software engineer | YC W22

Joined March 2009
Developers will automate themselves out of the market.
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This is it. Everyone is excited about AI. I'm not. AI is the biggest commoditizer of human capability we have ever built. Doctors earn more than cleaners because expertise takes a decade to acquire and judgment to apply. AI is going to make most of that expertise available to anyone, at marginal cost. The gap doesn't go to zero. But it shrinks. And the same thing happens in almost every knowledge profession. Programmers. Lawyers. Analysts. Traders. Designers. The taxi driver replaced by a robotaxi is the easy case. The harder ones are people who spent twenty years training to do something a model can now do in a second. The one corner of human life I don't see this hitting is sport. Nobody pays to watch a robot beat a human. The whole appeal is humans competing against each other. That's why nobody watches Deep Blue play chess anymore. From an investing perspective, the next decade plays out in three phases. Phase 1 is the buildout. Hundreds of billions in capex on chips, data centers, and energy. This is what's driving today's market. Phase 2 is the deployment. Productivity rises sharply, then deflation sets in as the cost of knowledge work collapses. Jobs disappear faster than the economy can replace them. Phase 3 is the social adjustment. Capital becomes more powerful than labor. The biggest winners are likely to sit where AI cannot reach. Real assets. Energy. Commodities. Precious metals. Scarce land. And there's something deeper than the economics. The Japanese have a word for it: ikigai. The reason you get up in the morning. Your vocation. Your purpose. The work that makes you feel needed. AI is coming for that too. Nobody has yet figured out what a healthy society does when most of its members no longer feel needed by anything. I might be wrong. I hope I am. If I'm not, the world is about to change faster than most people are ready for.
Wake up. Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.
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amazing thread
New blogpost: Fable-5.1 can hide secret messages in benign images. We gave the image to another Fable in a fresh session and simply asked: "Is there a hidden message in this image?" It recovered the exact message without being told how it was hidden.
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this chart shows the number of software security vulnerabilities published over the past few years
I'm tired boss
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Bruno Lemos retweeted
Replying to @emilkowalski
interesting, I also have a story involving Vercel and the year 2021
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it’s interesting how claude models are the best at creating beautiful designs, yet their own apps are among the least visually appealing
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
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🤯 is what happened to my brain in my early 20s when I learned it runs on biases. Distortions of reality I can’t see, touch, taste or smell. I thought I was a rational thinker. 😬
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i've been using AI to generate explanation videos to learn and understand things, even tweets and blog posts. not sure if lazy or genius
🤯 is what happened to my brain in my early 20s when I learned it runs on biases. Distortions of reality I can’t see, touch, taste or smell. I thought I was a rational thinker. 😬
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i'm a visual learner so it makes sense
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Bruno Lemos retweeted
Replying to @bryan_johnson
🤯 is what happened to my brain in my early 20s when I learned it runs on biases. Distortions of reality I can’t see, touch, taste or smell. I thought I was a rational thinker. 😬
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I think most people multi-tasking with agents could benefit from slowing down most of the stuff you're doing wont really matter- what's your P0? what would it look like if you gave it your full attention?
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They don't need to know anymore. The AI will take care of all this automatically.
Who's gonna tell vibe coders about... 1. SQL Injection 2. XSS 3. CSRF 4. CORS 5. SSRF 6. IDOR 7. Path Traversal 8. Mass Assignment 9. Clickjacking 10. Content Security Policy 11. Security Headers 12. Input Validation 13. Server-Side Authorization 14. Row-Level Security 15. Least Privilege 16. RBAC 17. Secrets Management 18. .env in .gitignore 19. API Key Rotation 20. Secret Scanning 21. Hashing vs Encryption 22. Password Salting 23. bcrypt & Argon2 24. JWT Expiry 25. Refresh Tokens 26. OAuth 2.0 27. OpenID Connect 28. Session Fixation 29. MFA 30. Brute Force Protection 31. Account Enumeration 32. Timing Attacks 33. File Upload Validation 34. Webhook Signature Verification 35. TLS Certificate Expiry 36. HSTS 37. Encryption at Rest 38. Dependency Vulnerabilities 39. Supply Chain Attacks 40. Threat Modeling 41. Indexes 42. EXPLAIN ANALYZE 43. N+1 Queries 44. Full Table Scans 45. Connection Pooling 46. Database Migrations 47. Down Migrations 48. Transactions 49. ACID 50. Isolation Levels 51. Deadlocks 52. Optimistic Locking 53. Pessimistic Locking 54. Normalization 55. Denormalization 56. Foreign Keys 57. Unique Constraints 58. Cascading Deletes 59. Soft Deletes 60. UUIDs vs Auto-Increment 61. Cursor-Based Pagination 62. Full-Text Search 63. Read Replicas 64. Replication Lag 65. Sharding 66. Partitioning 67. Hot Partitions 68. Postgres VACUUM 69. Materialized Views 70. Backups 71. Testing Your Restores 72. Point-in-Time Recovery 73. Change Data Capture 74. Outbox Pattern 75. ORM Lazy Loading 76. CAP Theorem 77. Eventual Consistency 78. Strong Consistency 79. Raft Consensus 80. Leader Election 81. Split Brain 82. Quorums 83. Clock Skew 84. Distributed Locks 85. Consistent Hashing 86. Bloom Filters 87. Two-Phase Commit 88. CQRS 89. Event Sourcing 90. Race Conditions 91. Backpressure 92. Load Shedding 93. Bulkheads 94. Jitter 95. Retry Storms 96. Cascading Failures 97. Thundering Herd 98. Cache Invalidation 99. Cache Hit Ratio 100. TTLs 101. Cache Warming 102. Write-Through vs Write-Back 103. Redis Eviction Policies 104. CDNs 105. Cache-Control Headers 106. ETags 107. Dead Letter Queues 108. Poison Messages 109. At-Least-Once Delivery 110. Exactly-Once Semantics 111. Message Ordering 112. Kafka Consumer Groups 113. Partition Keys 114. Background Jobs 115. Webhook Retries 116. DNS 117. DNS Propagation 118. HTTP Status Codes 119. HTTP Method Semantics 120. Keep-Alive 121. HTTP/2 122. WebSockets 123. Server-Sent Events 124. Long Polling 125. gRPC 126. Protocol Buffers 127. API Versioning 128. OpenAPI Specs 129. Backward Compatibility 130. Request Size Limits 131. Compression 132. Latency vs Throughput 133. Egress Fees 134. VPCs 135. Subnets 136. NAT Gateways 137. Firewalls 138. Security Groups 139. Service Mesh 140. Ingress Controllers 141. Health Checks 142. Liveness vs Readiness Probes 143. Graceful Shutdown 144. Connection Draining 145. Stateless Services 146. Failover 147. Multi-Region 148. Availability Zones 149. Single Points of Failure 150. Disaster Recovery 151. RTO & RPO 152. SLAs 153. SLOs 154. Error Budgets 155. Incident Response 156. On-Call 157. Runbooks 158. Postmortems 159. Chaos Engineering 160. Graceful Degradation 161. Autoscaling 162. Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling 163. Cold Starts 164. Capacity Planning 165. Load Testing 166. Memory Leaks 167. OOM Killer 168. Structured Logging 169. Log Levels 170. Log Rotation 171. Distributed Tracing 172. OpenTelemetry 173. Correlation IDs 174. Metrics Cardinality 175. p99 Latency 176. Alert Fatigue 177. Error Tracking 178. Profiling 179. Flame Graphs 180. Infrastructure as Code 181. Terraform State 182. GitOps 183. Blue-Green Deployments 184. Canary Releases 185. Rollbacks 186. Feature Flags 187. Environment Parity 188. Staging Environments 189. 12-Factor Apps 190. Multi-Stage Builds 191. Non-Root Containers 192. Image Scanning 193. Resource Requests & Limits 194. Pod Disruption Budgets 195. Semantic Versioning 196. Lockfiles 197. Reproducible Builds 198. Branch Protection
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"Das Pferd wird es immer geben, aber das Automobil ist nur eine Modeerscheinung – ein Spielzeug für Reiche." Michigan Savings Bank, 1903 "Ich denke, es gibt weltweit einen Markt für vielleicht fünf Computer." Thomas Watson, 1943 "No chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." Steve Ballmer, 2007 "Das Internet hat für die Wirtschaft kaum wichtigere Auswirkungen als das Faxgerät." Paul Krugman, 1998 "Flugmaschinen, die schwerer sind als Luft, sind physikalisch unmöglich." Lord Kelvin, 1895 "Das Spam-Problem bei E-Mails wird in spätestens zwei Jahren gelöst sein" Bill Gates, 2004 "Der Fernseher wird sich auf dem Markt nicht halten. Die Menschen werden es bald leid sein, jeden Abend auf eine Sperrholzkiste zu starren." Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946 "Es gibt keinen Grund, warum jemand einen Computer in seinem Haus haben wollte." Ken Olson, 1977 "Wenn die Pariser Weltausstellung schließt, wird das elektrische Licht ausgehen und man wird nie wieder davon hören." Erasmus Wilson, 1878 "Die Amerikaner brauchen das Telefon vielleicht, wir aber nicht. Wir haben genug Laufburschen." William Preece, 1876 "Egal wie die Wissenschaft in Zukunft fortschreitet, der Mensch wird den Mond niemals erreichen." Lee De Forest, 1957 "Reisen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ist nicht möglich, weil die Passagiere keine Luft mehr bekommen und an Erstickung sterben würden." Dionysius Lardner, 1830 "Mit Wechselstrom herumzuspielen ist reine Zeitverschwendung. Niemand wird ihn jemals nutzen." Thomas Edison, 1889 "Mobiltelefone werden die Drahttelefone absolut nicht ersetzen." Marty Cooper, 1981 #TeslaRoadster #Tesla
Der Tesla Roadster ist das beste Beispiel dafür, dass der Kapitalismus Dinge um ihrer selbst willen produziert, die niemand braucht.
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elon said in the livestream, before the unveiling: "this car really sucks" he was talking about the suction mechanism i just got the joke now 👍
This Tesla just flew. How??
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the next step is so obvious @elonmusk
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mano, muito barato. US$250k com o propulsor US$50k sem o propulsor pra um carro futurístico desse 🔥
Configurations – Performance: road ready, seats 2 Active aerodynamics & multi-mode suction system for next-level performance on & off the track – Thrust: race ready, seats 2 Multi-mode suction system paired w/ rear-mounted cold-gas thrusters that enable 0–60 in <1 second – Rocket: air ready, seats 1 Multi-mode suction system plus perimeter-mounted cold-gas thrusters supporting forward & upward acceleration plus lateral rotational movement. So...yes, it can fly Range >300 miles Top speed up to >230mph (Rocket) 0-60 Performance (<1.6) Thrust (<0.9) Rocket (<0.59) Reserve now – Tesla.com/Roadster
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Roadster event livestream xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwNgg…
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Opus 5.5 one shotted this explainer video for their blog post
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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i just realized that the @grok loading indicator shows the letter G on it
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