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Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
Is it weird that AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture?
A lot of software developers are feeling disoriented and threatened these days. Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger. Which is how we're finding out that a lot of people have their identities bound up in being good at hand-coding and how it feels to do that.
That's not me. It's not me at all. Rather to my surprise, I don't miss coding by hand, not any more than I missed writing assembler when compilers ate the world and made that unnecessary. (That was in a couple years back around 1983, for you youngsters.)
Maybe the fact that I'm not feeling any of this disorientation disqualifies me from having anything to say to people who are. On the other hand...if you can learn to emulate my mental stance and be completely unbothered, maybe that would be a good thing?
So. If you're a programmer, and you're feeling disoriented, try this on for size:
I like being a wizard. I like being able to speak spells, to weave complex patterns of logic that make things happen in the world. Writing code is a way to manifest my will.
Yes, I've piled up a lot of arcane knowledge over the 50 years I've been doing this. But languages of invocation, they come and they go. Been a long time since I've had any use for being able to program in 8086 assembler, and that's okay. I have better spells now, and these days some rather powerful familiars.
What I'm inviting you to do is think of yourself as a wizard. Not as a person who writes code, but as a person who is good at assuming the kind of mental states required to bend reality with the application of spells.
And if that's who you are, does it matter if the spells are painstakingly scribed in runes of power, versus being spoken to an obedient machine spirit?
It's all one; it's all the manifestation of will. Arcane languages come and go, machine spirits appear and then diminish to be replaced by more powerful ones, but you? You are the magic-wielder. Without you, none of it happens.
Same as it ever was. Same is it ever was. And so mote it be.
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
So basically Trump now has majority control over the Fed board, he waits for Powell to resign, puts in his own guy, they cut rates back to zero, money printer goes brrrr, assets pump, we lose reserve status, but at least we have big Zimbabwe amounts of money? Is that accurate?
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
New pope: 2 days
Entry level position: 5 interviews, 15 back and forth emails, 2 take home assignments, 6 weeks of ghosting
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
New blog post: Train Tracker Devlog
twocentstudios.com/2025/04/1…
I started working on a spinoff app from Eki Bright that does train tracking in a Live Activity.
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
very excited to release something me and @biasedbit worked on when he was in town. Owl is a spaced repetition app to facilitate memorization and learning. We built it for ourselves, but are setting it free.
owl.cards
ALT Screenshot of Owl, a spaced repetition app for memorization and learning. Visit at https://owl.cards
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
>AI is gonna take your job
buddy ive been trying to automate every job i had and every time i get more work
RT @buckwilson: It's been a minute, but I am back taking clients as Horrible Design Co! (@Horrible_Co).
Horrible helps early stage startu…
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
Every presidential cycle, I’m reminded of how normal people understandably don’t get how chaotic and last-minute everything is in presidential campaigns.
It’s almost as if presidential campaigns inhabit a different universe where the usual constraints of time and logistics are suspended.
Imagine explaining to a person who lives in the normal world that a presidential campaign still hasn’t booked a venue for a rally that is set to take place in 72 hours—a rally that is expected to have thousands of attendees and hasn’t even had an invite sent out to supporters.
A rally that is scheduled for 2 PM on a Wednesday!
Or try explaining to people that a speech for a big event still isn’t done just an hour before the candidate is set to make it.
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
Our favorite articles & learnings from February by @cnxsoft, @ZephyrIoT, @Openwall, @hasheddan, @decdiv, @siliconlabs, @jetbrains, @stolee, @github, @AndreasHeck1, @biasedbit, @RThorDonovan, @NordicTweets, @TheMeshtastic, and more!
Read the post: hubs.la/Q02nyRjR0
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
When using LLMs or chatGPT, are you nice to the model when making requests (think "please" and "thank you")? Do you consider you know some amount of prompt engineering?
(Would appreciate if you could share this poll for reach/awareness 🔥)
40%nice: y || prompt eng: y
26%nice: y || prompt eng: n
17%nice: n || prompt eng: y
17%nice: n || prompt eng: n
42 votes • Final results Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
2️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ is out and includes @retrodotapp, @twentycrm, @kpler, @GoWanderlog, @TheSchoolOfLife, @khnrowland, @marjorie_kelly & others. With great recommendations by @biasedbit. Many thanks to @commoncog for sponsoring the issue! 💌
densediscovery.com/issues/26…
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
Today we are excited to share something we’ve been working on:
NeuroAdaptive Meditation
Meditation apps are great, but what if the meditation was influenced by your own brain in real time?
That’s exactly what we've built. Using AI and neural data, you get a meditation experience that is not hard-coded but perfectly designed for your unique brain, at that specific moment.
Our community has been asking us to use the Crown to meditate for a long time, but it wasn’t until recently that we felt we could offer something that would do all the work for you: NeuroAdaptive Audio.
With this new technology, the Crown is able to create a feedback loop where the desired mental state is measured and altered. Together with AI, the Crown can learn how to produce music and voice that will increase the sensation of the desired mental state. All without distracting you with the sound of birds or bells, while you are meditating.
NeuroAdaptive Audio stimulates your brain without making you aware of how you are performing while you are receiving the stimulation. This is a game-changer.
This process takes up to 5 minutes, but 80% of people can feel the effects in the first 2 minutes.
The feedback already has been incredible, here are some things our users are saying:
"Neurosity’s new AI-guided meditative experience has improved my mental clarity tenfold."
"I immediately felt the positive effects, leading me to integrate it into my daily routine."
NeuroAdaptive Meditation is Neurosity's effort to help people manage their mental state in a world where mental health is affecting so many of us.
With the Crown, NeuroAdaptive Meditation is available today for iOS and Android.
ALT A person meditating with the Crown.
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
We are thrilled to release Neurosity OS 16 🚀
Starting today, your Crown will automatically update to the latest.
Here's everything this new OS comes with 👇
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
🎉 First Neurosity job announcement:
Senior OS Engineer
🧠 Work on building the operating system of the mind
💰 Equity, get a small part of our company
💻 Full-time remote, we don't care where you want to be
neurosity.co/jobs/senior-os-…
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
Introducing: Device Emulators
Starting today you can use Neurosity Apps and SDK with a synthetic brain, so you can explore the Neurosity ecosystem and start building apps for real devices. neurosity.co/emulators
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
After Vancouver gave people experiencing homeless $5,800:
*50% found stable housing in a month
*70% were food secure in a month
*Alcohol, drug and cigarette spending dropped 40%
*A year later, average savings account was $1,000
Direct cash payments work.
reasonstobecheerful.world/va…
Bruno de Carvalho retweeted
My email to @amazon about their hosting of the social media app Parler that is full of violent extremists advocating for the murder of US elected officials, journalists, and the destabilization of US democracy.
