Mohamed Amtoun

#itconsulting #geeking #productdesign #travel

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Dear son,

[Wisdom @Wisdom_HQ]

Why does this happen every time?

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

“I think the receipt for love is grief” ❤️

- @profgalloway

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Anthropic has 454 open roles. The company is hiring software engineers at $320K-$405K. Their CEO, Dario, said three months ago that coding is "going away first, then all of software engineering."

The paradox resolves instantly.

Dario's engineers told him they don't write code anymore. They let Claude write it. They edit. They review. They architect. They didn't lose their jobs. They got faster. Anthropic grew from a small research lab to 1,500 employees in four years, adding engineers the entire time.

This has played out five times in computing history. Compilers replaced assembly. Frameworks replaced boilerplate. Cloud replaced server management. Every prediction was the same: most programmers won't be needed. Every result was the same: the number of engineers grew.

The global software engineer pool went from roughly 5 million in 2010 to 28.7 million today. BLS projects 17% growth in US software developer roles through 2033, adding 304,000 positions. The pool is projected to hit 45 million by 2030.

When building software gets cheaper, more problems become worth solving with software. A startup that needed 10 engineers now needs 3. But 50 companies that couldn't afford to build at all now can. The denominator shrinks. The numerator explodes.

Meta's engineering headcount is up 19% from January 2022. Google's is up 16%. Apple, 13%. These companies adopted AI coding tools years ago. They're using Copilot and Claude Code daily. They're hiring more engineers than before those tools existed.

Every generation of "coding is dead" content creates two cohorts: engineers who freeze up, and engineers who build 10x more with the new tools. The second group has won every single time.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

If Islam is a cancer, then Muslims are malignant tumours who must be excised if the host society is to survive.

In the twenty-first century, it is considered perfectly normal for a university professor in North America to make this analogy.

In the twentieth century, it was considered perfectly normal for professors in German universities to invoke identical analogies about Jews as the malignant tumours spreading the cancer of Bolshevism.

Even someone as staggeringly ignorant as Gad Saad is aware of this.

Saad knows exactly what he is doing, and is proudly imitating the goose steps of his predecessors.

[james hawkins @james406]

110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life:

"i never once used Microsoft Teams"

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira."

The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before.

The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for.

And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house.

Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real.

Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses.

If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production.

The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines.

It never was.

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇲🇦 After snowfall in Zagora desert, Morocco

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

[Burke Holland @burkeholland]

Opus 4.5 now banging out all my code.

And I'm 100% sure your job is still safe.

The amount of stuff you gotta know to actually ship something extends way beyond brackets and semicolons.

[aditya @adxtyahq]

Claude Startup Program is also OPEN btw

> API credits for early-stage startups (up to ~$25K)
> Built by Anthropic (Claude)
> No VC needed (unlike OpenAI)
> Selection based on product + real Claude usage
> Actually friendly to bootstrapped founders

Apply: https://t.co/KQIgRqfPan

[AlmarssadPro @ProsMarocains]

The whole world watched this incident in the World Cup semifinal, a clear penalty that didn’t even require VAR to confirm it. No, we did not leave the pitch, and our fans did not storm the pitch. Remember, this was a World Cup semifinal. Yes, a World Cup semifinal.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

A classic.

[Leddy @LeddyLLC]

Every man over 30 blames aging for their low testosterone.

Turns out it’s not just aging... it’s chronic stress, poor sleep, and hidden insulin resistance.

Here is 9 simple ways to raise it and feel like yourself again🧵:

1. Whole eggs (with yolk)

[The Vital Formula @thevitalformula]

You don’t have a belly fat problem.

You have a cortisol problem.

This “hidden fat-storing hormone” is silently expanding your waistline—no matter how much you diet or exercise.

Here’s how it’s sabotaging your body (and 9 step to shut it down): 🧵

[Mohamed Amtoun @simohamed]

@CaronAymericoff C'est ce qu'on appelle un 7mar