Ruan

Engineer / designer. Mostly here to think out loud.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

What engineering lacks is legibility. Most people can't read its expressiveness, they just see something that works.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

Engineering is full of self-expression: the problems you choose, the way you decompose them, what you optimize for, what you find elegant, what you refuse to tolerate.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

You can recognize a great engineer's code the same way you'd recognize someone's handwriting.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

@edmundmcmillen 1. A quick start option so you can jump in fast and pick your starting cats

2. Better breeding visualization with tabular, sortable data so you can actually analyze and better experiment with genetics

3. A new mode that strips breeding out entirely

[Ruan @ruanputka]

Crocante caribe é o kiki bouba brasileiro

[Ruan @ruanputka]

The good life is inspired by love, guided by knowledge, and expressed through making

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

trying to use topological data analysis to map the shape of my x bookmarks through mapper + embedding extraction and generated 3 views:
- density: where attention keeps gravitating
- pca: the dominant axes of variation
- centroid: center vs edge (typical -> outlier)

[Jessica Kerr @jessitron]

I don’t wanna “build software” so much as

build understanding and express it in software.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

o design de um MVP é fundamentalmente diferente do design ideal, não é uma versão reduzida, é outra coisa. Com AI a limitação técnica cai e os produtos que surgem não são versões melhoradas do que existia, são coisas que antes nem chegavam a sair do papel

[Ruan @ruanputka]

antigamente ideia grandiosa = risco alto, porque a versão incompleta ficava muito inferior ao produto final. aí veio o culto ao MVP, minimalismo, conceito mínimo. parte disso era sabedoria (valide antes de investir), e parte era só limitação técnica disfarçada de filosofia

[Kieran Klaassen @kieranklaassen]

If you know how it feels to create art,
you can be an amazing AI engineer

[Ruan @ruanputka]

the guy who made meditation credible in tech twitter is also the most carried away by it. we need a sober one

[Ruan @ruanputka]

The coding was never the point. Coding was where people with that orientation went to exercise it

[Ruan @ruanputka]

Common take: AI will automate coding, so taste becomes the scarce skill, and people with taste (PMs / designers) inherit the earth. I don't buy it.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

In a world where AI codes better than seniors, the scarce human skill for innovation isn't taste. It's the orientation that drives someone to keep playing with different abstractions and models of the system.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

design engineers are the new full-stack

[Ruan @ruanputka]

@unclebobmartin The way you are enforcing "formalism", for example, can advantage some and destabilize others, while also enabling new skill profiles.

[Ruan @ruanputka]

@unclebobmartin Agreed, but semantics do more than raise abstraction, they change the nature of the work itself.

So it is not a neutral upgrade. Each step shifts the mental model and the working process itself, favoring different personalities rather than just making expression easier.