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Hi, I'm Ibrahim Diallo. I write code and play with computers. Now let me tell you a story...
Deep dives into engineering, philosophy, and life.
I don't understand why this generation can't afford a home. When my grandfather was 18, he had already saved enough money from his paper route and various odd jobs to buy his first home. By the time my father turned 26, he was already married, had his first child, and was moving into his first home. We lived frugally, and our parents taught us the value of spending wisely.
The Washington Post reported that [the US government will decide who can use state-of-the-art LLMs](https://archive.ph/PCQQl). After the ban of Fable and the limitations coming to ChatGPT 5.6, what's next? My bet is Chinese models.
\- "If you talk to me, I'll punch you in the face, are you ok with talking with me?" \- "Nods in agreement." \- "Proceeds to punch the man in the face."
Remember that scene in the Matrix where Neo is strapped into the chair and Link uploads all sorts of martial arts into his mind? When Neo wakes up, he says "I know Kung-fu," then proceeds to demonstrate his skill in a battle with Morpheus. That was a pretty amazing scene. But if you suspend your disbelief for a second, it also suggests that when you have all the information at your fingertips, knowledge is just a matter of uploading it into your mind.
The worst type of bug is one that only happens on prod. And only on prod. If you checked this blog in the past few weeks, you might have encountered a big fat 500 error.
My younger sister graduated with a CompSci degree a few years ago. I've been behind her, motivating her and demystifying the world of programming from the very beginning. There was a piece of advice I repeated everyday, trying to make her understand how to operate. The problem was, she was trying to read and understand every line of code in a function before using it. I thought it was non-sense. Someone, much smarter than us has created that function, it's part of a vetted library, it has been tested already. All you have to do is use it. "After all, you don't need to understand how an internal combustion engine works, yet you feel safe driving your car, don't you?"
This is a rant. It didn't start today, but I think I've reached the end of the line. The straw that broke the camel's back, so to say. I used an internal tool for the first time. I logged in and navigated through the web app, making some updates here and there. All was well. But then I made the mistake of wanting to go back to the initial dashboard. I clicked the back button, and instead of returning to the previous page, I saw Chrome's default tab page staring right back at me.