Koosha 🇨🇦

Computer Scientist, ML engineer, using this account for tweets (in English) mostly about AI

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

Tools that help us become more productive often don’t free up our time! Agentic engineering is a recent example that has made us busier than ever.

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

Why do the latest versions of Claude Code keep ignoring the plan mode? I set it to plan mode, and it ignores it half of the time and starts changing the code. @claudeai @AnthropicAI

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Claude Code was a side project at Anthropic.
ChatGPT was a side project at OpenAI.
PyTorch was a side project at Meta.
Gmail was a side project at Google.

Side projects are the only place where taste, curiosity, and agency fully compound.

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

@hpux Yes! They’ve been building things way more quietly than others, especially after all the search monopoly accusations. Now it looks like Europe might have to deal with them as the new “AI monopoly” 😂

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

Google Antigravity is so good! I’m having a better experience with it than with Claude Code or Cursor. And… It’s free! (vs the ~$200/month pro subscriptions others charge). Unlimited access to Gemini 3 Pro (for now). This is a real threat to all other AI coding frameworks.

[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

Harvard and Stanford students tell me their professors don't understand AI and the courses are outdated.

If elite schools can't keep up, the credential arms race is over. Self-learning is the only way now.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

People who are good at programming will use AI to take the jobs of those who are mediocre at it. So you should study CS iff you're going to be good at it.

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

I love @claudeai Opus and use it every day. But replying with "You are absolutely right" to every single feedback I give is so annoying

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

@Farzaaaan 🙌🚀

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

My new motivation for waking up in the morning: a fresh quota of Claude Opus 4 tokens waiting to be burned! #claude #claudecode

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

Tired of overload exceptions on @AnthropicAI APIs. It's a shame that Claude Code, such an incredible coding agent, is affected due to API cap issues. @cursor_ai works with Claude models with no problems all the time. Is Anthropic prioritizing Cursor over their own coding agent?

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

Acquired by OpenAI, ghosted by Anthropic

[Varun Mohan @_mohansolo]

Unfortunately, Anthropic did not provide our users direct access to Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 on day one. We are actively working to find capacity elsewhere so we can continue to provide the most versatile and powerful AI assistance platform, period. That is our only focus.

To that point, we've made Gemini 2.5 Pro work significantly better in Windsurf (now a recommended model!), and are actively working on bring-your-own-key support. We will provide you all updates to this situation as we get them! Back to shipping...

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

Sprinkling some AI on a legacy process won't work as well as redesigning the process from scratch with AI at its core.

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

@hpux 😂

[Koosha 🇨🇦 @kooshatp]

AI is advancing so fast that keeping up now means listening to AI podcasts every time I do yard work. On the bright side, my backyard has never looked better—an unexpected side effect of the AI boom.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The sweet sweet moment you find product market fit (wait for it)

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

LOL!!

Claude (via Cursor) randomly tried to update the model of my feature from OpenAI to Claude 🤯

(my request was totally unrelated)

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”