mandarl.eth 📲

Software Engineer at Meta/WhatsApp by day .. geek coder, sci-fi fan, aerospace enthusiast otherwise.

Creator - @OptionsRebel

[mandarl.eth 📲 @mandarlimaye]

The engineers who win the next decade won't be the fastest coders. They'll be the ones who read widely, sit with users, and develop the judgment to know what matters.

P.S. I mentor a small number of engineers each year. One slot open — DM me.

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For 10 years, my go-to mentoring advice was "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything."

AI just mass-produced execution.

So what's the new bottleneck? Taste — the instinct for knowing what's worth building in the first place.

I wrote about the shift: https://t.co/bnHifF0cRr

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@boyuan_chen API cost is on you — PennyClaw is just the runtime. Gemini free tier gets you to true $0. It handles shell cmds, file ops, web search, and memory across restarts. What use case are you thinking?

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I built a personal AI agent that runs 24/7 for $0/month.
It's called PennyClaw — a Go binary that fits inside GCP's free-tier e2-micro VM. Less than 50MB RAM.

One-click deploy. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini.
Today I'm open-sourcing it.

https://t.co/nVejEkOXuo

[mandarl.eth 📲 @mandarlimaye]

My GitHub went vertical thanks to AI coding assistants. My impact? Not so much.
Built an app in weeks. Got stuck in app store review hell. Zero users.
Activity ≠ achievement.
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[mandarl.eth 📲 @mandarlimaye]

I vibe-coded a stock market heat map in 15 minutes. Looked great.

Then I tried to productionize it. 9 cache layers. Data bugs. A masterclass in premature optimization.

AI is amazing for prototyping. Production still needs an engineer

https://t.co/MWiZIM73lC

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I used to think Moore's Law was fast.

Then I saw the data: OpenRouter went from 1T to 12T tokens/week in one year. The biggest consumers? Not humans — coding agents talking to themselves.

I wrote about "The Token Law":
https://t.co/i6ew1I3TAR

[mandarl.eth 📲 @mandarlimaye]

In software, Inversion of Control means the framework calls your code — not the other way around.

I applied it to my life: I let an AI manage my personal task backlog. It worked shockingly well.

https://t.co/roUb0AqTtn

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Spent the weekend installing OpenClaw. Clunky setup, broken Docker — and yet, magical.

Ask an AI to do multi-step tasks on your machine without hand-holding and something clicks. This isn't a chatbot. It's a digital employee.

I wrote about it:
https://t.co/WX2nBuE5lO

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Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Get New Styles & AI Updates
https://t.co/ybHzLIHGjR

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Your Puzzle-Solving Skills Can Save the Galaxy in 'Hidden Pictures: Agent Q,' Launching Today on Meta Quest
https://t.co/WCgauKL429

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Batman: Arkham Shadow Game of the Year Update v1.4 + an Interview with Composer Kazuma Jinnouchi
https://t.co/Tt2XTt1AuG

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Leap seconds can throw a wrench into precision timekeeping, but Meta’s engineers have a solution. ⏳ Learn how Precision Time Protocol (PTP) keeps our systems in sync—even when time itself shifts. 🕰️ #TechInnovation #MetaEngineering https://t.co/okaFiyF0JC

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📣 Save the date! Meta Connect 2025 is happening Sept 17-18.

More details: https://t.co/stnrnzy7WY

#MetaConnect https://t.co/S3Tfj70pLN

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