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Would y'all consider an AI Assistant being in a different category to AI Agents?

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- a surprise gift, even a small, one adds a lasting impression - brand is more than just a logo or design 2/2

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Key learnings from my time at Vid Summit - hard decisions lead to an easy life and easy decisions lead to a hard life. - delaying a hard conversations is costing you greatly. I chase after hard conversations. - the journey is more important than the destination 1/2

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I ask millionaire YouTube brand expert what I need to do to get big. He said to lose weight I am now a fitness influencer

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I’m happy that more companies are moving their apps to native codebases. Now, If they can also just have more designers to give me some android specific design instead of second hand iOS designs that would be lovely. 😭

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just crossed 40K on YouTube :) It’s been a journey and a fun hobby to make videos. I’m actually a vidsummit right now learning more about content creation. Excited to continue to learn and grow. Onwards to a 100K subs and then a million!

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I ordered avocado 🥑 toast and got guacamole smeared on my toast. Day ruined.

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Before there was Horde vs Alliance the og on how you choose your friends

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I didn’t know I was an artisanal builder that has been chiseling code by hand until AI. I should have charged more for that farmers market code I wrote by hand.

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- Zelda taught me how to critically think and solve puzzles 6/6

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- dota 2 taught me that I need to do my part for the team to win and the concept of snow balling and how early decisions matter later. - Diablo ii taught me grinding, min maxing and optimizations. - RO taught me how to install private servers and figure it out if you want to play mentality 5/6

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- pokemon instilled in me the concept of adventure and team composition - wow taught me, grinding, leadership, social skills, map awareness, bargaining, making money, and so much more lol - cs taught me teamwork and brutal consequences for being stupid and out of position 4/6

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The games I spent the most time in and some lessons I learned. - StarCraft thought me micro vs macro concepts and multitasking. also mind games and strategy - Smash taught me spacing and kill confirms and learning match ups and my advantage states. 3/6

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My best friends were all gamers as well and most of them became SWEs, and through their encouragement and mentorship I decided to quit my job to do a bootcamp. Playing video games were the best decision I’ve ever made. Beside marrying my wife haha. 2/6

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Video games are a waste a time. At least this is what people told me when I was growing up, but honestly video games are why I’m an engineer today I don’t have a CS degree but I’ve always been good with computers because of video games. 1/6

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

I’ve been playing around with Jev. Tried to play world of Warcraft with it. Here is what I learned Everything you need to know about Jev youtu.be/fgNf9nFXO_I

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We need a graph for abandoned side projects since AI coding. When a new idea is just a prompt away to prototype I find myself chasing multiple ideas that I end up throwing away. Having diligence to find an idea to work on for the long term is getting really hard.

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My feed these days 1. AI this and AI that 2. WOW forever 3. Omarchy 4. That one random thing I clicked on once be accident

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Do you still need to read every line of AI code? here is how I'm reviewing code these days • leaf vs. trunk code concept • agentic validation • proof in every PR • independent agent reviews • feature gating I covered it in more detail on my latest video :) 1/2

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Playing wow on my iPad via moonlight. Pretty nice haha

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I feel like people really really like motion graphics 😂

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You and the organization you work in just operates differently based on these fundamental differences. IMO this creates fragmented experiences and honestly a lot of the discourse online is based on these different lived experiences. random shower thought haha. 3/3

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most AI labs are operating at a minimum one or two cycles ahead of most developers. I would also go as far as to say companies that essentially give unlimited tokens to their engineers are also operating a cycle ahead of people who has limited token access. 2/3

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John Kim @premiumgoblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you see new information that challenges your existing views, the right thing to do is to change your mind. This is how I feel about people flip flopping on AI takes. 1/3

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I’m starting to not care that much about new model releases. I don’t really have an urge to go and try all of them out right away. Not sure if something changed from my side or if I’m already pretty happy with where ai coding was already.

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I think the same applies to everything else I’m working on. newsletters, side projects, whatever it is. Find a few things you have conviction in. Keep working on them and see them through. Great things are hard to build if you’re constantly starting over. 3/3

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There will always be another idea, another opportunity, another shiny new thing to chase. Exploration is important, but once you have real conviction in something, you need to give it a chance to succeed. It took me 8 years of making YouTube videos before one finally took off. 2/3

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There’s nothing quite like working on a few things consistently over a long period of time. The hard part isn’t finding things to work on. It’s deciding what not to work on. 1/3

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If your curious on how to keep up to date with this stuff, try teaching it :) 2/2

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If it wasn’t for making content I don’t think I would spend as much time as I do digging into new and interesting things. In AI. “That would be a fun video to make” leads to so much learning that has genuinely helped my career. 1/2

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So if you had these two elements 1. perfect game state 2. bot code that knows how to play the game already Then Jev is the perfect decision maker to give commands to the bot. 3/3

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I'm essentially trying to recreate the game state from pixel data of key elements of the game and have Jev just make decisions on what to do next. The issue is even if it decides what to do next I'll need an entire bot code that handles playing the game itself. 2/3

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I've been seeing a lot of fake looking demos online of people using Jev to play video games perfectly in real time. I'm hella suss'd by the demos so i'm trying to build one right now. So far its kind of shit tbh especially since I don't have raw game state from WOW. 1/3

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I’ll probably get meets most this half 😭

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For Jev the cost is one thing but the killer feature is speed!

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First thing that came to mind for me when I heard Jev. lol

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Jev is the new thing we need to look at now? Seems like a really fast and cheap switch board. I would guess it will probably lose out on long reasoning and complex tasks. Either way more things to dig into over the weekend :)

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Are people finally tired of “thinking” in AI and just want results instantly :)? Maybe next year the big thing will be on speed of inference vs cost.

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