My best advise as #SoftwareEngineer, be humble. So many people will take the dive to the bottom of the ocean and in a lifetime one may never reach the bottom. There’s just so much knowledge and wisdom in this profession. #javascript #react #nodejs #webpack #babel #nginx #debian

Can someone explain this. This has to be Michael Chandlers last fight at this point.

20 rules for young men: 1. Never date a friend’s ex 2. It’s ok to go to the movies by yourself 3. Hygiene is more important than you think 4. Know the different between love and lust 5. Stay informed on what’s going on.  Don’t be a sheep 6. Have a sense of humor but don’t joke about your dreams and goals 7.  Study the types of people who upset you and why 8. Stand up to bullies.  You’ll only have to do it once. 9. Don’t bully people weaker than you 10. Learn how to tell stories 11. Don’t complain. 80% of people don’t care about your problems and 20% are glad you have them 12. Be impressed by the things that matter 13. When coming across a successful person, talk less, ask more. 14. Leave a lasting impression after people meet you 15. Don’t feel guilty for being too ambitious 16. Be mentally and emotionally ready to lose loved ones at some point of your life. 17. Always have some cash with you 18. Regardless of what you get paid per hour, give your best.  19. Avoid porn at all cost. 20. You never marry a girl, you marry her entire family.

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🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned. Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

Programming is now 10x more fun with AI.

Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks. To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a compiler that passes 99% of GCC's own torture test suite, compiles FFmpeg, Redis, PostgreSQL, QEMU and runs Doom. They say they "(mostly) walked away." But that "mostly" is doing heavy lifting. No human wrote code but the researcher constantly redesigned tests, built CI pipelines when agents broke each other's work, and created workarounds when all 16 agents got stuck on the same bug. The human role didn't disappear. It shifted from writing code to engineering the environment that lets AI write code. I don’t know how you could make the point AI is hitting a wall.

Lakers losing this series. I don’t see why LeBron would come back for another season. This might be it.

10. Hire only people you'd wanna hug. My mentor said this to me in 2015. And it was a big shift. I realized that if I don’t wanna hug the person, it means I dislike them. Sooner or later, we would have a conflict and eventually break up.

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers. (Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates). More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.” Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. “Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China. This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness. That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

55% of billion dollar tech companies were started by immigrants. Google Intel Tesla were all founded or built by immigrants. They employ 400,000 people collectively. Percentage of workforce allowed to be H1-B is effectively capped at 15% for big tech companies. The other 85% is American. At Google only 5% of the workforce was H1-B renewals or petitions in 2023. The U.S. is 12/37 among first-world (OECD) nations in science. 28/37 in math. 400,000 new engineers are needed every year. A third of positions go unfilled. Short-term, we need foreign reinforcements or we will lose. Long-term, we need to improve the home team.

I agree with @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy about H-1B visas. But I love the rebellion against them because it shows that MAGA is thinking for itself. I disagree with the right-wing populists here because I think it's awesome that the most talented engineers across the world want to come here. And I think they make us stronger because we get to take the top talent of all the other countries. That's the great advantage of being America, we shouldn't throw that away. But this fight shows that MAGA is not a monolith and that's a great thing. Vivek is right and wrong. He's right that we should celebrate nerds and people who work hard in school. But he's wrong that we need to put down anyone else in order to do that. I was both an honors student and the middle linebacker for our football team. There's nothing wrong with being a jock or a nerd, or both. I can't stand @LauraLoomer and I think her comments about Indians are awful. But I also don't think she should be punished for her comments, blocked or unverified. Let the marketplace of ideas sort this out. The forces for good don't need censors to help us.

“We cannot prevent the dark times that are coming, but what we can do is become a small shelter from the coming storm and maintain hope.” -- @nayibbukele in a very different speech than what you'll hear from world "leaders", at the UN.

Wait what? Murati is leaving, Schulman left, Karpathy left, Ilya left, Leike left, Brockman is on leave, perhaps a dozen others left, GPT-5 hasn’t dropped, Sora hasn’t shipped, the company had an operating loss of $5b last year, there is no obvious moat, Meta is giving away similar software for free,many lawsuits pending, and people are valuing this company at $150 billion dollars? Absolutely insane. Investors shouldn’t be pouring more money at higher valuations, they should be asking what is going on.