Shea Levy

In pursuit of conceptual virtuosity

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@KelseyTuoc You also get the nagging feeling you’re missing one despite them all being right there

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@KelseyTuoc Real

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

Hilarious and poignant roast of the President by America’s top comedian

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Reporter: How do you define ceasefire?

Trump: In that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

Dreaming of the better world where this man went into entertainment from the start, without the detour through corrupt real estate tycoon and without the departure to corrupt the republic, he could’ve been a giant.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Mike Johnson is a very religious person. He does not hide it. He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, 'Sir, may we pray.' I'll say, 'Excuse me? We're having lunch.'"

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

Incredible line from the entertainer-in-chief. Awful one from the commander-in-chief and head of state.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Q: "Why didn't you tell U.S. allies…about the war before attacking Iran?"

President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@AlexGodofsky Perhaps those other countries should retaliate against Iran’s unprovoked belligerence against them.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

I hate the concept of “first world problems” but I do appreciate that there’s an element of the absurd in my irritation at SSH latency from a flying airplane.

[Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛ @PrinceVogel]

Ending the "should man refer to the collective of humanity" debate by insisting we start reinstituting werman and wermen when referring to the masculine gender

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@Politics_Reply @tracewoodgrains @diviacaroline But anyway, “don’t lecture criminals because they’re irredeemable animals” is a different argument than Trace is making.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@Politics_Reply @tracewoodgrains @diviacaroline No criminal has ever learned a lesson or improved his character, nor has anyone else who witnessed his punishment.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@tracewoodgrains @diviacaroline The law is for our benefit and it is to our benefit that they understand the reasons their behavior is bad and why they will be better off if they change it, in addition to understanding the consequences.

Disappointment is not the only form of moral judgment.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@tracewoodgrains @diviacaroline In the sentencing case, why should we care about the preference of the criminal?

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

Ron DeSantis is clearly intelligent and learned enough to know the answer to this one. He just doesn’t think you are.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Evidence against the current interpretation of birthright citizenship (being challenged by the Trump admin before SCOTUS):

If anyone who is born on US soil is automatically a citizen, then why did Congress need to enact a statute granting citizenship to Native Americans?

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@tracewoodgrains I have no idea if this is actually an animating consideration for him but a few months ago someone mentioned that he might go for a legacy as Justice Rafael Edward Cruz instead of Senator Ted Cruz and it’s shaped every news story since.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

The math ain’t mathing

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@0xwilt @generativist Ok so then by “for now” you meant “not true”, got it.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@seconds_0 Yeah I am really trying to get at whether this has actually happened yet and what the concrete dynamics have been when it does.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

For those with corporate sw jobs, have you seen LLM usage bring your specific team to be as effective with N-M engineers as it used to be at N? Assuming those M weren’t previously ballast anyway?

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@0xwilt @generativist It can’t be true that the gap is wider than ever and keeps getting smaller. At best you can think we’re at an inflection point, otherwise you simply disagree with OP

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@seconds_0 Do you work in corporate sw? I was under the impression that your current forays are something of a career switch.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@Aron_Adler I dunno man, if they were pitching it like “yeah the quality is nowhere near what you’d get from hand crafted good engineering, but we make up for it in volume” I’d be much more open to it all, but as it is I feel like the boosters live in a completely different reality.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@Aron_Adler Man I really need to deep dive for myself but I am dreading the experience and the broader implications

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

@kilovh I hope I’m wrong but I’m really scared we’re in for a combination of capital exhaustion hangover and software system degradation epidemic hitting in the next few years.

[Shea Levy @shlevy]

Also open to hearing from that crowd too if they’ve seen this at work!

[Divia Eden 🔍 @diviacaroline]

@shlevy Everyone I know is a programmer and yet upon first reading I was like “corporate sex worker jobs”?