Amateur developer, professional contrarian.
Using twitter to organize my thoughts. ~ 50% tech, 50% whatever.
Target mood for all tweets: thoughtful, joking.
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is
@zeta_globin
A bunch of people are sacrificing their interests to go after lucrative dev careers, just in time for those careers to stop being so lucrative.
@SwannMarcus89
Funny how people pretend they are still young when they get middle age, then pretend they are way older when they get old.
Seems the optimal stages are being young and being very old. Middle stages to be avoided.
Summarized theories in the thread:
1. Bug populations have declined
2. Bugs have evolved to avoid cars
3. Cars are more aerodynamic
4. More cars = less bugs per windshield
5. Nothing's changed
Fascinating.
@t3dotgg
Imagine everyone waiting to pay, angrily glancing at their watches, while he's dicking with his phone, trying to convince AI to make a working bill splitting app.
If someone ask me to refactor the first "nonsense" code, I will use this way. Only thing I will change is white background of the code. Thanks
@viniciuscgp
@ChShersh
It's like a guy who goes to mountains to find himself and become strong.
10 years later, you see a beefy tan guy, hanging from a cliff wearing rocks on his back. He's still training, still growing! Amazing!
Yet there he is alone in the mountains, while the world is moving on...
@Carnage4Life
The real question is why more CEOs don't do the same.
Hard to imagine Cook will have negative financial consequences with "just" 50m instead of 100m this year, and it's a fantastic PR scoop.
@nearcyan
Safari is the last chance.
If Apple refuses to play along, they still hold big enough and lucrative enough market for sites to not be able to just block the non-DRM browsers off.
@GrantSlatton
Elite counter-signaling.
"I am so good, I don't need to have a linkedin profile, an impressive job title, wear business clothes, etc. My reputation speaks for itself. IYKYK"
Richard Hanania has internet followers, but no soldiers. He is not a part of any organization. His unorthodox views piss off both sides of the aisle. Basically, no group would really go to bat for him.
He is exactly the type of person freedom of speech is meant to protect.
@wanyeburkett
They've fully acclimated to the world where people are just interchangeable avatars in an app, that you can frictionlessly remove from your life.
@Carnage4Life
To every backlash there's a backlash.
Once the perks are gone en-masse, they instantly become more valuable to the ones who decide to bring them back.
@paulg
I think the difference is, unlike nuclear power and vaccines, AI researchers don't fully understand how AI can do the things it does.
Ignorance breeds fear.
Twitter ad share payouts are plummeting, amid advertisers fleeing the platform… average payouts are down 50% month-over-month!
Assuming Twitter’s revenue is proportionate, that’s a devastating loss!
@JasonKPargin
There was a pent up enthusiasm for anyone different.
Interesting question: will the same happen on the Republican side if Trump somehow gets replaced?
This could be the peak stonetoss. The layers of internet culture meaning in this piece of work are surreal.
References in pictures.
Interesting how the mainstream culture is left wing, but the best internet artist ATM is far right.
@ThomasTalhelm
Completed within 5 minutes?
Or broke the deadline and submitted anyway?
Were people paid whether they completed or not? Did they know that?
You might be measuring which people are freelancing as side-gigs vs which depend on it for survival.
@paulg
Europe and China are 5000 miles away, and they traded since the time of Romans.
Inca and Aztec didn't seem to have known about each other, even though they are 2000 miles away.
@dhh
Two points:
1. You can totally understand and learn how to write generic code like that, if you want to. Muscle car is a better analogy.
2. There is plenty of code around your ruby codebases that does things for you that you don't fully understand, and it's fine.
@levelsio
@nikitabier
Hotelier acquaintances say it's impossible to hire good people in Italy.
It's too easy for hired hands to just jump in and out of unemployment. No pressure to perform at that level of pay / career prospects.
Makes me think it'd be impossible to get good service under UBI.
@AdamRackis
Maybe we should rethink the whole idea of "I want huge parts of public infrastructure to be dedicated to my inefficient rustic transportation method".
@nearcyan
I know, but Apple can decide not to provide this DRM API that Chrome is adding.
Then you can use any DRM-free fork of Chrome, set up Safari user agent, and you're good to go. Right?
I learned all I needed about these postmodern grievance study fields when researchers managed to get completely bogus papers into their journals.
It's a jobs program for midwit ideologues.
Probably THE academic responsible for the narrative that "systemic racism" infests US police departments just got fired for "incompetence" and falsifying most of his data.
No further comment.
@the_transit_guy
I've seen streets that were "optimized" with this kind of mindset, and it's always a disaster. Anything goes wrong, and everything clogs up. Zero redundancy.
@robinberjon
@jeswin
I am aware Firefox exists and use Android (so I can set the default), therefore I am perfectly capable of fully moving to Firefox if I so desire. In fact, I tried that multiple times.
Uncomfortable truth: Chrome is just a better product.
@GergelyOrosz
@Pragmatic_Eng
I don't understand these laws.
Are the workers now supposed to go back to their seats and continue working enthusiastically, like nothing ever happened?
Might be ok for assembly line work in a factory, but is a terrible fit for highly skilled labor.
@sgodofsk
He stayed just on the right side of plausible deniability, which is why they can't prosecute him for it, which is why they are doing all this other stuff, which makes him appear as a victim, which increases his chances for a comeback
@amasad
The most interesting part of this is how people who were saying "Google has AI figured out, they are just keeping it secret" turned out to be completely wrong.
@patio11
That's the most baffling aspect of the whole "he didn't build X, he just paid someone else to build it" trope.
If that was so easy, then all billionaires would be out building rockets, instead of buying expensive toys and luxuries.
@marcoarment
Inexperienced people always believe there is some magical design guru who can show up and solve everything.
No. UX is a slog of iteration.
@GergelyOrosz
These tradeoffs are often presented as make vs buy. But it's actually make less vs buy + integrate.
Where "integrate" is some percentage of the work that would have gone into "make". And "less" indicates you don't have to build everything that would have come with "buy".
@forgebitz
I sometimes click on a link to a google thing, and it asks me to sign in, but it picks the wrong account, and I can't switch it. And sometimes it just shows me "access denied", and I have to open the thing in a new tab and switch account there.
If they improve this, great.
@thekitze
It's like a washing machine.
Once your current one breaks, you buy a new one. You note all the little improvements/changes they made. But fundamentally, you don't care, and quickly forget about them.
You need a thing to fill the role X, and this particular thing suffices.
@RichardHanania
This is a (perhaps justified) counter-reaction to the liberal sentiment overreach, but in the long run, I think we'll learn these civic liberties were enshrined for a good reason.
@mootoday
They belong both locally (pre-push) and on CI.
Pre-push because they are faster, and save you from context switching.
CI because "trust but verify". Mistakes happen.
@wanyeburkett
It's the kind of rule that solves a problem for majority without them having to give anything up personally.
The majority being non-landlords, and the problem being people ending up homeless.
@GergelyOrosz
My 5c: You're a bit too cautious with this.
It's uncomfortable to hear bad things are coming, but if it moves one person out of their comfort zone to start leetcoding and/or shaking up their LinkedIn account, it's worth it.
AI doomers are always super polite and serious, while e/acc laugh in their faces.
This is not accidental.
Doomers want their dark concerns to be taken seriously, while e/acc want to dismiss them as ridiculous.
Memetic brinkmanship happens at all levels of the conversation.
@Carnage4Life
Ah, I didn't mean backlash by the workforce.
Just that, when these perks are gone, some startup will try to attract above average talent by loudly bringing some of them back. And the cycle will begin anew.
@wanyeburkett
If you want to optimize your own success at modern life, it's clearly optimal to have fewer kids.
Kids in a modern society are an absolute economic net negative. Can't use them for labor, wouldn't want to even if it was legal. Instead of becoming a part of your growing clan,
@CFDevelop
- a lot of people don't have oss to show off
- easier to review the work when you yourself understand the problem
- easier to compare candidates when they performed similar tasks
One of the most useful programming videos I've seen in a while - a code review performed by
@awesomekling
.
You can find a LOT of programming tutorials on the internet, but almost no stuff like this. Each team/individual figure it out on their own.
@mealreplacer
In fact, the entire date is an irresponsible distraction.
We need those people on keyboards, writing more papers. The future depends on it.