outcomes, so you can save your airplane memes. But without this confidence you never give yourself the lottery ticket of overachievement anyway.

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Yup

[Vacha @TVachaW]

A useful exercise in relating to emotions skilfully is treating them like animals in a documentary we are filming.

We start by making ourselves very quiet and still so that they are undisturbed by our presence.

We make ourselves alert so we can notice small details about how they act.

Then, we investigate what they are and how they behave.

Starting with a completely open mind and deep curiosity.

If, for example, anger arises, we don’t just think “ah that’s anger” and assume it means we should do a bunch of angry actions.

A good documentarian doesn’t participate in the dramas of the animals or become identified with their struggles.

Likewise, with the emotions.

Instead, we notice their shape and texture.

We notice how they move.

We notice how they interact with the other feelings and thoughts in our internal ecosystem.

We let them express their nature without interfering or getting involved.

Just as a documentarian may watch two lions fighting without going in to try and break the fight up.

The more we get to know emotions in this way, the less they become our masters.

Then our emotions can become like animals in a show we are directing, rather than making our lives a show that they direct.

[Shreya @discountdali]

I’ve spent the last year watching enterprises go from let’s automate tasks → let’s give agents business goals & let them figure it out.
if you’re in #Hyderabad on Dec 6, come be a part of the #agenticworkflows conversation

👇👇👇Signup here
https://t.co/mX1oijq1P0

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

I genuinely do wonder if I get a different experience to most users, since coding agents know who I am

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good