Luis Emilio Velasco

I write code sometimes

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

@rmedranollamas I'm doing one better: lobster with Alimerka and playwright-cli.

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

Lately, whenever I open this app and see the latest tricks, and hacks, and notes, and workflows, and spec here and skill there, I can't help but think:

All of this will be washed away by the models. Every Markdown file that's precious to you right now will be gone.

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

@pantulis @vodafone_es @Cucho No, la personal!

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

@vodafone_es cuál es la explicación para bloquear https://t.co/KK6jNgMJEx? 🤦‍♂️

cc @Cucho

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Dan Hockenmaier @danhockenmaier]

Four types of people at every company now

yes, people get 10x better when the go from bottom right to top right

but also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

"¿Qué es esto?" Es lo que me pregunto yo.

Pensaba que Renfe había dejado de ser un meme hace tiempo, pero ya veo que hacer cola para comprar tickets de tren es la nueva.

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

@rmedranollamas Do you have more info about this setup?

Curious about the mobile app and the remote terminal setup looks like (machine specs and how to keep the access secure).

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

An open letter signed by 18 of Europe’s leading cybersecurity and privacy academics warned that the latest Chat Control proposal poses “high risks to society without clear benefits for children”. The first, in their view, is the expansion of “voluntary” scanning, including automated text analysis using AI to identify ambiguous “grooming” behaviours. This approach, they argue, is deeply flawed. Current AI systems are incapable of properly distinguishing between innocent conversation and abusive behaviour. As the experts explain, AI-driven grooming detection risks sweeping vast numbers of normal, private conversations into a dragnet, overwhelming investigators with false positives and exposing intimate communications to third parties.

Breyer further emphasised this danger by noting that no AI can reliably distinguish between innocent flirtation, humorous sarcasm — and criminal grooming. He warned that this amounts to a form of digital witch-hunt, whereby the mere appearance of words like “love” or “meet” in a conversation between family members, partners or friends could trigger intrusive scrutiny. This is not child protection, Breyer has argued, but mass suspicion directed at the entire population. Even under the existing voluntary regime, German federal police warn that roughly half of all reports received are criminally irrelevant, representing tens of thousands of leaked legal chats annually. According the Swiss Federal Police, meanwhile, 80% of machine-reported content is not illegal. It might, for example, encompass harmless holiday photos showing nude children playing at a beach. The new text would expand these risks dramatically.

Further concerns arise from Article 4 of the new compromise proposal, which requires providers to implement “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This clause could allow authorities to pressure encrypted messaging services to enable scanning, even if this undermines their core security model. In practice, this could mean requiring providers such as WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to scan messages on users’ devices before encryption is applied.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted that this approach risks creating a permanent security infrastructure, one which could gradually become universal. Meta, Google and Microsoft already scan unencrypted content voluntarily; extending this practice to encrypted content would merely require technical changes. Moreover, what begins as a voluntary option can easily become compulsory in practice, as platforms face reputational, legal and market pressure to “cooperate” with the authorities. Furthermore, this doesn’t affect just people in the EU, but everyone around the world, including the United States. If platforms decide to stay in the EU, they would be forced to scan the conversations of everyone in the bloc. If you’re not in the EU, but you chat with someone who is, then your privacy is compromised too.

Read the article here: https://t.co/C8LPTOJQ9M

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇪🇺Misleading headlines: #ChatControl is not dead, it is being privatized! 🚨

EU governments voted today for:
🔍 Warrantless mass surveillance
🆔 Mandatory ID for everyone (End of anonymity)
🚫 Digital house arrest for teens

The fight continues! 👇 https://t.co/57PHcsTdJ4

[Hockey Global @hockeyglobal]

💣 Os presentamos la mayor locura que hemos HECHO.

👋🏻 CARTEL OFICIAL del primer DIRECTO 📺 24h de la historia del hockey 🏑

🔜 Nos vemos el 🗓️ sábado 8 de julio a las 10:00am (🇪🇸)

😍 ESTE DEPORTE ES LO MEJOR QUE HAY ❤️❤️❤️

HG SOM@S TOD@S.

RT HOY MÁS QUE NUNCA!!!

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

@stickazo @hockeyglobal @RHFinals @by_vel @manu_boutureira @HockeyVali @savehoquei2018 @HCStaCruz @hockeyasturias @RojasBusque @juanjomatilla Hablaremos de ello en directo!🙈

[Hockey Global @hockeyglobal]

📺DIRECTO
⏰18:00h

🚨 STREAM BRUTALÍSIMO

🗣️Charlamos con @emibloque sobre @RHFinals 🔥

🤔¿Cómo surgió la idea de hacer el juego? ¿Cuánto tiempo lleva crearlo desde 0? ¿Va a salir a la venta? 😱

‼️GAMEPLAY de la DEMO en exclusiva 🍿

➡️ https://t.co/hplHnrgz0D

[Delegación de Estudiantes EII @delegacion_eii]

Otro año más vuelve el EII-TechFest, la edición 2023, evento organizado por la Delegación de Estudiantes de la EII. En esta
edición, traemos de nuevo una Game Jam en la que se podrá crear un videojuego original en un plazo de 5 días.

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

🤢💩

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

🔴LIVE🔴
No se lo pierdan!

DIARIO DE SAN JUAN VOL. 6 | ESPECIAL FIN DE FIESTA Y DIRECTO DE 12H https://t.co/tIEqak56LE

[YawLighthouse @yawlighthouse]

I wrote the UMG - Slate Compendium for Unreal Engine, it's open to community contributions and is updated with new information every 2-3 months(usually). Check it out, read the FAQ, let me know what you think! #UnrealEngine #gamedev
https://t.co/kSgJp7CNtb

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

With more than 120 sessions across three action-packed days, there was a lot to learn at #UnrealFest!

Today we're excited to share recordings of these talks for anyone who couldn’t make it to the event. Dive in and get started, with more coming soon: https://t.co/MggrFC15W7

[Luis Emilio Velasco @emibloque]

I don't follow Node.js to much these days, but these are really great quality of life upgrades!

[NodeSource @NodeSource]

[NEW💥] Node.js 18 LTS is now available. What’s new? 🤔 In honor of the number 11 (#Funfact Undici means ‘eleven’ in Italian), we decided to make our Top 11 Node.js 18 features. We invite you to read them here
👉https://t.co/sqI7IXPjnj