Drix

20 yo | software engineer at @impulselab_ai

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.

That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.

It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.

[Drix @drixares]

Am I the only one who lost all my connections to apps since the last @heliumbrowser update ?

I kept my pinned tabs but my extensions are gone.

@uwukko

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

when software had a soul

there was a moment around 2005 when using a Mac felt like touching something alive.

the dock bounced. the genie effect swooped. exposé scattered your windows like cards on a table. none of it was strictly necessary. all of it felt like someone cared – not about metrics, but about the feeling of using a machine.

software back then had texture. it had a philosophy. you could feel the person behind it. someone made a decision to make that icon beautiful, to animate that transition just so, to write that error message with a little warmth. apps had personalities. some were weird. some were over-designed in ways that would make a modern PM flinch. but they were alive.

the web was the same. personal sites were genuinely personal. blogs felt like letters. forums had regulars. you knew who made what. the internet had neighborhoods, and each one felt different.

nothing was optimized for scale. things were made by people who loved what they were making.

somewhere along the way, we traded all of that for growth.

A/B tests flattened the edges. design systems standardized the personality out. everything got faster, smoother, more consistent – and somehow less interesting. the quirks were removed because they didn't test well. the warmth got cut because it wasn't measurable. we optimized our way into a world of things that work perfectly and feel like nothing.
now every app looks the same. every interface follows the same patterns. every product speaks in the same calm, frictionless voice, siloed in their own little islands. the humanity got rounded off.

and then came AI agents. and the speed got inhuman.

now you can generate an entire product in an afternoon. ship a feature before lunch. spin up ten variations before anyone's had their coffee. the gap from idea to code is basically zero.

which sounds incredible. and it is. but there's a catch.

when making things are too easy, the slop comes for free too. mediocre things don't look obviously bad – they look fine. they work. they ship. they pass review. and now there are infinite of them. the internet is filling up with software that functions but means nothing. interfaces that are correct but feel dead. products made by agents, reviewed by no one, shipped into the void.

this is the thing that keeps me up at night. not that AI will replace people who care. but that it will drown them out.

here's what I still believe: the best things are made by people who couldn't help themselves. someone who lost sleep over an icon. who rewrote the same line of copy twelve times. who added an animation nobody asked for because it made the thing feel right. that obsession – that's not inefficiency. that's the whole point.

AI doesn't make that irrelevant. it actually makes it rarer and more valuable. taste is not a markdown skill. caring is not a parameter. the weird, specific, "soul" thing you put into something – that can't be programmed into existence.

the path forward isn't to make more slop faster. it's to finally give people with real vision the tools to make the thing they always imagined but couldn't build alone. the designer who had the idea but couldn't code. the kid who saw something nobody else saw. the person who cared too much about something most people wouldn't notice.

if we get this right, we don't get a faster factory. we get a renaissance. more strange, personal, opinionated software made by teams of people who care and mean it.

that's still possible. but only if the people who care get the space and tools to actually express themselves – and don't just hand the wheel to the agent and walk away.

[dax @thdxr]

man the responses to the new claude max limits are crazy

everyones expectations are so out of whack

it's kind of embarrassing to get this mad, i'd just be like damn ok i'll cancel

were you guys depending on this shit to keep your grandma alive i don't get it

[Wise @trikcode]

There’s a new kind of burnout now.

Not from working too much.

From trying to keep up
with tools, models, frameworks, launches,
and 600 people saying “it’s over” every morning.

[dax @thdxr]

sent this to the team today

everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible

and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

[Drix @drixares]

J'ai lâché twitter aujourd'hui, je reviens dessus à 20h30 et je vois une codex security, claude marketplace et shadcn cli/v4.

Peut-être que je pleure sur le poulet on sait pas

[Drix @drixares]

les gens qui s'énervent 1er deg sur un tweet qui n'attaque personne ou juste ne fait rien de mal il faudrait peut-être que vous sortiez prendre l'air

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

Watching Americans post about “WW3” when they have zero risk of death while I live in the middle east and could get wiped off the face of the earth tonight

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Drix @drixares]

@SxSad11 les 20O qui se connectent jamais il faut leur demander pourquoi, faut communiquer avec l'utilisateur pour mieux comprendre ces besoins

[Drix @drixares]

@thekitze

[Beka @bekacru]

Agentic Engineering > Vibe Coding

Let’s be professionals

[Drix @drixares]

@YGKere Je crois que t'as réveillé tous les fascistes dans les commentaires, c'est triste à voir.

[Drix @drixares]

@cpasdeslol_X "je fais ce que je veux, je te palpe si je veux" ??? On est où là ?

[Drix @drixares]

@Console_buche @Neolectron ça ressemble plus à des skills que tu veux du coup ? ça me fait penser que vercel à sorti ça aujourd'hui : https://t.co/SEBtyFLVcE

[Drix @drixares]

@ersadwork @alignui the timing is perfect, this will be available mid january ?

[Drix @drixares]

@simciub @JanaSunrise You know orpc is compatible with OpenAPI right ?

[Drix @drixares]

@hesselbom just curious to see how it's coded