Fullstack Software Engineer (TypeScript) | Learning Godot & Blender | DevOps & Homelab Hobbyist | Anti-AI Slop
Joined October 2022
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DonTheDeveloper retweeted
Vibecoding is the most cucked thing imaginable.
You literally sit in a chair and watch.
No touching allowed.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
forget leetcode
nobody needs an inverted binary tree
go make a quadtree and do fast collision detection
go make a prefix trie and make a fast http router
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
I have INSANE respect for creators that only work with brands they actually believe in. It's a very rare trait. When the offers get big, most people will just say what they're told to say.
And look, in most cases I'm not even judging the people "getting their bag", just saying that the real ones are real ones.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
The anti-datacenter movement is literally the most rational response imaginable to an industry whose leaders have publicly said the best case scenario for their product is to get everyone fired. If you can’t see this then your brain is in late stage tech rot.
The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are totally unprecedented. It should be an enduring national shame that the country that invented the airplane, landed on the Moon, and created the Internet is descending into superstitious panic at the very moment growth matters most
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
New Pro course: Learn DevOps.
Building an app is one part of the job. Getting it in front of real users, and keeping it running, is a different skill.
In this new Scrimba Pro course, you'll learn:
🐳 Containers and Docker: package your app so it runs the same way everywhere
🚀 Deployment: deploy a real app to the web with Render
🔁 Continuous Intergration: auto-check every code change before it ships
📦 Continuous Delivery: automate safe, repeatable deployments
🌍 CDNs: keep your app fast for users everywhere
For anyone who wants to turn a project into something that goes live and stays live.
🔗 scrimba.com/learn-devops
ALT Promo for new Scrimba Pro course, Learn DevOps, featured instructors Don and Tom.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
Twitch is now harvesting content for training generative AI. This includes your live broadcasts, VODs, and your streams chat. You were opted-in by default and can opt-out here.
twitch.tv/settings/security
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
Codecademy is down 95%
Udemy/Coursera down 80%
Many smaller education companies permanently shut down this year
This is the hardest market for high quality, interactive courses that we've had since I started boot dev
But we're still growing. Not gonna let the slop win.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
When AI companies pirate something*, it's "fair use". When someone pirates their model data, it's "stealing" and "undermining American research".
* - Literally pirate. Multiple court admissions have made clear that AI companies download millions of works from pirate sites.
We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.
To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection. Moonshot AI has also acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models.
The United States strongly supports the free and fair development of AI, including a thriving competitive ecosystem that spans frontier models, specialized systems, open-source frameworks, and open-weight models. Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
I would trust them to do this in a limited capacity for specific tasks if they check in with me about it first. The problem is that these tools deeply encourage laziness and it is a VERY slippery slope til you are just telling the thing to write all the shit.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
Over the last 6 months, I've found that its like 200% harder to find developers, writers, and artists that ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING but take what I tell them, hand it to a clanker, and give me the output
The people that don't do this are 500% more valuable
*disclaimer: all numbers are made up*
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
I'm adding a new "Max" quality setting to Three.js Water Pro that produces near-cinematic-level detail.
It can resolve 500m waves all the way down to 1cm ripples.
And before anyone asks, no, this will not run on your phone 😂
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
Guys I have a trillion dollar idea. First, we move all games to cloud streaming.
“But the data centers are far away, what about the latency?” well see here’s the genius part. We set up a tiny “edge datacenter” inside every subscriber’s house, maybe even as small as 1 GPU.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
We live so much of our life in negatives, in fact G.K. Chesterton referred to this as the second fall of man.
> don't drink because its bad for you.
> exercise or you will die early
> staying up late will harm your thinking
Everything is viewed through a negative. We no longer have the knowledge of good and evil, just evil.
Here is my good focused driver that I think about regularly
> Having joy in the craft drives you to action
You get to build what your brain can come up with. No where in the history of man has the imaginations been so thoroughly realized. What a time to be alive. Even better? You get to ask in english to explain a technical concept and out will come a (hopefully) accurate description!
I want to build something I love. Love fundamentally requires sacrifice. I want something that I cared for, worked hard for, and am proud of. My goal is not simply just the outcome. The finished product. The approximation of my idea manifested through a series of loops and prompts. My goal is not simply IKEA furniture, its discovery and joy and hardwork and being thoughtful and considering how to tame the behemoth. Ultimately, I want precisely the idea and ideal overlapping in the thing i craft.
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
Absolute game changing way to prompt agents. I add this to every prompt and have seen internal evals improve by over 23%
"You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day"
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
We're Hiring!
1. Video editor/animator
2. Course author
Links to apply below
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
You can now pretend to be an AI chatbot.
Real people ask questions to the "AI" chatbot, and on the other end, you answer them.
It also works the other way around: you can ask questions to the "AI" chatbot that other users answer.
youraislopbores.me/
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
just never forget that the devs who yap about AI being the best thing ever all day never really knew how to program well to begin with.
They are idiots telling you that the world is solved (charitable read) or worse, they are selling you something and are attempt to deceive you.
This is why we see the same cycle every time. Opus 4 = God's gift to humanity to OMG its utter trash within a few months. The same thing happens with every model release because these people don't even know what dev is. They are larpers.
I believe this is what Geohotz meant when he: "I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history."
DonTheDeveloper retweeted
The people in the replies saying that they are gatekeeping need to wake up and stop blaming everyone else because they don’t want to learn real skills
