SWE @GitHub - De-influencer - cutting through the bullshit of maximalists | youtube.com/@glich.stream
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I have started preparing a hybrid (pre-recorded live sessions) course on practical system design that will be shipped on maven
The course is designed for engineers with at least 3 years of experience, & these are the expected learning outcomes:
TLDR; I want to teach the bulk of what staff engineers learn in a decade
⏺ Design fault-tolerant distributed systems & learn the tradeoffs of consistency and handling high-throughput workloads
⏺ Develop zero-downtime migration strategies for large-scale distributed systems
⏺ Learn proven design patterns applied in designing systems at big tech companies
⏺ Protect your systems with abuse prevention patterns
⏺ Learn how to observe & operate distributed systems in production
⏺ Level up from Junior to Senior and Senior to Staff / Architect
⏺ Bonus: conquer the system design interview with in-depth knowledge & practical insights
You can now pre-signup for the course (link in the first comment because big boss Elon wants it that way 🙄)
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The one man leading the resistance 🫡
Rich people who were too stupid to code before are now superstars. And actually brilliant engineers are made to feel stupid and redundant. Meanwhile coding has been synthesized into beige gooey calorie dense bars made from cockroaches and engineers have to line up with a small plate begging for their share from the token barons who, fortunately, at any given moment can feel generous enough to press a button that makes the tokens fly out like projectile vomit. Engineers at these companies, who sit mere inches from the spigot, frequently bless us with thinkpieces that we too should be doing what they do, and it’s actually quite unfashionable not to do so. Of course none of this is so much engineering advice as it is financial advice.
But sure, “wHy dO pEoPle hATe Ai?”
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Sure.. becomes a shit economy, liquidity concentration in the AI bubble, and someone starting WW3 are all great for business
Mar 20
New businesses are creating fewer jobs... due to AI, per Bloomberg.
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Noo…. who would have thought…
🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%.
Presenting EsoLang-Bench.
Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵
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Clawdbot is fascinating! Took me a few hours to get it setup on an isolated VM on an untrusted VLAN, with a shared folder from my NAS for memory, all running in my small homelab.
It even setup whisper to transcribe my voice notes and respond to my voice prompts!
If this thing is capable of running Nvidia’s personaplex for full-duplex speed to speed conversations?
Game over!
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Why is this regurgitation of what's already open sourced in abundance so impressive?
I would be more impressed if this was solving an entirely new problem by remixing existing knowledge. Recreating a utility using what it was trained on seems like a massive waste of cycles.
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Writing code has never ever been the bottleneck. If I unleash 10 agents running in parallel 24/7 solving well defined problems, AND deploying changes, handling operational problems, troubleshooting alerts, mitigating incidents, I would still have a backlog that takes years to get through and define well enough for an agent to take a shot at
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link- retweeted
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constant refactoring is not a sign of perfection, it’s a sign of weak engineering.
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Culture is everything you do not because it serves a KPI, or boosts “morale” or implements an arbitrary leadership paper. It’s everything you do because why the fuck not
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Full-scale Oval Office replica inside GitHub's HQ, circa 2015
I don’t think most of you genuinely realize how much verve has been stripped from 2010s startup culture
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I was under the impression that Boston Dynamics was owned by Alphabet, looks like it was sold to SoftBank and then Hyundai!
If this actually goes to market, it’s a big loss for Alphabet
Jan 5
NEWS: Boston Dynamics has just released a new video of its upgraded next-generation humanoid robot called Atlas.
• 4 hour battery. Self-swappable for continuous operation
• 6 feet 2 inches tall
• Weight: 198 lbs
• 56 total degrees of freedom
• Now fully electric, ditching older hydraulic systems
• New lightweight mix of aluminum and titanium components
• 110 lbs weight capacity (66 lbs sustained)
• Can reach up to 7.5 ft
• Constantly evaluates its surroundings and adjusts its posture, balance, and grip in real time
• Hands that can reconfigure as needed. Tactile sensors feed data back into the system, helping apply the right amount of force
• Brain is powered by Nvidia chips
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We’re shipping some UX goodies in Actions for you this holiday season! If you have workflow runs with A LOT of workflow jobs, we have introduced lazy loading of the jobs navigation list as well as job status filtering.
This feature should be rolled out globally by December 22nd
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Fun fact, in 2025 alone, "developers used 11.5 billion GitHub Actions minutes in public and open source projects, up 35% year over year from 2024"
Let that number sink in for a minute. 11.5 billion minutes, that's:
191,666,666.67 hours
7,986,111.11 days
1,140,873.01 weeks
21,879.75 years
and that's only in 2025 alone!
Super proud of being part of the team running a piece of the infrastructure of the internet
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It’s easier to find holes in large attack surfaces. When products get sufficiently large and popular, it’s exponentially more difficult to protect every nook and cranny
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is software crappier or hackers more clever?
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