Talked to an engineer inside of NVIDIA about how they and their team works. Very interesting:
“We don’t need to worry about layoffs. This means no need to worry about elbowing people out of the way to try and make yourself “safe” and important. So everyone helps everyone.”
many people asked me to make a video about my complete agentic engineering workflow
excited to share it's finally here!!!
it took me about 20 hours in total to record this 45 minutes of walkthrough - it covers everything i do to ship production quality code at an average 40+ PRs/day velocity
hope this can be a useful reference to everyone exploring good ways to use AI. and would appreciate a reshare with anyone you think might benefit from this!
enjoy! https://t.co/oA0UCrBvqo
People ask: “What will happen to Ukraine now that Ukraine is bombing Moscow?”
Let’s think.
Will Russia invade us?
Bomb our cities with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles drones?
Destroy our civilian critical infrastructure?
Occupy our towns?
Rape and kill civilians, kids, women?
Kidnap Ukrainian children and train them as soldiers ?
Set up filtration camps?
Torture and starve POWs?
Use chemical weapons on the front line?
Wait.
Russia has already done all of this.
By supporting Ukraine, we deter aggression everywhere, combat authoritarianism and reaffirm that the United States does not abandon those who fight for freedom.
While some have been unwilling to stand up to Vladimir Putin, the Congress must.
Tonight, House Democrats did.
Today I'm thankful that my career success doesn't depend on three reviewers with strong opinions about my work, at least one of whom doesn't seem to have read it, and another who is startlingly ignorant about the state-of-the art.
I am absolutely more productive using agents. I don't know the factor but it's large. However much of that productivity is spent tuning the agents and hardening the product. I'm guessing 30%-40%.
Some might consider that a waste; but I don't. The software I'm creating nowadays is vastly more robust than I'd ever been able to create manually.
I don't mean that the code is better. I mean the surrounding tests are vastly better. I have a higher degree of confidence than I ever had manually -- even when I used very disciplined TDD and Acceptance testing.
And then there's the ability to quickly reorganize the modules and the architecture while keeping those robust tests running. That is a tremendous boon.
linux networking is so low level that you can sniff every packet your machine sees with a single raw socket.
without wireshark and libpcap the kernel handing ethernet frames directly to userland.
linux literally exposes raw layer-2 traffic to userspace.
Told Cursor to build me a Slack replica.
It spawned 1500 AI agents.
Around half of them immediately became product managers.
They spent the whole day pinging the other half:
"any update?"
"just checking in"
"circling back"
"friendly reminder"
By the end of the week, nobody had built anything substantial, but somehow we burned $25k in LLM tokens.
I think it may have been over-trained on corporate data.
you think your React app with Redis is fast?
C++ talking straight to SQLite with Linux APIs handles 100k requests before your stack even finishes parsing JSON.
we started calling layers of abstraction "performance" and forgot what speed actually is.