Charlie

24yo developer

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

The bottleneck of AI adoption is not frontier model quality or compute. It’s context engineering (and corporate policy/trust). Localized agents need knowledge, tools, structure, and purpose; and that’s not easy to provide. That’s where talented human engineers will shine

[lauren @poteto]

we will need to rebuild and rewrite much of software to adapt to a new, faster pace.

code used to arrive one drop at a time. soon, if not already, code will be written as if it were a continuous stream, like a violent river twisting and turning as it pleases.

this is not a new thing: big tech cos have had to deal with this with the enormous scale of their engineering teams. but now ai has brought an incredibly elastic and capable workforce wielded by every engineer. this is your problem now, and the only way to adapt is to evolve your systems so agents - even and especially the ones with little context about the right way of doing things - can thrive. make the easy thing the right thing.

your codebase is becoming organic architecture. agent contributions grow around the constraints and guardrails you’ve designed. good software engineering matters even more now! and no, the continuous stream of code is not something you have to watch helplessly. be more ambitious and design systems, frameworks, and languages to control the chaos.

the time for mourning coding is long over

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

This post looked great for Opus 4.6 to Opus 5. But Opus 5.5 has been on the Pareto front for months

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@theo Too bad @theo didn’t read my post or he would have known this months earlier

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@RonDeSantis @RonDeSantis is just posting an interesting fact. No opinion or bias whatsoever in the post. We need more of this from politicians

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@theo You are forgetting the many thousands of devs who work for giant old corporations that don’t allow anything better than GitHub Copilot CLI

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@nikillinit Hopefully you will outlive terrible microservice design. It should die in a couple decades. That said I’ve never heard of you before and this video is amazing

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@SyntheticBeef Most current software was developed before LLMs so now is the best part. Dissecting software that looks like this and completely replacing it

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@SyntheticBeef Most current software was developed before LLMs so now is the best part. Dissecting software that looks like this and completely replacing it

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@Fraudmmich @RileyxxHuey @clashreport I mean if you go back to the German Confederation that includes Czechia, Luxembourg, Slovenia, half of Poland and half of Slovakia

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@jcbtorti @RexTheodericu @Sollberg1 @clashreport “dialect” and “language” are so loosely defined in many cases that you could say Dutch is a dialect of German

And don’t forget about Pennsylvania Dutch, the German dialect spoken by Amish Americans

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@Sollberg1 @clashreport No but Melechon is denying the ethnic identity of the Germans and French and instead saying French identity comes from the state. The whole point of my post is criticizing Melechon’s quote that my post starts with

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@Sollberg1 @clashreport German dialects are mutually intelligible *today*. But to say German identity was created from the language and not the ethnic group is nonsense

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@RealAlbanianPat @FPTPMoments Do you know his identity for sure? Probably not worth the effort

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@Kadennn12321 Alaska and Maine are much less predictable because they have few voters. A 2,500 vote margin is 1% in Alaska and 0.05% in Texas

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@ArmandDoma In a so called “poll” of 454 voters that included 45 that identify as somewhat conservative or conservative

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@AniListco In hindsight, this was an extremely smart decision that many other low, mid, and somewhat-high importance sites such as Wikipedia an Archive should have made

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@anthonyronning OpenAI was right to report. When they noticed a user finds a huge vulnerability, they have a responsibility to report asap in case that user doesn’t report it. But their X account even today claimed that they found it independently which is wrong

[Charlie @optimal_policy]

@RasmusJarlov YouGov polls are not elections. Zero chance that 20% of Arkansas wants independence