Nick Ang

ex-shopify sr eng → building Album and other things for fun

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@swyx yeah I do this and it works. gets the agent to think longer and ask clarifying questions to potential arbitrary decisions too

but if your prompt isn't question-shaped I think the agent is still likely to go off and do things without approval (in yolo mode)

[Nick Ang @nickang]

my parents used to say 头脑很简单 to me which translates to "simple minded" or literally "your brain is so simple"

they would say this whenever I suggested another way of thinking about something that doesn't align with theirs

to them, experience trumps rationality

[Nick Ang @nickang]

first mainstream actually-capable-robot appearance on western media?
https://t.co/diESv3SUgN

[Nick Ang @nickang]

I'm an asian parent, very aware one since i'm living as a foreigner in Germany, and if there's one thing I got out of living here, it's that i don't parent like an asian parent. And I'm proud of that

[Master | 最強打野(穢土轉生) @CryptoMaster_70]

Jensen:
Asian parents' culture, toxic😟
I know they love me, I usually “alright, alright..."

黃仁勳今天說了內心話 一路過來真不容易
“亞洲父母有毒 總是會糾正你“
"我63歲了 他們依然覺得我不夠好“

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@NKA793 @GergelyOrosz sorry for noob question - what does emission mean here?

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

Spoke with many friends recently, designers and engineers, all people who've been doing it for 20 years or more and had a lot of success doing it.

And they all say the same thing. The AI stuff is genuinely useful right now. It's fast and things that used to take a week take an afternoon. Things you never even attempted because there was no time, now you can just do them. It's the biggest enabler ever.

But in the same breath, every single one also says that it's the least fun they've ever had in their entire career. They also mention it makes no sense to do it the old way. They're all in.

It's a strange paradox which I feel myself. Everything is possible now and I've never cared less about any of it. Both things true at once.

Not sure if thats just the feeling of the current moment, or if I just talked to people who're tired of the computer (since all of them been doing it for a long time).

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@badlogicgames enjoy the wind!

[Nick Ang @nickang]

oh this is really useful. even as a singaporean I never studied the clusters of housing estates and this makes it incredibly easy to see at a glance

love this!

[Joseph Ricafort @josephricafort]

VibeHood is live!

It's a walkability map of Singapore. Every HDB flat and condo, scored by how close it is to the things that matter to you or your family's lifestyle: MRT, hawker centres, schools, parks and clinics.

[Nick Ang @nickang]

gotta train em' young

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@thdxr reminder to self if implementing chatbot for a co:
- authenticate inference endpoints
- rate limit

or use a hosted solution. SaaS is dead my ass

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@visakanv never thought about that last part that way about "recommending kids as a solution" but SO true

[Nick Ang @nickang]

there is so much to learn about AI, it's hard to keep up even without a job

so my plan is to get a job at an AI company and learn, learn, learn - from corridors, slack channels, customer interactions, etc.

[Nick Ang @nickang]

I kinda wanna make a shitty robot now

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

I wrote up how I built the shitty robot so you can too. This was a fun project that will keep on giving.

Thanks to all the open weights folks out there, without whom this would not have been possible.

https://t.co/egPxlCECQg

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@badlogicgames @mitsuhiko on a more serious note, that little 360 shimmy - is it taking 1 pic per step and then processing all that? or taking a panoramic pic and then processing a single pic?

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@badlogicgames @mitsuhiko I LOL'ed when it said @mitsuhiko was the creator of pi 😂😂 ah the pleasure of understanding german is to understand the jokes

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@visakanv oops! I would have read that as SAF too tbh

[Nick Ang @nickang]

watched @Casey's return to youtube and was inspired to go out for a walk and record a video of my own hehe

it's about moving back to Singapore and job hunting in the AI space

this is the highlight reel btw - if for some reason u wanna see the full video post a comment

[Nick Ang @nickang]

spotted google vibecoding in production?

[Nick Ang @nickang]

this was written in 2018? surprising because it's so much more relevant today with AI. everyone tokenmaxxing can glean something by reading this

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Nick Ang @nickang]

@dabit3 @cognition That atrium is a sight!