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Reading is a core part of your intellectual feedback loop that feeds all parts of your ability to learn & express yourself
↪️Writing ⇄ Thinking ⇄ Reading ⇄ Doing ⇄ Speaking ⇄ Listening ↩
Each activity directly helps the next & indirectly helps any along the chain
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Juvoni Beckford retweeted
If you are a software engineer prompting all day it might be a good time to realise nothing in this world comes for free and your current comfort is very fragile as anything that comes as being such low effort and high return is sooner or later generalised and its value levelled with the ground
It might also be a good time to do everything in your power to hone your human skills and start making connections, doing stuff outside being a “tech worker”, anything that is not strictly bound to software
Juvoni Beckford retweeted
If AI had been writing and reviewing its own code for the past few decades, and humans had only recently started looking into what it was up to and discovered an ever-growing list of CVEs, we would reasonably conclude that AI hadn’t been good at coding all along and that we should just start over.
Except it’s the other way around.
Humans have been the ones writing and reviewing each other’s code for decades. Very diligently, if I may add.
If we’re being intellectually honest and holding ourselves to the same bar we hold AI to, we’d have to admit that we haven’t been all that good at it either.
The ironic thing is when I was working in the security industry a lot of security folks are paranoid about using AI.
Feeling my emotions became easier for me to work through, when I reframed it to myself as digestion and metabolizing a feeling.
Each year, I put together a small virtual men's group that focuses on accountability & system building towards ambitions / goals we want to see through.
Runs from end of Nov - April.
Meetings once a week.
Around 5-6 guys. I facilitate the group for free, as it's something I need as well.
DM if interested or share with someone it could help.
Juvoni Beckford retweeted
I think many of us working in tech tend to forget that the reason software engineering vs other engineering fields pays (a lot!) more, is a lot more flexible (WFH/remote), and has better perks:
Because this field changes much faster than other engineering fields. The premium is because fewer people are able/willing to pick up new technologies, methodologies so quickly.
But the field had ~10-20 years of stability, and so lots of folks forgot this is why a premium exists. And that AI is just another tech wave: software engineers who pick it up and master it will generally fare better; those not will struggle a lot more.
Juvoni Beckford retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Using AI makes me want to think more not less.
It's Amplified Intelligence, so it's in my best interest to get smarter so I can be more effective with it.
It really helped for me to think about positive & negative emotions like turning the + volume up or - down on my internal world instead of being good or bad.
Juvoni Beckford retweeted
I really like this attention to how friction gives life meaning, but I think it also subtly implies that reducing friction is a bad thing, or that it destroys something valuable.
IMO, it's the opposite. Reducing friction gives people more freedom to choose where they want friction in their lives, and take the easy path everywhere else.
After music streaming became the default, some people went back to iPods and Walkmans because they missed the feeling of listening to music. But the vast majority stuck with streaming because it really is more convenient, and they don't particularly value the friction of physical music (and the friction actually would make them listen to music less!)
Basically, different people value different kinds of friction, because people differ in aesthetics and what gives them meaning.
Of the nine activities in the second image, someone might love repairing clothes and hosting friends, but hate meal planning and the daily maintenance of growing food. They can now spend more time doing the former because the economy gave them a convenient way to solve the latter.
I think this is an overwhelmingly good thing. We've made a lot of things easier for people, while giving them more choice over where they want to spend their time and effort.
Also, having experienced the frictionless alternative actually makes people appreciate the friction they choose to keep even more, rather than it being just "the water" they exist in.
Juvoni Beckford retweeted
beautiful explanation. this is 100% happening. xitter.cf/sotak/status/211179423…