Gonzalo Franco

software engineer. i build things.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

This is counterintuitive for some, which is why there’s a paradox named after it. But if you lower the cost of something that was previously supply constrained, demand for that thing goes up. Software engineering is just one of the easiest examples to contemplate.

The process goes like this: every small business, every IT team, every large enterprise sees that engineering can now drive vastly more output. They then start to consider all the new things they can build or automate. They even test building prototypes themselves.

They only get so far with that approach because they realize there are still 50 other tasks that go into building software and maintaining it. So they start to hire more engineers to do that work. All of this for work they never would have considered automating or having software for if AI didn’t exist.

So yes, automating tasks, in plenty of fields, will lead to demand for experts, not less.

[kache @yacineMTB]

now that coding's been solved i spend most of my time thinking and thinking is honestly so much harder than writing code

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@D_Tarczynski 💪🇵🇱

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@WR_Crypto @Polymarket @shayne_coplan @Polymarket @shayne_coplan

[Laila @LailaAIApp]

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[New York Post @nypost]

A terrifying new flu-like disease has killed 179 people — mostly teens — and health officials have no idea what it is https://t.co/bCKAzOILmk

[Allen T. @Mr_AllenT]

Gen-3 Alpha Video to Video is here!!

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Telegram founder Pavel Durov recently revealed to Tucker Carlson that the FBI approached a Telegram engineer, attempting to secretly hire him to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users.

The FBI also hired agents to infiltrate 'anti-vaxx' Telegram groups, with FBI contractors creating multiple fake online identities to join chatrooms run by groups opposing vaccine mandates.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

People sell drugs on the streets of Paris. Should Macron be arrested?

#FreePavel

[Bruno Skvorc @bitfalls]

100%.

A basic new small business, to keep 2000 euro net per month needs to make around 4000 euro gross. From that 2000 euro, you can pay someone a 1200 euro salary and you have zero.

So at 4000 per month income in company, you end up with 1200e barring other expenses (like office rent, utilities, incidentals...), so with expenses you're in the red.

To break even, you need about 5000-6000 euro per month of income. To pay someone a 5000 net salary and stay in the black, you would need the company to be making around 20000 euro per month.

What service can you sell as a single-person business just starting out, for 20k a month? To whom? It's absolutely insane, the whole of EU is like a system conspiring for business prevention.

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@taykcrane You put it so nicely #code #nocode

[Taylor Crane @taykcrane]

If all we had were no-code tools to build software, we would eventually invent "coding" to solve all the problems of no-code.

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@sanchezcastejon Una verdadera pena, y vergüenza, ojalá ajena, pero no. Me avergüenzo de ti. Yo, y todos. Nadie te vota. Ganas haciendo trampa.

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@abc_es Pero es que por qué no habla en español, para que se le entienda ?

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@bmay Far ?

[Gonzalo Franco @gq_franco]

@JoeBiden 😂

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Donald Trump says 'we want all the remaining Bitcoin to be made in the USA'

[Escuela Austriaca de Economía 🇦🇷 @DiegoMac227]

🇦🇷🦁Así está este momento a las afueras del Luna Park.
INCREÍBLE, todos acompañando a Milei.