"Fail fast might be the wrong thing now that the idea maze has shifted. Just use interesting technology, follow your own curiosity, and if you live at the edge of the future like PG says, there's so many great startup ideas you're very likely to just bump into one." Garry Tan

reinvent the wheel whenever possible? ;)

now on X

Everyone says OOP is bad, but nobody will tell me why. Is there a secret club I’m not invited to?

Thoughts?

Opinions on this? takeaway for me - Your code isn’t slow, your memory access is

AI detectors are far from perfect and they never will be. Turing test was conquered by ChatGPT or you can say Google when internal chat assistant felt conscious to the engineer

Thanks to Google DeepMind and Demis Hassabis for inspiring us all to head this way!

Everyone throws around “mid-level C programmer” like it’s obvious, but what actually puts someone in that category? pasting code on reddit is not a good sign 😉

is this really happening

Until you discover macros and suddenly it’s pure chaos Why do macros feel like cheat codes in C? 😂

What do you do when 30+ years of C++ expertise and 200 hours of debugging still can’t crack the code? Assign it to Claude Opus 4 - Solved the bug in seconds

Saw someone on Reddit questioning the need for recursion when loops exist. Sometimes readability, clarity, and elegance matter.. especially for problems naturally defined through self-reference?

simple is hard

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (huge respect) says AI companies like his may need to be taxed to offset a coming employment crisis and "I don't think we can stop the AI bus"

Thought APIs were just for web dev?? turns out even your toaster might have one 🍞

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