Jadran Prodan

Life it’s a ultramarathon, not a sprint ;-)

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

The system / application / software development life cycle must be a continuous process without gaps.

Our tools should support this mathematically continuous gap-free process ...

... unfortunately it's not like that today :-(

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

Agents are great in the small and lost in the large!

[Groxio @GroxioLearning]

AI didn't kill the junior role. It moved the work.

New Blog:
https://t.co/VqZzlVrjd9

#ElixirLang

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like "hate crime" or "terrorism", with extra-harsh punishments.

Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone, that you want to punish extra harshly.

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

"The map is not the territory"

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

One flight, two map projections

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

—Nikola Tesla

[Erlang Ecosystem Foundation @TheErlef]

From @josevalim's first commit to millions of lightweight processes running in production — happy anniversary @elixirlang! 💜

[Francesco Cesarini @FrancescoC]

#DailyFail 25 years ago. Glad to see not much has changed.

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

@karpathy
Software Engineering + Vibe Coding = Agent Engineering 🤖🏗️

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 from a ~week ago. Some highlights:

The first theme I tried to push on is that LLMs are about a lot more than just speeding up what existed before (e.g. coding). Three examples of new horizons:

1. menugen: an app that can be fully engulfed by LLMs, with no classical code needed: input an image, output an image and an LLM can natively do the thing.
2. install .md skills instead of install .sh scripts. Why create a complex Software 1.0 bash script for e.g. installing a piece of software if you can write the installation out in words and say "just show this to your LLM". The LLM is an advanced interpreter of English and can intelligently target installation to your setup, debug everything inline, etc.
3. LLM knowledge bases as an example of something that was *impossible* with classical code because it's computation over unstructured data (knowledge) from arbitrary sources and in arbitrary formats, including simply text articles etc.

I pushed on these because in every new paradigm change, the obvious things are always in the realm of speeding up or somehow improving what existed, but here we have examples of functionality that either suddenly perhaps shouldn't even exist (1,2), or was fundamentally not possible before (3).

The second (ongoing) theme is trying to explain the pattern of jaggedness in LLMs. How it can be true that a single artifact will simultaneously 1) coherently refactor a 100,000-line code base *and* 2) tell you to walk to the car wash to wash your car. I previously wrote about the source of this as having to do with verifiability of a domain, here I expand on this as having to also do with economics because revenue/TAM dictates what the frontier labs choose to package into training data distributions during RL. You're either in the data distribution (on the rails of the RL circuits) and flying or you're off-roading in the jungle with a machete, in relative terms. Still not 100% satisfied with this, but it's an ongoing struggle to build an accurate model of LLM capabilities if you wish to practically take advantage of their power while avoiding their pitfalls, which brings me to...

Last theme is the agent-native economy. The decomposition of products and services into sensors, actuators and logic (split up across all of 1.0/2.0/3.0 computing paradigms), how we can make information maximally legible to LLMs, some words on the quickly emerging agentic engineering and its skill set, related hiring practices, etc., possibly even hints/dreams of fully neural computing handling the vast majority of computation with some help from (classical) CPU coprocessors.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

I think that is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

[Mike Hostetler // Chief Agent Officer @mikehostetler]

Great teams are already building their own software factories to write and manage their code

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

@fceruti Elixir ;-)

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

@samwillis says it best: AI will catch up!

[Sam Willis @samwillis]

My overriding thought going into 2026:
Problems you thought were out of reach no longer are.
Pick a problem 100x harder than you thought possible to tackle alone, and run with it.
Start now. AI will catch up and make it possible.

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

@yassineyousfi_ @yassineyousfi_ geniusly recognized a “Move 37” moment for @karpathy — and for many of us as programmers!

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

@ThePrimeagen

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

Similarities – They have in common, at least:
1. Prominent mustaches ;-)
2. Both are programmers
3. Both like programming languages that run on the Erlang VM

@elixirlang @elixirphoenix @AshFramework

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

Similarities – They have in common, at least:
1. Prominent mustaches ;-)
2. Both are programmers
3. Both like programming languages that run on the Erlang VM

@elixirlang @elixirphoenix @AshFramework

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Making steady progress on getting rid of DEIA: Democracy, Ethics, Institutions, and Accountability.

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

@pragdave They're enjoying themselves, because they truly are ‘Lucky Man’ ;-)

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

The real guilt lies with each and every one of us (Western civilization): a culture of indifference, where not caring has become the norm.

[Jadran Prodan @jadranpro]

Icona Pop isn’t “guilty” - they’re just holding up a mirror to our carefree world.
https://t.co/1tM95DmEK6