Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile
Mahyar McDonald

@mahyarm8

Former iOS DevEx manager at @uber, former CTO at @olliephotoapp. Working on something new...

My profile picture is a 💩 emoji cupcake.

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linkhttps://www.thoughtfunction.com/ calendar_today01-08-2018 06:06:56

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alan (@alanzeino) 's Twitter Profile Photo

my job is no longer to write code, it is only to 'log in' the only thing I do now is authenticate my credentials, dozens of times a day, it is the sole purpose they have decided for me every 20 hours just log in always logging in

Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I had a similar drive and lack-of-choice with my health startup. Unfortunately didn't work out although. These are very true words.

Simon Willison (@simonw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is really good, and worth reading in full - it's the best articulation I've seen yet of the idea that driving down costs involved in producing code will increase demand for software and let us take on much more ambitious projects

Vic 🌮 (@vicvijayakumar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a good well-balanced take. Some choice quotes I liked from the post + replies: > LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building. > The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors

Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One fun thing about AI is translating simple programs or functions from one language to another work really well. I’ve used it to great effect to make rust versions of python or shell scripts. The old program acts like a built in test case.

Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you have an mcp you need to make it a terminal app yesterday. I’m looking at you Slack and Figma . Mcpporter and friends have their own issues and auth is over complicated.

Majd Taby (@jtaby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our ability as iOS developers to allow agents to test changes, and visualize behavior is so much more limited than web/backend systems. Simulator has a bunch of stuff it doesn't support (metal features for instance), and the ability to naturally drive the app through the

Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Making a python cli app, so to make a gui for it I continued using python but starting to think I should do the webgui option at this point

Greg Brockman (@gdb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How AI empowered Paul Conyngham to create a custom mRNA vaccine to cure his dog’s cancer when she had only months to live. The first personalized cancer vaccine designed for a dog:

How AI empowered Paul Conyngham to create a custom mRNA vaccine to cure his dog’s cancer when she had only months to live. The first personalized cancer vaccine designed for a dog:
Burke Holland (@burkeholland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I keep trying to tell people this. The context window is not a memory. It’s a room. The more stuff you put in there, the more cluttered it gets until eventually the model just stays confused. Don’t listen to me. Listen to Matt.

Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People talking about the cusp of AGI and I have to poke agents to run 1hr smoke test runs because it’s been RLed to death to do quick things only

Mahyar McDonald (@mahyarm8) 's Twitter Profile Photo

All of my hobby coding is too obscure for agents and they get stuck on a lot of silly things. Agent laziness and making surface complete solutions is still a major issue for me overall.