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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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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 31 points 21 hours ago (6 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.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

To be fair a couple of people at my school were so far ahead of the pack that they could do this kind of things. One of them was a really cool dude who lifted his teammates, the other a pretentious asshole who once rewrote my friends' parts of a project because it was not up to his standards, they were pissed lol.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Akash:

Let me tell you something about Jon. During a project at Berkeley, our group was utterly fucked because of his shitty code additions, so 2 days before the deadline we pretended that Jon had deleted our entire codebase. While Jon panicked, I substituted a version with his shit deleted and went home and got high - and told him I'd rewritten it from scratch in one night.

Edit: BTW how is it even fucking possible for one member of a team to completely delete an entire codebase, including all previous versions? Did he go to every other team member's computer and accidentally delete their working copies too? His story might make sense if it was 1981 and the whole team was sharing a single VIC-20, but he wasn't even born then.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 points 19 hours ago

My thoughts exactly. Most likely a single member had a part of the code they were working on and never shared and deleted by accident.

Even then it shows little professionalism. A local git repo can do charms even if you never intend to publish.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

“Hey guys, I’m cool because once I completely fucked up everything and now I’m taking credit for the work of someone else!”

What a loser, goddamn.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair - even though this asshole doesn't deserve fairness - that tweet is very obviously giving full credit to Akash (whoever that is) and not to himself. He's admitting a huge blunder but he's not taking credit for the fix.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

This is fair, but I always read these things as basically name-dropping.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours 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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 7 hours ago

They did that in NCIS.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Do they not have version control or something?
Was the project stored on a flash drive they found in the back of a drawer?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yeah that is also what makes it strange, like was this their very first project, did he study CS in the 90s? Did their profs set them up to fail so they learned from that? Did they prank him? Did he delete it on purpose (that is how the project I knew of did it (there was this blog post (or something similar, without any proof im just going to blame ESR, hell he prob wrote something like that) at the time that told people to write a project twice, once as a draft then delete everything and do it again knowing the old pitfalls))? The very specific set of things that are needed for this to be possible is just odd. Makes me wonder if Akash just had a local copy because Jon just was that tech illiterate.

A high r/thathappend feeling.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

This looks like someone who thinks coding should happen in the same way as in TV series lol