Murad M

I like ML and systems programming. Currently building

[Murad M @murad_227]

@siddharthwv Weren't your 9-5 draining you? Or were you building on weekends only?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A peak life advice from Alex Hormozi:

“The fastest way to become the person you want to be is to put yourself in a situation where you have no choice but to become them.”

[Murad M @murad_227]

@Winterrose and it's also addictive

[Murad M @murad_227]

@ThedatagGuy So relatable

[Murad M @murad_227]

@arisroussinos Lmao

[Murad M @murad_227]

@Aboubarchos One becomes either insanely rich or permanent underclass.

[Murad M @murad_227]

@sergeynazarovx You left Düsseldorf for good?

[Murad M @murad_227]

@Tim_Denning Great read, our willpower is much stronger earlier in the day - makes it easier to lock in. After work I find it hard to resist the temptation to doomscroll and end up doing f*ck all.

[Murad M @murad_227]

@Daractenus What’s your point? Yes, these cities look gloomy but at least Russians managed to industrialize some of the harshest lands on Earth - something you hohols would have surely never managed to do.

[Murad M @murad_227]

@dannypostma Since last year? You must be new.

[Murad M @murad_227]

@kanavtwt 😭

[Aaron Stannard @Aaronontheweb]

The best career advice I can give to SWEs looking at a bleak job market right now:

1. Get a Claude Code Max subscription, today, and start using it. Be intentional about trying to use it to make yourself better - there is skill involved in using LLMs well. IDE integration is not a thing you should be reaching for if you want to be Claude maxxxing.

2. Concurrently with working your job application pipeline, start working on a side project that has a prayer of making $. Making $ from it will be a nice side benefit, but that's not the primary goal.

The primary goal is to close your skill and experience gaps without bureaucratic or political headwinds and learning how to use AI to help you do it.

I'll give an example: one of the developers in my org is brilliant at debugging all sorts of brutal systems programming problems, but struggles mightily with greenfield development. Handing him a blank sheet of paper and saying "build something that does X" is the worst way to use him - in his words, it's "analysis paralysis" that kills him.

AI has been a massive help to him there, because now he can use it get options, evaluate their trade-offs, write proposals, and do all of that privately where he feels most comfortable before he presents plans + options to us.

You need to honestly assess your own skill gaps and ask "where can AI help me grow?" - the goal should not be to have the AI do 100% of the thinking for you, but to help you gain experience + confidence by actually doing things.

Want to learn Rust? Have LLMs help you learn the idioms, package ecosystem, and toolchain. This also means you personally having to step in, be critical of the LLM's output, and do things manually as part of your own growth process. Having the LLM work with you, not for you.

3. Ship your side project - this is not optional. If you can't ship, free from constraints of "other people" AND with the help of cheap LLM labor, then you are at best a mediocre candidate and deserve to struggle in the job market.

Don't skimp on this - actually ship; try to get users; monitor for errors; listen to them bitch at you about how bad your work product is; improve it; and continuously deploy updates. Learning things the hard way is something LLMs will never be able to do - but you can.

If you've been hiding in BigCo bureaucracy all these years and have never taken full ownership end-to-end for a product launch, it's time to step up for the sake of your own career. The era of JIRA jockeys making $400k pushing tickets around is over.

4. Write publicly about your learning and experiences as you do them - if you haven't landed a job after putting in significant effort, it's for one or more of the following reasons:

a. You don't have any remarkable or valuable experience
b. You don't have a network of people who would recommend you
c. You are bad at marketing yourself and what makes you special / valuable / worthy of belief

This step solves all 3 of those, provided that you are actually doing the work for real. And if you own a distribution channel - like even just your LinkedIn or X account - all you need is a small audience of people who get it to start finding jobs through the backdoor.

All of this, all of this - hinges on you running at full speed to ship things, being willing to get criticized online for your mistakes, and being willing to be uncomfortable doing all of it for the sake of growth.

If you can do that, you will be on a great trajectory for 2026.

[Saheed 🚢🔥 @mrgroowth]

Agency = Intentionality / Familiarity

Intentionality: How likely the action is to achieve a desired goal

Familiarity: How familiar you are with the action (# of reps)

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Asymmetric opportunities:

Invest in startups
Start a company
Create a book, podcast, video
Create a (software) product
Go on many first dates
Go to a cocktail party
Read a Lindy book
Move to a big city
Buy Bitcoin
Tweet."

@naval

[Mr. Barry @barisukafx]

Make two lists.

The first list will be all the goals you want to achieve in 2026. We’ll call this list one.

The second list will be all the things you need to do to achieve everything in list one.

Keep list one in a safe place. List two is where you need to pay attention.

Every day you wake, look at list two and ensure you're doing everything you wrote.

By the end of the year, if you check list one, you'd see that you would have checked almost everything in the list.

This is how you'll hit your goals.

Now, get to work!

[` @mayer_xbt]

If you don't actively shape the life you desire each day, you'll eventually wake up to find that years have slipped by unnoticed

[Murad M @murad_227]

@BowTiedPhys aka puke bike

[Murad M @murad_227]

@tailwiinder Age 29 - at least the first digit still 2

[Murad M @murad_227]

@wagslane Everyone and their dog has been doing degrees in Data Science lately.

[Murad M @murad_227]

@PrasoonPratham I found that if your prompts are too generic the code becomes bloated fast.