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Chris Albon

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The research and practice of generating knowledge with the help of AI at | Senior Director, ML & Data @Wikimedia

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1Feb 15, '22Someone at Pixar deleted all of Toy Story 2 and the backup hadn't worked for a month, and the only reason we saw that movie was b/c someone on maternity leave had a copy of it on h525×0339k33k7.4k
2Sep 21, '23This is still the best AI ever generated Salmon jumping in a river155×3.2M55k4.5k1.9k
3Oct 11, '23It is embarrassing how much this stupid fucking meme has affected my own thinking and my own mental health. So, SO many times I’ve been the left person, and someone is explaining t93.7×1.9M5.2k3291.2k
4Aug 19, '23My wife just now: "What is Github?" Me: HOLY SHIT THIS IS MY MOMENT, STAY COOL CHRIS, STAY COOL. "So...."87.4×1.8M9.9k520354
5Jul 17, '23It is wild to me that every country isn't hunting down every PhD in AI and being like "here is a visa, $50000, and a path to citizenship"86.7×1.8M2.9k154192
6Nov 19, '23That coordinated quote retweet by OpenAI staff was the most impressive employee flex I’ve seen in tech.75.3×1.5M7.3k396439
7Jan 12, '24What is the TL;DR for why all the layoffs?74.2×1.5M1.4k50490
8Apr 19, '23What a time to be in tech.69.5×1.4M3.1k4201.1k
9Apr 20, '23If you are interested in it, here why I think you should get into AI right now. Disclaimer: If you are looking for some AI hype thread, go somewhere else.68.4×1.4M2.8k4143.1k
10Apr 4, '22Media is like: Freelancer, $35,000/yr: “I self-funding a three month reporting trip to a warzone to capture the untold stories of the war crime victims” Columnist, $300,000/yr: “Ch59.9×038k4.1k621
11Feb 27, '25View post on X59.7×1.2M19k5601.2k
12Sep 21, '23This meal just cost me $1,008 in San Francisco. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.59×1.2M20k873143
13Nov 25, '23We need a name for ChatGPT style prose, because I swear I can identify it in the wild. It has a certain vibe. Like it was written by a golden retriever.58.3×1.2M8.7k479428
14Mar 5, '24“No yapping” is a pro-level prompt engineering strat, you wouldn’t understand52.9×1.1M14k9732k
15Jun 18, '23Me: “I wonder how many people visited my blog. Let's find out on GA4” GA4:48.4×986k3.2k303187
16Feb 23, '24I’m 10 hours into a 12 hour flight and I genuinely think a $3500 Apple Vision Pro would be a better flight experience than a $3500 business class ticket43.8×891k4.3k102288
17Oct 27, '23The thing nobody talks about with engineering management is this: Every 3-4 months every person experiences some sort of personal crisis. A family member dies, they have a bad illn41.8×852k2.1k175576
18Mar 28, '24The most unrealistic thing in Star Trek is that nobody realizes every time they use a teleporter it actually kills them and builds a separate person (that is a exact copy) somewher33.5×682k3k103360
19May 31, '24I give this book to everyone. Tufte works through hundreds of syntax patterns and their effects on the reader, using real examples drawn from every type of writing imaginable. This33.4×680k5k2896.9k
20Apr 10, '24The problem with these types of dashboards is that they take forever to make and end up as wall art engineers need to maintain.28.4×579k6.8k167499
21May 28, '25During my PhD, my advisor told me to not use the library’s computer to find the book I wanted, because the act of browsing row after row in the stacks to find it was how original c26.7×544k8.2k5382.1k
22Sep 8, '222022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!” 2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipeline22.7×014k1.5k542
23Apr 18, '23No hype, I am genuinely a 2-3x faster coder with the help of ChatGPT.22.3×455k1.3k54163
24Jul 1, '23How many tweets could you possibly read, Michael? 600?20.7×422k7.3k83023
25Aug 26, '23I love that Excel’s solution to installing Python is to just not do it. Legends.20.7×420k2.8k9573
26Nov 17, '23As soon as I heard the news, my literal first thought was “I hope this means @karpathy will have more time to make YouTube videos”19.9×405k9765450
27Sep 28, '23It feels so weird to me that people talk about open source as reckless and a risk when it comes to AI model. Open source has been responsible for the last 20 years of technological19.4×394k1.5k256100
28May 29, '23My current personal dev setup is: Microsoft VSCode Microsoft GitHub Microsoft GitHub Copilot Microsoft ChatGPT4 What a run Microsoft has made over the last decade.19×387k1.7k96200
29Aug 16, '25Okay fine. I’ve done this multiple times and it really works. 1. Find a day you can be totally alone. 2. Put your phone on silent. 3. Buy a 8-10 hour audiobook that tells a story. 18.2×370k7.6k3143.3k
31Sep 17, '23why no-code never took off, in two sentences.17.2×351k1.6k187224
32Mar 13, '23Kubernetes but it’s 200 banks accounts with $249,999 in each one.16.1×328k3.4k33655
33Nov 23, '23HE DID IT. @karpathy FUCKING DID IT.15.6×319k1.3k81590
34Nov 4, '25I basically owe my career to @goodfellow_ian and this book.15.4×314k1.4k61881
35Nov 27, '24On the other app, yesterday Hugging Face released a dataset of one million posts. The anti-ai reaction was so negative that they took down the dataset. Now an anon pfp has released15.1×307k1.1k46189
36Oct 14, '23I love Obsidian. It is my second brain. And instead of some proprietary database waiting to be turned off when a FAANG buys the startup, everything is saved as markdown files and f14.8×301k76846400
37Sep 15, '24It is a cool video. People will see this and say “PhDs are over” but the truth is that it actually means that with an LLM this guy could have worked on a far harder problem during 14.8×300k4.8k375959
38Apr 9, '23Personally, I think AI will lead to more software engineering jobs, not less. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯14.6×297k7755538
39May 2, '24Whenever I hear about some FAANG layoffs, I keep coming back to @GergelyOrosz's discussion of "peacetime vs. wartime" companies. I'd posit that many big tech companies that have be14.1×287k1.4k172952
40Jul 3, '25This is actually how it feels. Remember feature engineering?13.7×279k5.6k215567
41Sep 14, '23The take home exam is just a 5m row CSV with a single random comma deleted.13.6×278k1.2k4976
42May 5, '24Years ago @vboykis sent me a wonderful essay on exactly this. Sadly, it's only available on the internet archive now:12.7×259k1.2k143680
43Jan 21, '24Best technical podcasts on ML? i.e. discussion of papers and technicals rather than business and products12.4×253k893791.3k
44Jul 4, '23The page turning approach is wildly cooler than the AI writing11.5×235k2.4k20291
45Apr 16, '23View post on X11.3×229k1.8k16558
47Jun 6, '23View post on X10.8×220k2.2k19369
48Aug 9, '23A mistake I see WAY too many times is hiring some expensive ML expert before having the infrastructure there to support them. Then they spin their wheels being their own data engin10.7×219k98171191
49Dec 21, '24AI wrapper startups for the last two years10.3×210k3.7k120319
50Jul 5, '23Training a multi-layer RNN on a 3090, 1080TI, and MacBook M2 Max: 3090: ~86 seconds per epoch 1080TI: 325 seconds per epoch MacBook M2 Max: 270 seconds per epoch9.3×189k65141118
51Sep 23, '23On this day 30 years ago, calculus was discovered.9.3×189k1.1k76148
52Mar 3, '24Your goal isn’t to code. Your goal is to build. If EDM music makes you build faster, listen to EDM. If AI makes you build faster, use AI. Being a great coder + AI will make you bui8.8×180k81384181
53Aug 29, '24I just fixed slack8.8×180k3.2k97121
54Oct 23, '23“He’s really a nice dude” Alright fuck it. are free for the next 24 hours. Coupon code: LOCALLLAMA8.8×179k866124296
55Feb 11, '24Everything I have is bc I self-studied my ass off, for over a decade. And I am studying in 2024 more than ever. If you think you are too good to be a student, I am going to lap you8.2×168k71830289
56Oct 23, '23Python is the second best tool for everything.8.2×166k7694738
57Nov 19, '23Every tech CEO right now: “If I post that I love my team, how many will publicly send love back”8.0×162k1.3k3746
58Mar 13, '24Best decade by far. You have an assistant to answer every question, explain every line, teach you every tool, demonstrate every technique, and help with every commit privately and 7.4×151k1.7k186208
60Oct 6, '23VSCode's killer feature is the remote development mode. ssh into another box and develop like it is local. Until Zed has that, I don't want to switch6.9×140k6172293
61Feb 11, '24~12 years ago there was an app I used to save journal articles. I put in a ton of hours organizing my collection. Then Yahoo bought them. The founders no doubt cheered their great 6.1×125k834115139
62Oct 9, '24What is so interesting about Waffle House is that they see their restaurants being open as a direct societal service during disasters. An affordable warm comfort food meal during a6.0×122k5744135
63Jan 22, '24This literature review I'm reading breaks down the entire thing as a tree!5.8×119k97988849
64Dec 9, '22I’m legit going to be sad when chatgpt isn’t free anymore5.7×03.9k17563
66Oct 15, '22The worst UX on the iPhone is every app having an in-app browser with none of your logins or preferences, and you can’t turn them off.4.8×03.3k16350
67Nov 4, '23the data engineer4.5×91k8133722
68Apr 23, '25.@OpenAI you need a button right here that converts the deep research into audio. Instant podcast.4.4×90k1.3k2180
69Nov 23, '23when you don’t pay your AWS bill4.4×89k1.1k579
70Jul 18, '23installing python4.3×87k8486915
71Jan 19, '25I started using Math Academy roughly six months ago. My goal was basically to refresh some basic math. Now I suspect I'll be a paid user for a decade.4.2×86k72322584
72Jun 20, '24I would genuinely pay for a podcast that was just experts in a thing talking to each other about that thing.4.1×84k87536260
73Aug 28, '25I want to work at a FAANG at least once in my career. Just to try it.4.1×84k678962
74Oct 27, '23A lot of engineering managers become effectively non-technical too early in their careers, and then they are left in this vulnerable middle ground where they don't have enough mana4.1×83k6624191
75Aug 30, '23"Eventually you will just explain what you want and an AI coder will do it" BRO if I could explain what I wanted I'd be done already4.1×83k5894227
76Sep 28, '25I believe this down to my bones I’m 42. Let’s say I have 30 years left. I want to spend those years building cathedrals of knowledge and progress. I want to be in the control room 4.0×82k95353257
77Jul 3, '22Kenyan tea action shot4.0×02.3k34022
78Nov 20, '23The Indian part of my Twitter feed over the last 24 hours: openai openai openai openai SHUT THE FUCK UP THE CRICKET IS ON openai4.0×81k1.5k6221
79May 4, '23Them: "What did you accomplish today?" Me: "Well, the 'f' in the f-string was INSIDE the quotes instead of outside. So that was like... two hours."4.0×81k615379
81Feb 16, '24omg there is a paper3.8×77k59290216
82May 7, '25Aren’t we all students, really3.3×67k1.4k3528
83Dec 24, '24The best advice is the same as always, that has worked for millions of people: just do stuff. Make things, code things, write things, tweet things, draw things, whatever. It litera3.2×65k81262216
84Nov 28, '24Now there is a dataset of posts from people talking about the original dataset3.2×65k9263566
85Feb 3, '23There are only two styles of Python programming for data science: 1. Spend 10 minutes writing the code and then have it run for four hours. 2. Spend four hours trying to make the c3.1×64k6745358
86Nov 4, '23What following AI feels like right now3.0×62k6536843
87May 22, '22What are the best ML *books* to come out in the last three years? They can be code-focused, theory-focused, whatever, but they have to be books.3.0×070590732
88Feb 22, '24My pride and joy right here.2.9×58k59454140
89Aug 24, '24My honest answer is to take a piece of good code and have an LLM explain every single line to you. Literally line by line. Then ask questions about what isn't clear. You have a per2.9×58k79876243
90Sep 4, '22When you die all your GitHub repos should become public and open source2.4×01.5k11129
91Aug 4, '25Claude: "Wow! You just hit the nail on the head with a killer idea..." Real life friend: "That is literally the worst idea I've ever fucking heard."2.4×49k1.5k5148
92Jul 30, '25We are in a strange new world in software engineering where you can vibe code a whole app in 20min but understand none of it and learning nothing from it... or manually code the sa2.4×49k96845130
94Mar 12, '24My favorite part of Devin is that even our most advanced programming AI debugs using print statements.2.1×42k6224340
95Jul 31, '25I am so skeptical of this narrative because every company I’ve worked for had 20x the amount of stuff they wanted to build than they had staff for If you magically 5x’d engineer pr1.9×40k6402861
96Nov 6, '22I’m drawing new machine learning flashcards every day. This is the new style because iPad drawing is easier than actual pen and paper (draw-to-product per card is seconds vs an hou1.9×068094339
97Oct 22, '22I’ve been tinkering with AI writing tools and here is my biggest takeaways: 1. Amount of low quality content used to flood Google results and drive ad impressions will approach inf1.8×073068244
98Nov 5, '22Fuck it everyone start a blog. We are bringing back 2006.1.6×09259510
99Jun 8, '22The most under appreciated story in tech is how Kenya's digital currency, Mpesa, has become the de facto form of payment for almost everything, from $0.50 in fruit to your rent pay1.4×063714661
100Jun 18, '22What if the real crypto was the money we lost along the way?0.8×0500852

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