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achieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @temporalio - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod
san francisco / singapore
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    Jul 10, 2020
    💁‍♂️ How to Play Long Term Games: Systems > Goals Discipline > Motivation Trust > Distrust Principles > Tactics Writing > Reading Vulnerability > Confidence North Stars > Low Hanging Fruit Trends > News Habits > Sprints Questions > Answers Problems > Solutions People > Projects
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    Sep 1, 2024
    I saw an AI engineer today No cursor. No claude 3.5 sonnet. No aider. He just sat there. Coding without running an LLM every other minute. Like a psychopath.
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    Mar 23, 2023
    ChatGPT casually dropped an APP STORE 🤯 It can now: - browse the web (RIP Bing waitlist, cutoff) - write and run Python (RIP replit?) - access org info (RIP docsearch startups) - add third party plugins from OpenTable, Wolfram, Instacart, Zapier, etc) - developer SDK in preview
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    Mar 22, 2023
    Wow. GitHub CEO @ashtom just announced GitHub Copilot X: - Copilot Chat - "ChatGPT-like experience in your editor" powered by GPT-4 - Copilot for Pull Requests - AI-generated descriptions for pull requests on GitHub - GitHub Copilot for Docs - chat for *any* company's repos and
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    Mar 27, 2023
    Incredible how Stephen Wolfram toiled away in relative obscurity for ~15 years, only to wake up one day and find that Wolfram|Alpha is literally the perfect bridge from agentic AI to real world knowledge, errors included. “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only
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    Jan 3, 2023
    ChatGPT’s current killer app isn’t search, therapy, doing math, controlling browsers, emulating a virtual machine, or any of that other cherrypicked examples that come with huge disclaimers. It’s a lot more quotidian: Reformatting information from any format X to any format Y.
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    @swyx
    Oct 7, 2025
    RIP Vibe Coding Feb 2025 - Oct 2025
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Every so often I love to be reminded of the biggest devtools bizdev fail of all time linuxjournal.com/content/git-or…
    How Git Came to be Back in the day, Linux used Linus Torvalds as a one man version control system. He personally edited files to avoid conflicts. There simply weren't any open source version control systems at the time. Eventually Linus strikes a deal with the private version control system BitKeeper . Bitkeeper is normally a paid product, but Linux gets a special deal. The deal is simple, the Linux community could use Bitkeeper for free in exchange for some metadata and an agreement for Linux contributors not to work on competing version control systems. This system works well for years. Eventually however, Bitkeeper informs Linus, just as Linus is getting on a plane for the weekend the the Linux Kernel Development will have to pay to use Bitkeeper. Less than 4 days after this phone call git was born. Written exclusively by Linus for version 1, this tool upended the business model for BitKeeper. Git was an entirely different approach to version management on the scene at the t
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    Apr 10, 2022
    twitter engineers literally implemented tweet undos with browser setTimeout and called it a day lmao 37 billion dollar company if this doesnt motivate you to ship your shitty side project and charge money for it idk what will
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    Apr 10, 2022
    Replying to @elonmusk
    “Undo” is currently just a 20 second delay – it breaks if you close the app 😐
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    Dec 21, 2022
    Debate resolved: There are no 10x engineers. Presenting the Nov 22 - Dec 19 "what do Twitter engineers do all day" speedrun ANY%
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