Vladislav Gapurov

Building better tools by building better minds

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Happy birthday Dr. Thomas Sowell!

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@levelsio nice to see somebody else is using Airthings.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

There is nothing new under the sun. Left is left, and the world has not changed. The forces that were against personal freedom still are. Even if the followers of the ideology thought otherwise.

The hippie days were just a deliberate way of spreading degeneracy while pretending to be about freedom or peace. Of course, it was very popular, especially with young people, since it is much easier to dance around and smoke weed than to work hard.

The left today is a logical continuation of the same ideology. Much of it is about destroying traditional Christian values and the societies based on them.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@DanielLockyer wow, this is good.

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

It's been 3 months since the 100x vibers started 100x vibin'! So, post your 25-years-of-work-equivalent project here, so we can signal boost and everyone can celebrate the Life's Work that you did in 3 months. Looking forward to it, Let's Go!!!

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

Industries don't just give up, especially in multitude. The demented effort is mostly on the side of politicians (who are bureaucrats) who define rules and incentives and industries react. If incentives and rules are wrong for a long time, the decline accelerates.

The systems which made us great were created in times of the most freedom and least interventionism.

Either Europe chooses more freedom and less regulation, which would mean less bureaucracy (impossible in the current EU format), or the decline will accelerate (most likely).

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

I did not say all bureaucrats are evil or useless. I just stated the obvious: they distribute money they have not earned. They are not necessarily interested in effective distribution, but in following the rules of other bureaucrats or their own interests.

The results speak for themselves. The EU is in economic decline and in its current form won't improve.

P.S. It does not mean we should just complain and do nothing. We do the best we can under the circumstances.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

Fair point. Although this is not about IT, but rather about skin in the game. There are a lot of other trades where people work hard and do things people need.

A bureaucrat is mostly far away from the effects of his decisions. He does not distribute his hard-earned money, so the loss of it would matter to him.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

what about this version:

"When you report back, explain what you did and what happened in plain English. Avoid jargon, code, or technical details. Talk like you are explaining to a smart non-coder.

Before reporting, define your own 'done' checklist. Then fully test, verify, and fix using every tool you have. Run it, check outputs, click through flows, and test edge cases. Only come back when everything is confirmed working, or if you have genuinely hit a wall that needs my input."

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@steipete @petergyang Haha, complaining about Adobe products has become way too easy. It's just… where do I start?

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@arvidkahl @oli_tools It was and still is a mystery to me why we even need IHK. I only hear from them twice a year: once when their fees are due, and once for some really unnecessary event they invite me to.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@levelsio Yeah, until you find out how he breaks each of his promises and then people get indicted for calling him Pinocchio.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@thsottiaux congrats, @steipete

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@camsoft2000 @OpenAI And I thought it was just me.

When planning, codex asks me extra questions often providing cryptic variants where I have no idea what it is talking about.

This constant feeling of being gaslit

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@ScriptedAlchemy I remember you mentioned "training" on financial papers that you had to summarize with cheaper models, so I was curious.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@paulg This one is on the surface, don't dig deeper, it gets far worse. This is why no one invests in German companies, not even Germans themselves, unfortunately.

P.S. the price Germans pay as long as Karens remain in control

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Even though I knew his death was coming, as he told us it would, I still can’t believe he has died.

Rest in peace, good and great man, rest in peace.