Congratulations to Brad Lander and Claire Valdez on their landslide victories in New York congressional primaries.
Together, we are creating a grassroots progressive movement that will defeat the Oligarchs.
im a software engineer. i grinded through data structures and algorithms, learned about compilers, computer architecture, and read stack overflow posts at 3am. i interned at tech companies and learned about how the work gets done in industry. im a software engineer. abstractions, code reviews, customers, systems, debugging, test cases. needed a better job so i did leetcode. faang rest and vest. pip and layoffs. promos and onsites. im a software engineer. i talk to claude more than my coworkers. claude can write code better than me. i manage git trees and keep agents on track. i forgot why we cared about type safety and my company is leaning out. im a software engineer. the code works the tests pass and and and the customers are happy the tokens brrrr my paycheck still clears the refactors are clean the ideas keep coming the codebase grows we dont stop because claude works and i watch claude works and i watch im a software engineer
I've been mulling around the theory that people gravitate toward needing the "smartest" model for all their tasks because to recognize that they don't need the "smartest" model ends up damaging their ego.
I don't mean that in the way most people think when talking about "ego". I mean it in the way that id, ego, and superego are meant.
Ego is our self-identity. When we as programmers and other "smart" individuals come across a problem that in the past has needed our unique experience and intelligence, we reach for a "smart" model. This is because realizing a "stupid" model could solve the problem just as well is something that impacts how we view our own intelligence and place in the world.
Does it lead to full on ego death? No, but it's something that we are not fully prepared for at all times.
Sometimes we really do need the "smart" model. But there are plenty of times we avoid the "stupid" model for no other reason than ego. We just don't even realize it, though.
We’re already facing the worst student loan crisis in history: nearly 1 in 4 borrowers are in default.
Now Trump wants to make it even worse.
On July 1, he’ll eliminate the most affordable repayment plan and raise costs by as much as $4,000 a year.
We can’t let that happen.
this was such a magical time to be on the internet, it genuinely felt like this strange place to explore. i can’t imagine growing up on insta/facebook vs stumbleupon, aim, myspace, tumblr. just a completely different vibe. “surfing the internet” has been lost to history
right monitor is 20 codex instances. left monitor has situational awareness on autoscroll. center monitor is my word doc mainfesto. two keyboards, one for both hands. left airpod is dwarkesh x eric jang, 3x speed. right airpod tchaikovsky. meta quest 3 overlays my HUD: heart rate, words per minute, blood caffeine content. one assistant hooks me to an iv of chinese peptides, cocktail. the other feeds me kimchi. my unitree robot steps in when my posture slouches. blue light beams down on me in my herman miller chair. efficiency. no wasted movement. no wasted thoughts. think you can keep up with me? good luck. this is just for my morning emails.
it’s on slack bro. it’s in the drive. i just put it in the notion bro i literally sent it to you on teams. did you check the airtable bro? it’s in the box bro. it’s single sign on, it’s on okta bro. no you need the yubikey. check your deel bro, it’s on gusto. check outlook bro