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achieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @smol_ai - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod

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1Apr 22, '25> be Judy Faulkner > self taught Fortran in college > age 35 > start Human Services Computing in ’79 > $70k from friends n family > refuse VC, private for 4+ decades & counting > r67×2.8M4k1642.3k
2Jun 30, '23🆕 Essay: The Rise of the AI Engineer Keeping up on AI is becoming a full time job. Let's get together and define it.58.2×2.5M2k3601.7k
3Mar 27, '23Incredible 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 58.2×2.5M6.3k6761.8k
4Mar 22, '23Wow. 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 descr48.3×2.1M7.2k1k2.2k
5Mar 23, '23ChatGPT 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) - 43.8×1.9M7.7k9493.2k
6May 14, '23Stop building the thing. Build the thing that builds all the things. IMO the most important thing every developer could be doing right now on nights and weekends is building a gene41.8×1.8M4.2k3905.3k
7Oct 10, '23it’s official - I think GitHub Copilot is the first* generative AI product to publicly claim they’ve passed $100m ARR — enough to stand alone as a publicly listed company Whenever 37.8×1.6M3.5k3581.3k
8May 14, '23🐣 Introducing `smol-developer`! ▸ Human-centric, coherent whole program synthesis ▸ your own junior developer ▸ develop, debug, decompile ▸ open source: ▸ 200 LOC, half english In37.5×1.6M3.1k3503.4k
9Oct 7, '25RIP Vibe Coding Feb 2025 - Oct 202526.9×1.1M5.3k1971.6k
10Nov 9, '23🤯 with @openai Whisper + TTS + GPT4V, you can just permanently share your screen with an AI and talk to it to get help on anything on screen. a generally intelligent assistant for24.8×1.1M2.4k2982k
11Jun 24, '23Inspired by @karpathy’s words on why you - yes YOU - should work on AI Agents20×849k1.8k1921.5k
12Mar 15, '25remembering when stackoverflow tried to gaslight us into thinking their traffic decline was an analytics issue and that their “internal numbers were different” pepperidge farm reme19.3×821k3.9k154791
13Oct 1, '24Here’s my @OpenAIDevs day thread for those following along. everyone else gotchu with videos and stuff so i will just give personal notes and aha moments thru the day first observa19.1×812k1.6k1051.2k
14Jan 3, '23ChatGPT’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 di18.6×789k5.3k5371.7k
15Apr 25, '23.@Replit just announced their own LLaMa style code LLM at their developer day! replit-code-v1-3b - 2.7b params - 20 languages - 525B tokens (“20x Chinchilla?”) - beats all open sou18.5×786k1.7k238735
16Dec 21, '22Debate resolved: There are no 10x engineers. Presenting the Nov 22 - Dec 19 "what do Twitter engineers do all day" speedrun ANY%18.5×785k4k322398
17Sep 1, '24I 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.16.9×720k8.6k3611.2k
19Sep 9, '24wow. Apple might just have fixed Siri. and beat OpenAI to the first AI phone. and commoditized OpenAI with Google. and casually dropped a video understanding model. incredibly well16.4×696k1.3k981k
20Feb 5, '25TIL that Cursor is the fastest growing SaaS in the history of SaaS 1-100m in 12 months WITH A WIDE AND SMOL CUSTOMER BASE (400k paying devs, means that growth is very predictable/s14×593k2.3k1661.4k
21Sep 8, '25ok life update: i'll be joining @Cognition! • Cog just went from 0 to $10b in 2 years • Net burn $20m in company history • Avg successful Devin impl sees >5x growth, $1.5m/yr custo13.8×587k2.4k86698
22Sep 4, '25Claude Code: no evals [well known code agent company]: no evals [well known code agent company 2]: kinda halfassed evals [leading vibe coding company]: no evals [ceo of company sel13.8×586k1.3k771.1k
23Sep 14, '23> be Chris Lattner > write LLVM for Masters thesis > keep doing hard things > PhD in 3 years > instahired into Apple to productized LLVM > ~immediately start Clang > win 2012 ACM S13.1×558k2.3k191589
25Jan 4, '24This person does not exist (and can be made by anyone on their laptop in minutes)12.3×522k1.7k1531.1k
27Apr 4, '25With gemini 2.5 pro pricing and results, Google has fixed the biggest unknown/weakest link in their lineup and we can now confirm that @GoogleDeepMind completely owns the pareto fr10.3×440k1.7k202621
28Apr 7, '23Someone wrote up this list of the last 7 days in AI and I am -exhausted-. who is making the AI to keep up with the AI???10×425k1.7k2331.5k
29Jun 5, '23Not cool of @Apple to just copy @Vercel's keynotes, paint it white and call it a day9.9×422k1.2k35158
30Oct 5, '25anthropic 2024 vs anthropic 2025 vibe rebrand must be dissected in harvard business school studies for the next decade9.5×405k2.3k75593
31Jul 10, '20💁‍♂️ How to Play Long Term Games: Systems > Goals Discipline > Motivation Trust > Distrust Principles > Tactics Writing > Reading Vulnerability > Confidence Nort9.1×05.7k9073.7k
32Sep 12, '24🎉Congrats to @OpenAI for releasing o1: - Economics: @tylercowen asked o1 basically to write a college essay - Genetics: @catbrownstein asked o1 to help her reason through "n of 1"9.1×385k1.8k2501.4k
33Jan 27, '25i was a former pro options/hedge fund trader. advice for my AI/ML friends who suddenly turned NVDA daytraders: you are not smarter than this market. for every deepseek there are 108.2×349k1.3k61582
34Nov 21, '231) What8.2×348k1.3k5075
35Jun 26, '23IMO everyone should take a moment today to read about + celebrate the life of John Goodenough: - Served in WW2 - PhD with Enrico Fermi - in his 30's, helped create RAM - At 58, inv8.0×340k1.5k239135
36Sep 30, '24just realized NotebookLM is @GoogleDeepMind's ChatGPT moment - "low key research preview"/"experimental" - not monetized - GPUs/TPUs immediately on fire - SOTA proprietary new mode8.0×339k1.6k1261k
37Sep 30, '24your annual reminder that .gitignore_global exists please clean up your OS junk files, we live in a society7.5×318k3k2121.5k
38Dec 18, '24are all you @warpdotdev users just cool with 2GB memory usage for a terminal or am i holding it wrong7.0×298k1.7k21151
39Apr 14, '25don't miss that OAI also published a prompting guide WITH RECEIPTS for GPT 4.1 specifically for those building agents... with a new recommendation for: - telling the model to be pe6.9×293k1.8k1562.7k
40Jan 2, '25the bros who were forking vscode have now moved en masse to reverse engineering APIs6.6×280k2k601.2k
41Oct 5, '25> palm sized > screenless > mic, camera, speaker ideas are never wrong, just early6.5×275k1.5k52234
42Oct 6, '25OAI’s new ChatKit just rekt like 100 agent builder startups6.3×266k1.9k83884
43Feb 11, '25anthropic chose violence today6.2×262k2.1k74343
44Sep 14, '25pretty sure that claude code sdk just destroyed every agent framework startup in existence lmao, holy shit look at this6.0×256k1.3k491.2k
45Oct 9, '25TIL that USB-C still has orientation and you dont know which side is “correct” unless you test5.7×243k1.6k50497
46Sep 26, '25I find it unimaginably based that the OAI Evals team keeps making benchmarks finding that Claude is better and publishing it anyway. they are 3 for 3 this year in acknowledging spe5.6×239k1.7k85418
47Jun 27, '25icymi, openai also open sourced how their deep research prompt rewriter works + the full prompts today you can now build your own deep research agent - with full o3/o4-mini deep re5.5×233k2k1653.1k
48Jul 21, '24The <100B Model Red Wedding I do not think that people who criticize OpenAI have sufficiently absorbed the magnitude of disruption that has just happened because of 4o mini Llama 35.4×229k64162503
49Apr 22, '21I'm turning 35 today! 🎉 As I grow older, I'm realizing the value of principles to make decisions and guide behavior. What are yours? Here's 35 of mine:5.3×03.8k4412k
50Sep 11, '23This is still the best* introduction to GPTs I have ever read. Fills in all the gaps between Attention is All You Need right up to coding every single line of a working GPT2 implem5.2×223k1.5k2052.5k
51May 30, '25my secret master plan: 1. join Apple 2. fix this bug 3. quit5.2×221k3.4k79141
52Feb 16, '23Appreciation tweet for @excalidraw actually implementing reminders for signin methods It's 2023, your SSO signin wall of logos should remember things4.8×204k1.6k99139
53Jan 10, '25"The best llms of my generation are being used to deaden the internet they were born from. That sucks."4.3×181k1.5k63368
54Aug 3, '25good list of claude code tips. it's surprising how often i hear about compacting being the weak point of CC - has anyone written a hook/hotfix or explored different methods of comp4.2×178k1.3k592k
55Feb 15, '24it's been a fantastic year of AI progress in the past hour4.2×177k2.3k23258
56Jun 14, '22Every so often I love to be reminded of the biggest devtools bizdev fail of all time4.1×04.7k606521
57Aug 6, '24holy shit @minimaxir chain of thought as structured output is an officially recommended pattern i need to rewrite -everything- to use this3.8×162k81352859
58Apr 10, '22twitter 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 3.8×04.6k534344
59Jul 18, '25i've been looking for "brainrot education" for the gen alphas and someone finally sent me a channel that translates @dexhorthy and @RLanceMartin's content for those who are of defi3.6×154k2k1682k
60May 31, '22So apparently the latest season of #StrangerThings has some hacking scenes, and you all know how well Hollywood and hacking scenes go together? Suzie HACKS the government by decodi3.5×03.9k547149
61Jul 5, '20TIL you can center things in CSS grid with a single property now3.0×03.1k502447
62Jul 26, '22When you have to go down just one more layer to debug3.0×03.4k519248
63Mar 21, '22looking back at compensation history max raise in a job: 15% max raise switching jobs: 150% Great Resignation is such a mystery 🤔🤔🤔🤔2.9×03.9k312199
64Dec 13, '24the entirety of neurips (&gt;10k people) gathering in vancouver to hear @ilyasut preach at the church of deep learning2.9×121k1.4k83399
65Jul 14, '25six way parlay. i want Mistral founders to Apple, Mistral team to Meta. Character remainco to Perplexity. Quora to Perplexity. Ideogram to Figma. Gamma to Notion. read it back2.8×118k1.7k63175
68Sep 15, '19Developer: *unpublishes 11 lines of JavaScript* JavaScript:2.2×02.5k56547
69Sep 25, '22The AI Red Wedding: - GPT3/Jasper 🔪 Low value copywriters - Stable Diffusion 🔪 Stock image companies - OpenAI Whisper 🔪 Voice transcription APIs Every month a sleepy industry th2.1×01.7k186682
70Oct 15, '25shoutout to this dude for making the only Muon explainer that has properly stuck in my head to date2.0×86k1.8k1041.4k
71Jun 19, '18Learn In Public.1.9×01.6k463279
72Jul 8, '22Them: Can you change the text of this button? Me: Sure it'll just take a couple minutes Them: Actually, can you A/B test the changes? We want to be data-driven. Me: I'll need a dat1.9×02.5k198149
73Jun 27, '22quick code snippet for calculating "X days ago" given a specific date, with localized language and ✨no dependencies✨ this ain't your parents' JavaScript!1.9×01.7k170606
74Mar 20, '22Frontend devs who move to backend are shocked by the terrible DX and documentation culture Backend devs who try frontend are shocked by the lack of domain modeling skills and endle1.8×02.2k208195
75Nov 20, '18💡A really great way to start a new job is to volunteer to write tests: ✅ There are never enough tests ✅ Coworkers will be grateful ✅ Learn the codebase ✅ You can't break anything 1.8×02k425131
76Oct 16, '21100 bytes of CSS to look great everywhere: html { max-width: 38rem; padding: 2rem; margin: auto; line-height: 1.5rem; font-size: 24px; } Here is before/after on @danluu's site, wit1.8×01.4k147623
77Mar 24, '22Not enough people are talking about the fact that Wordpress gains 3-4% market share *of the entire web* annually. Let me rephrase: Wordpress adds 1 Shopify **every year**.1.7×01.7k239235
78Oct 25, '22The big launch of @vercel’s conf is live: Turbopack - the Rust based next generation build tool - 700x faster than Webpack - 10x faster than Vite - 4x faster cold starts The Third 1.7×01.9k223161
79Jul 28, '22View post on X1.6×02.1k23989
80Feb 18, '22View post on X1.6×02k24763
81Jun 6, '22There’s a very real possibility local dev may be dead in 10 years. - @samlambert “Planetscale doesnt believe in localhost” - @ericsimons40 Stackblitz runs Node fast in the browser 1.6×01.3k139364
82Oct 15, '21America’s digital divide is never more apparent than today. On the one hand, GitLab, an open source, massively distributed company just IPOed at 2x the valuation of GitHub. On the 1.6×02k25650
83Sep 16, '22one of the biggest career asymmetries: People who work from better first principles can beat people with *years* more experience, but who haven’t bothered to apply critical, origin1.6×01.3k137513
84May 20, '20🆕 The Third Age of JavaScript Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in JavaScript. I think we have just started a period of accelerated change that could in future be re1.5×01.3k306269
85Oct 2, '18Excellent. A gym I can’t quit. @VIM_Fitness1.5×01.7k4186
86Mar 8, '21There's a lot of "quit your job, indie hack your way to freedom" on social media. I want to articulate a middle path — work at a company on interesting problems, but ALSO maintain 1.5×01.5k166291
87Sep 13, '19TIL you can use object destructuring on an *array* to get at its properties... and immediately use them in an index with `[ ]` notation!!!! @argyleink is full of amazingness1.4×01.5k293138
88Aug 22, '22Tauri vs Electron results are consistently mindblowing App: 97% smaller Startup: 50% faster RAM: 33% less Security: priceless @rustlang + @sveltejs is going to take over desktop ap1.4×01.5k165268
89Mar 1, '20Backend devs: lol frontend devs love toolchain churn, how do you get anything done Also Backend devs: Docker Vagrant Packer Kubernetes Linkerd Istio CloudFoundry gVisor kNative Fir1.3×01.6k21474
91Jan 29, '21Just incorporated my own company 😱 Singapore is pretty great¹ for indie hackers: - No corporate tax up to $100k/yr - No sales tax on Int'l Services (incl digital goods) - No audit1.2×01.3k91276
92Jul 8, '21This beautiful fireworks alternative 😍1.2×01.4k26157
93Sep 11, '21Never thought I would see a frontend eng team celebrate shipping a static marketing site with 847kb of JS. Until I saw what it used to be…1.2×01.3k142203
94May 12, '18I think 80% of companies who say they need to hire more engineers actually don’t. They need to - motivate better - communicate better - plan better - retain better - train better H1.2×01.2k36439
95Jun 8, '19Singapore is the Wakanda of Asia.1.2×01.5k17751
96Dec 7, '22Hacker News: "Nobody uses Oracle anymore, it's just a legacy database" Oracle:1.0×01.3k77107
97Oct 19, '21Just realized that I'm at my THIRD startup where we are discussing how to do reusable button components... all this advancement in frontend development, how tf have we not solved r1.0×01.2k7479
98Jun 11, '22It has been 0️⃣ days since I had to google how to solve CORS issues for development1.0×01.4k6642
99May 7, '21Ah it's that time of the month again in webdev twitter Tailwind sucks ↑ | React sucks ←—• VC sucks Bootcamps suck0.9×01.2k5431

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