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

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A 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.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    26·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
      English
      30·
      12 hours ago

      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.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 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.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 hours ago

      “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.deEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        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.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

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

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        11 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.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

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