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[winminsoe @winminsoe]

break the circle. -_-

[dax @thdxr]

a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers

when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore

the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage.

I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care.

But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "where does this fail?" you should be able to answer confidently.

For PoCs, demos, experiments, whatever: I don't care. Generate 100% of it and understand none of it. Speed over quality every time in those specific scenarios.

But if you're shipping customer-facing work, you can't be shipping things you don't understand at a high level.

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/jKCIAEzai7

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[flowstate @k_flowstate]

Here's the link

https://t.co/mTOPYQcZVe

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/ze3x7bgsL4

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Wrote up about my personal journey from AI skeptic to someone who finds a lot of value in it daily. My goal is to share a more measured approach to finding value in AI rather than the typical overly dramatic, hyped bait out there. https://t.co/SpiIy7DEc9

[Mrinal @Hi_Mrinal]

A great read for the day

[Tim Tiefenbach @TimTeaFan]

I highly recommend this article for anyone who still thinks that LLMs are still "only predicting the next token". It's long and unsettling but worth the read.

[Leong Wai Kit @LeongWaiKitCNA]

Silent strike is under way in #Myanmar to mark 2 years of a military coup

This one shows an empty street in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city

In the past, the army went after those on silent strike, like sealing shops that didn’t open for business

[winminsoe @winminsoe]

United Nations: UNHRC to take action for the violations of human rights in Myanmar - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/TdDkoTPbdA via @Change

[May Wong @MayWongST]

Traditionally, one of the busiest streets (1st 2 pics) in #Yangon #Myanmar has fallen silent as part of #SilentStrike movement to protest against #militarycoup on #HumanRightsDay2021. Such a scene happening across Yangon and around the country. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

[Phil Robertson @Reaproy]

.@hrw on ASSK verdict: “Aung San Suu Kyi’s guilty verdict has been guaranteed since #Myanmar’s military detained her on February 1, and more baseless convictions and sentences can be expected to be piled on in the future” #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar https://t.co/l9tljGBoJ4

[Leong Wai Kit @LeongWaiKitCNA]

Despite condemnation of #Myanmar army’s car ramming into protesters in Yangon, which was filmed & circulated, state media made no mention of incident

- Instead, it says it arrested 11 protesters at Kyimindaing

- Injured protesters sent to army hospitals

[soe zeya tun @soezeya]

At least four people were killed due to SAC vehicle drives through a group of protesters and opened fire at Pan Pin Gyi Road in Kyeemyindaing, Rangoon on Sunday

[Leong Wai Kit @LeongWaiKitCNA]

.@POTUS denounces military coup and "horrific violence" in #Myanmar during @ASEAN-US Summit

At Summit, Singapore's @leehsienloong also calls for immediate relesae of @MyanmarSC Aung San Suu Kyi, president Win Myint and @FrontierMM journalist Danny Fenster

[winminsoe @winminsoe]

Join me and sign up with moomoo now! https://t.co/pfou5LENdQ

[Leong Wai Kit @LeongWaiKitCNA]

BREAKING: @ASEAN decides to exclude #Myanmar army rulers from attending ASEAN Summit, says @NHKWORLD_News

[Mark Farmaner @MarkFarmaner]

An argument increasingly being used by some diplomats is that inviting a civilian member of a military controlled ministry is somehow different from inviting a SAC minister or member of the military. It's nonsense. They represent an illegitimate regime. It's backdoor recognition.