Thiago Araujo
@thd.codes
Ruby developer & very food motivated - www.hexdevs.com
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There's no such thing as a single engineer or even a group of 5-10 engineers that can pull this off. It's not a solo nor a single-team task.
The teams and individuals that have tried this burned through every ounce of their political capital at mach speed.
The teams and individuals that have tried this burned through every ounce of their political capital at mach speed.
November 21, 2024 at 7:15 AM
There's no such thing as a single engineer or even a group of 5-10 engineers that can pull this off. It's not a solo nor a single-team task.
The teams and individuals that have tried this burned through every ounce of their political capital at mach speed.
The teams and individuals that have tried this burned through every ounce of their political capital at mach speed.
Hope beats fear. Never doubt it. 😉
democracy is awesome 🎇🎉
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Hope beats fear. Never doubt it. 😉
🎉🎉
We can have good things!
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
🎉🎉
best halloween costumes
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
best halloween costumes
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i wrote a lil essay a while ago about THE POWER OF FRAMES for creative work.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
i wrote a lil essay a while ago about THE POWER OF FRAMES for creative work.
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I wrote my most personal blog post to date.
It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.
afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...
It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.
afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...
Stop Giving Harm a Microphone
afomera.dev
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I wrote my most personal blog post to date.
It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.
afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...
It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.
afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...
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It's interesting to contrast with the original vision for the computer. The LLM doesn't aim to be a "bicycle for the mind" (Jobs) nor extend senses and reach (MCLuhan) but displace cognition. Instead of a machine that does what you tell it, it's a machine that tells.
May 21, 2024 at 3:23 PM
It's interesting to contrast with the original vision for the computer. The LLM doesn't aim to be a "bicycle for the mind" (Jobs) nor extend senses and reach (MCLuhan) but displace cognition. Instead of a machine that does what you tell it, it's a machine that tells.
democracy is awesome 🎇🎉
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
democracy is awesome 🎇🎉
this was a lovely episode
#26 Will Kinney - Before the Big Bang, Inflation, Infinity of Worlds
youtu.be/HSZtn0yKPBI
youtu.be/HSZtn0yKPBI
#26 Will Kinney - Before the Big Bang, Inflation, Infinity of Worlds
YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
this was a lovely episode
seeing the northern lights tonight 🌠🌌
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
seeing the northern lights tonight 🌠🌌
can confirm
My view on all the LLM-powered code review processes I've seen: 90% of it is just creating text slop absolutely nobody reads.
Doing it yourself, before you push to GH, is fine. But making your co-workers interpret this noisy slop is wasting their time.
Doing it yourself, before you push to GH, is fine. But making your co-workers interpret this noisy slop is wasting their time.
September 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
can confirm
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"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."
—David Graeber
—David Graeber
The various other studies (the MIT one, the Microsoft one) followed exactly the same pattern. Truly the narrative that AI is inevitable is unassailable.
September 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."
—David Graeber
—David Graeber
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Doing the right thing is always the right thing, even when it’s the hard thing.
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Doing the right thing is always the right thing, even when it’s the hard thing.
Sending my love to all RubyGems/Bundler maintainers. 🧡
We can't thank you enough for all the essential work you do, and all your contributions to the Ruby community.
Gratitude, kindness and respect for all the OSS maintainers out there. 🙏
We can't thank you enough for all the essential work you do, and all your contributions to the Ruby community.
Gratitude, kindness and respect for all the OSS maintainers out there. 🙏
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sending my love to all RubyGems/Bundler maintainers. 🧡
We can't thank you enough for all the essential work you do, and all your contributions to the Ruby community.
Gratitude, kindness and respect for all the OSS maintainers out there. 🙏
We can't thank you enough for all the essential work you do, and all your contributions to the Ruby community.
Gratitude, kindness and respect for all the OSS maintainers out there. 🙏
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What if the real vulnerability all along was NPM? 😜
September 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What if the real vulnerability all along was NPM? 😜
listening is a gift that keeps on giving
If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this:
You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.
You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
listening is a gift that keeps on giving
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I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out
the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections
August 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out
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This is why I always felt weird about being "in tech" once everyone assumed that meant startups.
I want to make things that people use, alongside people I can learn from and get better together.
Startup people wanted SCALE or SPEED and that's theirs to want, but it bothered me to be lumped in.
I want to make things that people use, alongside people I can learn from and get better together.
Startup people wanted SCALE or SPEED and that's theirs to want, but it bothered me to be lumped in.
I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out
the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections
August 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is why I always felt weird about being "in tech" once everyone assumed that meant startups.
I want to make things that people use, alongside people I can learn from and get better together.
Startup people wanted SCALE or SPEED and that's theirs to want, but it bothered me to be lumped in.
I want to make things that people use, alongside people I can learn from and get better together.
Startup people wanted SCALE or SPEED and that's theirs to want, but it bothered me to be lumped in.
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New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works.
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works.
- "How about improving docs & API design? This helps the whole dev team + external users!"
- "Nope, ain't got no time for that!"
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- "How about improving docs & API design to support MCP? This would let some random LLM interact with the API."
- "YES WE NEED THIS! START RIGHT NOW!!!" 🗯️
🤷
- "Nope, ain't got no time for that!"
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...
- "How about improving docs & API design to support MCP? This would let some random LLM interact with the API."
- "YES WE NEED THIS! START RIGHT NOW!!!" 🗯️
🤷
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
- "How about improving docs & API design? This helps the whole dev team + external users!"
- "Nope, ain't got no time for that!"
...
...
- "How about improving docs & API design to support MCP? This would let some random LLM interact with the API."
- "YES WE NEED THIS! START RIGHT NOW!!!" 🗯️
🤷
- "Nope, ain't got no time for that!"
...
...
- "How about improving docs & API design to support MCP? This would let some random LLM interact with the API."
- "YES WE NEED THIS! START RIGHT NOW!!!" 🗯️
🤷
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WE HAVE LONG SINCE LEFT THE INFORMATION AGE. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF NOISE
July 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
WE HAVE LONG SINCE LEFT THE INFORMATION AGE. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF NOISE
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This thread is incredible.
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
xcancel.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This thread is incredible.
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When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.