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Alex Karaman

@something8589

Web engineer for ~20 years. Principal @ Yahoo Finance. Still in the grind — real craft, AI in product work, getting the job done.

 Oakland, CA
Joined September 2026
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Brian Sozzi
@BrianSozzi20h
Your chart to justify buying tech stocks on Monday after Friday's hammering:
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komal sharma
@itz_komal01Oct 29
A genuine question: Why are we only vibe coding simple web apps? Why don't we vibe code Kubernetes, operating systems, compilers, databases, and other complex software? Is AI really not good enough to build all of these?
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Thariq
@trq212Oct 29
There’s 100% a kind of mania you can get into with coding agents, where it feels like you’re getting a lot done and working all the time but nothing is really happening. I think it's often a form of avoidance of something else in life.
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Jun Song
@jun_songOct 14
What has disappeared so far this year: - Prompt engineering - Claude. md setup - Agent skills - Countless Openclaw deploy services - Loop engineering - Graph
Jun Song (@jun_song) profile pictureJun Song
@jun_songJul 18
Loop engineering will be gone in few months
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Astasia Myers
@AstasiaMyersSep 25
I'm hearing a new concern from founders: AI brain rot Some employees are becoming so reliant on AI that they are losing critical thinking and struggle to ask the second order questions to move an initiative forward.
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Simon Willison
@simonwSep 25
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge
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@GergelyOroszSep 24
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs push production code for a long time; possibly forever, if you ask me. Software still needs to be built in robust ways, and it's our profession to do this well, and use the new tools we have, which create new and interesting (+tough!) challenges
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