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Everything filed under LLMs LLMs Everything filed under scaling laws scaling laws Everything filed under OpenAI OpenAI Everything filed under AI and jobs AI and jobs Everything filed under coding agents coding agents Everything filed under documentation documentation Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: The world needs competent programmers The world needs competent programmers Last stated 5 years ago 25 Nov 2021 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2021-11-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: The world needs to adapt to a paradigm shift caused by artificial intelligence — tap to centre the map on it The world needs to adapt to aparadigm shift caused by artificialintelligence Last stated 4 days ago 28 Sept 2026 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-09-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that. — tap to centre the map on it The meme that programmers no longerneed to be competent is a trap: thepath is competence, and AI does notchange that. Last stated 6 months ago 8 Apr 2026 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-09-18 — tap for who they are DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12 — tap for who they are DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-04-08 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today. — tap to centre the map on it AI will not replace the bestprogrammers; it will make them tentimes more productive than they aretoday. Last stated a year ago 23 Jul 2025 DH Demis Hassabis — holds since 2025-07-23 — tap for who they are Same subject: Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster — tap to centre the map on it Code quality still matters even asLLMs make writing code much faster Last stated a year ago 13 May 2025 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-05-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents. — tap to centre the map on it Being an excellent programmer is aburden rather than an advantage whenlearning to work with coding agents. Last stated 8 months ago 12 Feb 2026 LF Lex Fridman — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: Any programming community should be so lucky as to have a Shopify — tap to centre the map on it Any programming community should beso lucky as to have a Shopify Last stated 10 months ago 1 Dec 2025 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-12-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: Programming would be an awful endeavor if all programmers were confined to the same paradigm — tap to centre the map on it Programming would be an awfulendeavor if all programmers wereconfined to the same paradigm Last stated 3 years ago 7 May 2023 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2023-05-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: The material that teaches people how to program is overwhelmingly bad, because the programmers who know how to do it well rarely think it is worth writing down. — tap to centre the map on it The material that teaches people howto program is overwhelmingly bad,because the programmers who know howto do it well rarely think it isworth writing down. Last stated 12 years ago 28 May 2014 CM Casey Muratori — holds since 2014-05-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it A badly written AI outbound email isevidence of a bad vendor, not of alimit of AI. Last stated 9 months ago 1 Jan 2026 JL Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does notgive you a smarter model; theintelligence of the model is whatdecides how much of that window itcan actually attend to. Last stated 3 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A child who has seen ten cats learns what a machine needs the whole internet of cat photos for, by a learning pathway nobody has solved. — tap to centre the map on it A child who has seen ten cats learnswhat a machine needs the wholeinternet of cat photos for, by alearning pathway nobody has solved. Last stated 2 months ago 10 Aug 2026 FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. — tap to centre the map on it "Scaling" was powerful because itwas one word: naming a researchdirection is what tells a wholefield what to do next. Last stated 10 months ago 25 Nov 2025 IS Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it A benchmark result should bereported under a stated budget, oras a curve against test-time compute— never as a single number. Last stated 3 months ago 26 Jun 2026 NB Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. — tap to centre the map on it A lab should spend most of itscompute on research rather than onbuilding the next model, becauseresearch is where the tenfold yearlyefficiency gains come from. Last stated 7 months ago 13 Mar 2026 DP Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. — tap to centre the map on it A startup should not begin life as anonprofit and bolt a for-profit armon later, whatever OpenAI's ownhistory suggests. Last stated 3 years ago 18 Mar 2024 SA Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it. — tap to centre the map on it A technique that lets an AI model'sreasoning shift outside its visibleChain of Thought is dangerous, bothbecause it works and because aleading lab is willing to deploy it. Last stated 4 weeks ago 3 Sept 2026 ZM Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. — tap to centre the map on it A tiny language model inventing aplausible-sounding name is the samephenomenon as a large oneconfidently stating a false fact. Last stated 8 months ago 12 Feb 2026 AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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At the centre The world needs competent programmers Last stated 25 Nov 2021 · 5 years ago Holds David Heinemeier Hansson Read this korrent →