Nicolas Buitrago

Optimist. Software Engineering. You can just do things. I write for humans and machines

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

It’s a straight-up slap in the face to the ones who raised you if you don’t give it your all and make something worthwhile

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa big if true

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

p still probably doesn't equal np

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

@theo Theo you really built something amazing

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

Soooooooo?

[Railway @Railway]

An urgent notice from the Railway team

https://t.co/niUAhTAQJM

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

Demos fail people. It's normal. Bugs can be fixed and you can recover. Lying is 10x worse and it's very hard to recover

[NIK @ns123abc]

HOLY SHIT OpenAI's live demo for "Dots" completely FLOPPED💀

and then they CUT THE AUDIO on the official stream to hide it

I caught the original:

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

No puede ser jajajajajajjaja

[Google Antigravity @antigravity]

Antigravity 2.0 now features a dedicated planning mode, just like the Antigravity CLI.

Type /plan and the agent steps back to think through the task, and conduct extensive research, before generating an implementation plan for your review. The agent will ask for your approval before it begins executing on the task.

You can also ask for a plan naturally in your prompt, for a lighter version of a plan.

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

@JordiNeil como se hace un for?

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

Por más gente como David Vélez

[David Velez @velez_david]

La “tasa de usura” en Colombia tiene buenas intenciones, pero termina perjudicando precisamente a quienes busca proteger. La explicación es contraintuitiva. Prestar tiene riesgo de impago. Si una persona tiene poco historial crediticio, es más difícil evaluar ese riesgo. Cuando la tasa máxima permitida no alcanza para cubrirlo, el banco simplemente niega el préstamo.

El resultado para esa persona no es crédito más barato: es quedarse sin crédito. Y sin alternativas formales, termina en el “gota a gota”, pagando muchísimo más y exponiéndose a amenazas y violencia. El informe de ANIF y Colombia Fintech de 2025 cita que más del 65% de los adultos en Colombia no tenían crédito formal. Y estima tasas anuales promedio del “gota a gota” de alrededor del 382% para personas y del 666% para mipymes.

Esa es la paradoja: un límite diseñado para proteger al consumidor termina cerrándole la puerta del crédito formal y lo deja expuesto a préstamos mucho más caros.

¿Cual es la solución? Eliminar el tope de intereses Y aumentar la competencia, exigir transparencia en los costos y mantener una protección firme contra los abusos. Quitar el tope, por sí solo, no basta. Gracias a desarrollos tecnológicos, Colombia tiene una gran oportunidad para impulsar esa competencia:

• Bre-B puede facilitar que entidades digitales como Nu compitan con los grandes bancos sin necesitar una red de sucursales. Esto significa que pueden venir muchos mas competidores al sistema. Que gane el mejor!

• Los pagos digitales dejan un historial que, con autorización del cliente, ayude a evaluar a personas y negocios que antes eran invisibles para el crédito formal.

• El "Open Finance" permite que cada persona comparta su información con otras entidades para conseguir mejores ofertas.

¿Quién perdería con más alternativas formales? El “gota a gota”.

La “tasa de usura” no ha funcionado en ningún país del mundo, y tampoco ha funcionado en otras industrias donde el gobierno decide por decreto “el precio justo”. Desde las políticas de alquiler de apartamentos en Nueva York o Buenos Aires, que dejaron miles de personas fuera de sus apartamentos y, al mismo tiempo, miles de apartamentos vacíos, hasta la decisión de Venezuela hace décadas de fijar los precios de los alimentos en los supermercados, que dejó los estantes vacíos. A pesar de ser contraintuitivo, el libre mercado es muchísimo mejor para encontrar el precio adecuado de un producto que una política de gobierno.

[Jake @JustJake]

When you do boring shit, you tend to over engineer it

When you do ambitious shit, you’re forced to keep it simple

Great lessons in there

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

I used AI to explain the AI pacing drama, with fruit.

[火箭手Neo @fixer82601]

@naval The most perfect prisoner's dilemma in human history:

If I don't use the model, my peer beats me to the breakthrough.

If I use the model, I'm donating my neuro-pathways to the machine that replaces us both next year.

[Iman Ebrahimi @imanebrahimi]

We got Navier-Stokes proof before GTA 6

[Nando de Freitas @NandoDF]

ENOUGH PESSIMISM IN AI PLEASE

I feel that we have become unreasonably pessimistic in our field.

1. I keep hearing AI engineers saying we have to make money quickly because there’s only like 2 years left before we’re automated. Depressing.

2. I see a constant obsession with “having a moat”. This is an incredibly sad mental frame.

3. I keep hearing “we have to catch up”. Soulless.

And so on. People: Every solution creates the possibility to attack new real problems. We face gargantuan engineering challenges in our world. How to capture carbon? How to get rid of teflon and plastics in water? How to invent batteries that are at least 30 times more efficient? How to solve clean energy? Better solar cells? Better ways of producing clean energy so we stop wars and famine? How to eradicate hundreds of diseases? Cures for addiction? And so on. Real engineering is about being brave and truly attacking the many problems we face, to engage with a true desire to improve the lives of others and our environment.

Good engineering is not about protecting your product to make money at the expense of progress (moat thinking). Good engineering is about ensuring your children and grandchildren will be proud of the choices you made in 30 or 50 years. It is about empowering others. It is about advancing science. It is about being one step ahead. Always, one step ahead, meaningfully, proudly.

These are great times. Let’s start thinking positively about all the wonderful things we could achieve together.

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

@dandressilva01 that is all you need

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

@magalidefelippe pobre dev

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.

[Michiel Westerbeek @happylinks]

starting my monday agents

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

The pursuit of excellence does not need justification

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.

For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.

Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.

Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.

[Nicolas Buitrago @nbuitragob]

@maria_rcks Paste a very long text as a txt, like in codex

[Andrea Díaz Correia ⚡ @AndreaDCorreia]

No me vi 30 temporadas, en total 720 episodios de Naruto, donde le pasa de todo y aun así nunca se rinde, para yo venir a rendirme ahora porque las cosas no me están saliendo bien