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[Jolas @jolasjoe]

Design is all about finding solution within constraints. If there is no constraint it is not design it is art.

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

AI is an amplifier of magnitude, not direction.

If your engineering culture has a 10% tilt toward technical debt, AI will amplify that debt by 10x before you even notice.

Your job right now isn't to speed up the machine—it's to ensure the underlying direction is perfectly straight.

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

Programming 10x faster is not the same as engineering 10x faster.

If you are a Senior Dev or Tech Lead navigating the current AI shift, Adam Bender’s talk from Google I/O is the single best reality check on software ecosystems right now.

Must watch: https://t.co/VKwj5Hr08s
👇 A quick thread on the systemic bottlenecks heading our way (and how to prepare):

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

System design over raw velocity.

As AI agents actively crawl internal ecosystems to hit goals, internal endpoints need public-facing levels of hardening. Focus heavily on rigid contract enforcement, sandboxing, and systemic insulation over local file performance.

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

@IndianTechGuide @grok @grok has this NTA ever verified the efficacy of their reforms? How could a NTA is unchecked in how they push their reforms?

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

@IndianTechGuide @grok what’s National Testing Agency. Is it a recognised and regulated by Indian government? If so what’s the efficacy of past reforms by National Testing Agency?

[Naval @naval]

A man expresses love through duty.

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

@vijayshekhar Nope. It never was!

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

How to avoid tons of life problems:

go to bed on time.

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

@Udhaystalin @grok verify the tweets claim about increase in crime. Also compare it against DMKs ruling years in Tamil Nadu.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

It's not a coincidence that so many highly professionally successful people are struggling with their relationships, friendships, and marriage:

a lot of "success" in society boils down to having a very long-term goal, and being right over and over again on your way there whilst unapologetically investing in yourself,

and competition isn't so easy that you can be top-tier and world-class at something whilst also enjoying "work-life balance" and plenty of relaxed time with your family and friends.

Fortunately, you are also free to choose your priorities and trade-offs, you just need to make sure that you are never lying to yourself, because it's so easy to get convinced by a sick society to live a life that isn't aligned to your core values:

in doubt, close your eyes, remember your childhood, recall your early interests, dive deeper and deeper, and at some point, the answer to how you want to live your life will be extremely clear.

[Naval Podcast @navalpodcast]

“All frameworks in life—your workout framework, your sales framework, even your building-an-app framework—are all a distant second to your motivation.”

— @naval

[Smita Barooah @smitabarooah]

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard
https://t.co/qXi6UBaTs3

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

@nsitharaman Your mindset is frightening entire nation.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

How do you keep Claude working until the job is done? Claude Code helps with this in a few ways, including one we shipped recently: /goal.

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/MXt5XS4xBX

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

Xcode is the group of oversized trucks running side-by-side on the ios development express way.
#ios #swe #rant

[Jolas @jolasjoe]

@ShivAroor Don’t call yourself journalist. I don’t know what’s “breaking” until you can show us an official statement. You assumed that Vijay got majority without any official announcement just to retain viewership. Pathetic!