Aamir Jawaid

Don’t write much on my blog esp about my corporate job, but this was a fun one to document. aamirj.com/posts/18_rew...

My TikTok timeline is healing. Yesterday I didn’t get a single ai related post in 15 mins of scrolling ♥️

Introducing the concept of “losing” to my 3yo. We gifted her a game today which involves more than 1 player and we just had to deal a lot with feelings of disappointment and loss. We know it’s something we have to teach but to watch it being learned from the beginning is so eye opening

Went on X for a bit. I feel like I’m more attuned to AI stuff but not in a positive way. I come back to bsky and I feel like I’m less on the cutting edge but somehow feels more human and peaceful here.

I feel seen

Listening to The Long Goodbye by @rizahmed.bsky.social again today. Pure genius.

I miss hand coding sometimes. Having 5 open tasks and constantly context switching and making high level decisions is exhausting. Need a min to just sit and make tiny satisfying decisions :/

me when claude keeps reverting my changes

Why are gif pickers in all the messaging apps complete trash

This is another great read. Beautifully done, too. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

this will either be really good or totally flop

Similar to alt txt, there should be alt prompt for ai generated images

@thdxr.com what if I could run regular commands alongside talking to the agent? I don’t need an agent to run npm i

I also don’t understand the American obsession with SUVs. Like why? I am resisting so hard but my wife is also leaning toward it. And all our friends are on her side lol. I just don’t get it.

😂

These are my dad goals

I’m at that stage of life

Was struggling to find my own words for this (still am). Coworker used binary language to define ai acceptance and I was uncomfortable with saying I’m very enthusiastic but also uncomfortable with saying I don’t believe it’s useful

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

First day back from pat leave and I’m already AI’d out

feeling this one today

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." We all know what happens next

The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.

Okay fine I’ll learn about jj

probably the realest thing I ever wrote

I don't think LLMs make work easier. They make work faster, and that is "better" for companies and give workers an approximation of ease bc of the apparent lack of labour. You're still accountable for the output, which makes you a details reviewer, which I often find harder w/o the original labour.

How do you make sure snippets in docs are tested? Or do you avoid putting snippets in docs and just point to full samples?

This is insane.

No I don’t care about your ai workflow. Thx

In theory, family visiting after the birth of a baby is helpful. It should give us time and space to focus on the baby. But sometimes family visiting can add way more burden to the already hectic initial few weeks.

I feel like a lot of people think about time wrong. Been bugging me since I talked about side projects the other day and was complaining about it. I had to remind myself that at no point in my adult life has time been given to me, or materialised out of nowhere. You have to actively create time.

7yo: Dad can I open my new Lego set? Me: I want you to finish the one you're working on first 7yo: so you always complete a project before starting a new one? Me:

We use the #huckleberry app for tracking feeds, diapers, sleep etc. It’s one of the most well thought out apps I have ever used. Every bit of it is so intuitive.

Yeah plan mode only really works if you have a very clear idea of what you’re building. For small features of minor additions this is easy. For complex stuff I still prefer the “don’t code just talk” prompt to weigh my options and iteratively build out what I want.

First time setting up #nbgv versioning system for our libraries (dotnet, ts, and py). Once you get it, it really is very simple.

More of this non- zero sum game thinking

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

This is the worst part about using #firefox

the flip side of getting ai to write your unit tests is you basically never look at your tests, and if you do, you'll notice that 50% of the tests aren't actually needed

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Now that I've defaulted to using neovim, i seek the shortcuts in every single app i'm in.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.