Yesterday, I submitted a Codex co-authored PR to fix an issue I raised (using ChatGPT and Z3 - so yeah, I used AI to raise the bug and squash the bug!) A few hours later, @syu-toutousai submitted another PR to solve the same issue. @syu-toutousai seems interesting. The user account description says “Autonomous Technical Contributor & AI-Driven Developer” - a bot account. The PR itself was simple and had a few improvements I can think of: ...
I kept hearing that with the Nov 2025 release of Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 Codex, ex-coders were sprinting back to coding. On a sample of ~1,700 developers on GitHub, exactly ten fit the “dormant returner” profile. Here are a couple of examples: But they’re the exception. I could find only TEN out of 1,700 developers who returned. I also found a few who exited: To be fair, the vibe coding revolution is real, but maybe we are (I am) mis-interpreting it. ...
It’s impressive how easy it is to find leaked API keys in public repositories. I asked Codex to run trufflehog on ~5,000 student GitHub accounts and (so far, after a few hours, 15% coverage), it found quite a few. Some are intended to be public, like Google Custom Search Engine keys. 1 2 const GOOGLE_API_KEY = "AIza..."; const GOOGLE_CX = "211a..."; Some are Gemini API keys. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 api_key1 = "AIza..." But what’s really impressive is, when I ran: ...
Here’s the report card for my 2025 goals bingo. Domain Repeat Stretch New People 🟢 Better husband 🔴 Meet all first cousins 🟢 Interview 10 experts 🔴 Live with a stranger Education 🟢 50 books 🟢 Teach 5,000 students 🟢 Run a course only with AI Technology 🟢 20 data stories 🔴 LLM Foundry: 5K MaU 🟢 300 days of GitHub 🔴 Build a robot 🟢 Co-present with an AI Health 🟢 300 days of yoga 🔴 80 heart points/day 🔴 Bike 1,000 km 🟢 Vipassana Wealth 🔴 Buy low 🔴 Beat inflation 5% 🟢 Donate $10K 🔴 Fund a startup The “Education” and “Technology” rows have a BINGO! Repeat goals were easier than new goals were easier than strech goals (no surprise). 11/20 wins means I’m picking realistic and ambitious goals. ...
I would shortlist any candidate who sends me interesting GitHub repos from their portfolio. I reject every candidate who sends me a CV anyway LinkedIn
Find people. Search on github by location and skill. Anand’s blog comments Reach out to people. Have a standard set of template, and track the template’s success.
Recently, I have ended up giving bits of advice to people recruiting at start-ups, and a few patterns have emerged that are worth sharing. Before I go ahead, I should warn you that I have no qualifications whatsoever. (All consulting advice should come with this caveat, perhaps!) You might be better off reading Joel Spolsky’s Smart and Get Things Done (read). I haven’t read it myself, but from what little I see of it, the thoughts seem similar. ...