Thomas Rundle

Quit job ~6 months ago to better enjoy this brave new world. Bumbling about building a TBA start up. Aspire to build a product that encourages thoughtfulness.

[Guillem Garcia @g2sans]

why software engineers have this low self esteem?

It's very easy to disprove this. Look at AI lab engineering outputs! They hire top talent, and have unlimited tokens + unreleased powerful models.

Can you see impressive software built by them? By impressive I mean:

- low RAM / cpu usage
- good UI UX
- no blatant bugs
- minimal downtime
- obviously no electron

... why isn't this obvious?

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@zeeg I'm baffled by all of the recording and note taking products.. When I got confident as a leader, big unlock was that I stopped taking and reviewing meeting notes. Focused on being present in meetings. Trusted that if it was important, I'd remember. Served as prioritization filter

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@rfleury @mattworkman Appreciate the sentiment and obv this guy is a tool, but note that the ragebait only reached me bc you replied to it

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@venturetwins Turns out @alexandr_wang was right at least in the cased of Wired employees https://t.co/6neQPhJEST

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

some of y’all way too thirsty for muse

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@venturetwins These interactions say much, much more about the writer engaging in them than they do about the product

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@juliarturc 100%. They need to Just. Stop. Talking.
I think whichever "lab" does this will pull ahead

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@tomekkorbak @balesni @j_asminewang Having read the posts from the 3 of you, but the not the letter, it the firing does seem shitty.. however, in my experience, companies typically aren't particularly candid about their rationale for firing and California has "At-Will Employment"

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@chamath Lawyers won't play a role?

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@theinformation No Joseph Gordon-Levitt? @hitRECordJoe

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@clairevo Are they really get left behind tho?.. Maybe they are using their time more wisely than we are

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@thdxr Also women don't forget the husband's acts of negligence as new mothers... I still have to answer for shit now and then that's not nearly as fucking stupid as this

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@thdxr Guy needs to realize that if he doesn't change his perspective then his marriage is on a countdown timer

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

2) Massive risks of the non-sensational kind are ignored, because we are desensitized to AI risk because of years of AI doomer sensationalists crying wolf. As a result, we have major economic disruption and mass casualty events (not civilization or extinction-level)

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

I see the biggest threats from AI as
1) We create 5 - 10 year window where we lose a large % of would-be innovators and creators, because of loss of motivation for learning (which we are at least 2 years into now)
...

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

*I'm very much again[st] the "thought leadership" slop

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

I'm giving out unsolicited advice on LinkedIn in my spare time. I'm very much again the "thought leadership" slop and let's face it, it's slop whether it's AI or not. But if you are going to do it, you gotta go all the way

[dax @thdxr]

the promise of ai is you talk to it, and it does magical stuff for you

the labs work to make sure these interactions keep improving

that's why the whole "keep up with the latest tricks it's moving fast" doesn't make much sense

all you have to do is talk to the thing. and your energy should be going towards finding novel ways to apply it to your work

[Thomas Rundle @runbund]

@zeeg Meanwhile on LinkedIn... ??? What are they on over there

[Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR]

Have you ever been on a project where progress happens quickly at the start of the project, then grinds to a halt as the project drags on?

What’s happening is complexity limits. As soon as you hit those limits (typically ~60k LOC on the project itself) the code becomes too complicated to manage without numerous unintended consequences on every change.

Using AI to generate the code does not prevent this problem. As soon as your complexity budget is exhausted, you’re either shipping an application that is collapsing in production (effectively non-functional) or you’re taking extreme amounts of time for every change.

If you think AI isn’t going to race toward the complexity limit and cause a complete failure of the project within a year without careful human oversight, I have some bad news for you…

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

So good