Nathan Lebovic

Solutions Engineer | Side Project:

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Nathan Lebovic @nlebovic]

@shaunmmaguire @MyronGainesX As much as it’s scary to watch people nod yes to this crap, it’s also terribly sad to witness the brain rot in this cult of creatively bankrupt ideas.

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@BerthaHo49776 @reedhastings @netflix I wrote a browser extension for this so I could learn Italian while watching Netflix! https://t.co/gi8gLvT4QY #LanguageLearning

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@MarketPalmer_ I watched an employee “helping” people at a self checkout in EWR airport give herself a 15% tip without them realizing.

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@chaaangeplaces @_nightsweekends Yeah, still building.. love this!

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@LevittMichael @CanadianFSWC @TorontoPolice This makes me sad and angry

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@DahliaKurtz This.

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@gabrieloliv22 @Rainy_Bitch Allow me to plug a hobby project I just finished 😊 Learn a language while watching Netflix: https://t.co/dTgP09oqBX

[Nathan Lebovic @nlebovic]

I don’t buy it. But I do think:

1. We’re getting closer to peak “we’ll never need human devs again.”

2. Humans will need to retool as AI evolves or they’ll go the way of Cobol programmers.

3. Mediocre coders will struggle to keep relevant.

AI empowers engineers too.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This means there REALLY is no reason to remain a 9-to-5 NPC drone anymore because you'll be unemployed in the next 5 years

If anything you should be starting a business right now and get out of the system of servitude that will just spit you out once AI can do your job

[Nathan Lebovic @nlebovic]

@SCynic1 I was thinking the same!

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@designalily I thought this was a joke until I read the comments

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@KosherCockney Intellectual honesty and clarity

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@9999stacker @LarryRothwachs I thought y’all were protesting Zionists, not Jews?

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@DenverChannel Brilliant 🤦‍♂️

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@UNReliefChief 😂 "Of course they perpetrate terror but they're not classified as such" ⁉️ Sane people would follow up with "We will now designate them a terrorist organization" 🤡

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@RepBrianMast Clarity 👍

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@anna_lippman This reads like parody: I took this picture of the words "Mount Sinai Hospital" but had no idea which hospital it was. 🤡

[Nathan Lebovic @nlebovic]

@grace_eliz1 Get over yourself 🫡

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@AvivaKlompas @jaketapper They fabricate their own “facts”. And their followers gobble it up.

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@y0ryan @BrandonLRichard And after