Fouad

Tapping keyboards;
Pianist/Coder

[Fouad @fsf86]

@certifits boring if true

[Dr Ahmad Rehan Khan @AhmadRehanKhan]

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶-𝗬𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁:

Many people have wondered how five-month-old Lamine Yamal, born into an ordinary, working-class family with no influential football connections, ended up in a photoshoot with Lionel Messi.

The answer is beautifully simple: PURE CHANCE

In late 2007, the Spanish newspaper Sport and UNICEF were producing a charity calendar featuring Barcelona players with babies. Yamal’s parents entered him into a public raffle, and he was among the children randomly selected. Messi, then a shy 20-year-old rising star, happened to be the Barcelona player assigned to their session.

The shoot took place at Camp Nou, where photographer Joan Monfort captured Messi holding and gently bathing baby Lamine as his mother watched nearby. Nobody involved knew that the child would later join Barcelona, wear the iconic No. 10 and become one of football’s biggest stars.

The photos remained largely forgotten until Yamal’s rise brought them back into the spotlight. Now, nearly two decades later, that anonymous baby and the young footballer holding him will lead Spain and Argentina against each other in the 2026 World Cup Final.

No influence. No special connections. Just a raffle, a charity photoshoot and a coincidence that now feels like destiny.

#Fıfaworldcup #lionelmessi #lamineyamal #ARGvsESP

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane that this is now the 2026 World Cup final
(photo of the two from 2007)

[Fouad @fsf86]

@giselle_hajj Haha depends, but most are just cliffhangers

[Fouad @fsf86]

I can confidently say that at this point I've clocked more time watching world cup themed anime and AI videos than actual matches, and they seem more enjoyable

[Fouad @fsf86]

@GamewithDave

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth

And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working

This scene is now canon 😭

[Nandkishor @devops_nk]

Average WFH Software Engineer Routine

[LBCI Lebanon News @LBCI_NEWS]

الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام: أهالي علما الشعب يرفضون الإخلاء بعد التهديد الإسرائيلي ويتجمعون في ساحة الكنيسة تأكيداً على تمسكهم بأرضهم

[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.

[Fouad @fsf86]

@Tare_kh @kareem_nasser Damn! What are you cooking with that?

[Fouad @fsf86]

At this rate I think I should invest in RAM instead of gold

[Fouad @fsf86]

@luireigns May have appeared, then disappeared instantly

[Fouad @fsf86]

@RinoTheBouncer Heroes of might and magic III

[Fouad @fsf86]

@abhitwt There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[Fouad @fsf86]

@ATRightMovies Motors

[Fouad @fsf86]

@Rainmaker1973

[Fouad @fsf86]

@elonmusk Naive take honestly

[Fouad @fsf86]

@itzRishi_x @JKBowden_ 🤣

[Fouad @fsf86]

Hey @instagram the messenger icon got reverted to top right and now it's unclickable