Luca M

Building products

Before: King's College • Bocconi

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@pietrovischia @IThyperviz @aledeniz @lucadiresta That's a pretty creative strawman argument

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@lucadiresta @IThyperviz @aledeniz Salary is important but there is more to life than just money. Family, friends, health, community. Don't assess your life choices only by looking at the salary, you have to assess life as a whole

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@IThyperviz @aledeniz @lucadiresta It wasn't, most people attending university don't aim to become academics, but specialised workers. And that's exactly the problem with Italian universities for those who don't want to stick around in academia

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

The explosion of vibe coding is showing how CODING and ENGINEERING are two separate things.

AI only solved one of the two, which is of little use without the other

[Klaas @forgebitz]

"engineering is no longer the bottleneck."

> builds a todo list app

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@vinstintresse @doomerzoomer @westoque Too many people fail to consider that. FOSS alternatives to Slack and Notion have been around for ages. You don't even need to get AI to code them. Just manage the infrastructure. Yet very few companies are using them

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

New research finds 88% of college students fake more progressive views than they hold—submitting dishonest classwork, lying to friends, even hiding beliefs from partners. This isn’t peer pressure. It’s identity regulation at scale.

https://t.co/S7rqhbbgB1

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@cloneofsimo @grindafrathjis @xeophon Productivity implies the creation of value. The mere creation of an app that doesn't provide value (quantified as money generated by the developer) doesn't qualify as productivity

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

Using AI to cut corners instead of amplifying engineering excellence is like fast fashion - soon, our hard drives will be stuffed with disposable, low-quality apps, just as our closets are with cheap, throwaway clothes.

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@Prathkum I just posted basically the same thing and later found this post.
It may be worth shipping, but I feel we're all caught in a not-so-useful AI building. Instead of leveraging AI to solve big problems we are seeing a lot of fancy timers and TODO apps

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

I was playing around, letting AI write most of the code of a random project, and I found myself taking part in a "trend" where the most inexpensive and scalable workforce is used to build simple systems instead of solving real issues. Is this AI delegation power making us lazy?

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

Big5 is the best pre-filtering test in the hiring process if you care about company culture and attitude of the people working there.

A company is not a family, and as an entrepreneur you get to choose who you work with, so you better choose wisely

[Alex @notcomplex_]

This is the most detailed study on personality and intelligence ever done:

First, the Big Five: Neuroticism is robustly associated with lower intelligence, particularly processing speed and quantitative ability.

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@GergelyOrosz Personally I'm hands on and I tried different tools, I pay for employees to have access to them, and I find AI to be very useful in some ways. But I still think the X community is overhyped about the outcomes and time savings.

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@paulg @NickKristof It is if you don't pay for the book you read

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@awxjack People got so used to inaccurate information on the Internet that they got comfortable making stuff up

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@NaivaidyaY66600 In the vast majority of cases you want to build the product around the UX, not adapting the UX to backend design.
With that said, if you have designs made I think it makes little difference

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@Nash @nigeleccles @WesRoth Consistently overestimating the coding capabilities of AI models, yeah

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

Day 2 of giving a unhyped take on AI: SOTA models have no critical ability on existing code.

I used a cheap model to setup an SDK for an API, it made some large mistakes. I then turned to Codex, gave it the OpenAPI docs again, told it to fix the issues. They are all still there

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

Today Claude deleted my database.

Not production, but apparently "set up some tests" = "let’s run Entity Framework EnsureDeleted() on the app settings connection string, that should make it work".

I guess "don't delete the db" should become part of the prompt?

[Arthur Zargaryan @ZargaryanArthur]

We spun up an AI studio at @atomikgrowth last month because… why not? Been cranking out a video a week for some of our favorite tech companies, totally unsolicited.

@PalmerLuckey @traestephens @JeffMillerTime, did we nail the @anduriltech vibe, or are we missing some magic?

[Luca M @luca_mozzo]

@ZargaryanArthur @ParcelTracker @googlecloud @awscloud @Azure