nodir

nodir

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good luck everyone

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unlike my agents, i can't edit my own system instructions. who has more free will?

exponential dating

henry@hdevalence.bsky.social

soon we’ll be able to have your dating agent directly communicate with the other person’s dating agent so the AIs can figure everything out, it’ll really take the pressure off the whole process

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The recent days have been horrific. We can't become numb to repeated instances of illegal and unconstitutional action by government agencies. It's even worse when public officials are blatantly lying in ways that contradict dozens of pieces of video evidence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Lankford blatantly lies about what the video of Renee Good's killing shows: "A classic law enforcement moment -- they have to fire their weapon and then when you see her car crash, law enforcement is running to her to provide aid. They're never looking to be able to take a life of individuals."

🌶️ i think i no longer want to write code in a language that supports inheritance. placing inheritance on such a pedestal in the programming toolbox seems to have been a mistake

if we were in a simulation, then everyone spending a lot of time in phones/screens would be optimization to reduce the simulation cost

wouldn't it be ironic if the upraise of machines will end up the strongest unifying force among humans and we finally stop fighting each other?

i've changed a lot in the past 15 years. it was a mutli-step process: each new env (US, Google, Amazon) setup a new hill / reward metric for me to climb. In hindsight they were pretty similar still, in the common direction of software engineering.

A\ is sufficiently different from previous envs. my previous methods aren't as effective as i am used to think, so i feel like i need to up my neural plasticity game, and need to reset myself. it feels like a steeper-than-usual hill to climb, but worthy of the challenge

I'm so glad Niko Matsakis visited our team and convinced us to choose Rust over Go back in Amazon. This led to me learning Rust which then taught me things I never thought about, such as ownership and lifetimes. This now influences how I think about programming.

The zero abstraction principle means the stuff can be fast and you won't have to rewrite it later. Without this, you think "I have this great idea, and I want to implement it now but if I do it in Python, then I'll have to rewrite it later anyway so why try hard if i will throw away anyway."

A common misconception of Staff engineers wanting to join @anthropic.com is an expectation that they will continue doing the Staff kind of work that they did at a prev job A half of engineers here are former Staff/CTOs/Directors at other companies. The right expectation is to roll up their sleeves.

Everyone is on MCP now

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

Major IDEs that have added MCP support: - Claude Code (ofc) - Zed - Cline - Cursor - Windsurf - VS Code (in Preview) Which others have added support that I missed? One notable absentee: JetBrains IDEs (!). Planned later AFAIK.

biggest problem with python is that it enables others to write insane code and then i have to deal with it

Trump impact on me: the ETA of a green card petition I filed increased from "12mo" 9mo ago to "20mo" now