Existing. 🇻🇪 she/her • Engineering 🤓• Cofounder @latinas_tech NYC
Joined September 2009
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Ale Paredes retweeted
Jun 14
Elmo teach me not to eat trophy. Me teach Elmo to pick a team. 💙🧡
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I am once again reposting E.B. White
You have to be born in New York to be a New Yorker!! @JLo
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Ale Paredes retweeted
May 27
No one could have known that telling programmers "spend as much money as possible on this new agent technology; whoever spends the most money wins!" would result in companies spending too much money on this new technology.
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May 26
I think about this very often the internet used to be so incredibly cool...
I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.
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May 19
Ah okay... 🙃
May 19
Reporter: The DOJ has this new fund — $1.7 billion. Why should taxpayers pay for the January 6ers?
Trump: Because in my world, loyalty outranks law. They broke the rules for me, so you pay the bill for them. That’s the transaction.
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Ale Paredes retweeted
Apr 30
Having been part of the industry for 50 years, I can confidently report that none of this is true.
Sure, writing code has a non-zero cost; this is true of any artifact.
But you know what costs even more, Jonathan?
Writing bad code; writing unnecessary code; writing more code than you really need simply because you think you might need it someday or you are too lazy or sloppy to clean up after yourself.
Anything that costs nothing is often worth nothing as well, and results in significant unintended consequences.
Apr 30
For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews.
This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system.
LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it.
If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.
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Apr 22
Being sloppy like a badge of honor 🙃
NYC's government-run grocery store is expected to open in 2029 at a $30M cost to taxpayers
More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
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Apr 13
Claude Max now means doing the bare minimum while burning the maximum amount of tokens.
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Apr 10
Getting a Claude Managed Agent to behave reliable is a frustrating endeavor.
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We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
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Mar 31
Please someone anyone, make it make sense
Mar 31
U.S. and Israeli officials increasingly view securing the Strait of Hormuz as the most realistic endgame of the conflict, shifting away from earlier ambitions like regime change and fully stopping Iran’s nuclear program, which they now consider unlikely to succeed, per WaPo.
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Mar 24
This, every single day. At what point did GitHub decide that reliability is not important.
Mar 24
Every. single. day. It's increasingly becoming difficult to do real work with GitHub. Git isn't the issue, since I can work offline. Its issues, PRs, CI, etc. Imagine going to work and your workstation randomly restarts a few times a day. That's what it feels like using GH.
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Ale Paredes retweeted
Mar 24
Convenience for me but not for thee.
Story: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Mar 18
Dude… 🙄
Mar 17
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
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Mar 11
Easily one of the most fun weeks of my professional career!
Mar 11
Salad-making. Wine-pouring. Coffee-brewing. Robotic dogs. Autonomous air hockey.
Our team spent 3 days building robots of all kinds just as easily as they build software, all on Viam. Check out the highlight reel to see what they built.
#robotics #buildonviam #physicalAI
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Ale Paredes retweeted
Mar 11
Salad-making. Wine-pouring. Coffee-brewing. Robotic dogs. Autonomous air hockey.
Our team spent 3 days building robots of all kinds just as easily as they build software, all on Viam. Check out the highlight reel to see what they built.
#robotics #buildonviam #physicalAI
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Mar 11
Why are we all acting like this is new information?
Development is easy, maintenance is hard
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Feb 9
GitHub’s near-daily incidents seem like the result of corporate performance management overshadowing engineering reality. If only 'core functionality works reliably' was a trackable KPI.
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Feb 9
Zero shade to the individual engineers. I’m sure they hate this more than I do.
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