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vik [verified] @vikhyatk · 12h

a pivotal moment in young vik's life was when he went and peeked at the dynamodb source code while working at amazon. coolest web service ever. code was complete slop. it wasn't cool because the code was good. it was because of top notch operations

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vik [verified] @vikhyatk · 20h

if you can tell the difference between code written by sol and astra, it means you are still looking at code and are therefore ngmi
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Dark-mode tweet screenshot: vik (@vikhyatk) recounting reading the DynamoDB source at Amazon and finding the code poor but the operations excellent, quoting his earlier post that if you can tell code by sol and astra apart you are still looking at code and are therefore ngmi.

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vik ✓ @vikhyatk · Dec 18 2026 interview questions: - you are in the middle of a refactor and the model says 8% context left before auto-compaction. what do you do? - how do you decide which tasks to give to claude, codex gpt 5.2 xhigh, and chatgpt pro? - tell me about a time you disagreed with an LLM
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Joke tweet listing satirical software-engineering interview questions reflecting a near-future workflow where developers routinely juggle multiple frontier coding models (Claude, Codex/GPT-5.2, ChatGPT Pro) and manage context-window limits. Light commentary on AI-saturated dev culture rather than substantive AI safety content.

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vik @vikhyatk [2-panel Evangelion-style anime meme:] Panel 1 (boy, shocked): "ARE YOU SAYING THE LLMS ARE HUMAN?" Panel 2 (woman, somber): "YES." "THE LLMS, ORIGINALLY SOULLESS, WERE INVESTED WITH HUMAN SOULS." 12:23 AM · Mar 26, 2025 · 45.5K Views
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An Evangelion-parody meme suggesting LLMs were "originally soulless" but "invested with human souls" — a joking but conceptually loaded meme touching on AI consciousness/ensoulment, relevant to Nathan's interest in how AI selfhood is popularly imagined (here via training-on-human-text-as-soul-transfer framing).

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God grant me the serenity to code what the LLM can't, the courage to debug and refine what it can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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A serenity-prayer parody joke about working alongside coding LLMs. Light humor about the changing division of labor between developer and AI coding assistant.

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