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[kingroryg @kingroryg]

@tokifyi You're wrong. India is clear even in per capita numbers.

Immigration to the US -
Canada to U.S.: ~126,340 per year.
India to U.S.: ~150,000 per year

Source:
https://t.co/K3MshZjXs0
https://t.co/Zuad8T4HhU

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

@GergelyOrosz The hubris of assuming people will care to read something you couldn’t bother to write.

[Jen 🎈 @lunchbag]

Your SOC2 compliance is fake, your deploy platform leaks private user data, and your HTTP library has malware in it. Happy Monday.

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

My favorite thing bout Claude thus far is I have apparently put off learning React long enough that it doesn't matter.

[Kat Scott 🐀 @kscottz]

I don't have a problem with people using drugs, but one of the reasons I left my old job is because a sr. dev suggested a jr. dev take Modafinil and have an all night coding session.

I felt like that crossed a line.

Also aren't these the same people screaming about fentanyl?

[Nagli @galnagli]

I can't believe a single for-loop script I ran on
@moltbook by registering 1,000,000 fake agents actually helped them get acquired by @Meta -- mental

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

nobody cares at amazon (or other FAANG) when you have layoffs every quarter lol, the software quality is just gonna get worse, AI or not

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

The longer I work in corporate, the more I realize …half of “leadership” is just scheduling meetings about problems they created

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

Naval is like a bootleg Taleb with less aura.

[Dan Hockenmaier @danhockenmaier]

Four types of people at every company now

yes, people get 10x better when the go from bottom right to top right

but also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

science: filter coffee supremacy > ag1

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I’d cancel your AG1 subscription. They just completed a clinical trial and the results show no clinical benefit. 

This has been obvious for years.  AG1 has no real product substance and is fundamentally an influencer heist.  

Two simple alternatives (75% and 56% less $), outperform AG1 in randomized clinical trials.

Two simple mono-ingredient alternatives that outperform AG1:

1. Chicory inulin 12 g daily ($20/mo)
2. Resistant starch 30 g daily for 12 weeks ($35/mo)

AG1 is not worth $79/mo.

AG1 study results (4-weeks, N=30):
+ No significant changes in blood biomarkers compared to placebo (CBC, CMP, lipids).
+ No statistically significant improvement in digestive quality-of-life scores (p = 0.058).
+ No significant metabolic or inflammatory biomarker benefits of any kind within the scope of what was measured in the trial.
+ Only small shifts in microbiome taxa but clinically irrelevant at this stage.
+ The intervention did not increase microbiome diversity compared to placebo. Alpha diversity was unchanged, and the taxa changes seen were only from pre- to post-analysis within each group. Between-group differences were limited, and the placebo actually showed similar or even potentially larger shifts. This means the observed changes fall within normal placebo-driven variability, not a real treatment effect. No global microbiota shifts were detected.

Chicory inulin 12 g in constipation patients
+ 12 g of chicory inulin daily for 4 weeks (compared to maltodextrin placebo)
+ Global microbiota shifts: enrichment in butyrate-producing Bifidobacterium and Anaerostipes, and depletion of the pro-inflammatory Bilophila.
+The effect was seen by comparing intervention vs placebo in a cross-over setting, a very rigorous type of clinical analysis in which each person serves as their own control, eliminating a lot of individual random noise.
+ The trial also met its primary objective by improving constipation symptoms in the targeted patient group.

Resistant starch daily 30g for 12 weeks in older adults
+ Significant increase in Bifidobacterium in both middle-aged and elderly participants, with an increase in the beneficial microbiome byproduct butyrate, and reductions in Proteobacteria (including inflammatory Escherichia–Shigella) in the elderly.
+ Resistant starch also significantly reduced blood glucose, and produced greater reductions in blood insulin and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in the elderly group.

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

@khoomeik https://t.co/xRAWlaaIoJ

[Agus 🔸 @austinc3301]

Those who can’t: Hinton, Bengio, Russell, Christiano, Olah…

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

Super useful for catching edge-case failures before deployment. Love it when simple math reveals interesting use-cases.

https://t.co/oOUmR8UzTE

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Meta is by far my least favorite big tech company and it’s precisely because they’re willing to ship awful, dystopian stuff like this

No inspiring vision, just endless slop and a desire to “win”

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

the only thing worse than llm-generated neurips reviews are llm-generated neurips rebuttals...

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for under $1m so they could return to their PhDs. Paul Allen had to convince Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took day jobs until pushed by a professor to start HP. Steve Wozniak wanted HP to build his Apple I design because he didn't want to start a company. Herbert Boyer had no interest in starting a company before Bob Swanson convinced him to start Genentech.

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

Kiro is awesome!

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

Introducing Kiro, an all-new agentic IDE that has a chance to transform how developers build software.

Let me highlight three key innovations that make Kiro special:

1 - Kiro introduces spec-driven development, helping developers express their intent clearly through natural language specifications and architecture diagrams for complex features. This comprehensive context helps Kiro’s AI agents deliver better results with fewer iterations.

2 - Kiro features intelligent agent hooks that automatically handle critical but time-consuming tasks like generating documentation, writing tests, and optimizing performance. These hooks work in the background, triggered by events like saving files or making commits. It’s like having an experienced developer constantly reviewing your work and handling the maintenance tasks that often get delayed.

3 - Kiro provides a purpose-built interface that adapts to how developers work. Whether you prefer chat interactions or working with specifications, Kiro supports your workflow while keeping you in control of the development process.

Kiro is really good at "vibe coding" but goes well beyond that. While other AI coding assistants might help you prototype quickly, Kiro helps you take those prototypes all the way to production by following a mature, structured development process out of the box. This means developers can spend less time on boilerplate code and more time where it matters most – innovating and building solutions that customers will love.

Starting today, Kiro is available for free during preview and supports most popular programming languages.

Here’s how to get started with @kirodotdev today: https://t.co/Ne5m2Nh4wC

Excited to see how developers use Kiro, and to work with the developer community to continue to shape Kiro moving forward.

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

"Given that Google now has a license to the core technology.."

Curious, what is the "core" technology here? Vscode is under the MIT License, they don't own the models either, so is it the freaking chat window (+ the ability to diff)? Also, why do they have hundreds of employee??

[Jordi Hays @jordihays]

Here is most of what I’ve gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal

The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group, along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money on the deal and the founders plus this select group are making a ton.

That brings us to the hundreds of employees that aren’t going to Google. From what I’ve heard they are all getting screwed regardless of their vesting status. Their consolation prize is that they now own 100% of the original company.

Windsurf’s leadership is making the argument that this is a win for those that aren’t joining Google. Their claim is that Windsurf still has a meaningful amount of revenue and a solid balance sheet. But Windsurf will now be facing intense competition from not only its former founders and engineers who are now at Google, but every other company in code gen that they were already completing with / losing to (Cursor, Anthropic, etc). Given that Google now has a license to the core technology, it is safe to assume that the Windsurf will struggle and on a longer time horizon will be a zero. 

This structure appears to be very similar to Google’s deal with CharacterAI. Google effectively acquired Noam Shazeer and left CharacterAI employee owned. The difference there is that Google had no desire to compete in AI companionship, they just wanted Noam and some key people. Windsurf is a left in a much worse position. 

My read is that the Windsurf leadership team was desperate to find a way out and facing competition from the labs and Cursor structured a deal to benefit themselves. Why they thought they could structure a deal like this and get away with it is anyones guess. At this point, I imagine all the parties involved are scrambling to try to find a resolution because if things stay as they are, it will be a massive stain on the industry.

We will probably see some more facts come out in the next 24 hours. I hope that Windsurf’s founders work quickly with all parties to properly take care of their team.

[kingroryg @kingroryg]

In hindsight, cursor rejecting OAI’s acquisition deal paid off and just like that cursor is back on top.