Andrew Lee
@candrewlee.com
I post about tech, software engineering, and gaming (among many other things). Love to learn & build.
Opinions are my own.
https://candrewlee.com
Opinions are my own.
https://candrewlee.com
Something that’s been on my mind lately:
While population growth slows, the base of the age “pyramid” gets thinner.
Young peoples’ power to make change through voting is diluted, in a sense.
Young people need to understand that shifting dynamic and vote in higher percentages to compensate.
While population growth slows, the base of the age “pyramid” gets thinner.
Young peoples’ power to make change through voting is diluted, in a sense.
Young people need to understand that shifting dynamic and vote in higher percentages to compensate.
July 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Something that’s been on my mind lately:
While population growth slows, the base of the age “pyramid” gets thinner.
Young peoples’ power to make change through voting is diluted, in a sense.
Young people need to understand that shifting dynamic and vote in higher percentages to compensate.
While population growth slows, the base of the age “pyramid” gets thinner.
Young peoples’ power to make change through voting is diluted, in a sense.
Young people need to understand that shifting dynamic and vote in higher percentages to compensate.
Lovely to see what properly configured game theory incentives do to politics. Ranked choice voting ftw!
June 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lovely to see what properly configured game theory incentives do to politics. Ranked choice voting ftw!
If you like beautiful apps and animations, you’ll like this. I love software as an art medium
www.spottedinprod.com/blog/any-dis...
www.spottedinprod.com/blog/any-dis...
Blog - Any Distance Goes Open Source
Apple Design Award winner Any Distance goes open source.
www.spottedinprod.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you like beautiful apps and animations, you’ll like this. I love software as an art medium
www.spottedinprod.com/blog/any-dis...
www.spottedinprod.com/blog/any-dis...
I need an explanation for how animejs.com was made, this is magical
Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine
A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library
animejs.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I need an explanation for how animejs.com was made, this is magical
So interesting listening to Ilya Sutskever here.
Paraphrasing: AI poses the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced, but with potentially the greatest reward.
It’s like something out of a movie, a wary time traveler warning the past that history teeters on a pinhead.
youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs
Paraphrasing: AI poses the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced, but with potentially the greatest reward.
It’s like something out of a movie, a wary time traveler warning the past that history teeters on a pinhead.
youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs
Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025
YouTube video by University of Toronto
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So interesting listening to Ilya Sutskever here.
Paraphrasing: AI poses the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced, but with potentially the greatest reward.
It’s like something out of a movie, a wary time traveler warning the past that history teeters on a pinhead.
youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs
Paraphrasing: AI poses the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced, but with potentially the greatest reward.
It’s like something out of a movie, a wary time traveler warning the past that history teeters on a pinhead.
youtu.be/zuZ2zaotrJs
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The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful.
Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away
Talk Business: Go away
Talk Healthcare: Crickets.
Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist
We are forcing posts to X
Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away
Talk Business: Go away
Talk Healthcare: Crickets.
Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist
We are forcing posts to X
June 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful.
Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away
Talk Business: Go away
Talk Healthcare: Crickets.
Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist
We are forcing posts to X
Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away
Talk Business: Go away
Talk Healthcare: Crickets.
Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist
We are forcing posts to X
I redesigned my personal website AND wrote a new blog post! It’s been more than a year since my last one.
This one’s on the software development lifecycle. ✨
candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06...
This one’s on the software development lifecycle. ✨
candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06...
It's Not "Just A Button"
What do software engineers really do? - Written by Andrew Lee
candrewlee.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I redesigned my personal website AND wrote a new blog post! It’s been more than a year since my last one.
This one’s on the software development lifecycle. ✨
candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06...
This one’s on the software development lifecycle. ✨
candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06...
I’m all for innovation and progress, but our economic system doesn’t give a safety net for those in now obsoleted careers.
If it did, I think it’d be easier to root for tech everywhere. I don’t like having to be nuanced about new tech that also will make it harder to put food on the table for many 😅
If it did, I think it’d be easier to root for tech everywhere. I don’t like having to be nuanced about new tech that also will make it harder to put food on the table for many 😅
May 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m all for innovation and progress, but our economic system doesn’t give a safety net for those in now obsoleted careers.
If it did, I think it’d be easier to root for tech everywhere. I don’t like having to be nuanced about new tech that also will make it harder to put food on the table for many 😅
If it did, I think it’d be easier to root for tech everywhere. I don’t like having to be nuanced about new tech that also will make it harder to put food on the table for many 😅
The better genAI video models get, the more I think about misinformation, propaganda, and the information diet of society.
LLMs unleashed misinformation at scale, but writing untruths was always possible yourself.
Video models are so much more visceral, and enable impossibly realistic fake clips.
LLMs unleashed misinformation at scale, but writing untruths was always possible yourself.
Video models are so much more visceral, and enable impossibly realistic fake clips.
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The better genAI video models get, the more I think about misinformation, propaganda, and the information diet of society.
LLMs unleashed misinformation at scale, but writing untruths was always possible yourself.
Video models are so much more visceral, and enable impossibly realistic fake clips.
LLMs unleashed misinformation at scale, but writing untruths was always possible yourself.
Video models are so much more visceral, and enable impossibly realistic fake clips.
Veo 3 and Gemini Diffusion are so impressive… google is absolutely smashing it.
It scares me and excites me, but I’m sure that software development will look completely different in a few years. There will likely be times where a human in the loop will actually be the bottleneck.
It scares me and excites me, but I’m sure that software development will look completely different in a few years. There will likely be times where a human in the loop will actually be the bottleneck.
May 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Veo 3 and Gemini Diffusion are so impressive… google is absolutely smashing it.
It scares me and excites me, but I’m sure that software development will look completely different in a few years. There will likely be times where a human in the loop will actually be the bottleneck.
It scares me and excites me, but I’m sure that software development will look completely different in a few years. There will likely be times where a human in the loop will actually be the bottleneck.
So much negativity here. For example, the comments on @nytimes.com posts are mostly garbage, and basically never related to the post content
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think there’s a lot of bots injecting political negativity here. Not sure if the goal is propaganda or just to make this site bad
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think there’s a lot of bots injecting political negativity here. Not sure if the goal is propaganda or just to make this site bad
May 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
So much negativity here. For example, the comments on @nytimes.com posts are mostly garbage, and basically never related to the post content
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think there’s a lot of bots injecting political negativity here. Not sure if the goal is propaganda or just to make this site bad
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think there’s a lot of bots injecting political negativity here. Not sure if the goal is propaganda or just to make this site bad
Now that AI slop runs the world, I want a private web - a single restricted login for a network of sites. You’d only be able to register after the net’s “moderator” video calls you to verify you’re a real person. A counter to the Dead Internet.
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Now that AI slop runs the world, I want a private web - a single restricted login for a network of sites. You’d only be able to register after the net’s “moderator” video calls you to verify you’re a real person. A counter to the Dead Internet.
Cook
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Cook
Gemini 2.5 Pro + Deep Research has probably been my first truly game-changing experience with AI. I enjoyed Claude but it still wasn’t reliable enough. Gemini has been unbelievably good.
April 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Gemini 2.5 Pro + Deep Research has probably been my first truly game-changing experience with AI. I enjoyed Claude but it still wasn’t reliable enough. Gemini has been unbelievably good.
March 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Pretty sure this tweet is about the Luka - Davis trade (wild). The replies are so bizarre. Like LLM political rage bizarre. Are these real people?
not to be dramatic but i’ve never been so shook in my entire life
February 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Pretty sure this tweet is about the Luka - Davis trade (wild). The replies are so bizarre. Like LLM political rage bizarre. Are these real people?
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Introducing Slow Roads 2.0 - procedurally-generated, scenic roads for endless driving zen. Built with @threejs.org to run in your browser - no installs, no ads, just roads.
Play free at slowroads.io
#threejs #webgame #javascript #procedural #webgl
Play free at slowroads.io
#threejs #webgame #javascript #procedural #webgl
January 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Introducing Slow Roads 2.0 - procedurally-generated, scenic roads for endless driving zen. Built with @threejs.org to run in your browser - no installs, no ads, just roads.
Play free at slowroads.io
#threejs #webgame #javascript #procedural #webgl
Play free at slowroads.io
#threejs #webgame #javascript #procedural #webgl
Reposted by Andrew Lee
This was fantastic. Definitely makes me wanna ship something whimsical.
In no other time in history has it been so doable to make something fun in a few days that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy currently. Lucky to be alive in 2025 for that :)
In no other time in history has it been so doable to make something fun in a few days that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy currently. Lucky to be alive in 2025 for that :)
One Million Applause for One Million Checkboxes 👏✅👏✅👏
Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️🔥
youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c
Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️🔥
youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c
Localhost: Nolen Royalty's One Million Checkboxes
YouTube video by Recurse Center
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This was fantastic. Definitely makes me wanna ship something whimsical.
In no other time in history has it been so doable to make something fun in a few days that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy currently. Lucky to be alive in 2025 for that :)
In no other time in history has it been so doable to make something fun in a few days that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy currently. Lucky to be alive in 2025 for that :)
I cannot express how strongly I do not care that deepseek R1 may have used openAI’s O3 outputs as data for distillation.
That’s exactly what openAI did with our news, blogs, social media posts, videos, and more. Now that *their* data gets used by someone else, they want rule changes. 🙄
That’s exactly what openAI did with our news, blogs, social media posts, videos, and more. Now that *their* data gets used by someone else, they want rule changes. 🙄
January 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I cannot express how strongly I do not care that deepseek R1 may have used openAI’s O3 outputs as data for distillation.
That’s exactly what openAI did with our news, blogs, social media posts, videos, and more. Now that *their* data gets used by someone else, they want rule changes. 🙄
That’s exactly what openAI did with our news, blogs, social media posts, videos, and more. Now that *their* data gets used by someone else, they want rule changes. 🙄
Reposted by Andrew Lee
Wiz: DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed, leaking more than 1M records including system logs, user prompt submissions, and users' API keys (Wired)
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January 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Wiz: DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed, leaking more than 1M records including system logs, user prompt submissions, and users' API keys (Wired)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Feeling pretty good about that prediction, #Nvidia is down 18% today after Deepseek spooked investors.
The ironic part is that if better models release for free, doesn’t that incentivize consumers to buy Nvidia chips? Seems like Nvidia should be winning here, especially compared to LLM companies.
The ironic part is that if better models release for free, doesn’t that incentivize consumers to buy Nvidia chips? Seems like Nvidia should be winning here, especially compared to LLM companies.
I wonder if it will be something like the recent deepseek r1 release, where some scrappy David achieves remarkable parity against the Goliaths at a fraction of the R&D cost — then they release it for free.
Let’s say something specific triggers an AI bubble pop. What would that event be?
January 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Feeling pretty good about that prediction, #Nvidia is down 18% today after Deepseek spooked investors.
The ironic part is that if better models release for free, doesn’t that incentivize consumers to buy Nvidia chips? Seems like Nvidia should be winning here, especially compared to LLM companies.
The ironic part is that if better models release for free, doesn’t that incentivize consumers to buy Nvidia chips? Seems like Nvidia should be winning here, especially compared to LLM companies.
I wonder if it will be something like the recent deepseek r1 release, where some scrappy David achieves remarkable parity against the Goliaths at a fraction of the R&D cost — then they release it for free.
Let’s say something specific triggers an AI bubble pop. What would that event be?
January 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I wonder if it will be something like the recent deepseek r1 release, where some scrappy David achieves remarkable parity against the Goliaths at a fraction of the R&D cost — then they release it for free.
Remember that White House press release about avoiding C/C++ and preferring memory safe languages?
The original report was at this url…and now it’s gone. Seems like C is back in style (always has been)
The original report was at this url…and now it’s gone. Seems like C is back in style (always has been)
www.whitehouse.gov
January 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Remember that White House press release about avoiding C/C++ and preferring memory safe languages?
The original report was at this url…and now it’s gone. Seems like C is back in style (always has been)
The original report was at this url…and now it’s gone. Seems like C is back in style (always has been)