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Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

TranscriptA tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (16 children)

The tweet before that:

Let me tell you something about Akash. During a project at Berkeley, I accidentally deleted our entire codebase 2 days before the deadline. I panicked. Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night—better than before.

This says more about you, the scale of the project, bad organisation of your group, and the lack of challenge of Berkeley (nice namedrop though) group projects, and the failure of understanding the excersize (the goal is to learn how to work as a group and notice the networking problems), and the goals of being at a university (networking, partying and learning) than anything else.

Hell I know of a project that also did this and they didnt manage to rewrite the project, as it actually took a lot of time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine if Akash spent the night making improvements instead of rewriting from scratch though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nah that is not how real coding works. we should see digital waterfall of numbers and a timer bar that goes like "Code base %55 complete..." while the guy codes.

[–] irelephant 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If two people share a keyboard they'll be able to code faster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They did that in NCIS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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