[15457345234]

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...

[alsodumb]

That'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]

Mostly 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.

[kvathupo]

Completely disagree: Yann LeCun, John Carmack, Rui Ueyama, Andrei Alexandrescu, Matt Goldbolt, Horace He, Tarun Chitra, George Hotz, etc.

[OfficialTurkey]

I 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]

> 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]

Yes, on Twitter. Mailing lists are old boomer shit.

[15457345234]

That's funny

[dorkwood]

> 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]

Engagement is not necessarily constructive engagement

[dorkwood]

That'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!

[karmasimida]

Discredit people using twitter is a weird take, and didn't resemble critical thinking to me.

[gardenhedge]

Since 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]

Yup. 'Tweeter' is a personality type.