
Head of Inadvisably Applied Architecture. Lifts heavy things, puts them down again. Plays drums. He/They Profile image from @yiyepixel
Sydney, Australia
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I think one of the biggest risks to humanity posed by the new AI/ML future is stagnation. The machines are only as smart as the training data. The moment actual humans stop producing novel inputs the entire system becomes self referential.
Weeks later I am still occasionally laughing at "There can be only Waddell", @reynoldsgareth
I just heard the term "thought partner" in a meeting in case you were wondering how Wednesday was going.
As a very senior experienced coder, I code at 1 saliency per 7 lines of code, well above industry standards.
tobyhede retweeted
I was fired from Twitter this morning because during a code review, I had a procedure called "upDo.g" and when Elon asked me "what's upDo.g?" I said "nothing much, what's up with you." He walked away and then my badge stopped working & security escorted me out of the building.
The clone of twitter I built in a weekend doesn't need half a million servers, maybe that's the problem right there?
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I've now upgraded the Twitter Plan to 9-dimensional chess level. You just can't possibly understand.
tobyhede retweeted
Story to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group. Also, Twitter has shut off badge access to its offices.
I think Future Twitter could well be a commercial success. Endless grind and toxicity has never been a barrier for capitalism.




