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AI tools such as Copilot, Codex, and Claude are to software developers what forklifts are to warehouse workers. A warehouse worker can still move boxes by hand, just as a developer can still write every line of code manually, but doing so is far slower and less efficient. Forklifts don’t replace the worker—they amplify the worker’s productivity, allowing one person to accomplish what once required many hours of physical labor. Likewise, AI coding assistants don’t replace developers; they handle much of the repetitive and routine work, freeing developers to focus on architecture, problem-solving, and business logic. In the same way that no modern warehouse would choose to rely solely on bare hands, it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine competitive software development being done without AI assistance.
Hints: I, human, thought about the analogy of forklift and AI, ChatGPT, wrote out nicely for me the sentences above. So I used some tokens and deployed some human capital, feeling good about the compounding effect🙂
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Steve Yang retweeted
For the umpteenth time: Quit trying to analyze Trump. Quit trying to figure out why he says and does the things he says and does. I’m so fucking sick of listening to some panel on CNN try to discuss his latest bizarre pronouncement like he’s some normal human being. Stop that. This isn’t complicated- He’s not a normal human being. He’s a sociopath. He lies as he breathes. He’s an idiot. He’s a Russian asset. He gets off on being cruel. He’s never been held accountable for anything he’s done his entire life. He’s a horrible person. And he’s the biggest fucking crybaby who’s ever lived. That’s it.
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FPS was on unprecedented garage sale yesterday and I bought some more shares when it was down more than 9%. By looking at this Q4 report that just came out, it’s evident that AI infrastructure buildup isn’t slowing down but accelerating. finance.yahoo.com/markets/st…
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Steve Yang retweeted
We live in a country where an alcoholic runs our military, a former heroin addict is in charge of our health and they both report to a convicted felon & adjudicated rapist. And Christians support them all. What a time to be alive 🤪
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Not learning or not wanting to learn from histories is a gigantic waste of those invaluable intellectual resources humanity had paid dearly to accumulate over the course of civilization development.
Well, maybe like Newton’s laws governing mechanics, you can’t deny they’re there with us all the times, Cipolla’s laws governing human stupidity, you can’t deny they’re also here with us all the times 😭
Many Chinese people look at videos of their parents generation doing the ridiculous loyalty dance to Mao during the Cultural Revolution and wonder how can an entire country be so crazy, so stupid and so shameless.
I suspect when future Americans look back at the Trump era they will asking the same question.
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Steve Yang retweeted
Nailed it!
Bottom line on Trumpy: "Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle."
When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.
The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.
Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.
Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.
In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
-A gaudy performance.
-A caricature masquerading as leadership.
-A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.
And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance...
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Steve Yang retweeted
Our debt is now up to $40 trillion. Trump said he would eliminate the debt in 8 years. Instead, he added $11.6 TRILLION across 2 terms, and will add another projected 4.7 TRILLION from his signature Big Ugly Bill. He is responsible for an astounding 29% of today’s total debt. 🤬
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Steve Yang retweeted
#Trump 对美国最深的 #伤害，可能不是某一次加关税、一次外交冲突，甚至不是某一届政府造成多少经济损失，而是他正在毒害美国长期积累、最难复制的那部分国家资本：制度信用、法治、公平竞争、科研自由、全球人才、盟友信任，以及“成功主要靠创新，而不是靠接近权力”的社会预期。
一个国家真正开始 #衰落，并不是火箭突然不会飞了，AI突然不会训练了，而是越来越多聪明人发现：研究技术的回报，不如研究总统喜欢谁；改善产品的回报，不如获得政治关系；市场竞争的回报，不如权钱交换；独立大学、媒体、司法和公务员，不再被视为国家的纠错系统，反而被当成需要服从政治权力的障碍。
更危险的是 #Trump家族 自身商业利益与总统权力之间长期存在的 #利益冲突争议。当一个总统及其家族可以一边拥有巨大的私人商业利益，一边掌握关税、监管、外交、政府采购和行政权力时，真正被破坏的不只是某一笔钱，而是整个市场的价格信号和信用信号：企业开始计算的可能不再只是“怎样做得更好”，而是“怎样离权力更近”。
这对AI、航天尤其危险。
美国真正的优势从来不只是 #SpaceX、#几家AI巨头 或者 #几枚火箭，而是几百所大学、成千上万家公司、全球人才、风险资本、基础研究、盟友网络以及一个允许失败者重新挑战赢家的开放生态。
如果最后变成：
超级总统 + 超级富豪 + 超级公司 + 政府合同 + 政治忠诚 + 关键基础设施
那么短期数字甚至可能非常漂亮：火箭发射更多、AI投资更大、股价更高、军工合同更多。
但整个国家实际上可能变得越来越脆弱。
因为：
集中 ≠ 强大。
垄断 ≠ 效率。
财富 ≠ 智慧。
商业成功 ≠ 政治合法性。
忠于总统 ≠ 忠于美国。
Trump主义最危险的遗产，可能就是把美国原本依赖 #制度竞争 和 #不断纠错 产生的力量，逐渐改造成依赖个人、财富、忠诚和权力关系的体系。
#这种毒害 不会在四年以后自动消失。
火箭炸了，可以再造。
公司倒了，可以重建。
总统下台，可以再选。
但是一个社会如果开始相信 #权力比规则重要、关系比竞争重要、#忠诚比事实重要、赢家天然有资格 #统治别人，恢复这种 #制度信用 可能需要一代人的时间。
所以 #Trump时代 真正 #值得美国警惕的，不只是：
Trump做错了什么？
而是：
Trump正在教美国下一代 #怎样理解成功、权力、财富、#法律 和 #民主？
如果这个答案发生了改变，那才可能是 #Trump家族 留给美国 #最昂贵、#最持久 的 #债务。
亨特·拜登：“在我父亲担任总统时，我没有做任何生意。我卖画作。我平均每年赚22.5万美元。”
马赫：不管你赚了多少，与小唐纳德赚的相比都是九牛一毛，我是说数十亿美元。
亨特：在本届政府过去的500天里，小唐纳德的公司的国防部合同收入超过34亿美元。他从国防部获得了6.4亿美元的贷款。贾里德从沙特人那里收取超过1亿美元的费用，用于一个由他控制的65亿美元基金，这全是海湾国家的资金。这太荒谬了。”
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Steve Yang retweeted
What Ukraine did with 33 years of independence: two revolutions against stolen elections, a comedian elected in a landslide and then held to account by his own press, an army rebuilt from garage donations to Europe's most capable.
What Russia did with the same 33 years: one president, four wars, two constitutional resets, and a state where every institution is now a synonym for one man's fear.
Same starting line, 1991. Same inheritance of Soviet wreckage.
The difference isn't culture or geography. It's that one country belongs to its citizens and the other belongs to its ruler. That's the entire war, explained.
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To my Chinese American Trump fans … yes I despise your decisions to support the man I always despised and even more so today, but we could still be friendly if you can be like this Circle K guy😏
I just had a Trump voter come up to me at Circle K and say:
“I’m sorry.”
I honestly had no idea what they meant, so I said:
“Excuse me?”
They looked at me and said:
“I used to hate you because you were always attacking Trump.”
Then they paused.
“Now I hate myself for defending him.”
That one caught me off guard.
I told them they shouldn’t hate themselves for changing their mind.
They said:
“I just wish I had seen it sooner.”
Politics has become so tribal that people feel like changing their mind means admitting defeat.
It doesn’t.
Sometimes changing your mind just means you finally stopped defending a politician and started thinking for yourself.
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I loved John Grisham’s novels for good reasons, now I know why they clicked with me. 🥹
John Grisham doesn’t need to say Trump’s name to make his stance clear—and it comes from a lifetime of reckoning with America’s ugliest truths.
Raised in the segregated South, Grisham openly admits he was “brought up to be a racist” in a world where white supremacy was enforced by culture, church, and law. It wasn’t until his high school integrated—under federal protection—that he began to question everything he’d been taught. Sitting with Black teammates just months later, he remembers wondering: why was this ever so hard?
That experience shaped how he sees politics today. Grisham has no patience for nostalgia about the “good old days” of segregation—calling that era exactly what it was: loathsome. And while he’s spent decades writing stories that expose injustice and challenge systems like the death penalty, he’s clear-eyed about where he stands in the current fight.
He won’t turn his novels into political screeds—but in real life, he’s putting his energy into supporting Democrats and opposing Trumpism directly.
For Grisham, this isn’t abstract. It’s personal history. He’s seen what happens when a country clings to hierarchy, fear, and resentment—and he’s not interested in going back.
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Steve Yang retweeted
APPLEBAUM: I live in Poland. I've lived here on and off for 30 years. I was here during period of NATO expansion.
I can tell you that NATO expanded because countries in this part of Europe felt physically threatened by Russia.
They asked to be part of NATO, they even had to beg and plead to be let in. Initially, United States was very reluctant.
NATO expansion was done all the way through with Russian participation and acknowledgment.
Initially, there was even a NATO-Russia partnership that was created.
There were constant attempts to show Russia that it was a defensive alliance and not an offensive one.
At one point, there were almost no American tanks left in Europe. There was no arming of countries in Eastern Europe, and that happened only after 2014.
So a lot of effort was made to create NATO as a security zone, as a zone of peace, and not focus it on some kind of attack on Russia.
For quite a long time, Putin accepted this. There have been recent releases of documents from '90s in which he doesn't talk about NATO, or complaining about NATO expansion.
That was a later argument he began to make down the road when he needed a casus belli, explanation for why he was invading Ukraine.
So, Russia successfully sold a very false story about the war being somehow provoked by NATO.
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Steve Yang retweeted
You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Democrats were capable of stealing the 2020 election while out of power, but somehow incapable of doing the same in 2024 while in power. That is a categorically, phenomenally dumb thing to believe.
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This Repair Cafe thing should be promoted widely.
When something breaks, most of us replace it. At this Brooklyn repair cafe, volunteers are helping neighbors fix everything from lamps and jeans to vintage fans and old smartwatches for free. The events are part of a growing global movement to reduce waste, save money and bring back repair skills that many people say have been lost.
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Indeed, this is huge. No wonder its stock up some 5%. $IOT #PhysicalAI, #AgentStudio, #ConnectedOperations #TrackingLabel finance.yahoo.com/technology…
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