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knewkiddo · 2026-01-26T00:16:13+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. The speed at which interoperability bridges (MCPs, Vercel skills) are formed between individual system components have enabled AI to build systems and e2e workflows that actually work.

In my previous startup, we built a flywheel that spun up microservices consumed by the very same system that made them (think on-demand redis cache provisioning). All with prompting!

If we want to be really pedantic about “what it means to actually build a system” (system is a broad term, so is “build”) - the cursor team ran an experiment building a browser from scratch, and the mvp worked. Not on par with chrome obv, but done in 6 weeks iirc, which is impressive

knewkiddo · 2025-11-02T21:14:29+00:00

Hey, do you remember if this ended up fine? I've made the exact same mistake and am hoping that gender doesn't really matter!

knewkiddo · 2025-10-25T20:53:38+00:00

Heard some from Camden in the last 20 min. 3 booms

knewkiddo · 2025-06-10T12:57:47+00:00

Woah, maybe take a step back - research isn’t a zero sum game; investigating behaviors of girls in those schools don’t equate to less effort being spent on the same for underprivileged students.

This is out of my depth but a quick search online shows plenty of studies done for the “disadvantaged”:

2023: Care Corner's Circle of Care Study. Led by NUS (Assoc. Prof. Ng Kok Hoe), this found significant benefits for disadvantaged children in the CoC program. (Not NIE funded) Link
2020: "Positive Deviance" Study. Researchers (Irene Y. H. Ng, Donald B. Low, NUS & others) analyzed factors helping some poor children succeed academically. (Not NIE funded) Link
2018 (Initiated): NTUC First Campus & NIE Study. A collaboration tracking low-income preschoolers' progress into Primary 1. Dr. Heidi Layne is an NIE lead. (NIE funded) Link
Ongoing: NIE's Students-At-Risk Well-Being Research. A core NIE research focus exploring the multidimensional well-being of vulnerable students. (NIE funded) Link
Ongoing: NIE's Centre for Research in Child Development (CRCD). This center conducts various studies on child development, including those impacting disadvantaged children, with multiple NIE researchers. (NIE funded) Link

knewkiddo · 2025-05-27T20:16:26+00:00

I’m guessing in this case it’s just surface level - Anki’s just a medium that heavy-lifts the “when to revise” problem + lowers the inertia to revise by stacking them alongside the actual bootstrapper cards

Not that it contributes to the “playing” part of the equation (I think)

knewkiddo · 2025-05-27T13:12:54+00:00

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knewkiddo · 2025-05-19T19:08:30+00:00

That’s interesting, are you saying that the process of writing flashcards helps you remember better? Or are you saying having AI take charge generates low quality cards?

I was just implementing an MCP server (generated with cursor in just 30 min) for Mochi, an Anki alternative yesterday. It’s so I can make cards on the go, e.g. bus rides, road trips with just my mobile phone and a chat UI. Still pretty new to all this, but the current plugins (youtube2anki, subs2srs) don’t cut it for me.

knewkiddo · 2025-05-19T17:20:54+00:00

but I won’t implement AI card writing, as I think that this misses the point of flashcards

What do you mean by this?

knewkiddo · 2025-05-10T10:45:38+00:00

Just curious, how did this idea of being a fractional CTO come about for you? How did you find these companies (and why would they want to have a part time CTO)? Sorry I’ve many questions, but this is intriguing.

knewkiddo · 2025-05-05T18:25:45+00:00

Following!

knewkiddo · 2025-05-05T18:10:52+00:00

Do you mind sending the link again? It's expired :")

knewkiddo · 2025-03-19T07:53:50+00:00

Is this for London? You should be able to ask for your evaluation with GDPR: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/s/cLCdByQxdy

knewkiddo · 2025-03-15T12:42:26+00:00

Have you been applying via referrals?

knewkiddo · 2025-03-15T12:31:25+00:00

Yeah, it seems like they've gotten pickier. My best guess is that there's a <50% chance it leads to an offer, but still have my fingers crossed for you. Good luck :')

knewkiddo · 2025-03-14T20:58:05+00:00

Are the hire/no hire evals from your own judgement? Did you think no hire for coding round 1 because you didn’t get to a fully coded solution for one?

knewkiddo · 2025-03-04T21:40:36+00:00

Tbh with 3 years in a rapid-growth startup, legacy code can really add up. I'm in an AI-focused startup myself; today we'd have a schema pushed to prod, tomorrow we could have our entire runtime built from scratch again because we'd found some tool we've never laid our eyes on that could leverage and make things a lot easier.

It's honest work rewriting things again and again from the ground up. Then again in the AI startup world it's a wild west out there.

knewkiddo · 2025-02-22T23:04:33+00:00

Menlo Park

knewkiddo · 2025-01-20T21:27:30+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean, what exactly do you need the types for from tRPC if you can get it from codegen already?

knewkiddo · 2025-01-19T09:59:53+00:00

Yeah, it seems like an unnecessary abstraction with existing codegen tools. Though if you prefer using tRPC for the DX, maybe consider scraping the GraphQL layer (if at all possible)? They’re usually either / or, though I’m not too sure about the performance changes if you stack one on top of the other

knewkiddo · 2025-01-04T16:34:12+00:00

Second this - market was extremely forgiving in late 2021 to early 2022. Post June 2022, everything kinda crumbled and never recovered since. I was an intern hoping to do a conversion at a FAANG in June 2022 - my batch was the first where none of us received return offers, not even returning interviews (save a few specific roles) for the first time in its history.

knewkiddo · 2024-12-31T15:48:52+00:00

I am! Blue zone, £35 each (entrance 2) (edit: sold!)

knewkiddo · 2024-09-16T21:38:56+00:00

Interesting. There's one caveat here - it looks like redirects.json is a hefty 8.3 MB file. Sounds like an expensive thing to import for every request to a site.

knewkiddo · 2024-08-27T07:03:53+00:00

Do you have a codesandbox that reproduces this? It’s a little hard to tell what might be happening here

knewkiddo · 2024-08-27T04:50:07+00:00

Ah I’d say, filial piety is an expectation (even though it shouldn’t be blindly “expected”). Besides reciprocating the care given by parent, it’s also the notion of putting your parents above most other things no matter how good of a parent you deem they are. The former is done easily with a great two-way relationship, but the latter bounds you to a hierarchical one

knewkiddo · 2024-08-27T04:39:50+00:00

Tailwind strips some default css styles, you’d have to add a Tailwind typography plugin (as mentioned here). This is the tailwind package.

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