Tweets my own. Engineering Manager @netflix. Jokes probably stolen from Reddit. he/him.
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Apr 17
“NYC has high property taxes” is the sort of thing it makes sense to believe if you don’t live here, but alas, it’s not true
Apr 16
How does Ken Griffin owning a $238 million condo in NYC he only visits occasionally harm New Yorkers exactly?
He pays an extraordinary high property tax to the city for services he barely uses.
Why ridicule him for this?
x.com/NYCMayor/status/204450…
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Apr 13
tbh it's weird that parts of the tech industry are still shocked by ongoing anti-AI public narratives
when the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are like "if we do nothing this is going to suck for a lot of people", what do you think the sentiment is going to be?
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Apr 6
lmao we've gone full circle
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David Zhou retweeted
Apr 3
The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
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Mar 24
Guy at home, with a home lab closet of enterprise grade networking gear: While you were partying, I was learning the sword
(This is dumb as hell btw)
The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US theverge.com/news/899172/fcc…
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Mar 24
Noticing the start of a vibe shift in GenAI coding where if the past 6-12 months was the fuck around stage, people are starting to grapple with the find out part.
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Mar 23
Claude doesn't mean you should suddenly boil the oceans with your product, and I don't mean via environmental impact
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Mar 18
Online discourse about Dune part 3 reinforces the widening gap between those who consume content deeply, and those who consume content at a surface level
And personalization via AI is only going to make this worse, as generated content will be only deep as someone wants it to be
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Mar 18
re-inventing Kaleidoscope from first principles
kaleidoscope.hryjksn.com/
Mar 16
Two thoughts:
1-This is mind blowing
2-Imagine if you could do this for your whole operating system and the apps in it. Live re-style my OS so all UIs look as if they were made out of steel, wood, glass, cartoon, etc.
Just because why not.
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Mar 18
Too many corporate AI demands for their workforce amounts to something like "we require that all drivers drive 120mph down the highway, but safely!"
it feels good to say "please move fast but safely" but just tacking on "safely" doesn't materially reduce the risk of an accident
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David Zhou retweeted
Mar 16
we’re about to speedrun this realization across every institution in society aren’t we
Mar 16
I’m on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it’s so incredibly frustrating that I’m slowly realizing it’s actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.
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Mar 17
Some of the heavier-handed GenAI mandates at companies make me scratch my head.
There'd likely be more organic adoption if you simply let results speak. Engineers having higher impact due to AI? Promote/raise comp accordingly.
You can bet that every other eng will take notice!
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David Zhou retweeted
Mar 13
Cannot wait for teams that build their custom JIRA/Workday replacement/custom CRM to one day turn around and ask:
“Why do we have so much internal software that is buggy / has poor UX we need to maitain?”
Seen this movie well before AI, when Uber built uChat (custom Slack)
Mar 13
Our cracked team just used Software Factory to rebuild and replace Jira in a little more than a month.
We first spent 3.5 weeks planning. This is Software Factory’s superpower.
It allowed our lead PM, Designer and Architect to thoughtfully describe and detail exactly what they wanted. Software Factory then did the heavy lifting in filling in the blanks and allowing our senior tech folks to sharpen the direction of what they wanted.
Then in 2.5 weeks 2.5 junior devs built a replacement.
This will launch as an updated Planner module inside of Software Factory on Tuesday.
It’s beautiful, clean and super useful.
Try it here: 8090.ai
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Mar 2
??? This is basically me asking AI to generate a photo of a hamburger, grabbing a plate, and saying oh boy I can't wait to eat this
Mar 1
This is absolutely insane 🫠 People are yearning for a LOTR game like this.
We’ve somehow normalized waiting 2 years for 6 episodes of a TV show and a decade for a game sequel.
Imagine getting a new GTA game every year. AI will replace the bottlenecks, not human direction.
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Feb 18
way too many AI posts take the form of "finally the one thing that blocks me from greatness is resolved" and the one thing is creative vision?? quality execution?? taste?????????
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Feb 6
So much of the food that make up various Asian cuisines tailored techniques and flavor combinations to account for shelf stability, and "using what's available"
It's just someone who shows absolutely no curiosity to understand, and remarkable hostility to doing so.
An alternate take on this whole thing:
Asian cuisines are actually one of the most approchable ones for people with poor executive dysfunction!
Soy sauce, mirin, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, chili crisp, etc are shelf stable and basically never go bad.
Staples like dried noodles, rice, can live in your pantry forever too, and frozen veg and protein that you'd add anyway makes things really easy
Meanwhile pretty sure even my dried herbs amount to vaguely plant-like flavors when i use them now...
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Feb 6
part of me is taking a blessed breath that for this brief moment what's aggravating me isn't the state of the world and the collapse of basic rights but instead one famous person doubling down on their downright wild views of cooking asian food
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