Dejan Strbad

I like the smell of napalm and coffee in the morning! | co-founder & CTO of @ascalia_io where real #AI meets #industry40 |

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@Ekaeoq So you're telling me you're 5 years late 🥲

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

NoLoRa turns a microcontroller’s SPI/I2S clock harmonics into real LoRa chirps that COTS 433 MHz receivers decode. Your MCU’s EMI is now a feature, crazy!

[Owen Brake @OwenBrakes]

NoLoRa: Team from Edinburgh demonstrated LoRa transmission on MCUs with no radio chips, by utilizing the 27th harmonic of the SPI peripheral

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@Ekaeoq @hthieblot game level, above insane

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

Mark Knopfler - Brothers In Arms HD - Royal Albert Hall 2019 SBD https://t.co/RW1yMQ1ofD via @YouTube

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

I think AI coding hype follows roughly four stages:

1. Amazement

You try it and can’t believe how much code it generates from a few prompts.

2. Expansion

You start more and more projects because shipping suddenly feels cheap and fast.

This is also the phase where people start convincing everyone around them:

- coworkers
- management
- friends in other companies

because nobody wants to “fall behind” in 6–12 months.

That creates a massive snowball/FOMO effect.

3. The grind phase

You realize the generated code has architectural issues, sloppy mistakes, weird abstractions, duplicated logic, broken edge cases, etc.

So you start:

- re-prompting
- switching models
- increasing reasoning effort
- reviewing fixes
- generating fixes for previous fixes

And suddenly you spend your days reviewing AI-generated pull requests instead of building software.

4. Realization

You realize AI coding increases output much faster than it increases certainty.

The code still needs:

- review
- testing
- ownership
- architectural understanding
- long-term maintenance

Usually by expensive senior engineers.

And the interesting thing is:
this whole cycle can take many months or even more than a year because people become socially and professionally invested in the narrative themselves.

Once teams, managers, and entire companies have been convinced that this is the future, it becomes psychologically and politically very hard to later say:

“Actually, the ROI is much lower than we expected.”

[critter @BecomingCritter]

how it started how it's going

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

Impressive message, video....

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

POPE LEO XIV ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC

WE LIVE IN A SIMULATION

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@ambivalentcase @DanielMiessler it goes deeper, they reinventing graphs as a data structure ;)

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@Ekaeoq Vacheron 222, Yellow Gold :P

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@MehdiHacks @zackslab Depends on your plans but this one is good one.

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@MehdiHacks @zackslab Yes but they are responsive. Got the kit ~2yrs ago, feel free to DM for more details.

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

@MehdiHacks @zackslab you can actually get one, https://t.co/6F6vmNUR4r

they're quite good and EU based

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@Ekaeoq @BSidesMaribor

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

SimCity 2000 (1993)

[Dejan Strbad @dstrbad]

Gran Torino (Original Theme Song From The Motion Picture) (Film Version) https://t.co/KsdIsYFHfU via @YouTube

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

There's some peace in being left alone.”

― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

[GFrei.News @GFreiNews]

Vor genau einem Jahr habe ich einen Raspberry Zero2 W in Paraffinöl versenkt.

Das Öl sorgt dafür, dass der Prozessor auch unter Höchstlast kaum wärmer wird als Zimmertemperatur.

Seitdem berechnet er mit einem BOINC-Client für die Mathematisch-Physikalische Fakultät in Prag 24/7 Asteroidendaten.

So ermitteln wir die Umlaufbahnen aller Asteroiden und wissen, wo die ihre Bahnen ziehen und auch, ob wir uns Sorgen machen müssen, dass uns einer in Zukunft trifft.

Ein genau baugleicher Zero2 W mit genau der gleichen Software führt genau die gleiche Aufgabe ungekühlt aus.

Und jetzt stellt sich die Frage: Macht perfekte Kühlung einen Leistungsunterschied aus?

Und die Antwort ist: Ja!

Und zwar signifikant! – 5,97 %

So das wäre auch geklärt. 😀