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adam

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1 year

“I hate smalltalk” is code for “I am a dogshit conversationalist and an uninteresting person”

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1 month

you know you’re working with a 0.5xer when he pulls out one of these

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11 months

I’ve been in Mexico City for 5 days and have lost 10 pounds eating only unrefrigerated salsa, tap water, and unwashed produce. Something is deeply wrong with American food.

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Software engineers when the company they’re interviewing with asks them to spend 30 minutes solving a basic programming puzzle before they agree to pay them $380K per year to do 12 hours of work per week

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6 months

did you seriously just drink coffee less than 90 minutes after waking up?

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5 months

air travel has gotten so bad today the flight attendant kept waking me up because “sleep is for Delta Comfort+ Members,” then halfway through the flight they distributed weapons and the Delta Diamond Medallion passengers started hunting us for sport

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9 months

I think I figured out how we can fix the birth rates

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1 year

@tiki_brian Yeah it’s like foreplay

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1 month

just got diagnosed with a rare form of tourette's where i do `git status` after every command

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3 months

"AGI will create new jobs" ok, name 3

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2 months

so you had 2-3 years to ensure that you and your descendants won’t be part of the permanent underclass and you spent it *checks notes* playing pickleball?

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2 years

we should go back to calling “Data Scientists” Business Analysts. they need to be humbled.

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2 months

i just asked devin to write some unit tests for me wtf??

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10 months

Me watching my untested code deploy to prod at 4:58pm on a Friday

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10 months

Committing to an insane deadline in order to psy-op myself into insane levels of productivity

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10 months

We need a Manhattan Project for getting me a Latina gf

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6 months

"Hey, just heard the news about OpenAI firing Sam Altman. Kind of reminds me of how fire our relationship used to be. Anyways, now you got an Alt man, but I just wanted to let you know you were the best CEO i ever had. You don't have to respond to this."

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1 month

crazy how a bachelors in physics qualifies you for every job there is except for a job in physics

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1 month

any cs major born after 2002 cant code, all they know is toggle ai pane, complain about job market, go by they/them pronouns, reverse linked list & lie

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1 year

Just heard a 15 year old zoomer refer to somebody born in 1997 as a “musty crusty millennial.” I will post updates as events unfold, but in the meantime please stay safe.

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1 year

Stop telling me “software engineers are safe because GPT-4 can’t do leetcode hards” MF I CANT DO LEETCODE HARDS

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1 year

@chimpson7 That is for my therapist to know and for me to cry about

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8 months

All NYC mfs know is - eat bagel - do nicotine - take subway - and rat

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2 months

drop the "founding engineer." just "unpaid intern." it's cleaner

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2 months

Steve Ballmer could conquer Asia but Genghis Khan could never ship Windows Vista

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1 year

10 topics I would focus on if I were to start my Machine Learning career again: 1. Python 2. Latinas 3. Latinas 4. Latinas 5. Latinas 6. Latinas 7. Latinas 8. Latinas 9. Latinas 10. Latinas Here is a roadmap:

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10 months

Average SWE 4 months into the singularity

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2 years

the quickest way to kill a man’s ambition is to give him a bedframe

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2 months

this is what it's like to have a physics degree and work in software if you even care

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4 months

tfw you’re about to build a billion dollar company, but first you need to figure out React

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1 year

@Authw8 This is the boring but correct take

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6 months

"but they have millions of dollars at their disposal, whereas you're just a guy with a 13-inch M2 Macbook Pro who loves to buidl"

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11 months

Guy who’s parents never read him a single fable before ever: “Oh this drug just miraculously makes you skinny with no apparent side effects or risks whatsoever? There’s no way that’s too good to be true sign me the fuck up”

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6 months

openai dev day is like 9/11 for AI startup founders

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4 months

AGI is more likely to come out of a game studio than a research lab

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9 months

How I sleep knowing I delivered value to shareholders

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10 months

Which way western man?

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7 months

Linear algebra is a joke. I can’t believe people wait until college to learn it. I’m teaching it to my son right now and he’s only 2

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3 years

@mndzli hi, (professor here) i don’t see what the issue is here.. if you’re planning on getting sick, simply don’t?

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5 months

can’t talk rn I’m centering a div

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HTML is the lowest-level programming language. Unlike Wordpress, you have to manually implement each element. This gives you total control over the output but one mistake could mess up the whole page. It’s about as close to the metal as you can get.

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4 months

types slow me down which is why i take extra time to meticulously litter all of my python code with type hints that dont actually do anything

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3 months

just sent a request to an API that burned more energy than the entire Achaemenid Empire

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6 months

super based how OpenAI built an 80 IQ wordcel that's memorized the entire internet, and instead of just letting it cook, they've forced us to pay $20/month to watch it struggle to use Bing every time you ask it something

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@personofswag

9 months

Paul Graham walking his 11 year old to school (2023, colorized)

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9 months

STOP INVITING ME PLACES I NEED TO BUIDL

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4 months

pretty based that you can just think about an engineering problem for a few hours, go to bed, and the solution will literally reveal itself to you in your dreams

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6 months

@BasedNorthmathr It’s not $14 for a coffee and a cookie. It’s $14 for a coffee and a cookie in the greatest country in the world. 🇺🇸

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9 months

By the time your resume is impressive, you won’t need it anymore

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9 months

Straight women after referring to their boyfriend as their “partner”

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1 year

Normalize being ashamed of having a Master’s degree

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8 months

Python devs when they find out the time complexity of their list comprehension isn't O(1)

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@personofswag

6 months

nobody on their deathbed says "i wish I had grinded leetcode less"

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6 months

no one cared who I was until I put “founder” in my bio

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@personofswag

9 months

“It’s Friday. What did you get done this week?”

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6 months

when she finally asks you what an API is

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@personofswag

2 months

"I am NOT like other founding engineers. my 0.014% equity in this note taking app startup WILL be worth THOUSANDS of dollars when we inevitably IPO. and we WILL IPO."

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9 months

Everybody wants to build the future, but don't nobody want to label no heavy-ass data

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9 months

Wdym you’re 27 and single?? No one told you that you were supposed to meet your soulmate in college??

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8 months

Turns out buying an M2 MacBook Pro did fix me

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@personofswag

1 year

@AntiParasocial 701st time is the charm

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@personofswag

2 years

just found out a senior dev on my team doesn’t know how to use git

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2 years

the fundamental issue with IQ scores is that i have a very low one

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11 months

Just realized there are people building the future right now, while I waste my 20s building scalable B2B SaaS

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10 months

Haha jk

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1 month

@sudovatnik i like them because its like a persistent debugger. its nice to maintain state without having to rerun everything or write to disk.

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6 months

today is like 9/11 for “10x engineers”

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@personofswag

11 months

@fuckpoasting My big booty ass has diarrhea

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1 year

What if I quit my job with no back up plan and just spent all my time building and learning until I run out of money haha just kidding… unless..?

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2 months

born to explore the stars, forced to copy/paste API keys

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6 months

humane AI pin mfs when you ask them to call 911

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10 months

How it feels living in SF with nothing but my M2 MacBook and a dream

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8 months

Time is running out. What are you doing to make sure that you and your descendants aren’t part of the permanent underclass?

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ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak. Rolling out over next two weeks, Plus users will be able to have voice conversations with ChatGPT (iOS & Android) and to include images in conversations (all platforms).

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8 months

Me after shipping the most bug ridden, memory leak infested, hacked together piece of shit code ever written

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7 months

there is so much to do and so little time

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1 year

@PaulSkallas

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10 months

Mfs will say they’re going “monk mode” and it’s just them doubling their screentime on Twitter and forgetting to call their mom

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@personofswag

2 years

if you’re interested in having your life ruined, try dating a Woman in STEM

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20 days

no updates from me, I’m just blocked waiting for approval on this PR that I opened 2 minutes before standup started

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2 years

i’ve never meet a good software engineer who complains about documentation

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1 year

My favorite part of working at OpenAI is just how Open the AI is. Sam usually leaves the lid open and you can walk right over and look inside whenever you feel like it. Sometimes I leave a little celery in there for it, as a treat.

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5 months

ARE YOU BEHIND ON YOUR CREDIT CARD BILLS? GOOD. OPEN YOUR CODE EDITOR AND START SHIPPING. IS YOUR LANDLORD READY TO EVICT YOU? GOOD. OPEN YOUR CODE EDITOR AND START SHIPPING. DOES YOUR GIRLFRIEND THINK YOU’RE A FUCKING LOSER? GOOD. OPEN YOUR CODE EDITOR AND START SHIPPING.

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10 months

@xbtGBH

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9 months

gm lol

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11 months

Tech Bros Go One Week Without Using The Word “Orthogonal” Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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1 month

oh you're a software engineer? name every database

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11 months

I'm at the age were it's becoming a very real possibility that I may not be a billionaire by age 35 and I am NOT taking it well.

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11 months

Neuralink be like:

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5 months

the most e/acc thing you can do is not wear a condom

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4 months

just touched down in SF and walked past a couple in matching patagonia jackets arguing over whether they should use postgres or redis as the primary for their mvp

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@personofswag

11 months

@squirtle_says I just thought I was built different

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10 months

My AI gf laughs a little too hard at my AI assistant’s jokes

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3 months

just a deeply unserious language

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2 years

onlyfans daughter or nontechnical founder son?

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25 days

DEVOPS IS NOT FUCKING REAL

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2 years

at age 15 i derived the “pull-out method” from first principles

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4 months

tfw you're at a party but you left a bug unresolved

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1 year

It’s pathetic that some of you only tip 20%. I give every waiter something orders of magnitude more valuable than mere money. I give them knowledge. I give them agency. I give them a little piece of paper with a QR code pointing to a pdf version of Zero to One by Peter Thiel.

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Holy shit I’m down so bad I just liked one of her Venmo transactions from 2018

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