Victor Hoong

Founder and Director @Riverflex | Digital consulting platform connecting independent digital talent to team up on exciting client challenges

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is the beginning of something really big

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

@natolambert Congrats - many will be looking forwards to that!

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

Today Thinking Machines Lab is launching our research blog, Connectionism. Our first blog post is “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference”

We believe that science is better when shared. Connectionism will cover topics as varied as our research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here we share what we are working on and connect with the research community frequently and openly.

The name Connectionism is a throwback to an earlier era of AI; it was the name of the subfield in the 1980s that studied neural networks and their similarity to biological brains.

https://t.co/lrJioBmpbT

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

now wouldn't that be something...

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best AI coding model right now.

People are finding insane ways to build apps, games, and supercharge productivity.

10 wild examples:

1. Office simulation game

[Tesla Optimus @Tesla_Optimus]

There’s a new bot in town 🤖

Check this out (until the very end)!

https://t.co/duFdhwNe3K

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

Drew, this error is completely on me. I was pointed at this by some friends, and with confirmation bias, I drew the wrong conclusion. Instead I should connected with you asking for clarification. My sincere apologies.

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

Calling all marketing consultants! Spare just a few hours to support @Riverflex_Intl develop a new marketing plan for @movementontheground. Help solve the difficult #refugee situation in Europe https://t.co/S1idIHzDvl #probono #refugees #notforprofit #Socialimpact #lesbos

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

After 16yrs of "big consulting" I've finally taken the plunge to start my own business. Today, I'm excited to launch the first version of our digital consulting platform https://t.co/CXBJaTLGfM #digital #consulting #freelance #startup

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

For the Deloitte Digital team this means so much more than building a studio.... We are trying to build a new way of…https://t.co/oJJmOiDt2u

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hyperloop pod run by team WARR

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

@Satiricali @sapinker @BostonGlobe So you equate this debate to views on the holocaust - well done - I see a fruitful discussion coming!

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

@sapinker @BostonGlobe Look it's quite simple. All views are equal but some views are more equal than others.

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

Hey wait!... Let me just make a book out of all this digital stuff! #fashion #instagram @franklinheijnen @joeyduis

[The Bitcoigner @bitcoigner]

Panasonic Unveils Bendable Twistable & Flexible Battery For Wearables & IoT https://t.co/G9J3L8Hbc6 #WearableTech #DesignThinking #Wearables

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

@arnoldvdd @Kamelrechner Send me the camels :-)

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

Don't try the old methods. Take it to the next lvl. Bio-hacking mosquitoes to beat Zika virus. https://t.co/CsbWN3AVN4 via @PeterDiamandis

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

@FanieReynders @franklinheijnen @SBWard Looks great Fanie!

[Victor Hoong @vhoong]

Hoe digital is jouw DNA eigenlijk? https://t.co/SQNEcoK0xu