for all you know, this could be your last summer.
as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that.
theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains.
for heavens sake, flirt with the world.
i’m taking a gap from @georgiatech to join full-time at one of the fastest growing consumer app startups, @mypingoai
here’s how i got here:
a few months ago, i built and launched my first ever app, Still, with my best friend @vikvang1
coming back to school last fall, i knew i wanted to build consumer software. so i spent the last half of the year chasing my dreams of building an app that i loved, even when i didn’t fully know what i was doing
two weeks ago, those months of work turned into an opportunity i couldn’t pass up
looking back, the dots connected in a way i never could’ve predicted. nothing really made sense in the moment, but it does in retrospect
when you work on something you truly care about, things have a way of working out, even when progress isn’t obvious at first
i’m incredibly grateful to my friends and family who’ve supported me along the way. i’m both excited and scared as i move to san francsico and start this new chapter of my life
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.