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9’1 | coding, film photos, ex aws

[. @shronquesha]

Viewz from my Vancouver apartment last summer

[. @shronquesha]

@wdmlne WHO IS NOT DOING THIS

[. @shronquesha]

going to sf June if anyone is there and wants to chud out w me

[. @shronquesha]

the days are flying, the users are growing. The pressure is building

[shi @tsuowa]

why did everyone on twitter just become canadian

[. @shronquesha]

@playboicurrryy relatable

[. @shronquesha]

@alt3boy Ikr, hope you’ve been well brother

just been away from the app to avoid distractions and what not lmao

[. @shronquesha]

MY YGS ARE FASTED AND PRAYING YOU LUCKY ITS RAMADAN

[. @TGM_007]

“Chubbs has done evil things to wicked people he just did the same last night, but that’s my brother and there’s no evidence so we’re all alright”

[hidecloud @hidecloud]

Maybe you can start with comparing this task: Find all YC W21 founders email for me. This is the result from ChatGPT deep research: https://t.co/lrbcD9x1L9 consumed a lot of time with only 6 companies result. And this from Manus: https://t.co/oRPuwKtqb2 fully complete list of all 300+ YC W21 companies result.😉

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

it’s honestly incredible to see software decline in real time these last couple of years

i think there are different factors contributing to this

nobody cares about the actual craft anymore, which is the consequence from:
1. leetcode interviews and faang interview style adoption - dsa is good but it doesn’t capture real knowledge on building systems

2. constant layoffs and ship jumping with no consequences - ie promo driven culture, ship and dip, no one is held accountable because nobody stays in charge of the product/system long enough to even have the full domain knowledge

3. non technical PMs in charge of product, services and pushing engineering to just ship with little understanding of the space, with only regard for themselves, because they too want that promotion and who cares if prod is broken

4. software engineering is not taking seriously - call it development, programming, whatever but nobody wants to have ownership and people dont care, just try to make the devs ship and the devs try to shit out a bunch of awful stuff to stay employed

5. with the addition of ML/AI into the picture we have a lot of brilliant folk who just wanna work in the AI space, which ofc is interesting but so is software engineering as a whole, a lot of challenging problems everywhere and AI is part of swe id say, we have people trying to ship AGI unable to run a crud app

6. the death of excellence - this feels like a global problem everywhere you go and look at, the decaying state of things, lack of domain knowledge or willingness to learn - a global cultural phenomenon? maybe i need to touch some grass

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@zfellows This is a misquotation. What I actually wrote was "If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage."

If you want to get quotes right, copy and paste from the original essay.

[PR1ME🧊 @Pr1mewrestlin]

@HappyPunch @calebpressley

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

ive suffered enough
i will fix devops
https://t.co/h4K50DblYw

[Naval @naval]

Good Products are Opinionated.

“Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things.

Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do.

If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features.

@Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity.

You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google.

Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do.

You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it.

ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer.
It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer.

So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough.

To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting.

In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make.

In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”

[Balaji @balajis]

Too many are interested in “tech” (by which they mean money) but they aren’t interested in tech (by which I mean math).

[. @shronquesha]

Seeing the customer support @Vapi_AI provides is so impressive. Rarely will you ever get developers themselves, working hand in hand with users in an office hours style call for debugging.

[Saurabh Suri @surim0n]

CALLING ALL CLAUDE CODE ENTHUSIASTS, VIBE CODERS, & ENGINEERS

We're getting hands-on with Claude Code. Live. In Toronto.

Join @robjama and I on December 9th - as we partner with @AnthropicAI for a community meetup in the best city in the world to build.

- ​Meet local AI builders
​- Watch as we get hands on with Claude Code
- AMA w/ a SPECIAL GUEST from the Claude Code team
- Hosted at the wonderful @535TORONTO
- Space is extremely limited

You wrote this year off, didn't you?

Brought to you by @_notrobots & @boomvideoapp

[. @shronquesha]

@rincidium This is nuts. What am I seeing

[. @shronquesha]

Actually this isn’t specific to the guys even. It’s everyone. Our community is so fucking divisive. Nobody cares if ur Arab or south Asain or from Canada or wtv. By default we should have genuine support. But y’all let some bs pit us against eachother

[. @shronquesha]

The inherent issue I have with incel akh Twitter is yes they’re very cringe and corny. But a part of the frustration is knowing what we COULD be. There’s so much potential for Muslims to support and uplift eachother

[. @shronquesha]

Yet what do they do, odd online slandering, performative bs, tearing eachother down. Segregation on ethnic region or religious sect. Gossiping. Like real faggotry

Wasted potential. We could support and build greater than the Jews. Look at our sheer numbers alone.