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It's always been my observation that the actual heavyweights of any hardcore engineering project are the ones that avoid snarky lightweight platforms like twitt
by 15457345234 3y ago
It's always been my observation that the actual heavyweights of any hardcore engineering project are the ones that avoid snarky lightweight platforms like twitter like the plague.
I would imagine that if you based hiring and firing decisions on the metric of 'how often this employee tweets' you could quite effectively cut deadwood.
With that in mind...
- icy_deadposts 3y ago[flagged]
- alsodumb 3y agoThat's not the case with AI community. Twitter is heavily used by almost every professor/researcher/PhD student who is doing learning. Ilya has one. Heck even Jitendra Malik who's probably as old as my grand father joined twitter.
- haldujai 3y agoMostly for professional purposes such as networking and promoting academic activities. Sometimes for their side startups. I rarely see a professor or PhD student voicing a political viewpoint (which is what the Sam Altman vs Ilya Sutskever debate is) on their Twitter.
- OfficialTurkey 3y agoI have never used twitter but this strikes me as a strange take at best. Many of the most brilliant and passionate engineers I've had the pleasure to work with have been massive shitposters.
- 15457345234 3y ago> massive shitposters Yes, agreed, but on _twitter_? The massive_disgruntled_engineer_rant does have a lot of precedent but I've never considered twitter to be their domain. Mailing lists, maybe.
- xcv123 3y agoYes, on Twitter. Mailing lists are old boomer shit.
- 15457345234 3y agoThat's funny
- karmasimida 3y agoDiscredit people using twitter is a weird take, and didn't resemble critical thinking to me.
- gardenhedge 3y agoSince Twitter has been so controversial I don't think it's strange to discredit people using it. The people still using it are just addicted to attention.
- 15457345234 3y agoYup. 'Tweeter' is a personality type.
- kvathupo 3y agoCompletely disagree: Yann LeCun, John Carmack, Rui Ueyama, Andrei Alexandrescu, Matt Goldbolt, Horace He, Tarun Chitra, George Hotz, etc.
- dorkwood 3y ago> It's always been my observation that the actual heavyweights of any hardcore engineering project are the ones that avoid snarky lightweight platforms like twitter like the plague. What other places are there to engage with the developer community?
- 15457345234 3y agoEngagement is not necessarily constructive engagement
- dorkwood 3y agoThat's a strange thing to say. I find a lot of value in the developer community on Twitter. I wouldn't have my career without it. I also wasn't being facetious. If there are other places to share work and ideas with developers online, I'd love to hear about them!
- nickkao 3y ago[flagged]
- 15457345234 3y agololno