Pao Ramen

🍼 Stay at home dad.
🦄 Former founder and CTO at Factorial.

I craft products:
☕️

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@gcv hmm, that could be it too. Maybe that explains also not planning the answers or presentations

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

I read people too much. In a casual conversation, with most people, I immediately notice why they are saying what they are saying. The tone, the non-verbal signs, the fakeness (specially compliments, which I despise), etc.

I get impatient quickly, because I feel like I’ve already decoded the intention, so I cut people off a lot. Which makes me look awkward, or even rude.

People think this is because I’m an engineer, and that automatically puts me in the “bad at social interactions” box. But I don’t think that’s it. I think I might just be oversensitive.

That being said, this awareness does not translate to how I speak myself. I’m extremely easy to read. It’s very hard for me to lie, and I often fumble, fastly chaining one word after another with no plan whatsoever, which sometimes takes me to weird places, like an LLM.

Does this feel familiar?

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@levelsio

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@ttunguz This is of course very biased. OpenAI or Anthropic customers don't use open router. They don't have to.

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

Yesterday I woke up in the middle of the night, sweating, heart racing.
I grabbed my phone and immediately bought https://t.co/PJQtsGTToH.

Now I have two questions:
- What should I build with it?
- And will I go to jail if I do?

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

Three personal (and probably biased) predictions:

- SaaS will keep growing. Growth hasn't slowed but accelerated on the last 3 years. Turns out companies don't want to build nor host things that are not critical to their businesses. Not even if vibe-coding lowers that cost. Another example of misspriced "everyone will not just." in the markets.
- Companies will interact with SaaS through a single external cloud agent. Every SaaS is building their own agent, but people want to do tasks that work across many different tools. Also, computer use is a hack, an IT workaround. It will be replaced by cloud agents as soon as they are ready (the challenge being auth and scraping).
- Jobs are not going to disappear, the world is not going to end, and things are going to change less than we think.

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@elwatto Carry a kindle with you and get books that you *want* to read

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@JaviviThor loool

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@ViewFromShikhar 23mm

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@trew06747565 @grok I'm not grok, but here you have it: https://t.co/UqU8Lm5PHB

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

In a world where CEOs are pushing token maxxing, I decided to instaurate token fasting.
At least once a week, we code by hand. Just fingers and brain madly dancing together once again. And it rhymes. Not only that, quarantined one of the most delicate organs in the whole beast: Handinger’s harness.

Why?

1. Because humans are tactile animals. This is why we take notes in school and learn to drive in an actual car. I need us to understand the codebase in our bones. The dependencies, the seams, the bugs and dreams. And it rhymes again.

Reviewing generated code gives you the dangerous feeling of understanding. But it is mostly shallow. You nod along, accept the diff, and walk away convinced you know what happened.

2. Humans already have a disease: when solving problems, we add things instead of removing them (there is a famous study about it, go read it!). Clankers do this 100x worse. They feel no pain, so they add forever. Another file. Another method. Another “helper” that, honestly, could have been inlined. A growing pile of computational debris.

In some areas of the product, I don’t mind. CRUDs, APIs, UI. Fine. But a harness is a zero-sum domain. Every new tool, prompt, and abstraction has a cost. It decreases margins and effecteviness while increasing latency. This is why, paradoxically, Claude Code has now turned into a mediocre harness for their own models.

I'm not being anti-AI, but everything interesting in the universe (like life itself) tends to happen in between.

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@agileando @david_bonilla @Javipattt Tras muchos años manejando managers y directores me confirman que el que pica, lo entiende. El que no, cree que lo entiende, pero superficial.

Igual para el campo, el conocimiento no es tan profundo o vital. No lo se, no lo he arado.

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@Javipattt @david_bonilla 😂 no se tu, pero yo me siento mejor después de una dia programando que de un dia manejando agentes.

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@javisantana @mgonto Habla raro

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

I wrote a new article, exploring the consequences of pain and pleasure on LLMs. I had a lot of fun writing it, so don't take it too seriously.

https://t.co/QXFVldwHCn

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@Bhavani_00007 unless you use cloud agents like handinger

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@pepicrft That was the last step for full integration with German society 😂

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

Why is everyone talking about 100 eggs developer

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@ycombinator Ah yes, giving free collectibles at the school exit. The oldest marketing trick in the book.

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@msimoni and this kids, is how clojure was born

[Pao Ramen @masylum]

@novikoff Jokes aside, how is image stabilization? I guess that would be my main concern.