Andy G

Dad. Husband. Software Engineer.

I also pretend I can write. Currently writing about important things for my kids.

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

Thread of my threads

https://t.co/FO17KI79jA

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

Focus is a superpower.

I see people saying this a lot, and I agree.

I don't see people defining "focus".

So here's my attempt at a definition.
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[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@KettlebellDan Actually for some poisons, ingesting them in small and incrementally larger amounts can help to build immunity/antibodies/tolerance, which is arguably anti-fragile 🤷‍♂️

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens."

And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds.

Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before.

Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax.

A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program.

Simple.

They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why.

They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed.

They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak.

By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that...

And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren???

Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget.

NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K.

NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane.

The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol.

So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that.

A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical.

It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools

THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY.

Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough.

Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem.

That's the SCAM.

Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her.

Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal.

Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck.

Outrage is deflection.

They'd rather she pay.

Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@ClaudeDevs there seems to be an issue right now with claude design. I've burned through a bunch of my weekly tokens trying to figure it out, but we're getting a 404 from https://t.co/sNehRjTnLL when trying to load the design work

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@marcaalvrz @BDouglasPorter @DavidAcostaJua1 @hostis_black @Rothmus

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@eladgil This is nothing new. Tech has always worked this way.

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@gregisenberg Despite all this, pretty sure I've been hearing about an overall up tick in tech sector jobs. Is that just BS or is all the above kind of the noise in the signal?

Anyone know for sure which it is?

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@SteveOnSpeed @Timcast I hate that there are any parties at all. It's so annoying

Politicians should have to stand on their own

Political parties have too much power

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@levelsio I'm gonna ask the dumb question:

Why not leave the bedroom door open and use a low-noise fan to help circulate air?

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

karpathy just admitted that his own app got oneshotted

and he thinks yours is next.

he built menu gen.

you take a photo of a restaurant menu and it shows you pictures of what the food actually looks like

(because 30-50% of menu items you genuinely have no clue what they are)

he vibe coded the whole thing:

photo upload → ocr extracts item names → image model generates a picture for each dish → app re-renders the menu with photos next to every item → deployed on vercel

but then someone showed him the "software 3.0" version:

1. take the same photo.
2. give it to gemini.
3. say "overlay pictures of each dish onto the menu"

gemini returned the original menu photo with food images rendered directly into the pixels

just 1 prompt and his entire app became entirely unnecessary

here's karpathy's way to test if you're still stuck building in old paradigm:

1. take away all the code in your app.
2. give the raw input directly to an llm.

is the output roughly the same?

if yes, your code is just adding steps between the input and the output.

karpathy thinks the apps that survive are the ones where the code does something the model genuinely can't:

> persisting state across users
> enforcing access controls
> processing payments
> connecting to hardware

he calls anything else outdated "software 1.0 thinking."

the question to ask yourself before you build anything right now:

is this an app, or is it just a prompt with extra steps?

you simply won't win if your answer is the latter

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is from an IBM presentation

In 1979

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@ZubyMusic Welcome to the United States of America.

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@TrevorLongino Have you watch Idiocracy yet?

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@ADoricko Any concern about or research done into downstream/second+ order effects?

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@xisthecesspool @DBriggsBlade Dude, do you have any idea how fast that time is? Never mind for someone who never even ran a half marathon. Doesn't matter if they were a "good runner" in highschool and college

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.

Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@dvassallo @RepThomasMassie You act like they won't further impose from here and that it won't be abused. They abuse every other power they already have

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@T_Nation C. How good I feel

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Let me just double click for those of you that don’t know:

This is probably the #1 litigation law firm on the planet submitting AI hallucinated cases in a ~$8 billion bankruptcy case.

This should be a wake up call to EVERYONE.

If it can happen to them, it can happen to you!

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Earning a bachelor’s degree in three months is so funny

[Andy G @simplyandyg]

@T_Nation Agree but they're still really, really good